DIRECTORY OF DETROIT CO-OPS & COLLECTIVES
Below is a list of the co-ops and democratic community-based collectives in the Detroit area that CEND is aware of, organized by category. Know of a co-op or democratic collective not on this list? Send it to us at info@detroitcommunitywealth.org!
Note: this is a general list of co-ops and collectives in the Detroit area, not a list of CEND members. Being listed in this directory is not equivalent to membership. Members listed in this directory will noted with the asterisk *CEND MEMBER.
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Book Suey | hamtramck
*CEND member
Book Suey is a cooperatively owned and democratically run bookstore in Hamtramck, Michigan, that provides access to books, connection to local writers and publishers, and meaningful conversation in a safe and welcoming environment.
Contact: Hamtramckinfo@booksuey.com
Visit Site | IG: @booksuey
27th Letter Books | corktown
*CEND member
27th Letter Books is a worker-owned bookstore (as well as Black-owned, woman-owned, Filipino-owned, neurodivergent-owned, veteran-owned, & cancer-survivor-owned) that hopes to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and makes books accessible for everyone by treating them as necessities, not luxuries, through a book-buying model that allows readers from all social classes to engage with buying and owning books.
Visit Site | IG: @27thLetterBooks
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Detroit Radical Childcare Collective
DRCC is a a group of conscious childcare providers in Detroit, Michigan. We provide childcare at local community events, at the homes of community members & at local conferences.
Contact: detroitradchildcare@gmail.com
Dulce Detroit | southwest
Dulce Detroit is a worker-owned childcare coop of local educators based in Southwest Detroit, providing childcare services such as in-home care, meetings, events and more.
Contact: idalis.longoria@gmail.com
Visit Site | IG: @gia_detroit
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Cleaning in Action | southwest
CIA is a women-owned worker cooperative based out of Southwest Detroit. We offer high quality green cleaning services for a base estimate that will be given to you at the our housekeepers first visit. Additionally, we offer extra services as add-ons to routine cleaning.
Contact: (313) 828-8072 | Contact Form
Visit Site | IG: @gia_detroit
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Pingree Detroit | northwest/dexter-fenkell
Pingree Detroit is a worker-owned cooperative designing and handcrafting sustainable footwear, fashion accessories, home and pet goods using new upcycled leather, seat belts, and air bags from the auto industry.
Contact: Team@pingreedetroit.com | Nate@pingreedetroit.com
Visit Site | IG & FB: @pingreedetroit
Public Thrift* | hamtramck
*CEND MEMBER
Public Thrift is a worker-owned thrift store.
Contact: desmondburkett@gmail.com | julian.slowjams@gmail.com
Visit Site | IG: @publicthrift
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Building Cooperatively | north End
*CEND member
A worker-owned cooperative specializing in historic restoration and construction. We hold ourselves to honoring and developing ethical business practices and providing competitive living wages to Detroiters.
Contact: buildingcooperatively@gmail.com | IG: @buildingcooperatively
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Family First Solar
Family First Solar is an employee-owned and operated solar energy design and installation cooperative in the metro Detroit area.
Contact: https://www.family1stsolar.com/contact-us | IG: @familyfirstsolar | Facebook
Soulardarity | highland park
Soulardarity is building a brighter future in Highland Park with education, organizing, and people-powered clean energy. We are working to install solar-powered streetlights, save money on energy bills, and work together with our neighboring communities to build a just and equitable energy system for all.
Contact: https://www.soulardarity.com/join | IG: @soulardarity
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Aynaa Events & Decor | banglatown
Aynaa Events is a worker-owned multicultural event decor & planning co-op leveraging the experiences of women immigrant culture creators, designers, and event planners to create vibrant, unique events reflective of their diverse clients.
Contact: inquiry@aynaaevents.com
IG: @aynaa_events_and_decor
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City Commons
*CEND member
City Commons is a co-op of 9 participating farms serving over 100 households in Detroit and surrounding communities. Our farms are scattered all over Detroit and range in size, style and what we grow, but all are committed to safe and sustainable practices to build a healthy local food economy and a food sovereign Detroit. We do not use any synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides or GMO crops, and all our land is soil tested to ensure no contamination.
Contact: citycommonscsa@gmail.com | IG: @citycommonscsa
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Detroit Peoples Food Coop | northwest/bagley
DPFC is a Black-led, community-owned grocery co-op with over 1,000 consumer-owners, bringing fresh & healthy food options to Detroit.
Contact: (833) 373-2313 | Contact Form | IG: @detroitpeoplesfoodcoop
City Commons
*CEND member
City Commons is a co-op of 9 participating farms serving over 100 households in Detroit and surrounding communities. Our farms are scattered all over Detroit and range in size, style and what we grow, but all are committed to safe and sustainable practices to build a healthy local food economy and a food sovereign Detroit. We do not use any synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides or GMO crops, and all our land is soil tested to ensure no contamination.
Contact: citycommonscsa@gmail.com | IG: @citycommonscsa
Sanctuary Farms
*CEND member
Sanctuary Farms is an urban farm and nature sanctuary in Jefferson Chalmers aspiring to transition to a cooperative structure whose goals are to 1) cultivate organic produce, 2) create nutritious compost and 3) provide equitable green spaces to historically disadvantaged communities. With these aims they want to foster a thriving community on the lower eastside of Detroit where people are safe, healthy and connected to their local environment and food by actively being involved in closing the food loop.
Contact: info@sanctuary@farming.com | IG: @sanctuary.farms
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Black Bottom Garden Center | north end
BBGC is a worker-owned garden supply co-op founded and owned by Black women operating on the Oakland Ave Urban Farm grounds, supplying flowers, seeds, indoor and outdoor plants, compost tea, and more.
Contact: blackbottomgardencenter@gmail.com | IG: @blackbottomgarden
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Motor City Mobile Wellness
*CEND member
Motor City Mobile Wellness is creating an alternative network of care in Detroit, providing individual and community healing support that combines compassion and expertise for safer responses apart from the carceral system. MCMW offers a variety of holistic wellness services and resources to Detroiters. Our cooperative of healing practitioners operates outside of the medical industrial complex to address the spectrum of wellness needs of Detroiters, and believes Detroiters deserve access to safe, person and community centered wellness services that honor our dignity. We are committed to first listening to the expressed needs of communities, and then building networks of diverse care that allows healing within community. Our practitioners operate from a social justice and abolitionist lens that increases access to holistic wellness practices and resources that affirm the whole person and/or community.
Contact: healingbychoicedetroit@gmail.com | IG: @mcmw_detroit
Iyengar Yoga Co-operative Detroit | hamtramck
Iyengar Yoga Cooperative Detroit is a worker-owned, cooperatively-run, people of color-centered studio for the accessible, transformative practice of Iyengar Yoga for all capacities.
Contact: iyengaryogadetroit@gmail.com | IG: @iyengaryogadetroit
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Brick and Mortar Collective
The Brick & Mortar Collective is a feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist nonprofit group equity housing co-operative in Detroit’s eastside. Its mission is to provide affordable room and board to artists, activists, educators, students, and community builders.
IG: @brickandmortarcollective
Contact: brimocollective313@gmail.com
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The Spoons Consultancy
The Spoons Consultancy is a Black women-run and staffed creative consulting cooperative that specializes in design thinking, brand and narrative building, and high-impact activations.
Contact: theconsultancy@lifeofasinglespoon.com | IG: @thespoonsconsultancy
Design for the Commons
Design for the Commons is a worker cooperative that is co-creating a world to develop more cooperative humans. Through urban development and placemaking projects, we design structures and systems that reimagine the commons, as well as tools to help neighborhoods + communities create commons.
Contact: designforthecommons@gmail.com | IG: @designforthecommons
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Handy Relocations | eastern market
*CEND member
Handy Relocations is a Detroit-based residential/commercial moving company in the process of transitioning into a worker cooperative, offering local and long distance moving services as well as junk removal, packing, and cleaning services.
Contact:
Handyrelocations@gmail.com | (313)-649-4917
Visit Site | IG: @handyrelocations
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Stuffed Detroit | north end
Stuffed is a worker-owned fresh food cafe co-op in its startup phase founded & owned by 5 Black women Detroiters featuring healthy, grab & go food options for people who like to shop and eat locally.
Contact: natosha@oaklandurbanfarm.org
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Stitching Up Detroit | southwest
Stitching Up Detroit is a youth-led print cooperative in Southwest Detroit that provides high quality graphic design, textile screen-printing, poster printing, and vinyl. Founded in 2012 as an after school collective, Stitching Up Detroit has grown into a full service print shop and Cooperative business. We offer high quality t-shirts, sweatshirts, canvas bags, decals, posters, and more.
Contact: (313) 765-5955 | stitchingupdetroit313@gmail.com | IG: @stitchingupdetroit
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Radical Productions | southwest
Radical Productions is a youth-led worker-owned intergenerational tech coop, designing and developing websites, software, and digital assets for small to mid-sized businesses and nonprofits. Radical Productions listens to community needs and uses their technology skills to create innovative solutions to complex community problems. Members have training in basic and intermediate computer coding languages, including HTML, Java Script, back-end programming, and Node.js. They are also proficient in graphic design and CSS.
Contact: radicalproductions313@gmail.com
Visit Site | IG: gia_detroit
Southwest Equitable Internet Initiative | southwest
SW EII is a community-run Internet network partnered with Detroit Community Technology Project (DCTP) and based out of Grace in Action Collectives expanding the existing network in Southwest Detroit by building out fiber infrastructure. The hybrid network will include fiber to the home, point-to-point wireless, and public hotspots to connect families to affordable, high speed, community-built Internet. Rates to get connected are sliding scale from $10 to $30!
Contact: (313) 444-2018 | eii@graceinactiondetroit.org
Data Driven Detroit
Data Driven Detroit (D3) is a worker co-op and social enterprise that collects, analyzes, interprets, and shares high-quality data to drive informed decision-making and increase data-driven outcomes in Detroit and our region. D3 conducts workshops, trainings, and presentations across metro Detroit to increase data literacy; partners with nonprofits, foundations, universities, government agencies, community groups, businesses and individuals to create and execute data projects tailored to support their work; and provides free public access to a variety of interactive data tools, maps, visualizations, and processed datasets.
Contact: askd3@datadrivendetroit.org
Visit Site | @datadrivendetroit
Built By Many | NW Goldberg/Zone 8
BBM is a worker-owned consulting cooperative. Their partners include organizations, foundations, and governments engaged in economic development, civic engagement, climate resilience, and community transformation. Together, they empower local communities by providing them with the tools, strategies, and platforms necessary for self-directed growth.
Visit Site | @builtbymanycoop