Cooperatives, also known as co-ops, are organizations that are owned by their members and are operated democratically. Co-ops in San Francisco are listed below.

Financial Cooperatives

• Credit Unions

Housing cooperatives

• Million Fishes Arts Collective
• Purple Rose Collective
• Soma Heron Collective
• mission:Home

Hacker Cooperatives

• Noisebridge

Worker cooperatives

• Other Avenues
• Rainbow Grocery
• Woodshanti
• Red Vic Movie House
• Yellow Cab Cooperative
• Modern Times Bookstore
• Arizmendi Bakery
• Box Dog Bikes
• Electric Embers

Cohousing

Cohousing, another form of cooperative housing, involves some individual ownership along with commonly held property that is used for community meals, gardening and play space, spa/saunas, and other mutually satisfying purposes.

• Hidden Creek Cohousing - Oakland
• Mariposa Grove Community - Oakland
• North Oakland Cohousing - Oakland
• San Mateo Ecovillage - San Mateo
• Triple Point Cohousing - Oakland
• Swan's Market Cohousing - Oakland

Membership-based cooperatives

• Cell Space

More info

• The San Francisco Bay Area Cooperative Housing Directory (a wiki!) can be found here.
• The Network of Bay Area Workers Cooperatives (NoBAWC) is an organization that supports the efforts of cooperatives in the Bay Area. Its website contains a list of nearby worker co-ops.
• East Bay Cohousing provides outreach, community, and education to groups interested in creating cohousing in the Urban East Bay. See its website for details.