What is a Multi-stakeholder Cooperative?

Typically, cooperatives have drawn their membership from a single class of stakeholders – producer cooperatives are owned by producers, worker cooperatives by workers, consumer cooperatives by consumers, etc. Multi-stakeholder cooperatives are co-ops that are owned and controlled by more than one type of membership class such as consumers, producers, workers, volunteers, or community supporters. Stakeholders can be individuals or organizations such as non-profits, businesses, government agencies, or even other cooperatives.

Read more about multi-stakeholder cooperatives on the blog page Multi-stakeholder Cooperatives published by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Cooperatives