MadWorC Membership
The first way to participate in MadWorC is to attend our monthly meetings. If your co-op is a member of MadWorC, you get to appoint someone to our board, but everyone is welcome to attend our monthly meetings, even if you aren’t a member!
The next way to participate in MadWorC is to join one of our committees or our board. We are currently re-forming some of our committees. Committees usually work on things like education, outreach, and fundraising.
We hold social events. These are a great way to get to know us in a less formal context (no agenda, no reading to do ahead
of time). We typically host three social events per year - after our annual meeting, in late spring/early summer, and to celebrate Co-op Month in October.
2026 Membership Renewal/Application Form
Membership Welcome Packet (English)
Membership Welcome Packet (Spanish)
We hold social events. These are a great way to get to know us in a less formal context (no agenda, no reading to do ahead
of time). We typically host three social events per year - after our annual meeting, in late spring/early summer, and to celebrate Co-op Month in October.
2026 Membership Renewal/Application Form
Membership Welcome Packet (English)
Membership Welcome Packet (Spanish)
Membership Benefits for Cooperatives:
- Send a member of your co-op to serve on MadWorC’s boad of directors
- Access to our co-op toolkits and resource library
- Receive a free training from our list of options, and a discounted rate on additional trainings
- Access to our peer support network for help with any issues your co-op is facing, and to help support
other co-ops that would like to learn from you - Access to any discounts that MadWorC is able to arrange with local cooperatives
Dues
For organizational members (worker cooperatives)
- Dues for start-up cooperatives are $50 for the first year.
- For established worker cooperatives, dues are .05% of wages of local operations from the previous fiscal year, with a minimum of $100.
For affiliated organizations (democratically managed workplaces and organizations providing support to worker cooperatives):
- For democratic workplaces, dues are .05% of wages from the previous fiscal year, with a minimum of $100.
- For organizations providing support to worker cooperatives, dues are .05% of the amount of the organization’s budget that goes to support worker cooperatives (including development support, education, outreach, and funding), with a minimum of $125. For worker coop incubators, coops in the incubation process have access to the member benefits of the incubating organization. When those coops are fully launched they would then join as start-up cooperatives.
For individuals
- Dues are a sliding scale from $50-$500