Our Partners

As a cooperative, Central Co-op is guided by seven internationally recognized principles. It is the seventh principle – concern for community – that guides our partnerships with Black Dollar Days Task Force, Community Alliance for Global Justice, Seattle Good Business Network, Seattle Tilth Association, and Sustainable Capitol Hill.

Black Dollar Days Task Force

Since 1988, Black Dollar Days Task Force has promoted the principles of self-help and self-determination through economic justice, decreasing social service dependency through people-based community and economic revitalization. Financial institutions that serve people who have been historically denied access to economic opportunity; the Buy Local Coalition which annually organizes buy local events; and the Clean Greens Farm and Market Project, a Duvall-based farm-to-Central-Area-market arrangement that produces holistically grown vegetables culturally relevant to African-American and African immigrant communities, effectively meet unique community needs.

Community Alliance for Global Justice

Community Alliance for Global Justice (CAGJ) unites individuals and organizations in Seattle and throughout the region who believe the global economy should embody core values of social justice, environmental sustainability, self-determination and democracy. CAGJ was born of the 1999 World Trade Organization protests to carry forward the fight against free trade policy. The organization's current focus is to develop alternatives to the industrial food system through its Food Justice Project, AGRA Watch, Trade Justice Project, and annual Strengthening Local Economies Everywhere Dinner and Fair. CAGJ identifies local and global impacts of trade and monetary institutions, and uses education, grassroots mobilization, and media and legislative strategies to build solidarity across diverse movements and transform the global economy.

Community Coalition for Environmental Justice

To achieve environmental and economic justice in low income communities and communities of color” is the mission of the Community Coalition for Environmental Justice (CCEJ), a Seattle organization with more than 15 years of successful organizing to build grassroots community power for public and environmental health. This year’s partnership restores a longstanding relationship between Central Co-op and a revitalized CCEJ. Volunteer-based and activist-oriented, CCEJ embodies the commitment to grassroots democracy, social and environmental sustainability, and community accountability that motivate Central Co-op’s community partnerships.

Seattle Good Business Network

Seattle Good Business Network (SGBN) is the successor organization to the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies Seattle (BALLE) with whom Central Co-op has partnered for several years. Shifting to a membership-based organization providing services to its members, SGBN upholds the BALLE legacy and partners with Central Co-op on the annual Strengthening Local Independent Co-ops Everywhere (SLICE) conference in October.

Seattle Tilth Association

Born in 1978, the same year as Central Co-op, Seattle Tilth is the leading promoter in our city of education and empowerment for urban organic food production. Based at their extensive gardens at the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford, Tilth is expanding its reach throughout Seattle’s neighborhoods to meet the growing popular demand for practical food gardening skills. This year’s partnership builds on past educational events Tilth has presented at the co-op including starting from seeds, container gardening, and preserving the harvest.

Sustainable Capitol Hill

Sustainable Capitol Hill (SCH) is a network of neighbors, businesses, and community groups dedicated to making Capitol Hill a sustainable community. A member organization of SCALLOPS (Sustainable Communities All Over Puget Sound), SCH is working to create a vital neighborhood - one with strong connections between people, place, and the local ecosystem. This year’s projects include tree planting, disaster preparedness, greening the Capitol Hill Block Party, and a monthly potluck with presentations from key players in the local sustainability movement.

In addition to our 2010 Community Partners, Central Co-op recently supported the following organizations:

826 Seattle
ACLU of Washington
Alleycat Acres
Allied Arts of Seattle
Alternative Elementary 2 at Decatur
American Cancer Society Relay for Life
American Friends Service Committee
Amnesty International
Archaic Bliss Benefit Party
ArtWorks
Asian and Pacific Islander Women and Family Safety Center
Assistance League of Seattle
BABES Network
Backbone Campaign
BAYAN Conference - Filipino Grassroots Organizing
Beacon Hill Elementary Literacy Night
Bend-It Extravaganza
Bicycle Belles
Bike and Build for Affordable Housing
Bikeworks
Birdcage Collective
Blue Nile Children's Organization
Bright Water School
Broadview Emergency Shelter
Camp Ten Trees
Capitol Hill Alano Club
Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce
Capitol Hill Cooperative Preschool
Casa Latina
Cascade Harvest Coalition
Cascade People's Center
Center for Creative Change at Antioch University
Co-Housing Association
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador
Communities Against Rape and Abuse
Community Lunch on Capitol Hill
Compass Housing Alliance
ConceivABLE
Conservation Northwest
Cooperative Children's Center
Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive
Critical Resistance
DASSdance
Deaf-Blind Service Center
Eastside Domestic Violence Program
Emerald City Medic Collective
Evergreen Land Trust Association
First Nations at University of Washington
For Crying Out Loud
Friends of the Cedar River Watershed
Futurewise
Garfield High School Congress of Racial Equality
Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network
Giddens School
Global Visionaries
Got Green
Harvest Collective
Heart of America Northwest - Hanford Cleanup
Hollow Earth Radio
Home Alive
Homestead Community Land Trust
Honk! Fest
Interlaken Preschool
International District Housing Alliance
Jewish Family Service
Jewish Voices for Peace
Lake Washington Girls Middle School
Lakewood Cooperative Preschool
Lambert House
Learning Tree Montessori
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Lymphoma Research Foundation
Macha Monkey Productions
Madison Park Cooperative Preschool
Marra Farm
Moisture Festival
Moving Images
Mount Baker Cooperative Preschool
Multifaith AIDS Project
National Transplant Assistance Fund
Nature Consortium
New Beginnings Domestic Violence Awareness
New Discovery School
Northwest Animal Rights Network
Northwest Film Forum
Northwest Network
Nova PTSA
Organic Consumers’ Association
Oxfam Club of Seattle University
Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives
Passages Northwest
Penny Harvest
People for Puget Sound
People of Color Against AIDS Network
Photographic Center Northwest
Postpartum Support International  
Power of Hope
Powerful Voices
Public Interest Law Foundation
Rainier Health and Fitness
Raw Network of Washington
Real Change
Reel Grrls
Refugee Women's Alliance
Richard Hugo House
Seattle Central Community College
Seattle Children's Hospital
Seattle Community Law Center
Seattle Greendrinks
Seattle Improvised Music
Seattle International Children's Festival
Seattle LGBT Community Center
Seattle Men's Chorus/Seattle Women's Chorus
Seattle Midwifery School
Seattle Parks and Recreation
Seattle Quad Rugby Clinic
Seattle Tilth
Seattle University's Calcutta Club
Seattle University College of Nursing
Seattle University Center for Service and Community Engagement
Seattle Young People's Project
Seven Star Women's Kung Fu
Sex Workers Support Project
Slow Food Seattle
Solid Ground - Central Area clean-up
Sound Alliance
Spectrum Dance Theater
St. James ESL
Squire Park Community Council
Sustainable Capitol Hill
Sustainable Central District
Swedish Hospital Health Fair
Teen Feed
Temple Beth Am
Tenants Union of Washington State
The 2007 Breast Cancer 3-Day
The Birth Attendants
The CAIR Project
The Coalition of Organic Landscape Professionals
The Learning Tree
The Satori Group
The Service Board
The Vera Project
Three Cedars School
Tilth Producers of Washington
University of Washington Farm
University Street Ministry
Urban Food Link
Velocity Dance Center
Washington Ensemble Theatre
Washington Fair Trade Coalition
Washington Health Foundation
Washington State Association of the Deaf
Washington State Farmers’ Market Association
Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network
Washington Toxics Coalition
WashPirg Foundation
Women of Wisdom
Yesler Community Center
YMCA Earth Services Corps
YouthCare - Casa de las Amigas
Youth Venture