About the St. Joe Community Co-op

St. Joseph Community Co-op is a member owned co-operative whose members receive skill training or other services and become active employees that work no less than ten hours per week. It is a community-based organization with its own Board of Directors (who are elected by the members) and looks to others in the community, (i.e. business leaders, etc.) to serve as advisors on occasion.

St. Joseph Community Co-op devotes substantially all of its resources to developing, supporting and maintaining its workforce. Members are encouraged and supported in pursuing employment opportunites outside the coop within their communities. It provides quality, value-added services to both its members and customers. As it competes with others in the marketplace, the Co-op requires each member to actively participate in a working and learning environment so that they remain competitive.

Member services the St. Joseph Community Co-op provide include skill building, training and employment opportunities in a supportive, team-oriented environment that reinforces positive work performance and attitudes. Training in assembly, packaging, janitorial and lawn service jobs, which leads to employment, are among the opportunities offered by the St. Joseph Community Co-op.

St. Joe Community Co-op Mission

To provide quality, value added goods and services to our customers while expanding employment opportunities for our members.

St. Joe Community Co-op Values

Self-Determination – Everything that we do will reflect the wants, needs and desires of our membership, thus preserving our basic right to Self-Determination.

Freedom for members to make their own choices about participation in the co-op

Authority for members to be the primary decision makers about the entire range of issues affecting the co-op from administration of internal policies to the delivery of services, both to customers and co-op members.

Support for members to accomplish their employment goals and provide access to employment opportunites and community inclusion for everyone while focusing on what members can do rather than what they cannnot.

Responsibility for co-op members to each other to do their part to achieve goals, meet deadlilnes and concientiously govern the organization’s performance.

Confirmation that work performed at the co-op is a meaningful activity that adds value and results in real wages or opportunities to obtain employment in a competitive environment within their community.