Prelim: Types of Coop

• is one that promotes and

  undertakes savings and

  lending services among its

  members. It generates a

  common pool of funds in

  order to provide financial

  assistance to its members

  for productive and

  provident purposes;

  Credit Cooperative
• is one of the primary purpose of which is to procure and distribute

  commodities to members and non-members

  Consumers Cooperative
• is one that undertakes joint production

  whether agricultural or industrial. It is

  formed and operated by its members

  to undertake the production and

  processing of raw materials or goods

  produced by its members into finished

  or processed products for sale by the

  cooperative to its members and

  non-members. Any end product or its

  derivative arising from the raw

  materials produced by its members,

  sold in the name and for the account of

  the cooperative, shall be deemed a

  product of the cooperative and its

  members

  Producers Cooperative
• is one which engages in the supply of production inputs

  to members and markets their products

  Marketing Cooperative
• is one which engages in medical

  and dental care,

  hospitalization, transportation,

  insurance, housing, labor,

  electric light and power,

  communication, professional

  and other services;

  Service Cooperative
• is one which combines two (2) or more of

  the business activities of

  these different types of

  cooperatives;

  Multipurpose Cooperative
• is a primary cooperative which

  promotes and advocates

  cooperativism among its

  members and the public

  through socially- oriented

  projects, education and

  training, research and

  communication, and other

  similar activities to reach out to

  its intended beneficiaries;


  Advocacy Cooperative
• is one organized by marginal farmers majority

  of which are agrarian reform

  beneficiaries for the purpose of

  developing an appropriate system of land

  tenure, land development, land

  consolidation or land management in

  areas covered by agrarian reform

  Agrarian Reform Cooperative
• is one organized for the

  primary purpose of

  providing a wide range of

  financial services to

  cooperatives and their

  members;

  Cooperative Bank
• is one whose members are

  engaged in the production

  of fresh milk which may be

  Dairy Cooperative
• one organized for the primary

  purpose of owning and

  operating licensed educational

  institutions notwithstanding the

  provisions of Republic Act No.

  9155, otherwise known as the

  Governance of Basic

  Education Act of 2001;

  Education Cooperative
• is one organized for the primary

  purposed of undertaking power

  generations, utilizing renewable

  energy sources, including

  hybrid systems, acquisition

  and operation of

  subtransmission or distribution

  to its household members;

  Electric Cooperative
• is one organized

  for the primary purpose of engaging in

  savings and credit services and other

  financial services;

  Financial Service Cooperative
• is one organized by marginalized fishermen in localities

  whose products are marketed either as fresh or processed

  products;

  Fishermen Cooperative
• is one organized for the primary purpose of

  providing medical, dental and other

  health services;

  Health Services Cooperative
• is one organized to assist or provide access to housing for the

  benefit of its regular members who actively

  participate in the savings program for housing.

  It is co-owned and controlled by its members;

  Housing Cooperative
• is one engaged in the business of insuring life and poverty

  of cooperatives and their members;

  Insurance Cooperative
• is one which includes land and sea transportation,

  limited to small vessels, as defined or

  classified under the Philippine maritime

  laws, organized under the provisions of this Code;

  Transport Cooperative
• is one organized to own, operate and manage

  waters systems for the provision and

  distribution of potable water for its

  members and their households;

  Water Service Cooperative
• is one organized by workers, including the

  self-employed, who are at same time the

  members and owners of the enterprise. Its

  principal purpose is to provide employment and

  business opportunities to its members and

  manage it in accordance with cooperative

  principles


  Workers Cooperative