our mission

CollectiveCopies was founded in 1983 by recently unionized workers from a long-gone copy shop. Committed from the start to worker-ownership and collective decision-making, we remain the only worker-owned cooperative copy center in the nation.

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We are committed to success in
business by...

Serving our customers to the very best of our ability and resources.

We apply our knowledge, creativity and experience to communicatie effectively, to foster an atmosphere of mutual trust, kindness and respect, and to continually educate ourselves and our customers.

Fostering a fun, safe, free, creative, trusting and respectful working environment.

We commit ourselves to taking the time to celebrate each others successes, console our losses and promote personal growth.

Minimizing our environmental impact.

We will continue to seek out alternative fiber papers, recycle, minimize our waste and our use of waste-producing materials and methods, and explore promising alternatives to such materials as they become viable.

Contributing to our community and supporting local business.

We return 10% of our profits to the community that sustains us. We resolve to implement ways beyond this by which we might be of help to the community. We will promote, frequent and assist area businesses how and whenever possible.

Striving to empower all workers and to be a model/ resource for positive and profitable worker-ownership.

We create secure, empowering and financially rewarding jobs for our own workers, and strive to facilitate the creation of similar opportunities for all workers.