What if those billions of cooperative members could share knowledge, resources, and solutions across borders and sectors? What if every cooperative breakthrough could strengthen the entire movement?

That’s the vision behind Principle 6—a platform designed to connect, empower, and amplify the cooperative movement worldwide.

See Principle 6 in Action

Before we explain how it works, see it for yourself. This 13-minute walkthrough introduces the mission, tools, and potential of your new hub for collaboration, innovation, and cooperative growth:

This video introduces the mission, tools, and potential of the Principle 6 platform—your new hub for collaboration, innovation, and cooperative growth.

Why Principle 6?

Cooperatives around the world are doing incredible things—but too often, they’re doing them in isolation. We created Principle 6 to change that.

Named after the sixth cooperative principle—“Cooperation among Cooperatives”—Principle 6 is more than just a platform. It’s a global infrastructure for collective intelligence, digital collaboration, and shared prosperity.

It’s where the cooperative movement comes together—not just to network, but to solve problems, build capacity, and shape a better future.

What You’ll Find on the Platform

Here’s what Principle 6 offers today (and what’s coming next):

Digital Member Benefit Statements Easily generate public-facing reports that show members how your cooperative creates value. Designed to support transparency, trust, and member pride.

Collaborative Communities Private online spaces for federations, associations, and sector groups to engage their members, share content, post best practices, and collaborate in real time.

The Dynamic Intelligence Library (Beta Phase) A growing library of best practices submitted by cooperators like you—soon to be powered by CoopAI, our cooperative-exclusive GPT, to synthesize shared knowledge into actionable insights.

Discussion Boards Real-time forums where co-ops can ask questions, share strategies, and co-create smarter solutions.

Survey Tools & Benchmarking Federations and cooperatives can create surveys using our library of standardized and custom questions—unlocking new insights for internal decisions and cross-sector benchmarking.

AI-Powered Tools (Coming Soon) CoopGPT and sector-specific AI helpers will support your day-to-day work—from drafting communications to analyzing data—all trained in cooperative language and values.

Why Join Now?

We’re launching this platform with and for the movement. That means every new user helps shape what comes next.

Whether you’re a cooperative, a federation, an APEX body, or an ally, Principle 6 is designed to support your growth—and to amplify your impact.

This is your chance to be part of the founding phase of something bigger. To help co-create the digital foundation our movement needs.

How to Get Started

You can engage with Principle 6 in four ways:

1. Follow Join our mailing list and follow us on social to stay updated.
2. Register Create a free account and publish your co-op’s Member Benefit Statement.
3. Beta Test Get full access to all tools—for free—while helping us improve the experience. Don’t forget to share your feedback to help us grow, evolve and add more value to cooperatives.
4. Become a Member Owner Secure early pricing and play a role in the governance and evolution of the platform. Coming Soon!

Built By and For Cooperatives

Principle 6 isn’t owned by a tech company or a single enterprise. It’s a cooperative of cooperatives—and that changes everything.

Every tool we build is grounded in cooperative values. Every piece of data stays inside the movement. And every success strengthens us all.

Watch. Explore. Join the Movement.

If you haven’t yet watched the 13-minute walkthrough, start there: Watch: Introduction to Principle 6

Then get started.
Ask questions.
Explore the tools.
And help us build a stronger, smarter, more connected cooperative movement.

The future of cooperation is here—and it starts with you.