Start a care co-op in your neighborhood.
Instead of calling a big chain, your neighborhood takes care of its own. co-op.care runs the operations (hiring, payroll, scheduling, paperwork) so the co-op runs smoothly without a big overhead.
Today: join with no dues, see your ledger, and bank your first hour with a neighbor. Boulder’s first circle is forming; paid care begins once it’s licensed and staffed.
Caring for someone now? See what you qualify for · put your street on the map · see who’s near you.
Thinking of giving care? Practice your first visit with a family — about 5 minutes, on your device.
co-op.care in 15 seconds
Five beats, drawn in code: from “who do you call?” to a pin on your own street.
- Mom needs help. Who do you call? A big chain? Private equity? A large health system?
- Or start a care co-op near you. Your neighborhood takes care of its own.
- Caregivers will own the work. co-op.care runs hiring, payroll, scheduling and paperwork.
- Put your street on the map. About a minute. Boulder's first circle is forming now.
- co-op.care. Owned by the people who do the caring.
Where every dollar goes
Caregivers will be W-2 co-owners, earning $26 of every $35 hour once paid care begins. Nothing to buy while we’re forming; joining is an email.
- No private equity or large health system taking a cut
- An ownership stake, not just a paycheck
- Families can offset hours through neighbor care: an hour given is an hour banked
- Nothing to buy while we form; paid care begins once it’s licensed and staffed
Same hour of care. The difference is who owns the work.
Join. See your ledger. Give an hour.
The co-op keeps one ledger for you — hours, dollars, and proof — and what it makes on what it arranges comes back to members by that ledger. Nothing is for sale yet; the hours are real today.
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Join, and see your ledger
Your email opens your ledger: the hours you gave and received, each one with a receipt anyone can verify, and your part of the year. Joining adds your email to the member list and nothing else.
No dues today · no account, just your email · about a minute
Open your ledger -
Give an hour
A ride, a visit, a meal, an errand for a neighbor. Both of you confirm it together on one phone; the hour is banked at par and never cash, and your neighbor says how they are after it.
Two confirmations · one receipt · hours never expire
Bank an hour -
See what you qualify for
Caring for someone now? A 5-minute assessment of the care dollars your family may already qualify for — and an honest answer when something doesn’t. A person, not a portal.
A few questions · about 5 minutes · no account
Check what you qualify for
Go deeper: find or found a circle · start one on your street · the care grid · read the argument, the whole story in thirteen chapters.
Owned by the people who do the caring.
Not a startup, not an agency, not a platform taking its cut off the top of your family. A cooperative — where caregivers are paid like owners because they are, and the value stays home. A membership share is one time and refundable on exit; the amount is set at launch.
We are not another Medicare phone navigator. Those services help you work the maze. We are the member-owned co-op that shows up — neighbors and Care Neighbors who own the work, so they stay. How the Care Neighbor Collective works →
Help shape it.
If you’re living this — caring for an aging parent, or thinking about it — a short survey helps shape what we build, and who we build it for first.