Last year, the Mother’s Milk Cooperative was launched with the goal of ending the donor milk shortage and providing economic empowerment to healthy nursing mothers blessed with surplus milk.  Shortly after the launch, we started enrolling members and collecting milk. 

Today, we are a nationwide program, with Co-Op members in 47 states.  Co-Op donors represent a wide range of ethnicities, cultures and economic status.   Although diverse in many ways, Co-Op donors feel strongly about three key issues; they share a passion for breastfeeding their own children, they have the ability to produce a volume of milk over and above their own baby’s needs and they want to help babies in need. 

We are proud of the positive impact we’ve had on nursing mothers, their families and especially the babies who have been receiving milk from us for several months now.  Although the Co-Op milk money program has been a huge success, many of our donors also donate milk under the Pay It Forward program, without compensation.  We process that milk and make it available free of charge to babies in need. All of the babies who have benefited from this program were referred to us by their physicians and have been turned down for donor milk because of strict rationing due to the longstanding shortage.  You can read some of their stories here.

Together, we are putting an end to donor milk scarcity and making it increasingly possible for every baby in need to obtain donor milk.