Let's solve our communities' most pressing issues together.
- Housing Crisis
- Climate Change
- Aging Population
- Food Insecurity
- Wealth Gap
- Cultural Divide
Help us scale our impact
Preserving affordable housing one community at a time
CDI’s New England Resident-Owned Communities (NEROC) Program helps manufactured homeowners cooperatively purchase and democratically manage their communities. We’ve helped residents at 59 manufactured-home communities across New England purchase their communities (the land underneath their homes), representing 5,800 individual homes that are now permanently affordable.
Supporting business owners in planning their exit strategy to preserve businesses and jobs
We work with business owners and their employees to think through whether conversion to employee ownership is feasible and could meet their needs, whether as a succession plan or as a growth strategy. Since 2018, our Business Ownership Solutions Program has led 28 businesses through transitions to employee-owned cooperatives, creating ownership opportunities for more than 521 workers and helping them secure over $28 million in capital to buy those businesses.
Meeting our communities’ needs through creative business models
Join us in celebrating the International Year of Cooperatives!
With cooperatives being in the global spotlight this year, this is a pivotal time to raise public awareness about the power of cooperatives to shape and strengthen local economies and solve unique problems affecting our communities. Join us in lifting up the stories of cooperatives that help make the Northeast a better place to live and work.
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Who we serve
Residents and owners of manufactured-home communities
Business owners
Start-ups
Established cooperatives
Immigrants
