The Cooperative Development Institute (CDI), has recently been awarded three grants totaling $589,974, from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support cooperative development in Maine and the Northeast. For 24 years, CDI has been the Northeast’s center for
The Co-op Farming Model Might Help Save America’s Small Farms
The Co-op Farming Model Might Help Save America’s Small Farms Amid a nationwide rise in worker-owned businesses of all types, small farms across the country are foregoing traditional farm ownership and reaping the benefits of cooperative farming. BY ANNELISE JOLLEY Business, FARMING
CDI adds new staff to our growing family! Welcome Katherine Bessey & Çaca Yvaire!!
This is a particularly exciting Co-op Month for CDI as we welcome in two new staff members, bringing our team to 20 employees. CDI welcomes Katherine Bessey to our staff as our new Assistant Project Manager in the Cooperative Food
Over $400,000 in Public and Private Funds to Support Business Ownership Transitions in Rural Maine
For Immediate Release October 23, 2018 Contact: Jen Peters – Assistant Director Sunrise County Economic Council, (207) 255-0983, scec@sunrisecounty.org Rob Brown – Director of Business Ownership Solutions Cooperative Development Institute, (207) 233-2987, rbrown@cdi.coop Over $400,000 in
In Lewiston, Somali Bantu refugees get in on the hot trend of food trucks
They use ingredients they’ve grown at nearby farms for dishes that are both delicious and bittersweet. Article by the Portland Press Herald, October 17, by Mary Pols Isaak Gawo hands an order to a customer on Sunday. The Isuken Co-op
Summer of Advocacy by Resident Owned Communities: Finding our voices and making them heard
By Jason Brady, NEROC Cooperative Development Specialist Resident owned communities (ROCs) face internal and external challenges to maintaining affordable housing for their members. When these challenges are political it can take ROC leaders into new territory. To better advocate for
And NEROC is hiring again!
We are bidding a fond farewell to Maureen Carroll Dennis, who is off to law school in the fall, and searching for our next team member. If you’re a group process guru, a real estate whiz, or a trainer extraordinaire,
NEROC Adds a New Staff Person – Welcome Libby!
We are pleased to welcome our newest staff member, Gillian (Libby) O’Flaherty, who joins the NEROC team in Western Massachusetts. Prior to joining CDI, Libby worked with the Prison Birth Project and Community Action’s Family Center, providing wrap-around care to
CDI’s NEROC Program Assists the Residents of Lakeview Mobile Home Park and Sets Them on the Path to Resident Ownership!
The residents of Lakeview Mobile Home Park, in Shelburne, Vermont voted last month to form a cooperative, and with the assistance of CDI, Champlain Housing Trust and The Housing Foundation is now on the path to becoming the newest resident-owned
Localism Matters! Building Strong Resilient Local Economies
CDI’s Cooperative Food Systems program helping to grow the local economy with New Americans in Lewiston, Maine, earns significant support from anonymous local donor! CDI’s Cooperative Food Systems program, led by Jonah Fertig-Burd and Omar Hassan, partnered with New American