The state’s many cooperative and employee owned businesses demonstrate how we can create a foundation for prosperity with equity in Maine’s next economy.
New Report: Cooperatives Build a Better Maine
CDI Wins “People’s Choice Award” for Transitions to Worker Ownership
Rob Brown, director of Business Ownership Solutions at CDI, was among ten finalists chosen to do short presentations on their innovative economic and community development ideas at the Friends of Midcoast Maine annual meeting. His presentation showed how converting existing
Why We Must Support Maine’s Cooperative Development Legislation
CDI staff members Rob Brown and Jonah Fertig recently testified before the Maine legislature on the importance of a bill that would improve the state’s support for co-op and employee-owned businesses. Below, Rob shares his thoughts on why this is
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Powerful Speech, And The Need For Artist Cooperatives
We were jazzed to hear of Ursula K. Le Guin’s receiving the National Book Award last night. She has opened millions upon millions of readers’ minds to new ways of thinking about gender, property, race, freedom, and culture with books
The Voice of the Staff: Building a Culture of Democratic Ownership
In an effort to help people better understand what CDI does – and why our work is so crucial – we turned to the best asset we have. Our staff. The people who work at CDI are, if we may
Become a Worker Co-op Developer in NYC! New Job Posting.
Are you based in New York City and have an interest in providing support and consultation services to worker-owner cooperatives based on principles of social justice, equality, and democracy? One of the New York City’s best cooperative development agencies, the
Three Worker Co-ops Come Together to Celebrate 1 Year and 12 Years. The Movement Is Strong.
Real Pickles celebrated their first year as a cooperative worker-owned business, along with their worker-owned cooperative neighbors Artisan Beverage Cooperative (also celebrating year one) and Pioneer Valley Photovoltaics (celebrating 12 years)! The three businesses joined together to throw a neighborhood
Cooperation Works! – And So Does Our Network
Early in CDI’s history, we were part of forming a national network of our peers, cooperative development centers and practitioners throughout the United States. Cooperation Works!, named after the book by E.G. Nadeau and David Thompson, provides professional development training
Grassroots Organizations Come Together to Advocate for Worker Co-ops In NYC
Our worker co-op friends in NYC are up to it again! Today, May 14th, was the first ever Worker Cooperative Advocacy day in NYC. Participants from inspiring organizations such as The Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA), Green Worker Cooperatives,