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CDI Receives $5,000 Award from the Bangor Savings Bank Foundation!
The Bangor Savings Bank Foundation has awarded CDI’s Business Ownership Solutions program $5,000 to support educational business succession trainings in Mid-coast Maine! The Cooperative Development Institute is excited to announce a $5,000 grant award from the Bangor Savings Bank Foundation
The Isuken Co-op Food Truck is Ready for a Successful Launch
The Isuken Co-op Food Truck is ready for a successful launch with the support of CDI and Kickstarter backers! The Isuken Co-op successfully raised funds to bring their unique farm to table food to the streets of Lewiston and events
Rock City Coffee Featured as Model Case Study
The nonprofit and co-op world have been singing the praises of the highly successful transition of Rock City Coffee to employee ownership and management ever since the news broke. Nonprofit Quarterly magazine recently published Maine Co-op Shows Keys to Making a Conversion
Policy Matters: Maine Legislative Advocacy Update
Sponsored by Representative Martin Grohman (I) of Biddeford, LD 1338 was reported out of the Committee on Taxation, “Unanimous Ought to Pass as Amended,” and has broad tri-partisan support. The bill is a very straightforward proposal that can have significant
Maine Principle 6 Conference Report-Back
The 5th Annual Principle 6 Conference was held on Saturday, April 7, 2018 at the Rockland Congregational Church in Rockland, Maine. Once a year, co-op supporters from across Maine get together to meet, network, share experiences, and learn how we
Worker cooperatives can be a boon for rural Maine’s economy: Vaughan Woodruff in Bangor Daily News
CDI has been working with Insource Renewables, a Maine solar energy company, to support them in becoming a worker-owned cooperative. Vaughan Woodruff, the founder of Insource, recently published an opinion piece in Maine’s Bangor Daily News in support of LD
Rob Brown pens LD 1338 opinion piece in Portland Press Herald
Rob Brown has published an opinion piece in the newspaper with the highest circulation in Maine. The piece outlines why LD 1338, a cooperative development bill currently moving through Maine’s legislature, would benefit the whole state: Maine has seen a
“This coffee runs on democracy:” The Free Press article features CDI’s work with Rock City Coffee
A recent article in Midcoast Maine’s The Free Press featured our work with Rock City Coffee, the beloved Rockland cafe that recently became a worker-owned cooperative: “I thought, ‘Who better to run it than the people who built it? It’s
“Rock City Coffee workers to become business owners” in VillageSoup
CDI helped Rock City Coffee, a beloved Rockland business, become a worker-owned cooperative. The sale was finalized on March 9, 2018, and press was there to tell the story. This Village Soup story features one of our favorite quotes ever