Our own Rob Brown has written a great Op-Ed for the Bangor Daily News for Co-op Month, highlighting the benefits that Resident Ownership through cooperatives could bring to people living in manufactured home parks in Maine.Check it out:http://bangordailynews.com/2012/10/11/opinion/how-trailer-park-cooperatives-could-benefit-maine/
ROC USA on All Things Considered (NPR)
The NH public radio story that aired last week has now hit the national airwaves on NPR’s All Things Considered: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/02/151863518/home-sweet-mobile-home-co-ops-deliver-ownership. We’d like to point out that we are working day and night to help the community referred to in the
“Don’t Let ‘Em Go! How co-ops can keep vital businesses, services in rural communities”
In the current (Sept/Oct) issue of USDA’s Rural Cooperatives magazine, a salute to noteworthy co-ops in celebration of National (and International!) Cooperative Month includes an article by Noemi Giszpenc on converting existing businesses to co-op ownership in rural communities. The
Passion Makes Vision a Reality for Many Communities: 2011 Together on the Land Tour
Northampton, MA– The third annual Together on the Land Tour visited blighted urban properties being rehabilitated by the Holyoke Community Land Trust, a resident owned manufactured housing park in Ware, a successful co-housing development in Northampton, an organic farm in
Fall Issue of Networks, newsletter of Cooperation Works!
The Fall 2011 issue of the Networks newsletter is out — check out the great work that cooperative developers are doing throughout the U.S.
Happy Co-op Month 2011!
October is National Co-op Month — an opportunity to celebrate, educate, and communicate about co-ops. Check out the online toolkit. What are you doing this month? Cooperative Maine is publishing op-eds and releasing an update to its directory, Stronger Together.
NYT article features CDI work with Manufactured Home Park Co-ops
In today’s New York Times, Loren Berlin published “At More Mobile-Home Parks, a Greater Sense of Security“, a look at the growing movement for residents of manufactured home parks to form nonprofit cooperatives that purchase and manage the operations of