FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: July 1, 2021 Contacts: Micha Josephy Executive Director Cooperative Fund of New England (617) 910-8065 Rob Brown Director, Business Ownership Solutions Cooperative Development Institute (207) 233-2987 The Cooperative Fund of New England (CFNE) and the Cooperative
CDI’s NEROC Staff Lending Their Expertise at the 2021 ROC USA Leadership Institute National Training Series
The 2021 ROC USA Leadership Institute Training is underway. CDI’s NEROC staff is leading some of the ROC 101 sessions, sharing their expertise on how to run a cooperatively owned housing corporation effectively with new ROC leaders and resident owners
Learning is a Matter of Life and Death
Written By Executive Director, Noemi Giszpenc The fifth cooperative principle is Education, Training, and Information. This may seem like a milquetoast, quiet principle, but it’s not. Would slaves have risked their lives to learn to read if education was optional?
Thankful for the Opportunity to Learn and Teach: Our Past Two Months
October and November have been two incredibly active months for the Cooperative Development Institute! We have been out in communities, making waves in the co-op world, and working directly with allied movements and organizations to cultivate and support their co-op
Training opportunities for worker co-ops coming up: finance & patronage webinars Jan 24, Jan 31, and Feb TBD
The US Federation of Worker Cooperatives is kicking off 2014 with a member webinar series on worker cooperative finances. Register today! January 24, 2014 = CAMP.coop TutorialJanuary 31, 2014 = Worker Coop Finances 101February 2014 = Patronage – Sharing &
By Land and By Sea: Leveraging Co-ops for Business Success–Conference in Unity, ME Jan 19
Eat Maine Foods is sponsoring a one-day conference for Maine farmers & fishermen on the cooperative model of doing business. See http://www.eatmainefoods.org/events/coop-conference, and go to http://bylandandbysea.eventbrite.com/ to register. CDI staff will be presenting a couple of workshops. One of the
CDI co-presenting at Agricultural Strategic Marketing Conference
CDI’s Food and Agriculture Cooperative Development Specialist Lynda Brushett will be presenting at this year’s Cornell Agribusiness Strategic Marketing Conference, along with Senior Extension Associate Brian Henehan and Keystone Development Center co-op developer Lisa Stolarski. The team will help attendees