Request CDI Services – Cooperative Development Institute

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Resources and answers to questions:

- For general information about cooperatives, worker-owned enterprises, and solidarity economics, please visit our resource library.
- You can find additional resource libraries via the following links:
  - Cooperative Educators Network
  - Co-op Zone (Canadian)
  - NASCO organizer’s handbook on starting a housing co-op
  - NCDF Toolboxes on consumer, housing, worker co-ops and more
  - Food Co-op Initiative
- For more specific answers to your questions, you can post to the CooperationWorks! listserv or the US Federation of Worker Co-ops’ Slack group.

Technical assistance for a project

- Please note that we are currently at full client capacity and may take some time to respond about new projects. If you have a group and/or project and are ready to begin development, please fill out a request for service form below. Upon filling out the form, you will be added to our waitlist so that we can respond to your request when new availability opens up.
- Alternatively, you can find other cooperative service providers via the following links:
  - General Cooperative Support
    - CooperationWorks!
    - USDA Rural Cooperative Development Center list
  - Worker Cooperative Support
    - Democracy at Work Institute
    - ICA Group
    - United States Federation of Worker Cooperatves
    - Workers to Owners Collaborative
  - Cooperative Funding Support
    - Cooperative Fund of the Northeast
- Please note that CDI prioritizes projects that:
  - Are based in the Northeast
  - Have the goal to engage deeply with the 7 cooperative principles (are “social profit” co-ops)
  - Have a majority of members who Identify as B/I/POC
  - Benefit immigrants and refugees
  - Have a majority of members who Identify as part of the LGBTQ community
  - Contribute beneficially to environmental stewardship

Please fill out the form below to request services. Please note that we may take some time to respond to requests, but we will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you!

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