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After three years of hard work, the residents of Windy Hollow Mobile Home Park in Castleton, Vermont have bought their mobile home park and become a cooperative—saving 44 families from the risk of displacement. The Rutland Herald reported Windy Hollow’s
For Immediate Release February 16, 2018 Windy Hollow MHC Castleton, VT Perseverance Prevails Residents purchase 44-home park in Rutland County; become 215th nationally networked resident-owned community Contacts: Robin Crowningshield, President, Windy Hollow Mobile Home Cooperative Board of Directors Andy Danforth,
A recent opinion piece in the Rutland Herald acknowledged CDI’s work as part of a growing cooperative economy in the Northeast. The authors—Rob Miller of Vermont State Employees Credit Union, Kari Bradley of Hunger Mountain Co-op in Montpelier, and Edward Fox
Sherwood Village Mobile Home Park has become the first cooperatively managed, resident-owned mobile home park in Rhode Island. Congratulations to Sherwood Village residents! CDI was proud to assist residents in becoming owners. We’re featured in this The Coventry Courier story
Our Business Ownership Solutions work was featured in an article about 3cross Brewing Co. in Worcester, Maine and the brewery’s decision to become a worker-owned cooperative. Three years ago, Dave Howland combined two of his passions – beer and biking –
CDI congratulates the residents of Weston’s Mobile Home Park in Berlin, Vermont for becoming owners of their community! Their conversion to resident ownership was recently featured in this Times Argus article. Annik Paul, Cooperative Development Specialist in CDI’s NEROC program,
The most recent issue of Maine Lawyers Review features a story about conversions to worker ownership and CDI’s Business Ownership Solutions program. When Maine’s small business owners want to retire, it can be difficult to find successors, leading to businesses
The Workers to Owners Collaborative is a group of organizations committed to helping more businesses convert to worker ownership. The collaborative shares expertise and data, develops standards, and increases capital, funding and technical assistance to businesses looking to convert to
NEROC’s work to support mobile home park residents transitioning to ownership was reported in Plattsburgh’s Press-Republican: Country Sky’s owner, Scott Tetreault, decided to close down the park after its sewage treatment facility fell into disrepair, resulting in fines from the
In celebration of Co-op Month, Jonah Fertig-Burd, CDI’s Director of Cooperative Food Systems, gave a talk at the Portland Food Co-op on October 26th. Jonah’s presentation examined the ways in which cooperatives have benefited farmers, food producers, and eaters through