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Jasmine Jacobs

Jo Len Village Successfully Converts to Resident Ownership

December 13, 2019 1 Comment

  For Immediate Release December 11, 2019 Marlborough residents gain lifelong security, affordability after purchasing the Jo-Len Village – now a resident-owned manufactured home community Contacts: Jim Brown, President, Jo-Len Residents Association (508) 310-3265 Joe Cicirelli, Director, NEROC Program, CDI (603) 731-5698 Paul Bradley, President, ROC USA, LLC (603) 513-2818 MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – When opportunity

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: the Amazing Andy Danforth

November 18, 2019 1 Comment

A Letter from CDI’s Executive Director, Noemi Giszpenc I first met Andy in person in Shelburne Falls, MA. We had teamed up to get CDI certified as a member of the ROC USA Network, and now he was hard at work helping residents of manufactured home communities gain ownership through resident cooperatives. Unassuming, in a

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Joe Cicirelli

A Note From our NEW NEROC Director

November 18, 2019 No Comments

“By the gap I mean the gap between the hard realities around us and what we know is possible — not because we wish it were so, but because we’ve seen it with our own eyes.” Parker Palmer I’ve been thinking a lot about Parker Palmer and his writings on the gap over the past few weeks

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New England Loggers Cooperative Partner with Quebec Mill

November 8, 2019 No Comments

Early last week, a bill, sponsored by Senate President Troy Jackson, was adopted in the last legislative session allowing loggers and logging truck drivers to organize into cooperatives. New England Loggers Cooperative, a new cooperative run by loggers and haulers, will reap these benefits via their agreement with a paper mill in Quebec! Their agreement

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CHARTER OAKS VILLAGE WINS 2019 SMART GROWTH AWARD

October 29, 2019 No Comments

BIDDEFORD, MAINE—October 25, 2019—This Thursday at the 2019 Annual GrowSmart Maine Summit held in Biddeford, Maine members of the Charter Oaks Village resident owned community gathered to receive one of GrowSmart Maine’s honorary 2019 Smart Growth Awards. The theme of this year’s summit, “Smart Growth Builds Wellness,” featured regional and national leaders, panelists and presenters

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From left to right: Charter Oaks Village residents Steve Staples, Shannon Staples, Ann Lantagne, Marcus Baldwin at GrowSmart Summit holding their 2019 Smart Growth Award

Congratulations to Charter Oaks Village Cooperative for Winning a GrowSmart Maine Reward!

October 29, 2019 No Comments

Projects that can transform a community, from Millinocket to Arundel, were named “outstanding” in this year’s Smart Growth Awards from GrowSmart Maine, at the nonprofit advocacy group’s second annual summit. Congratulations to Charter Oaks Village Cooperative for winning this prestigious award, and to our NEROC team for making this happen. “The success of Charter Oaks brings positive attention

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A Full House with Resident Leadership

October 8, 2019 No Comments

On September 14, more than one hundred resident owned community leaders and co-op members gathered from Massachusetts and Rhode Island for the 6th Annual ROC-A-Thon in Kingston, MA at the beautiful community of Town and Country Estates. Those in attendance represented fifteen ROC communities and three currently pursuing conversion and resident ownership.  Echoing previous years,

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