The Cooperative Development Institute is proud to announce that Nora Gosselin will be the new Market Development & Acquisition specialist for CDI’s New England Resident Owned Communities program. Nora, who joined CDI in October of 2019, had previously worked as a Cooperative Housing Specialist. In that
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Belmont, New Hampshire Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 Contacts: Bruce Hamel – Founder of The Home Beautiful thb@home-beautiful.com Rob Brown, Director, Business Ownership Solutions, Cooperative Development Institute (207) 233-2987 rbrown@cdi.coop  Tom DuBois, General Manager & New Employee Owner, The Home Beautiful 603-524-5588  tom@home-beautiful.com Watch the
Connecting with the Past and the Future of Indigenous People By Noémi Giszpenc In June of this year, CDI and CFNE staff and board members had the chance to participate in a workshop offered by Wabanaki Reach on the 400-year history of colonization experienced by Indigenous people in our region and perpetrated by successive waves
by Doug Clopp Climate change is having a profound impact on our nation and the world. 2020 was the second hottest year on our planet ever recorded. According to the National Centers for Environmental Information Global Climate Report released in May, it’s very likely that 2021 will rank among the ten hottest years on record.
Do you want to help preserve businesses and grow more and better jobs throughout the Northeast? Do you want to help workers build wealth through ownership and advance economic opportunity, security and justice? Then we’ve got a Cooperative Business Developer position for you! The Cooperative Development Institute is looking for an enterprising, highly organized innovator
You: a talented, caring, knowledgeable HR professional. Us: a growing, dynamic, participatory nonprofit with about 30 employees. Let’s get together and keep CDI a great place to work! See our complete people and culture (HR) manager job description. Overview: The People and Culture (HR) Manager guides and manages the overall provision of HR services, policies,
We’re pleased to be included in this Shelterforce article, “From Mobile Home Parks to Multifamily Housing Cooperatives.” We are excited to be leveraging our expertise in working with resident groups to extend support to limited-equity apartment housing co-ops in our region. And we’re not the only ones! In case you missed it, we recently released a
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEÂ Date: July 1, 2021 Contacts:Â 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 Development Institute (CDI) will launch the Participatory Management Initiative, an innovative new training program that
For Immediate Release June 29, 2021   Contact: Margaret Miley – Director, Cooperative Business Services mmiley@cdi.coop 978-973-1200 To celebrate National Home Ownership Month, the Cooperative Development Institute (CDI) released its report– Cooperative Housing Solutions for Massachusetts’ Affordable Housing Crisis. Quality, stable affordable housing in the Commonwealth is increasingly difficult to secure. Cooperative ownership could
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 from around the country. The ROC 101 track is intended to be a complete course
