Heather Holland

Heritage Residents purchased their neighborhood

For Immediate Release April 13, 2018 Heritage Association, Inc. Warren Manufactured Home Community Homeowners Purchased Their Neighborhood, Ready to ‘Flourish’ Contacts:        Dave Adams, President, Heritage Association, (413) 436-8245 Andy Danforth, Director, NEROC Program, CDI (401) 439-9795 Paul Bradley, President, ROC USA, LLC (603) 513-2818 WARREN, Mass. — After learning about what it means to be

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Kingston MA is now all-co-op! 75-home Conifer Green becomes a Resident Owned Community

For Immediate Release March 7, 2018 Conifer Green Becomes 19th Resident Owned Community in Massachusetts Contacts:        Joan Thompson-Stein, President, Conifer Green Andy Danforth, Director, NEROC Program, CDI (401) 439-9795 Paul Bradley, President, ROC USA, LLC (603) 513-2818 KINGSTON, Mass. — Residents in the 75-home Conifer Green Community came together to purchase their neighborhood this week.

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Job Posting: We’re hiring the Cooperative Maine Network Coordinator!

Help grow the cooperative economy in Maine! The Cooperative Maine Business Alliance and the Cooperative Development Institute are hiring a part-time Network Coordinator to help grow our alliance. We are looking for someone to help grow membership, organize events and workshops, facilitate meetings, communicate with co-ops, promote cooperatives and help support legislation that will support

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Employment Opportunity in Community Supported Fishery

NH Community Seafood, an innovative multi-stakeholder co-op, is actively seeking a new position titled Assistant Manager. Here is the Job Description. Deadline for applying is today, Friday April 7. Please pass along to any eligible and passionate candidates you may know!

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Wardtown Mobile Home Co-op

UPDATE: position filled–CDI Seeking FT Housing Program Specialist in Maine

As we continue to grow the New England Resident Owned Communities Program, we are looking for one new team member to join us in Maine at full-time. Update: The position has been filled. Thank you to all our great candidates! Please see the summary job description below, and the full description: Position Housing Specialist ME-2017. Position Overview: Successful

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Martin Luther King, Jr. with a child

Reason to Hope

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed with all his heart and soul that we could become a country and a world where each person had food for their bodies, education for their minds, and dignity for their souls. His faith told him that the universe itself was on the side of truth and justice, that

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“Residents Buy Two Rockland-area Mobile Home Parks,” Bangor Daily News

Many thanks to Stephen Betts of the Bangor Daily News for his article today on the recent purchase by residents of two mobile home parks in and near Rockland, Maine. The Cooperative Development Institute is proud to have brought the total number of resident-owned cooperatives in Maine to eight, with support from lending partners Genesis Fund

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Turnpike Park Cooperative residents hold a banner saying "We Own It!"

CDI Seeking Full-time Housing Program Specialist in Southeast MA

As we continue to grow the New England Resident Owned Communities Program, we are looking for one new team member to join us in southeast Massachusetts at full-time. Please see the summary job description below, and the full description: Position Housing Specialist SE MA 2016. Position Overview: Successful candidate will work as a Housing Program Specialist

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CDI Seeks 2 New Housing Program Specialists–MA & VT

As we continue to grow the New England Resident Owned Communities Program, we are looking for two new team members to join us: one in Vermont at full-time and one in southeast Massachusetts at part-time (with the possibility of increasing time in the future). Please see the summary job description below, and the full descriptions:

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