CDI’s Cooperative Food Systems program helping to grow the local economy with New Americans in Lewiston, Maine, earns significant support from anonymous local donor! CDI’s Cooperative Food Systems program, led by Jonah Fertig-Burd and Omar Hassan, partnered with New American
U.S. Senator Angus King from Maine visits the Island Employee Cooperative in Stonington, Maine
In July, Sen. Angus King (I) Maine paid a visit to the Island Employee Cooperative (IEC), which converted to employee ownership in July of 2014 with the assistance of Rob Brown, Director of CDI’s Business Ownership Solutions program. The IEC
Rock City Coffee Featured as Model Case Study
The nonprofit and co-op world have been singing the praises of the highly successful transition of Rock City Coffee to employee ownership and management ever since the news broke. Nonprofit Quarterly magazine recently published Maine Co-op Shows Keys to Making a Conversion
Worker cooperatives can be a boon for rural Maine’s economy: Vaughan Woodruff in Bangor Daily News
CDI has been working with Insource Renewables, a Maine solar energy company, to support them in becoming a worker-owned cooperative. Vaughan Woodruff, the founder of Insource, recently published an opinion piece in Maine’s Bangor Daily News in support of LD
“Residents join forces to try to save mobile home park” on WCAX
WCAX TV just did a story on our work with the New Beginnings Mobile Home Association in Vermont. The story features a great interview with CDI’s Sarah Martin and a touching quote from a New Beginnings resident who calls our
Couple spread good fortune: Touching Press-Republican story features CDI
A recent Press-Republican article showed the cooperative spirit of New Beginnings Mobile Home Association, a New York mobile home community that recently became resident-owned. The article mentions our work with New Beginnings: After park owner Scott Tetreault had decided to shut
Rob Brown pens LD 1338 opinion piece in Portland Press Herald
Rob Brown has published an opinion piece in the newspaper with the highest circulation in Maine. The piece outlines why LD 1338, a cooperative development bill currently moving through Maine’s legislature, would benefit the whole state: Maine has seen a
Two Letters to the Editors in Support of Maine’s LD 1338
In Maine, we need more parks to convert to resident ownership and that’s why I’m encouraging all legislators to support L.D. 1338, An Act to Create and Sustain Jobs through Development of Cooperatives and Employee-owned Businesses. The bill provides straight-forward
“This coffee runs on democracy:” The Free Press article features CDI’s work with Rock City Coffee
A recent article in Midcoast Maine’s The Free Press featured our work with Rock City Coffee, the beloved Rockland cafe that recently became a worker-owned cooperative: “I thought, ‘Who better to run it than the people who built it? It’s
“Rock City Coffee workers to become business owners” in VillageSoup
CDI helped Rock City Coffee, a beloved Rockland business, become a worker-owned cooperative. The sale was finalized on March 9, 2018, and press was there to tell the story. This Village Soup story features one of our favorite quotes ever