O’Donal’s Nursery is always busy during the harvest season, but there has been an extra buzz this year. This season marks the garden center’s first as Maine’s newest worker-owned cooperative. O’Donals is widely known and regarded by gardeners, homeowners, and landscapers throughout northern New England. Founded in 1953 by Royce and Selma O’Donal, Jeffrey O’Donal
What happened to housing co-ops? In the 1980s and early 1990s, housing cooperatives popped up in cities across the nation. Private and public funding was invested in these shared housing projects. Three decades later, where are they now? A new report studying Boston’s existing housing co-ops released this month offers recommendations based on interviews with
[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE] August 26, 2022 US Senate Could Make a Huge Difference in Housing Crisis by Voting to Fund PRICE Manufactured Housing Program Manufactured housing is America’s largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing. Last month the House Appropriations Committee made a groundbreaking federal investment in this often stigmatized housing sector with their vote to
[For Immediate Release] July 29, 2022 [Wareham, Massachusetts] – On July 28, Carol Carver went from leasing the land under her manufactured home to being the co-owner of a multi-million dollar piece of real-estate. Two years ago, Ms. Carver’s landlord sold the building they had lived in for decades, so she and her husband decided
For Immediate Release: Colchester Parks Become Newest ROCS! February 10, 2022 Colchester, Vermont Contact: Annik Paul, Vermont State Manager Cooperative Development Institute – New England Resident Owned Communities (802) 851-0110 Kathleen R. Berk, Executive Director Vermont State Housing Authority (802) 828-3019 Gus Seelig, VHCB Executive Director Vermont Housing & Conservation Board (802) 828-3251 Anne Loecher,
New Roots Cooperative Farm purchases farmland FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 20, 2022 CONTACT: Omar Hassan, 207-319-6261, newrootscooperativefarm@gmail.com Lewiston, Maine — Today, Jabril Abdi, Mohamed Abukar, Batula Ismail, and Seynab Ali, the four farmers of New Roots Cooperative Farm in Lewiston, purchased the 30-acre former dairy farm that New Roots has been leasing for the past
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: July 1, 2021 Contacts: 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
You can also watch this short video that tells the ownership transition story: Ward Lumber Transitions to Employee Ownership FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Rob Brown, Director, Business Ownership Solutions, Cooperative Development Institute (CDI) (207) 233-2987 or rbrown@cdi.coop Alex Pond, Worker-owner, Ward Lumber (518) 483-8888 ext. 430 or receiver6@wardlumber.com Audrey Schwartzberg, Communications Associate, Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) (518) 891-6200
For Immediate Release: Contact: Annik Paul, Cooperative Development Institute: (802) 851-0110 Paul Bradley, President, ROC USA, LLC: (603) 513-2791 Paul Nesky, Board President, Sterling View Cooperative Community: (802) 371-8440 HYDE PARK, Vt. – Resident ownership has long been on the minds of the residents at the
