The 5th Annual Principle 6 Conference was held on Saturday, April 7, 2018 at the Rockland Congregational Church in Rockland, Maine. Once a year, co-op supporters from across Maine get together to meet, network, share experiences, and learn how we can work together to grow Maine’s cooperative economy. Our name for this conference, Principle 6,
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
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 1338, a bill that would make it easier for more businesses in the state to
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 work to support the residents there a “miracle”: It really looked hopeless. It was kind
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 down the park because he couldn’t afford to repair its failed sewage treatment facility, Carolyn
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 modest rise in employee ownership (whether as employee stock ownership plans or worker cooperatives), but
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 tax incentives for both the seller and the lender to convert to resident-owned communities or
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 the employees,’” said Ward. “They have all been with me for a long time, so
We have received a very time sensitive request from our friends at National Cooperative Business Alliance (NCBA CLUSA) regarding the preservation of the Rural Cooperative Development Grant (RCDG) funding. NCBA has created this RCDG Cooperative Advocacy Toolkit to make taking action easy. We need to ask Congresspeople to ask for the RCDG to be funded in
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.
