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 by a new cooperative worker-owner. Check it out and read the full story here at
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.
CDI has been awarded $25,000 from the John Merck Fund to support our Cooperative Food Systems program. The John Merck Fund’s support for this project will resource CDI to work with New American vegetable farmers in two New England regions. We will focus on doubling the value of wholesale markets through increasing the production capacity
CDI’s NEROC program assisted the owners and residents of three manufactured home communities in converting to resident owned communities, including our first conversion in Rhode Island! Together, the three communities of Weston’s, Windy Hollow, and Sherwood Village mobile home cooperatives represent 296 units of privately owned affordable housing that will be preserved and managed by
Watch how the owner, workers, and community as a whole benefit when a business becomes a worker-owned cooperative in this story about Rock City Roasters and Cafe. In the Northeast, we are facing a Silver Tsunami of retiring small business owners. As in many regions, small business owners are the backbone of our economy and
After three years of hard work, the residents of Windy Hollow Mobile Home Park in Castleton, Vermont have bought their mobile home park and become a cooperative—saving 44 families from the risk of displacement. The Rutland Herald reported Windy Hollow’s transition to a cooperative: …With help from the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Mobile Home
For Immediate Release February 16, 2018 Windy Hollow MHC Castleton, VT Perseverance Prevails Residents purchase 44-home park in Rutland County; become 215th nationally networked resident-owned community Contacts: Robin Crowningshield, President, Windy Hollow Mobile Home Cooperative Board of Directors Andy Danforth, Housing Program Director, CDI (401) 439-9795 Sarah Martin, Cooperative Development Specialist, CDI (518) 534-2654 Paul
A recent opinion piece in the Rutland Herald acknowledged CDI’s work as part of a growing cooperative economy in the Northeast. The authors—Rob Miller of Vermont State Employees Credit Union, Kari Bradley of Hunger Mountain Co-op in Montpelier, and Edward Fox of the Hanover Co-op Food Stores—start by recognizing the residents of Weston’s Mobile Home Park
Sherwood Village Mobile Home Park has become the first cooperatively managed, resident-owned mobile home park in Rhode Island. Congratulations to Sherwood Village residents! CDI was proud to assist residents in becoming owners. We’re featured in this The Coventry Courier story about the transition. Residents were informed in early 2017 that the park’s previous owner was
Our Business Ownership Solutions work was featured in an article about 3cross Brewing Co. in Worcester, Maine and the brewery’s decision to become a worker-owned cooperative. Three years ago, Dave Howland combined two of his passions – beer and biking – to create 3cross Brewing Co. in Worcester. Now, with a conversion in corporate structure to
