Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Economic Development Funding To Create Jobs in Rural Communities in 26 States ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., – October 26, 2011 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of 36 organizations in 26 states and the District of Columbia for grants to help rural cooperatives and small businesses expand, create jobs and
The Cooperative Fund of New England (CFNE) is a community development loan fund and a U.S. Treasury Certified Financial Development Institution (CDFI) that is a bridge between socially responsible investors and cooperatives, community oriented non-profits, and worker-owned businesses in New England (and parts of New York). CFNE’s administrative office is in Wilmington, NC. The organization
CDI’s Andy Danforth will join ROC USA founder Paul Bradley this Friday as keynote speakers in a challenging discussion involving dozens of funders, representatives of non-profit housing organizations, and resident activists. The Roundtable is meant to engage stakeholders in an in discussion about a range of issues relevant to existing non-profit-owned mobile home parks and potential
Photo Credit – Attleboro Sun Chronicle News of the impending purchase of Wamsutta Mobile Home Park in North Attleboro, MA by the residents that live there has hit the press again. Three months ago, the park was featured in a New York Times article that examined the new wave of manufactured housing communities that have
The same Richie Davis article that appeared in the Greenfield Recorder was recently published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. This time, the whole article is available for free online.
Photo Credit: CityofBoston.gov Check out this excellent Op-Ed in the Boston Globe featuring Boston Trailer Park and its new owners, the Boston Trailer Park Tenants Association. The author, Lawrence Harmon, discusses the importance of preserving this highly affordable form of housing stock throughout the state and combating the stigma of living in a “trailer park”.
An abridged version of the story is also available on the Recorder’s website. Co-op boom: Organizers gather to discuss third wave in food co-ops By RICHIE DAVISRecorder StaffFrom Brooklyn, N.Y., from Morrisville, Vt., from Dorchester, from Walpole, N.H., from Chester and New London, Vt., they came to talk food co-ops. The gathering was a Start-up Food Co-op Development
Steering committees, boards of directors, staff and members of emerging and recently opened consumer food co-ops, buying clubs and farmer-owned retail stores in New York and New England gather on Monday May 23, 2011 at The Arts Block, 289 Main Street, Greenfield MA to learn best business and organization practices from established co-ops, cooperative development
An opportunity for steering committees, boards and members of emerging and recently opened consumer food co-ops, buying clubs and farmer owned retail stores in New York and New England to learn best business and organization practices from established co-ops, cooperative development specialists and financiers. To make the most of the depth and diversity of information,
CDI staff specializing in housing co-ops, local food access, and other types of co-ops are being interviewed at 2 pm on Wednesday, February 23, on “Various Voices“, hosted by Daria Fisk. You can catch the interview live on 107.9 FM near Greenfield, MA, re-broadcast on Sunday evening at 8 pm, and streaming atwmcb.net/listen.html.
