Written By Noemi Giszpenc, CDI’s executive director There are a lot of different ways that oppression can look and show up in the world. This past Spring and Summer, the news has brought us face-to-face with pretty much all of them, from systemic and historic injustice priming communities of color to be most impacted by
Written by Eric Fleischmann With a horribly mismanaged epidemic, economic downturn, more and more cases of police brutality against POC, and a coming election that has left many young people disillusioned, this is quite a time to come of age as a politically minded young adult in the United States. Frankly, the whole thing is
Written By Julian Rowand, Arthur Sabiti and Jonah Fertig-Burd CDI has been working to develop new limited equity housing co-ops in Greater Portland, Maine. This work has accelerated this year with new partnerships, support from the City and a successful proposal for Portland’s first housing co-op. In March, CDI, Raise Op Housing Co-op from Lewison
For Immediate Release: August 11, 2020 Pine Tree Village Cooperative Carver, Massachusetts Contact: Colleen Preston – Cooperative Development Institute (508) 951-0631 Alison Donovan – VEIC (802) 540-7605 The Future of Manufactured Housing is Here! Today, at Pine Tree Village Cooperative, a resident-owned manufactured housing community in Carver, Massachusetts, residents welcomed their first Zero Energy Modular
Written by Jonah Fertig-Burd, CDI’s Cooperative Food System Program Director I wanted to share the news with our clients, collaborators, and supporters that I will be leaving CDI at the end of August to start a new job as the Community Partner at the Sewall Foundation in Maine leading their Food Systems Programs. It has
M4BL Supports Maine Food Co-ops The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) evoked a global response to support Black-owned enterprises. In America, this support led to extending contributions of time and funds to Black-owned businesses across the country. In Maine, we’re excited to share an article released by Mainer News Cooperative, a worker-owned solidarity (multi-stakeholder) cooperative that includes Mainer staff and regular contributors and
Written by Rob Brown, Business Ownership Solutions Program Director The coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing economic collapse has only made a bad situation worse, exacerbating economic inequality, racial disparities in employment, wealth and health, and the precarious livelihoods of poor people. A staggering and unprecedented 41 million workers filed for unemployment in the past few
Written By Executive Director, Noemi Giszpenc The fifth cooperative principle is Education, Training, and Information. This may seem like a milquetoast, quiet principle, but it’s not. Would slaves have risked their lives to learn to read if education was optional? Would dissidents risk their lives to smuggle novels and leak documents past iron curtains if
Written by Stephen Hamlin, Board President, North Avenue Cooperative – Vermont Spring 2020 was upon us and plans were being made for the usual work of paving and tree maintenance when COVID-19 hit. Almost as quickly as we heard about the virus, Vermont’s Governor put us under a Stay Home, Stay Safe order. Little did
