CDI is seeking a great organizer and coach with a head for business to join our Massachusetts NEROC team, working with groups of homeowners to form and strengthen their resident-owned communities. Check out our full job description here. The position will remain open until filled! Fill out an application below. Please fill out the form
[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
It’s been a big week for the New England Resident Owned Communities program, with multiple stories about communities in Massachusetts and Vermont hitting the press. Check them out below! Massachusetts “On Cape Cod, a band of mobile home owners fight for their park: ‘The vultures want it! But they’re not going to get it.’” Beth
As we enter a new fiscal year, we’re taking a moment to share and celebrate the accomplishments of this past one. 2021 was another year of unprecedented change, challenges, creativity, and collaboration. CDI’s Year in Review is a beautiful and dynamic report, and an opportunity to learn more about our work and the many different
[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
A Letter from CDI’s Executive Director Dear friends, collaborators, colleagues, donors, and CDI community, Three years ago, I announced my intention to leave my role as Executive Director. I write to you today to announce that we are now moving forward with this transition. CDI is now ready to engage an Interim Director to
CDI is seeking an experienced and flexible leader with non-profit and cooperative experience to serve as Interim Executive Director! Our current Executive Director has served us steadfastly for 13 years, transitioning a small handful of staff to an organization with multiple program areas and 27 staff. We are looking to a future of sustainable growth
Do you want to help start and grow enterprises that are locally owned and controlled and meet community members’ needs and aspirations? Do you want to help workers build wealth through ownership and advance economic opportunity, security and justice? The Cooperative Development Institute is looking for an exceptionally well-organized, task-oriented person with strong project management
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
