Resource Center

Co-operative Resource Library

CDI’s resource center offers connections to other support organizations in our main focus areas in addition to materials we have produced.

What is a Cooperative?

1. CDI’s About Cooperatives
2. USFWC’s What is a Worker Cooperative? (PDF) – English, Spanish

Starting a Cooperative

1. CDI’s How to Start a Co-op Packet (PDF)
2. CDI’s Online Request for Services Form

Sector-Specific Resources

1. Food systems
2. Housing
3. Business conversions and worker co-ops

Educational Opportunities

1. Saint Mary’s University Management of Co-operatives and Credit Unions program
2. Cooperative Academies
   • Worcester Roots Co-op Academy
   • Green Worker Cooperative Co-op Academy
3. School for Democratic Management
4. Round Sky Solutions Collab Courses

Further Information

1. Cultivate.coop
2. Cooperative Educators Network
3. Co-op Zone (Canadian)
4. NASCO organizer’s handbook on starting a housing co-op
5. NCDF Toolboxes on consumer, housing, worker co-ops and more
6. Food Co-op Initiative

Let us remember the teaching of Akiba, spoken when a small group of the Rabbis were hiding in an attic from the Roman army — for Rome had forbidden both the study and doing of Torah, on pain of death. The Rabbis were debating: Which is greater, study or action? For which should we risk our lives? Finally, Akiba said: “Study is greater, if it leads to action.”