Maine’s NEROC Staff Partner with the Staff of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s ROC-NH program for an Informative ROC101 Training Late last month, seventeen resident leaders, representing seven of Maine’s ten Resident Owned Communities braved the weather forecast and convened at the Medomak Mobile Home Cooperative in Waldoboro, Maine to participate in a ROC
For Immediate Release June 29, 2021   Contact: Margaret Miley – Director, Cooperative Business Services mmiley@cdi.coop 978-973-1200 To celebrate National Home Ownership Month, the Cooperative Development Institute (CDI) released its report– Cooperative Housing Solutions for Massachusetts’ Affordable Housing Crisis. Quality, stable affordable housing in the Commonwealth is increasingly difficult to secure. Cooperative ownership could
Early last week, a bill, sponsored by Senate President Troy Jackson, was adopted in the last legislative session allowing loggers and logging truck drivers to organize into cooperatives. New England Loggers Cooperative, a new cooperative run by loggers and haulers, will reap these benefits via their agreement with a paper mill in Quebec! Their agreement
Projects that can transform a community, from Millinocket to Arundel, were named “outstanding” in this year’s Smart Growth Awards from GrowSmart Maine, at the nonprofit advocacy group’s second annual summit. Congratulations to Charter Oaks Village Cooperative for winning this prestigious award, and to our NEROC team for making this happen. “The success of Charter Oaks brings positive attention
Jonah Fertig-Burd, Cooperative Development Specialist with the Cooperative Food Systems program shared a SparkTalk at the Maine Association of Non-Profits Opt-In Conference at the start of October highlighting how co-ops connect across different regional communities in Maine.
At the NCBA CLUSA 2019 Impact conference, Cooperative Development Institute’s Director of Business Ownership Solutions program, Rob Brown, joined a dynamic panel and showcased CDI’s role in helping to establish a cooperative ecosystem in Maine. The panel, moderated by Cooperative Fund of New England’s Cooperative Business Support Officer, Carolyn Edsell-Vetter, who also serves as CDI’s Board
Help grow the cooperative economy in Maine! The Cooperative Maine Business Alliance and the Cooperative Development Institute are hiring a part-time Network Coordinator to help grow our alliance. We are looking for someone to help grow membership, organize events and workshops, facilitate meetings, communicate with co-ops, promote cooperatives and help support legislation that will support
CDI friend and ally Jim Wadsworth has been named the 2017 Unsung Hero Award recipient for his work at the USDA as an agricultural economist in Cooperative Programs. He has spent years in co-op education as a researcher and is a shining example of the many government employees whose work provides the background information necessary
The state’s many cooperative and employee owned businesses demonstrate how we can create a foundation for prosperity with equity in Maine’s next economy.
Jeanee Wright, our Housing Program Specialist in CDI’s NEROC Program, shares how empowering affordable housing residents enables them to meet their needs—and what more we can do to support them.
