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Workers from Ward Lumber in front of their Jay, NY location

Cooperative Business Development Specialist Job Opening [Internal]

August 30, 2022 No Comments

Do you want to help preserve businesses and grow more and better jobs throughout the Northeast? Do you want to help workers build wealth through ownership and advance economic opportunity, security and justice? Then we’ve got a Cooperative Business Developer position for you! The Cooperative Development Institute is looking for an enterprising, highly organized innovator and

The Home Beautiful employee owners in front of their store

Press Release: The Home Beautiful Transitions Ownership to Employees

October 4, 2021 No Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Belmont, New Hampshire Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 Contacts: Bruce Hamel – Founder of The Home Beautiful thb@home-beautiful.com Rob Brown, Director, Business Ownership Solutions, Cooperative Development Institute (207) 233-2987 rbrown@cdi.coop Tom DuBois, General Manager & New Employee Owner, The Home Beautiful 603-524-5588 tom@home-beautiful.com Watch the

Ward Lumber Transitions to Employee Ownership – Becomes the Largest Worker Cooperative in the Region!

June 16, 2021 No Comments

Watch the Video! A Historical Transition The employees of Ward Lumber made history recently when they purchased the 130-year-old business as a worker cooperative. The transaction marks the first employee ownership contract of its kind in the North Country region of New York State. The lumber products and hardware store, which has locations in

News coverage of the Ward Lumber ownership transition

May 11, 2021 No Comments

Thanks to North Country Public Radio that just aired a great piece about Ward Lumber’s ownership transition. Check out https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/43724/20210507/employee-ownership-can-prevent-job-losses-and-closures-when-north-country-business-owners-retire There were also pieces in the Peru Gazette, LBM Journal, HBS Dealer and Northeastern Retail Lumber Association (three industry groups), Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Sun Community News, Press-Republican, and New York Almanack. We’re also excited that the

Ward Lumber Transitions Ownership to Employees

May 11, 2021 1 Comment

You can also watch this short video that tells the ownership transition story: Ward Lumber Transitions to Employee Ownership FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Rob Brown, Director, Business Ownership Solutions, Cooperative Development Institute (CDI) (207) 233-2987 or rbrown@cdi.coop Alex Pond, Worker-owner, Ward Lumber (518) 483-8888 ext. 430 or receiver6@wardlumber.com Audrey Schwartzberg, Communications Associate, Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) (518) 891-6200

Small businesses are struggling. Workers can be the solution.

July 20, 2020 No Comments

Small businesses are struggling. Workers can be the solution.

Radically Rural: Keeping Rural Businesses Open Across Generations

July 20, 2020 No Comments

Radically Rural: Keeping Rural Businesses Open Across Generations

Worker Cooperatives benefit the many, not the few

July 13, 2020 No Comments

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

Our 2019 Year In Review is Here!

April 22, 2020 No Comments

CDI celebrates 25 years of growing the cooperative economy with the release of our Year in Review (YIR)! We’re excited to share our 2019 reflections with you. With new additions to our staff, social media channels, and strategic partners, CDI has evolved. Highlighting our growth and accomplishments, we showcase launching our Instagram page and increasing

Love in the Time of Corona

March 18, 2020 No Comments

Don’t just survive the pandemic, build the world we want Let us start from a realization of abundance. We have enough, and more than enough, of all that we need. All may eat. All may have a decent place to sleep. There is no good reason for anyone to be denied care. Let us not

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Cooperative Business Development Specialist Job Opening [Internal]

Press Release: The Home Beautiful Transitions Ownership to Employees

Ward Lumber Transitions to Employee Ownership – Becomes the Largest Worker Cooperative in the Region!

News coverage of the Ward Lumber ownership transition

Ward Lumber Transitions Ownership to Employees

Small businesses are struggling. Workers can be the solution.

Radically Rural: Keeping Rural Businesses Open Across Generations

Worker Cooperatives benefit the many, not the few

Our 2019 Year In Review is Here!

Love in the Time of Corona

News & Updates

Eastern Garage Door becomes employee-owned cooperative after 100 years in business

Bangor residents purchase community for $8M, dozens of new affordable homes planned

CDI awarded $17.8M to repair failing water infrastructure for thousands of households

Vermont community takes on $2M septic crisis with the help of CDI’s WISP Program

Residents purchase manufactured home park for $26M, first deal of its kind in Maine

Brookfield Meadows becomes newest resident-owned community in Massachusetts

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