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Job Posting: Maine Housing Program Organizer, part-time

Cooperative Development Institute (www.cdi.coop) is seeking a new hire to join its New England Resident Owned Communities (NEROC) Program. The main work of the program is to assist the residents in the nearly 1200 manufactured home parks in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont and Maine to purchase their communities and manage them as resident-owned cooperatives.

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NCBA Legislative and Advocacy Update: June 4

Legislative and Advocacy Update Tuesday, June 4, 2013 • 12 – 1 pm, Eastern Join NCBA CLUSA President and CEO Mike Beall and Capitol Hill professionals as they discuss cooperative legislative matters and current issues in Washington. With Congress working on important legislation such as tax reform, the farm bill and the appropriations process, now

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Donate to the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy! $2500 matching grant opportunity

By now, I hope that you’re aware that the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy–the high-energy, information-packed biennial eastern region worker co-op conference–will be held at Drexel University in Philadelphia July 26th-28th. In order to make a grant match, we’re raising money in amounts of $100 or less from individuals, co-ops, and organizations.  Fund 4 Democratic Communities,

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Job Posting: Equal Exchange banana team — logistics and sales

OKE USA FRUIT COMPANY – Banana Logistics and Sales Full time regular position (~45-50 hours / week) Salary: Dependent on experience Benefits: 100% individual health insurance premium coverage and significant portion of dependent coverage, vacation, holidays and sick days Location: Equal Exchange Headquarters, West Bridgewater, MA In 2006, three entrepreneurial organizations came together to create

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Congratulations Real Pickles on transitioning to a Cooperative!

Real Pickles is now a Cooperative! Friends of Real Pickles: As of today, we are now a worker-owned cooperative!  Hurray!! Thanks to huge support from our community, a successful community investment campaign, and many months of hard work from our founding co-op team here at Real Pickles, this morning we signed the documents that made

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Job posting: Housing Program Organizer (Eastern and Central MA, Eastern CT, RI)

Cooperative Development Institute (www.cdi.coop) is seeking a new hire to join its New England Resident Owned Communities (NEROC) Program. The main work of the program is to assist the residents in the nearly 1200 manufactured home parks in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont and Maine to purchase their communities and manage them as resident-owned cooperatives.

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Press release: Homeowners purchase 200-site North Adams park; join Mass. trend of resident-owned manufactured home communities

For Immediate Release May 2, 2013 Wheel Estates Tenants Association Inc.  Homeowners purchase 200-site North Adams park;  join Mass. trend of resident-owned manufactured home communities  Contacts:  Andy Danforth, Housing Program Director, CDI (401) 439-9795 Michael Sloss, Managing Director, ROC USA® Capital: (202) 595-2690Paul Bradley, President, ROC USA, LLC (603) 856-0709 North Adams, Mass. – Homeowners

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Matching Grant Challenge for Dorchester Food Co-op

The Dorchester Community Food Co-op is approaching the deadline for our matching fund Challenge Grant from the Boston Impact Initiative.Thanks to many of you, we have raised $2800 toward our goal of $12,500. Now we need to raise the rest— $9,700 by April 15! If we meet this challenge, we will receive an additional $12,500 from the

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NYC Bookkeeping Co-op startup looking for new members

A Bookkeeping Cooperative (ABC) is looking for two experienced bookkeepers or accountants based in NYC to bring our start-up cooperative to a higher level. We are a worker-owned cooperative that offers day-to-day bookkeeping services to cooperatives, non-profits, social justice endeavors, alternative healthcare practitioners and small community-based businesses. We offer:– Full charge bookkeeping services – Quickbooks

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March 15: Co-op info session in Worcester, MA

CO-OP ACADEMYINFO SESSIONFRIDAY, MARCH 15th3:00PMat the WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY, Saxe Room3 Salem St Worcester,MA 01608Delicious food will be served!Free and open to the public. Childcare and interpreting available upon request (RSVP with request by March 7th at www.WorcesterRoots.org) – Key topics include: What are the different kinds of co-ops? What are the principles of co-ops?

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