Learn about cooperatives from our research and writing!
CDI Publications:
- CDI’s How to Start a Co-op Packet
- Cooperatives Solutions to the Massachusetts Housing Crisis Information and recommendations on bolstering the success of cooperative ownership in combating the loss of affordable housing in MA.
- Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group 2021 Success Stories A collection of success stories sharing how state and federal programs support farmers, fishermen, food entrepreneurs, and consumers in the Northeast.
- What is a GOLD Business? A white paper on the value of group-owned, local, democratic (GOLD) businesses to cities and other localities, and a summary of strategies for strengthening them using the power of existing businesses.
- Submitted as testimony to the NYC Council Hearing, “Worker Cooperatives: Is this a model that can lift families out of poverty?” and to Boston City Council Hearing on Co-ops.
- Cooperative Business Solutions for the Northeast U.S.: A 4-page brochure that explains what co-ops are and their benefits for the general public. If you would like us to send you printed copies of this brochure, let us know!
- It Takes Cooperatives to Build a Regional Food System… Because Values and Structure Matter
- We have this available as a legal-size handout or a two-sided regular-size handout. Let us know if you’d like a print-quality file!
- Find out more about what we do by downloading our brochure here!
CDI Featured in other publications
- “How to Save Jobs and Build Back Better: Employee Ownership Transitions as a Key to an Equitable Economic Recovery,” by Rob Brown, Maine Policy Review, 30.2 (2021) : 111 -115
- “Owning Maine’s Future: Fostering a Cooperative Economy in Maine,” by Davis Taylor and Rob Brown, Maine Policy Review, 26.1 (2017) : 23 -34.
- Noémi Giszpenc interviewed by Vernon Oakes, Everything Co-op, July 13, 2017.
- “Workers in Maine Buy Out Their Jobs, Set an Example for the Nation,” Op-Ed by Rob Brown, Noémi Giszpenc, and Brian Van Slyke, Truthout, September 13, 2014.
- “Co-op Development Action: Maine island community creates worker-owned co-op to retain local businesses, jobs“, by Rob Brown, Rural Cooperatives, July-August 2014, pp. 20-21.
- Four Island Businesses Form Worker Co-op: An article in March-April 2014 Belfast Co-op Newsletter, about the conversion of four businesses on Deer Isle, ME to one worker-owned cooperative
- “Co-ops in Every Community“, by Noémi Giszpenc, published on the BALLE Be a Localist blog July 15, 2015.
- “5 Ways You Can Maximize Your Business Through Collaboration“, by Noémi Giszpenc, published on the Rising Tide Capital blog April 9, 2015.
- “What’s Data Got to Do With It? The nerdy but necessary side of organizing the Solidarity Economy” by Noémi Giszpenc on GEO.coop June 29, 2015, as part of our work with the Data Commons Cooperative
- Creating a “Stone Soup” of Alternative Economy Maps and Directories: Published on Shareable.net March 12, 2014, as part of our work with the Data Commons Cooperative
- Cooperatives: The (Jewish) World’s Best-Kept Secret: Published in Jewish Currents, Autumn 2012
- By CDI Executive Director Noémi Giszpenc. It contains interviews with CFNE’s Micha Josephy and Rebecca Dunn of Cooperative Fund of New England, Richard Dines of Credit Union National Association, Jenny Silverman of DotCommCoop (and lately of Red Sun Press), Yoni Landau and Dan Spitzer of CoFed (Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive), and Deanne Dworski-Riggs who interned with the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives. Thanks to all for participating!
- “Growing the Cooperative Economy“, an article published in the November/December 2010 issue of the Cooperative Business Journal, on how existing businesses can spur the creation of new enterprises.
- See also our accompanying webinar presentation: Growing the Co-op Economy: Co-ops Seeding Co-ops
- And essentially the same presentation but with all worker-co-op examples: Co-ops Seeding Co-ops: Worker Presentation slides
- A handy one-page visual summary of the eight strategies: Co-ops Seeding Co-ops: Visual Handout of 8 Strategies
- Cooperative Farming: Frameworks for Farming Together, by Faith Gilbert, published by the Greenhorns; Lynda Brushett, contributing author. “An in-depth resource for forming collaborative businesses. Compiled from 42 interviews with farmers and professionals, this is a how-to handbook on structuring and operating a group venture.”
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