Cooperative Development Institute: Northeast Center for Cooperative Business

Cooperative Development Institute is seeking a new hire to join the Housing Program. The main work of the program is to assist the residents in the nearly 500 manufactured home parks in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island to purchase their communities and manage them as resident-owned cooperatives. The program is part of the highly successful ROC USA Network.

The Neighboring Food Co-op Association (NFCA) has an immediate need for an Executive Director.

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TOGETHER ON THE LAND
Options for Ecological Living in Community
MULTI-SITE GUIDED TOUR
9am-5pm Saturday June 12th, 2010
Franklin County, MA

Enjoy this video about Green Worker Cooperatives and Re-Builders Source in the South Bronx.

In the tradition of the New Orleans second-line parade, the Coopalooza National Second-line Committee is organizing a cross-continent second-line parade to celebrate and educate about cooperatives all the way up the Mississippi, starting in New Orleans, passing through
Baton Rouge, LA
Jackson, MS
Memphis, TN
St. Louis, MO
Chicago, IL
and arriving at the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit in June 2010.

Join their Facebook page, where you can join discussions such as the one below:

The Cleveland Evergreen Cooperatives, which have already been featured in the Nation, TIME, The Economist, and Yes! magazine (see earlier post), have now also been profiled in Business Week. Talk about buzz!

A Time to Learn: Upcoming co-op trainings, presentations, meetings, and more

These cold winter months are a great time to bone up on the topics that interest you most. And spring and summer are great for traveling to meetings that will inform and inspire. Below are the upcoming presentations that CDI will be doing, and a selection of offerings from other cooperative centers. If there is a topic you’d like to see, let us know.

The Business Matters radio show, aimed at exploring how businesses can shape our world for the better, took up the topic of Worker Owned Cooperatives in a recent episode.

CDI Cooperative Development Specialist Lynda Brushett is teaming up with the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance to work with a number of Community-Supported Fishery (CSF) projects underway in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine. Several of these were detailed in a pair of Boston Globe articles by G. Jeffrey MacDonald on January 24, 2010:

In the March 1, 2010 edition of The Nation, Democracy Collaborative researcher-writer-activists Gar Alperovitz, Ted Howard, and Thad Williamson present the ground-breaking work of the Evergreen Co-operative model, and speculate on how the model could be deployed in other cities hard-hit by the economic crisis.