Cooperative Development Institute: Northeast Center for Cooperative Business

The Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, based in Hanover, NH, recently announced the opening of its fourth store, across the border in White River Junction, Vermont.

The Neighboring Food Cooperative Association (NFCA) is an alliance of over 15 New England food co-ops. Founded in 2004, NFCA has defined its primary long-term desired outcome as a thriving regional economy. A thriving regional economy will include a food system that provides all people with access to healthy food from the region as much as possible. At the heart of such an economy, we see cross-sector collaboration among a variety of cooperative enterprises.

There are some great ideas being proposed at the "Revelation to Action" contest sponsored by Green Mountain Coffee and Ashoka's Changemakers. They want to find and help fund the most innovative ideas and organizations that strengthen and improve communities in Maine, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

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

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: