Cooperative Development Institute: Northeast Center for Cooperative Business

LSA Family Health Service, founded in 1958, is a nonprofit community based organization that works with the people of East Harlem to address the physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual dimensions of family health. Its home-based and center-based programs are designed to empower those who are most vulnerable and who have least access to the basic necessities of life in the conviction that the entire community grows when individuals and families are affirmed in their own dignity.

At this time, we are recruiting for a Cooperative Business Organizer/Manager to incubate a worker-owner cooperative that will run the warehousing, tagging and inventory functions of a retail thrift store. This is a p/t position (10 hours/week) to start, with the potential to grow into a f/t position with the development of a comprehensive Co-op Incubation Program.

Worker Cooperative Office Manager

The Center for Family Life in Sunset Park promotes and supports the founding of cooperative businesses as part of our community development initiative. Under the auspices of our Adult Employment Program, our first cooperative business, “We Can Do It! Women’s Cooperative”(Si Se Puede!) was incubated and launched in August of 2006. This Coop has 23 members who have worked together to build a successful housecleaning business. All of the members of the coop are considered “Worker Owners” and decisions in the group are all made democratically with each owner having an equal vote. Since 2006, CFL has incubated three additional cooperative businesses and a collective, We Can Fix It!, Beyond Care, a childcare cooperative, a women’s painting cooperative and an international cooking collective called Émigré Gourmet.

The successful candidate for the position of Cooperative Office Manager will have:

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.

Co-op Power's Energy Efficiency programs are launching this month under Paul Schmidt's leadership. Paul has 23 years experience in energy efficiency and Co-op Power excited to be able to now be able to insulate and air seal your home. Email pam@cooppower.coop if you're interested in finding out how to upgrade your home.

Several positions are currently available at the New England Farmers Union. NEFU’s goals for the next three years are to bring together policy makers in Washington with leaders and consumers in six states to fashion a food policy and a 2012 Farm Bill that benefits the farmers, foresters and fishermen in this diverse and resourceful region.

Positions include:

Equal Exchange seeks highly motivated individuals to work as Interfaith Program Representatives. Equal Exchange’s Interfaith Program works in partnership with 12 national faith-based organizations and thousands of congregations across the country to involve communities of faith in Fair Trade. Our work includes sales, outreach and education.

To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to:
Susan Sklar, Interfaith Program Hiring Committee
Equal Exchange

The Cooperative Fund of New England is seeking a Part time Regional Loan Outreach Officer for Boston Area, Rhode Island, and Maine.

Responsibilities include marketing and underwriting CFNE loans, visiting potential and existing borrowers, providing technical assistance or identifying technical assistance needs.

ACE and its partners are looking for a start-up CEO who will help us bring a worker-owned, community-accountable energy-services cooperative to fruition. We are looking for someone with solid business start-up experience, as well as expertise in energy-efficiency and experience working in lower-income communities and communities of color.
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