Cooperative Development Institute: Northeast Center for Cooperative Business

CDI staff specializing in housing co-ops, local food access, and other types of co-ops are being interviewed at 2 pm on Wednesday, February 23, on "Various Voices", hosted by Daria Fisk. You can catch the interview live on 107.9 FM near Greenfield, MA, re-broadcast on Sunday evening at 8 pm, and streaming at wmcb.net/listen.html.

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The NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYC NoWC - pronounced "nick nock") has been meeting and forming for a year now. Member Chris Michael wrote a description of the network for the American Progressives United Party. If you are in the metro area, come join the anniversary party on Wednesday, January 26.

WFCR, the public radio station for Western Massachusetts, aired the following story during its Tuesday morning news program on December 14, 2010.

The purchase by resident-owned Quabbin Sunrise Cooperative of the Oakwood Mobile Home Park was featured in an article by John Appleton in the Springfield Republican newspaper on Sunday, December 5, 2010. Congratulations to all.

On Tuesday, December 14, at 9 a.m., the Cooperative Development Institute will be holding a press conference and celebration at the Greenfield Cooperative Bank's Shelburne Falls branch.

On November 18, CDI presented an NCBA webinar on Growing the Cooperative Economy: Co-ops Seeding Co-ops to 64 cooperators. The presentation showed how cooperatives big and small, in every sector, are finding ways to expand opportunities for their members through nurturing new cooperative enterprises. We explored strategies for identifying business, member, and community needs as well as opportunities, and identifying the (sometimes surprising) resources co-ops can mobilize.

Equal Exchange and six food co-ops from around the nation, including Vermont's own Brattleboro Food Co-op, have joined together to launch Principle Six: based on the sixth principle of cooperation among cooperatives, it's a "pilot initiative to rebuild the food system and our local economies in stronger alignment with our co-operative values."

The Tide Mill Organic Farm has been farmed by the Bell family for over 200 years. See a short 7-minute film about their way of life, including their joining the farmer-owned Maine's Own Organic Milk company. MOOMilk is available now in Boston!

Beth Kowitt, a reporter for Fortune magazine, reports in "The rise of the grocery co-op" the tremendous success of the Park Slope Food Co-op, the nation's biggest single-store consumer-owned co-op.