Do you want to help preserve businesses and grow more and better jobs throughout the Northeast? Do you want to help workers build wealth through ownership and advance economic opportunity, security and justice? Then we’ve got a Cooperative Business Developer position
Check out our Year in Review!
As we enter a new fiscal year, we’re taking a moment to share and celebrate the accomplishments of this past one. 2021 was another year of unprecedented change, challenges, creativity, and collaboration. CDI’s Year in Review is a beautiful and
Press Release: The Home Beautiful Transitions Ownership to Employees
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Belmont, New Hampshire Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 Contacts: Bruce Hamel – Founder of The Home Beautiful thb@home-beautiful.com Rob Brown, Director, Business Ownership Solutions, Cooperative Development Institute (207) 233-2987 rbrown@cdi.coop Tom
Ward Lumber Transitions to Employee Ownership – Becomes the Largest Worker Cooperative in the Region!
Watch the Video! A Historical Transition The employees of Ward Lumber made history recently when they purchased the 130-year-old business as a worker cooperative. The transaction marks the first employee ownership contract of its kind in the North Country
Congratulations to ANCA on grant award!
The Cooperative Development Institute is excited to congratulate the Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) for being awarded a grant of over $1.26 million dollars from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration, supported by additional funding provided by Mastercard. The grant
News coverage of the Ward Lumber ownership transition
Thanks to North Country Public Radio that just aired a great piece about Ward Lumber’s ownership transition. Check out https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/43724/20210507/employee-ownership-can-prevent-job-losses-and-closures-when-north-country-business-owners-retire There were also pieces in the Peru Gazette, LBM Journal, HBS Dealer and Northeastern Retail Lumber Association (three industry groups), Adirondack
Ward Lumber Transitions Ownership to Employees
You can also watch this short video that tells the ownership transition story: Ward Lumber Transitions to Employee Ownership FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Rob Brown, Director, Business Ownership Solutions, Cooperative Development Institute (CDI) (207) 233-2987 or rbrown@cdi.coop Alex Pond, Worker-owner, Ward Lumber (518)
Voices from the Field: Immigrants, Collaboration, and Co-ops Revive a Maine Town
In 2012, Somali refugees started farm businesses, aided by an incubator farm program called the New American Sustainable Agriculture Project (NASAP). A few years later, CDI offered assistance to the Somali Bantu community to provide support and resources that aided
Spark Talk at Maine Association of Non-Profits Opt-in Conference
Jonah Fertig-Burd, Cooperative Development Specialist with the Cooperative Food Systems program shared a SparkTalk at the Maine Association of Non-Profits Opt-In Conference at the start of October highlighting how co-ops connect across different regional communities in Maine.
2019 NCBA CLUSA Impact Conference: Power in Purpose – Building the Next Economy
At the NCBA CLUSA 2019 Impact conference, Cooperative Development Institute’s Director of Business Ownership Solutions program, Rob Brown, joined a dynamic panel and showcased CDI’s role in helping to establish a cooperative ecosystem in Maine. The panel, moderated by Cooperative Fund