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
UPDATED Job opening: Assistant Project Manager – position filled
Do you want to help start and grow enterprises that are locally owned and controlled and meet community members’ needs and aspirations? Do you want to help workers build wealth through ownership and advance economic opportunity, security and justice? The
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
Celebrating Differences
“I don’t want to be like everyone else. I want acceptance, but I want acceptance of my difference, not my sameness.” -Alison Bechdel, author of Dykes to Watch Out For We human beings have much more in common than we
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
Radically Rural: Keeping Rural Businesses Open Across Generations
Radically Rural: Keeping Rural Businesses Open Across Generations
America’s largest nonprofit university announces new Cooperative Management Certificate Program!
Congratulations to Charter Oaks Village Cooperative for Winning a GrowSmart Maine Reward!
Projects that can transform a community, from Millinocket to Arundel, were named “outstanding” in this year’s Smart Growth Awards from GrowSmart Maine, at the nonprofit advocacy group’s second annual summit. Congratulations to Charter Oaks Village Cooperative for winning this prestigious award, and to