Resources

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CFNE Materials

• Co-op Monthly - February 2022
• Co-op Monthly - January 2022
• Co-op Monthly - December 2021
• Co-op Monthly - November 2021
• CFNE Newsletter Fall 2021
• CFNE Annual Report 2020
• Co-op Monthly - October 2021
• Co-op Monthly - September 2021
• Co-op Monthly - August 2021
• Co-op Monthly - July 2021
• Co-op Monthly - June 2021
• Co-op Monthly - May, 2021
• Co-op Monthly (previously known as the Letter to Borrowers) - April, 2021
• Letter to Borrowers - March 10, 2021
• CFNE Newsletter Winter 2020-2021
• Letter to Borrowers - February 12, 2021
• Letter to Borrowers - January 13, 2021
• Letter to Borrowers - November 24, 2020
• CFNE Newsletter Fall 2020
• Letter to Borrowers - October 8, 2020
• Letter to Borrowers - July 30, 2020
• CFNE Annual Report 2019
• Letter to Borrowers - June 9, 2020
• Letter to Borrowers - May 20, 2020
• Letter to Borrowers - May 7, 2020
• Letter to Borrowers - May 1, 2020
• Letter to Borrowers - April 23, 2020
• Letter to Borrowers - April 17, 2020
• Letter to Borrowers - April 7, 2020
• Co-op Resilience Resources for COVID-19 and Beyond
• CFNE Newsletter Winter 2020
• CFNE Newsletter Fall 2019
• CFNE Newsletter Summer 2019
• CFNE's Annual Report (2018)
• CFNE Annual Report (2017)
• CFNE Newsletter Winter 2019
• CFNE Newsletter Fall 2018
• CFNE Newsletter Spring 2018
• CFNE Newsletter Winter 2018
• CFNE Newsletter Fall 2017
• CFNE Newsletter Summer 2017
• Basic CFNE Brochure (download)
• CFNE Borrower and Investor Profiles
• CFNE's Annual Report (2016) (download)
• CFNE's Newsletter Winter 2017 
• Healthy Food Access Materials
• Map of CFNE Borrowers and Coop Investors
• Worker Cooperatives in New England brochure, a partial listing (download)
• Your Community Food Coops brochure, a partial listing (download)
• For a complete list of CFNE annual reports, click here.

Articles about CFNE

• National Co+op Grocer "Network News" Cooperative Fund of New England: A Generation of Lending to Food Co-ops January 2019
• Are Cooperatives Really So Difficult to Finance? November 2018
• Asking the Hard Questions: CFNE’s Journey to Equity and Inclusion at the Intersection of Finance and Cooperatives. 2018
• Religious Communities Investment Fund highlights CFNE in its 2016 newsletter
• CFNE Receives $5,000 from People's United Community Foundation November 2016
• Equal Exchange highlights CFNE in its 2015 annual report (page 9)
• Retail Coop: Maine Islanders Band Together to Preserve a Way of Life Summer 2015
• The Cooperative Fund of New England, Grassroots Economic Organizing. 2013
• SBA Recognizes Worker Cooperatives as Small Businesses Grassroots Economic Organizing. 2012
• CFNE and the Cooperative Response to Economic Crisis, Green Money Journal. 2012
• Funding New England's Cooperative Movement, Communities & Banking. Fall 2008

New England Coop Networks

• Boston Collective House Assembly
• Cooperative Maine
• Neighboring Food Coop Association
• Valley Alliance of Worker Coops
• Valley Cooperative Business Association
• Worker Owned and Run Cooperative Network of Greater Boston (WORC'N)

Larger Coop Networks

• International Cooperative Alliance
• National Cooperative Business Association
• National Cooperative Grocers Association
• National Cooperative Housing Association
• North American Students of Cooperation
• US Federation of Worker Cooperatives

Coop News and Information Sources

• American Worker Cooperative Blog
• Coop Grocers Information Network
• A Directory of the Cooperative and Solidarity Economy of North America
• Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter
• USDA Cooperative Resources
• How a worker-coop structured as an LLC can retain earnings
• How does a coop structured as an LLC affect members' individual taxes?
• Legal Guide for Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Massachusetts
• Cooperatives Build a Better Maine Report from CDI

Interesting Coop Development Guides

• American Worker Cooperative list of Worker Coop Start-up Guides
• CDI Complete Coop Start-up Kit (download)
• Food Coop Start-up Toolkit
• Ohio Employee Ownership Center Guide to Coop Conversions (download)
• Small Business Administration’s Page on Incorporating a Coop
• A Technology Freelancer's Guide to Starting a Worker Coop
• Worker Cooperatives and Patronage Dividends (for accountants)
• Cooperative Farming Greenhorns Guidebook
• Growing a Food System for the Future: A Manuel for Cooperative Enterprise Development
• Project Equity Case Studies of Business Conversions to Worker Cooperatives 2015
• Successful Cooperative Ownership Transitions:Case study report by Democracy at Work Institute
• Your Study Guide to the Cooperative Movement from TESA

Coop Education Opportunities

• American Worker Cooperative list of Coop related curricula
• St. Mary's University Masters of Management - Cooperatives and Credit Unions
• University of Massachusetts Cooperative Enterprise Collaborative

Other Coop Finance Sources

• Cooperative Development Foundation
• LEAF Fund
• Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund
• The Cooperative Foundation
• "The Lending Opportunity of a Generation: Financing Cooperative Conversions FAQ and Case Studies"

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