Press

oCTOBER 5TH, 2022

Nonprofit Quarterly

Worker Co-ops Organize to Make Community Finance Work for Movements

“At NPQ, we have regularly looked at the question of community finance, including the need to develop more accurate standards for underwriting projects and assessing risk. In Philadelphia, in a series of four interconnected panels organized and moderated by Joe Marraffino, a loan and outreach officer of the Cooperative Fund of the Northeast (CFNE), participants explored these themes.”

September 27th, 2022

Greenfield Recorder

‘A feel-good product for the environment’: Greenfield celebrates launch of Northeast Biodiesel plant

“After 15 years, in 2018, we kind of lost faith in ourselves,” Benander said. “We’re here today because we were able to have faith in ourselves again. … Amine and Emily looked at it from the outside and said this is a viable business. … We are all so grateful to Amine, to Emily and Wellspring, for helping us keep the faith.”

May 17th, 2022

Nonprofit Quarterly

What If We Owned It?

“Co-op organizing requires action. It requires the coming together of hundreds of people to not only imagine a new future but also move oneself and marshal all resources over a span of many years—in the form of outreach, networking, community meetings, door knocking, political maneuvering, capital raising, and self-governance.”

 April 15th, 2022

Next City

Massachusetts Cooperative Lenders Say State-Owned Bank Would Boost Their Activity

“People want to see if it works, and if it does, they want it. But we need to create the desire for people to want this, and once you do that, people will start seeking that out.”