We are accepting applications for new members. If you are interested in living in a Coop, check out the Boston Cooperative Network (list serve where openings are posted from all of the area’s wonderful coops)
If you are interested in membership or have other questions, email us at: cambridgecoop@gmail.com
(we appreciate your patience with email responses at this time, as we don’t check too frequently when we are not in the application process!)
03/03/2012
The Cambridge Cooperative Club
We are a well-established 10-person housing cooperative between Harvard and Porter Squares in Cambridge. We are a lively and mature group of ten people from 20s to 80s, with a concentration of early thirties folks. English, Spanish, and other languages are spoken in the house. While becoming a member of the coop is a big commitment (in addition to eating dinner together once or twice a week, sharing chores, spending time together, we also manage house affairs, have meetings, organize events, and always have lots of exciting things going on), we also have active, independent lives.
Politically, we range from near left to radical, but we are open to ideological diversity. We’re teachers, musicians, activists, writers, photographers, students, scientists, preachers, environmentalists, and dancers. We have some potlucks, host community events and gatherings in the house and hope to have more. Generally, we are a pretty quiet house. Everyone has their own room. We (unfortunately) do not have furry friends (cats or dogs) due to allergies. Monthly dues include room, food, utilities, wireless internet, etc. Our dues are much lower than local rents for the area, and we intend the keep the coop an affordable place to live.
We look for ways to make our house more environmentally sustainable (including recent completion of a new roof project and a more efficient heating system, composting, conserving electricity and water, using environmentally-friendly cleaning projects and buying food from organic local farms and cooperatives (when possible) and in bulk. We are also committed to educating ourselves about environmental concerns, and promoting educational opportunities for the larger community.
We all commit to some specific responsibilities, e.g. house dinners on Wednesdays, house meetings every other Monday night, sharing chores, and some committee work. We also commit more generally to the success and well-being of the house and our fellow housemates, and share broader social justice and ecological commitments. Many housemates find the coop to be an ideal community in which to learn, discover one’s potentials, and grow.
We welcome friendly, coop-minded people of any age, race, gender, class, nationality, religion (or lack thereof), etc. to apply. We are a Queer-friendly community, and are committed to addressing issues of injustice and oppression in all their many forms and cultivating a loving, supportive community environment.
Process for Recruitment
1. Please check out our house website.
2. Contact us about possible openings: cambridgecoop@gmail.com
3. If we do have an opening, download an application and e-mail the completed file to: cambridgecoop@gmail.com
4. Members of Recruitment Committee will read applications and decide whether the applicant is a good match, and whether to schedule a phone interview.
5. If phone interview goes well, applicant will be invited over for a house dinner on a Wednesday night to see the house and meet everybody.
6. If house members agree, the applicant will be invited for an interview with all house members.
7. After the interview, the coop decides on offering membership and applicant decides on accepting offer!
