Mark Goehring and Alejandra Chavez discuss Columinate and Common Good Management Services

Everything Co-op with Vernon Oakes

June 22, 2023 Vernon Interviews Mark Goehring, Manager of Columinate and Common Good Management Services (Common Good); and Alejandra Chavez, Community Service Representative at Common Good. Our host, Vernon Oakes, is a member consultant of Columinate, and has been on the Common Good development team since its inception in Fall 2018. Vernon and his guests discuss the overarching goals and objectives of Columinate, and the many facets of Common Good. Mark Goehring is the Manager of Columinate, a cooperative of consultants who share strategies, tools and skills that help organizations build and empower community. Mark also assists with the development of tools and resources to support effective governance, and provides ongoing management and board support. Alejandra Chavez is the Community Service Representative for Common Good. She manages three different Mobil Parks, offering local resources to its residents and promoting social justice in everything she does. Her dream is to continuing raising community awareness and keep promoting love to build healthier communities, particularly continuing raising awareness to immigrant and Latinx issues. Columinate is a national cooperatively owned and operated consulting and management services company with a focus on community impact. The company is true to the meaning of its name, because Columinate means "light the path forward together. Its work is adaptive and ever evolving to meet the needs of diverse, multicultural communities; and grounded in cooperative values, self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity, honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others. Columinate consultants and staff are catalysts for common good. Their network of more than 60 consultants and staff are located across the US. In addition to supporting a diverse consultant community, Columinate has a variety of business units, including Common Good Management Services, the Columinate Job Board, the Columinate Compensation Database, and Columinate Events & Media. Common Good Management Services, launched in early 2021. Common Good serves the needs of mobile home parks owned by or on behalf of its residents by providing professional community-based property management. Currently, Common Good is active in Colorado and Montana filling a significant service gap in the affordable housing marketplace. As Common Good grows the number of communities and residents it is also growing new jobs, a powerful and diverse bilingual service-oriented team focused on treating each resident with respect and dignity.