FORM OF AMENDMENT TO DECLARATION OF TRUST

                                  Exhibit 1(o)

                    FORM OF AMENDMENT TO DECLARATION OF TRUST



                                                                  Exhibit 1(o)
                             CDC NVEST FUNDS TRUST I

             Amendment No. 14 to Amended and Restated Agreement and
                              Declaration of Trust

         The undersigned, being at least a majority of the Trustees of CDC Nvest
Funds Trust I (the "Trust"), having determined it to be consistent with the fair
and equitable treatment of all shareholders of the Trust, hereby amend the
Trust's Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust, as amended by
Amendments Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 thereto (the
"Declaration of Trust"), a copy of which is on file in the office of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as follows:

          1. The first sentence of Section 6 of Article III of the Declaration
             of Trust is hereby amended to read in its entirety as follows:

          Without limiting the authority of the Trustees set forth in Section 5,
          inter alia, to establish and designate any further Series or classes
          or to modify the rights and preferences of any Series or class, each
          of the following Series shall be and is hereby established and
          designated as a Multi-Class Series: (1) CDC Nvest Government
          Securities Fund, (2) CDC Nvest Growth Fund, (3) CDC Nvest Balanced
          Fund, (4) CDC Nvest Star Value Fund, (5) CDC Nvest Bond Income Fund,
          (6) CDC Nvest Municipal Income Fund, (7) CDC Nvest International
          Equity Fund, (8) CDC Nvest Capital Growth Fund, (9) CDC Nvest Star
          Advisers Fund, (10) CDC Nvest Strategic Income Fund, (11) CDC Nvest
          Star Worldwide Fund, (12) CDC Nvest Star Small Cap Fund, (13) CDC
          Nvest Large Cap Growth Fund, (14) CDC Nvest Jurika & Xxxxxx Relative
          Value Fund and (15) CDC Nvest Star Growth Fund.

         The foregoing amendment shall be effective as of the time it is filed
with the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hand for ourselves and for
our successors and assigns as of the 31st day of August, 2001.

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