Editorial Calendar: 2011
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#152, January-February 2011
NETWORK NEWS:
• Giving great customer service
• Organic public policy issues for today and the next food/farm bill
• Exciting startups: Troy Food Co-op and Food Co-op Initiative programs
OPERATING EXCELLENCE:
• P6 branding – a new initiative promotes co-ops, local, and family farms
• Weavers Way Co-op and school children co-ops
• Perils of at-will employment
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
• Followup discussion on new co-op laws
#153, March-April 2011
NETWORK NEWS:
• Reporting the best of Eat Local, America events
• Politics of cooperation and obtaining public funding for co-op development
OPERATING EXCELLENCE:
• Retail organic certification: why it is essential
• Food lessons from schoolchildren
• Reviewing films on food and farming
• Make your case: persuading management you have a great idea
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
• Sustainability and co-op development
• Reviewing board roles and responsibilities
#154, May-June 2011
NETWORK NEWS:
• Gen Y – working and shopping at the co-op
• Key metrics for startups: a 5-year review
• Domestic Fair Trade advances
• Collaboration: Portland People’s Food Co-op and New Orleans Food Co-op
OPERATING EXCELLENCE:
• CDS: Location location location, by Debbie Suassuna (Part 1 of 3)
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
• Board postures: what works and what doesn’t
#155, July-August 2011
NETWORK NEWS:
• Co-op responses to new competition
• More startup stories and lessons from Food Co-op Initiative
OPERATING EXCELLENCE:
• Building the local food economy: co-ops report from across the country
• CDS: Finding the right site (Part 2 of 3)
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
• Cool ideas to cool results for co-op boards
#156, September-October 2011
NETWORK NEWS:
• Food Co-op Initiative helps guide the new wave of food co-ops
OPERATING EXCELLENCE:
• Fair Trade section: Domestic Fair Trade Association, growing international fair trade
• NCGA: Integrated promotional planning
• CDS: Facility considerations (Part 3 of 3)
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
• Trends in general manager compensation
#157, November-December 2011
NETWORK NEWS:
• National Cooperative Grocers Association programs grow
• Food Co-op Initiative helps guide the new wave of food co-ops
OPERATING EXCELLENCE:
• Marketing savvy: stories about stories
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
• Strategic leadership by co-op boards of directors
Magazines are sent out the first week of the publication month.
Deadlines for content and ads are the first week of the previous month.
Editor: Dave Gutknecht, dave@cooperativegrocer.coop
Advertising: Sally Schroeder, sally@cooperativegrocer.coop; 612-644-0858
Publisher:
Triangle Park Creative:
Dan Nordley
dan@cooperativegrocer.coop
612-436-9177
2600 E. Franklin Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55406
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