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The Changing Face of Co-op Development How do you start a new retail food co-op? Can you give me a checklist and a budget? I’ll take it from there! If only it were that easy. With hundreds of communities interested in opening new... |
15 Oct 2010 | #149 July - August - 2010* |
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Understanding Marketing Research In order to improve overall sales performance and compete effectively against other food stores, food co-ops can choose from several types of market research tools. Generally speaking, the results... |
15 Oct 2010 | #149 July - August - 2010* |
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Collaboration and Resilience What does it take to cultivate a resilient food system? Regional efforts underway in the Northeast and around the country suggest some inputs and practices that seem to be doing just that. These... |
25 Oct 2010 | #149 July - August - 2010* |
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"Consumer Groups Get It Wrong" -- Plus a new food safety report Adding to the earlier version of this story: National Sustainable Agriculture Committee has released a new report on food safety: “A Sustainable Agriculture Perspective on Food Safety.” ... |
25 Oct 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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The Color of Dedication Stage three-and-a-half means "yellow," and yellow means "go, go, go" in the banana world. |
26 Oct 2010 | #150 September - October 2010 |
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Recommended: "Catching Fire" Animal response to fire typically is described as fear and flight. Yet I have noticed many times that the smell of seasoned oak in a wood-burning stove is so savory that it makes my mouth water... |
12 Nov 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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Food Co-ops and the Road to Organic Valley: Part 2 [Originally published in "RootStock," Spring-Summer 2009] Part 1, published in the previous edition of RootStock, summarized twenty years of food co-ops’ early years, when these community-... |
20 Nov 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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Prospects in Hard Times: Part 3 [“Rootstock” Part 3: 2009, unpublished] Think organic food. Think childcare and other essential services. Think community economic development and local lending. These are the kinds of... |
20 Nov 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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Building Blocks: A=L+C I remember learning balance sheet basics at some of my earliest co-op meetings. "A = L + C" was written for all to see, then explained again and again: Assets = Liabilities + Capital. When we... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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Basics and Beyond In 2009, in response to member interest and needs, the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) launched two new training programs, one geared towards co-op general managers and one geared... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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A General Manager Bids Farewell When I woke up that fateful morning, I had first-day-on-the-job jitters. However, I was excited about my new job and eager to get started. I was introduced to the staff and then handed a bucket, a... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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Domestic Fair Trade Since the beginnings of the movement, co-ops have been catalysts for the transformation of economies around them. The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, often cited as the founders of modern... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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Farm Aid 2010 Farm Aid's 25th anniversary concert was held on Oct. 2 in Milwaukee, Wis. It was a celebration of music and of the devotion of the organization to family farmers. However, behind the great music... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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How Are We Doing? In my work with department managers, I typically ask, "How do you feel you are performing?" Almost every manager easily responds to this question. Then I ask how they think their supervisor would... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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Flexible or Flawed Securing adequate capital from members as well as external sources is a primary cooperative challenge. The importance of capital often is not well recognized in these democratic organizations,... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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Understanding the ULCAA Since 2001, new cooperative laws have been adopted in five states—Wyoming, Tennessee, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin—and introduced in the Nebraska state legislature. These laws do not replace... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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Governance Considerations for New Retail Food Cooperatives The Uniform Limited Cooperation Association Act (UCLAA) and a variety of state statutes have provided new financing flexibility for organizers of food cooperatives. In addition, these business... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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St. Peter Food Co-op Chooses Flexibility in Reincorporation St. Peter Food Co-op in Minnesota reincorporated under Minn. 308b statutes, one of the first state limited cooperative associations (LCA) options, in 2007. They decided to make the change in... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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A Trojan Horse in Our Midst The Uniform Limited Cooperative Association Act (which I'll refer to as the ULCAA or the Act) is a "model" statute proposed for adoption in the individual states. It is a governing statute for an... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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Bad for Bees: EPA Bows to Bayer Tom Philpot at Grist, www.grist.org, continues to contribute excellent reporting on food and pharm corporations. These businesses and their federal regulators regularly undermine public... |
13 Dec 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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Cooperative Finance: Discounts Provoke Discussion! Editor's note: Recently, several readers wrote letters to the editor discussing financial matters. These letters appear below, followed by a response from the authors of the finance... |
28 Dec 2010 | #064 May - June - 1996 |
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Director Recruitment: The Nominations Process It's true. The responsibilities of being a director usually become so consuming that not much time ends up being devoted to thinking about upcoming elections. For many co-ops, the "recruitment and... |
04 Jan 2011 | #002 December - January - 1985 |
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A Victory for Local and Regional Food Updating the story on food safety legislation. |
05 Jan 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Hanover Co-op Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary! Seventy-five years ago—a general meeting was held in the library of the Hanover, New Hampshire, High School at 7:30 p.m., January 6, 1936, for the purpose of organizing a consumers’ club. |
14 Jan 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Capital Crunch, Capitol Crawl Creative proposals and inspiring stories illustrate ways to advance the cooperative agenda. That agenda is quite diverse in its programs, but co-ops share a common set of values and principles and... |
01 Feb 2011 | #152 January - February - 2011 |
