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Emerging Eco-Labels Editor’s note: Several charts on the food industry can be found at Phil Howard’s webpage. The present article is linked under Lia Spaniolo in “Student Publications.” See also his charts on organic... |
04 Jun 2010 | #148 May - June - 2010 |
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A Cooperative Approach to Management Education Editor’s note: In this article, when citing Canadian sources, we have retained their practice of hyphenating “co-operative.” Education is a central principle of the... |
04 Jun 2010 | #148 May - June - 2010 |
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Food Co-op 500 Becomes Food Co-op Initiative On March 25, 2010, the founding partners of Food Co-op 500 announced that the organization will move beyond its pilot phase and become a new nonprofit corporation. Food Co-op Initiative will... |
04 Jun 2010 | #148 May - June - 2010 |
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Strong Performance But Can We Sustain It? (Retail Operations Survey) Strong Performance But Can We Sustain It? (pdf 262kb) (includes charts, data and methodology not found on this web page version)
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05 Apr 2010 | #125 July - August - 2006 |
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The Power of Collaboration Ten years ago, the Community Food Co-op (Bellingham, Wash.) initiated the Farm Fund, through which a portion of the co-op’s donation budget goes directly to specific farm projects. The Farm Fund... |
22 Mar 2010 | #147 March - April - 2010 |
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Reaching Out at Moscow Food Co-op Cooking and wellness classes. Taste fairs. Farm and field days. Store tours for local schoolchildren. All are familiar and important outreach tools for food co-ops. But just as it’s... |
22 Mar 2010 | #147 March - April - 2010 |
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Redefining Prosperity, Building Resilience As shown again in this issue, food co-ops operate in the crosscurrents of dynamic local revival and deep national problems: Slow Food and junk food. Slow Money and accelerating debt. Community... |
22 Mar 2010 | #147 March - April - 2010 |
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Public Programs for Organic Operations Recent Farm Bills have established programs that provide financial assistance for organic folks, and there also are helpful services that are partly funded by United States Department of... |
22 Mar 2010 | #147 March - April - 2010 |
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Keeping Score: Social audit defines values, environmental impact A major project over the last four years at Seward Co-op, in Minneapolis, Minn., has been its Scorecard. Creating this unique social auditing tool occurred during the same time that board and... |
22 Mar 2010 | #147 March - April - 2010 |
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Haiti Relief Through Cooperative Development Foundation Many local cooperatives, as well as the International Cooperative Alliance, have organized donation drives for Haiti relief. For the U.S., the Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF) is offering... |
22 Mar 2010 | #147 March - April - 2010 |
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Don’t Shrink Your Profits! If you are a produce manager, you wear many hats: stocker, scheduler, buyer, counselor, margin manager. But I think there is one more that is just as important as the others, and that is your... |
22 Mar 2010 | #147 March - April - 2010 |
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Co-ops Support Weaver Street Market Weaver Street Market is the Southeast’s largest cooperatively owned grocery, with over 14,000 consumer and worker owners. It opened its first location in Carrboro, N.C. in June 1988. The... |
22 Mar 2010 | #147 March - April - 2010 |
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Co-op Principles Meet Slow Money Principles The importance of rebuilding local and regional food systems has, thankfully, become mainstream; and co-ops are right where they should be—smack dab in the middle of it. Not surprising, really,... |
22 Mar 2010 | #147 March - April - 2010 |
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Co-op Construction: Working on the Dream Once a year or so, I have been writing about the work of Food Co-op 500 and the newly forming co-ops that we support. Since our program began five years ago, we have worked with hundreds of co-op... |
22 Mar 2010 | #147 March - April - 2010 |
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Member Labor, Member Loans Threatened During 1990, long-standing but little noticed regulatory threats to member labor and member loan programs were carried out against cooperatives. |
26 Jan 2010 | #032 January - February - 1991 |
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Expanding Co-ops and Fair Trade Networks Although cooperatives have pioneered in building organics and local food production, we have a long way to go before we’ll know what a sustainable food system looks like. We build the road as we... |
05 Jan 2010 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
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Building a Cooperative Base and Future These may actually be good circumstances for cooperatives. The country has entered a new era, marked by financial decline and much uncertainty, continuing wars, and accelerating environmental... |
05 Jan 2010 | #145 November - December - 2009 |
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Shared Co-op Values, Multiple Stakeholders Are cooperatives ready for new challenges? They are receiving greater attention as a democratic means for addressing social and economic needs—and those needs are growing. Along with record levels... |
05 Jan 2010 | #146 January - February - 2010 |
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A Cooperative Grievance Procedure download the additional chart What recourse do co-op employees have if adversely affected by a management decision? How do they contest the wording of a performance review, the amount of a... |
31 Dec 2009 | #146 January - February - 2010 |
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Uncovering History of Cooperatives, Labor and Communities John Curl has documented a part of America’s cooperative history that few of us are aware of. This book was clearly a labor of love and the result of extensive research into the history of the... |
31 Dec 2009 | #146 January - February - 2010 |
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NCGA and Wedge Co-op Honored with dotCoop Awards On November 18, dotCoop, the sponsor of the .coop domain name, announced its first Global Awards for Cooperative Excellence. The winners Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd. , a fertilizer... |
31 Dec 2009 | #146 January - February - 2010 |
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Open Book Management The systems and culture of the Hanover Co-op have been developing for nearly 75 years. We have been fortunate to have had strong leadership committed to cooperative values and have been seen as an... |
31 Dec 2009 | #146 January - February - 2010 |
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Mondragón and the United Steelworkers The previous issue of Cooperative Grocer (Nov.–Dec. 2009) quoted from an interview with Michael Moore on his latest film, "Capitalism: A Love Story," in which worker co-ops feature prominently as... |
31 Dec 2009 | #146 January - February - 2010 |
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Learning While Leaping Wheatsville Food Co-op in Austin, Texas, recently completed a major renovation, successfully doubling selling space, improving stocking areas and moving the offices to an adjacent building. After... |
31 Dec 2009 | #146 January - February - 2010 |
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Chinese Delegates Visit San Diego Co-op In an impromptu visit, 18 delegates from China came to Ocean Beach People’s Organic Food Co-op in San Diego to learn about issues involving agricultural food quality, with a focus on the co-op’s “... |
31 Dec 2009 | #146 January - February - 2010 |
