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Co-ops Are Doing It for Themselves On Saturday, Oct. 2, Seward Cooperative Grocery & Deli in Minneapolis was the first consumer co-op to launch the Principle Six Cooperative Trade Movement (P6) to its customers and the larger... |
03 Feb 2011 | #152 January - February - 2011 |
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Co-ops Bowers Fund Grows "The ... Board of Directors would like to thank you and the Howard Bowers Fund for providing two full scholarships for individuals from the ...Cooperative to attend the CCMA conference this... |
08 Jan 2004 | #093 March - April - 2001 |
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Co-ops in the Present and Future Communities “Listen up! We’ve got a problem here.” A warning from ten years ago about food co-op governance and boards of directors remains pertinent.* While some co-op boards provide excellent... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Co-ops Meet in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection The 2012 Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) conference on June 14–16 brought over 400 hundred cooperators to Philadelphia for speakers and training, friendship and... |
07 Aug 2012 | #161 July - August - 2012 |
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Co-ops Rock! download pdf of article Have you looked at the demographic profile of your co-op membership lately? Even co-ops in college communities may find that their membership is aging. In fact, it... |
19 Jan 2009 | #139 November - December - 2008 |
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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-ops Take Action on GMOs Co-ops Take Action on GMOs |
07 Jan 2004 | #105 March - April - 2003 |
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Co-ops to Classrooms Ask yourself this: How many of your local schools are using your co-op as a source of food and food education? If you would like to see that number increase, read on. As our nation... |
20 Jan 2009 | #122 January - February - 2006 |
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Co-Shop: Willy Street Co-op's online shopping and delivery service Download a complete pdf version of this article. In early 2006 Willy Street Co-op managers began creating a system for members to order our products online and have them delivered. Our Co-... |
19 Jan 2009 | #137 July - August - 2008 |
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CoCoFiSt Data Sharing Strengthens Co-ops Retail food cooperatives have long valued their unique characteristics and independence. Current events in our industry have left many co-ops with declining market share, weak... |
08 Jan 2004 | #085 November - December - 1999 |
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CoCoFiSt Tools Boost Southeast Co-ops Editor's note: A new wave of acronyms has been spawned in the past three years by a data sharing program for co-op managers, CoCoFiSt: Common Cooperative Financial Statements, an innovative... |
07 Jan 2004 | #094 May - June - 2001 |
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Collaborating on Perishables You don't have to be an industry insider to spot the difference between a grocery store with perishables teams that are sharp with creative cross-merchandising and one with... |
08 Jan 2004 | #088 May - June - 2000 |
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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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Collective Management There are some charts that are not included online, to view them download the pdf of article The mere mention of worker collectives managing food co-ops sends most modern cooperators into a... |
27 Dec 2008 | #139 November - December - 2008 |
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Common Ground Food Co-op In the fall of 2007, an envelope landed on my desk at Common Ground Food Co-op (Champaign-Urbana, Ill.). Inside was a letter saying that our landlord of 33 years would be selling the building the... |
19 Nov 2009 | #145 November - December - 2009 |
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Communicating "Co-op" Membership is at the heart of cooperation. Cooperative membership is the driving force for an alternative economic system predicated upon user ownership and benefit. It's part and parcel of the... |
07 Jan 2004 | #103 November - December - 2002 |
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Community Food Co-op Every day at a busy corner in downtown Bellingham, Washington, thousands of drivers gaze into a bright, bustling cafe. The building itself is an attention grabber, with striking... |
09 Jan 2004 | #061 November - December - 1995 |
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Community Food Co-op in Bellingham, Washington download pdf of article |
03 Mar 2009 | #141 March - April - 2009 |
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Community Mercantile Meets Compressed Timeline When you last read about Community Mercantile Co-op in Lawrence, Kansas, we had just barely survived Wild Oats coming to town. The article in the May-June 1997 edition of... |
08 Jan 2004 | #096 September - October - 2001 |
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Competition Drives Co-op Improvements This article refers to graphs not available in this online version. The complete article is available here as a pdf. According to most indicators from the past year, food co-op performance... |
19 Jan 2009 | #132 September - October - 2007 |
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Conducting Member Loan Campaigns Cooperatives need to pursue debt capital from members through the creation of member loan programs and member loan drives. The purpose of this article is to suggest some of the basic principles and... |
08 Jan 2004 | #086 January - February - 2000 |
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Conference and Survey Show Stronger Co-ops, Yet Many Challenges Remain The results from this edition's Retail Operations Survey plus reports from the recent Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) conference provide many strong indicators of food co-op... |
08 Jan 2004 | #089 July - August - 2000 |
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Conference Highlights Outstanding Contributions, Larger Challenges Directors, managers, staff, and allies of food co-ops met in Albuquerque during June 9–11 for the annual CCMA (Consumer Cooperative Management Association) conference. Outstanding individuals were... |
22 Aug 2005 | #119 July - August - 2005 |
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Confidentiality: An Issue for Co-op Boards The question of confidentiality for consumer cooperative boards of directors is one of the toughest issues facing them. On one hand, the American Bar Association recommends that directors deal in... |
09 Jan 2004 | #014 December - January - 1988 |
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Conflicts of Interest in the Management of Co-ops Conflicts of interest are impossible to avoid within a co-op. Yet one of the best ways to tarnish your co-op’s reputation and bring suspicion to its operations, as well as invite a lawsuit... |
11 Apr 2013 | 165 April 2013 |
