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CGIN: Online Community Food co-ops banded together to form the Cooperative Grocers’ Information Network (CGIN) in 1997. In the intervening years, their idea of a “low-overhead organization that cranks out products, not... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
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A Model for Cooperative Challenges Mastering strategy is absolutely key for a manager. “One of the most important of a manager’s tasks consists in establishing the organization’s strategy—or in at least overseeing the process by... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
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Did They Get the Message? If you are like most produce managers, you are always looking for ways to make the best use of your marketing efforts and increase your daily sales. That success depends on whether you are... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
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Making Member Relations the Co-op's Organizing Principle In his booklet Three Strategic Concepts for the Guidance of Cooperatives, Brett Fairbairn urges co-ops to place our relationship with co-op members at the center of our thinking and activities.... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
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Removing the President of the Board Kootenay Country Co-op is a 29-year-old cooperative operating in Nelson, British Columbia. We have been enjoying several years of financial stability and membership growth. We are fortunate to... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
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Social Justice in Agriculture Forum I recently had an opportunity to represent food co-ops at a forum for Social Justice in Agriculture, along with representatives from organizations representing farm workers, fair-trade initiatives... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
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Swarthmore Co-op Gets a New Store The Swarthmore Co-op started in a garage in 1937, founded by local residents in search of less expensive and fresher food. The membership fee was $5, which remained in effect until December 2002.... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
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New La Crosse Store and Restaurant Opens People’s Food Co-op in La Crosse, Wis., started laying the groundwork for expansion years ago. Peg Nolan, our co-op’s former general manager, made a brilliant purchase back in 1998, buying a house... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
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Don McLemore and the New NCGA I briefly interviewed Don McLemore in late November, two months after his hiring as the CEO of the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA). Don McLemore can be reached via email at don@... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
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Co-op Boards and Why We Do What We Do In their efforts to grow and govern democratic businesses, food co-op boards of directors need to look both inward and outward. My previous two columns discussed the expanding... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
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Bloomingfoods Caters Kinsey Coming Out Party On Saturday, November 13, 2004, Bloomingfoods Market and Deli and its Encore Café helped cater a fundraising reception for The Kinsey Institute, celebrating the premiere of the Fox Searchlight... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
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Avoiding Post-Expansion Burnout You’ve been working on this project for more than two years. After overcoming every obstacle, putting up with countless delays, raising hundreds of thousands in financing, moving all your... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
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Carrots in the Classroom It sounds remarkably like a late-night TV ad: “In just minutes a day, you can fulfill your outreach needs, please your core members, attract mid-level consumers, educate small children, and make... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Co-op as Store Becomes Co-op as Community We can no longer (verb)_____ in isolation. Try these verbs: Learn. Vision. Plan. Invest. Be. Then try your own! Nearly three years ago, the board of directors of the Brattleboro Food Co-op... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Brand Readiness Hits the Road The word branding sometimes conjures images of bucking broncos, rodeos where livestock are marked with an indelible sign. Indeed, branding with a hot iron speaks to the rambunctious nature of... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Monitoring the Manager There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is commonly known to directors and managers. It is a dimension open to interpretation—potentially as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is... |
21 Jan 2009 | #123 March - April - 2006 |
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Growing New Mexico's Co-op Economy La Montañita’s two co-op locations in Albuquerque, New Mexico will soon be joined by two additional locations in the communities of Gallup and Santa Fe. Our Nob Hill store, located at its current... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Just Food Hits the Ground Running At 7:00 p.m. on December 15, Just Food opened its doors for the first time to a waiting crowd. The members-only preview attracted hundreds of community supporters who came out in the cold to see... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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New Strategic Plan for CCC Almost four years ago, 28 financially troubled co-operatives in Atlantic Canada knew that struggling one by one they could not survive. Pitted against two fiercely competing multinational... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Murky Water From the time that Congress passed the Organic Food Production Act (OFPA) in 1990 to the present, hot-button issues have persisted. There was a brief honeymoon phase following the national... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Sustainable Seafood and the Tsunami Seafood has become a hot topic on many cooperatives’ agendas as stores struggle to determine what kind of fish is “green” or caught “sustainably” enough to sell. Some, like the Weaver Street... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Keep It Fresh! What are you in the market for?” Although this common phrase is used in every context from buying a car to a new office machine, it may be a question retailers should be asking their customers.... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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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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Working Together Toward Sustainable Business Like many co-ops of the 1970s, the Community Food Co-op in Bellingham, Washington, began as a small natural-foods store, idealism fueling its birth and early growth. The store outgrew its 900... |
21 Jan 2009 | #118 May - June - 2005 |
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We Own It—At Last! In 1972, when Good Foods Co-op incorporated as a nonprofit Kentucky corporation, the Kentucky statutes mentioned only farm cooperatives. Our founders incorporated as a nonprofit, hoping we could... |
21 Jan 2009 | #118 May - June - 2005 |
