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Ringing Out the International Year of Cooperatives The International Year of Cooperatives is in its final months, and National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) and its member and associate co-ops continue to celebrate all of the ways that... |
25 Sep 2012 | #162 September-October 2012 |
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Weaving Again for IYC In honor of the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives, cooperative organizations in Great Britain, the United States, and Canada have sponsored publication of a new edition of Weavers... |
25 Sep 2012 | #162 September-October 2012 |
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Domestic Fair Trade Association to Meet Nov. 12–14 The Domestic Fair Trade Association (www.dfta.org) annual meeting brings together stakeholders from across the food and agriculture systems. DFTA is leading the movement for a collaborative... |
25 Sep 2012 | #162 September-October 2012 |
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New Study Highlights Impact of Food Co-ops A fascinating and detailed look at the impact of food co-ops has just been released by the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA). Available as a pdf, this 21-page report compares co-op... |
25 Sep 2012 | #162 September-October 2012 |
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Deeper Cooperative Visions With a boost from the International Year of Cooperatives, the potential of cooperatives in addressing critical social and economic needs is gaining recognition—although perhaps not as... |
25 Sep 2012 | #162 September-October 2012 |
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Deeper Cooperative Visions With a boost from the International Year of Cooperatives, the potential of cooperatives in addressing critical social and economic needs is gaining recognition—although perhaps not as... |
25 Sep 2012 | #162 September-October 2012 |
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Organic Food is About Public Health Reducing the significance of organic food to its “healthiness” is a bit like reducing politics to a matter of “truthiness.” The recent Stanford University study (September... |
07 Sep 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Fair Trade Fight Featured in the Nation The U.S. fair trade world has been in a state of division for quite some time. The Nation magazine in its September 10, 2012 issue has published a full-length story. |
30 Aug 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Food Co-ops and Natural Foods Retailers Raise the Bar on Hershey Forty-one consumer food co-ops and natural foods retailers operating 62 stores released an open letter on August 23 to the Hershey Company, demanding that Hershey take action to end child slave... |
30 Aug 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Healthy Board Dissent Our co-op boards are groups elected and charged with a common purpose: fulfilling the legal and moral obligations of their co-op, on behalf of a diverse set of member-owners. Their fiduciary... |
07 Aug 2012 | #161 July - August - 2012 |
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Accounting Best Practices: Cash Management Our vision for this accounting best practices series is to examine fundamental financial tools and best practices for co-ops that promote overall financial health and the ability to improve. In... |
07 Aug 2012 | #161 July - August - 2012 |
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Why a Human Resources Audit? An audit can be described as an unbiased examination and evaluation of systems and processes of an organization in order to demonstrate whether they are in compliance with a standard. The human... |
07 Aug 2012 | #161 July - August - 2012 |
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Marketing Matters 2012 Marketing Matters, the annual conference organized by the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) marketing team, focuses on brand management and development among food co-ops across the... |
07 Aug 2012 | #161 July - August - 2012 |
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Building a Co-op Future The International Year of Cooperatives is an ideal time to think about the intellectual underpinnings of the cooperative movement. Canadian cooperators offer two key resources for this endeavor.... |
07 Aug 2012 | #161 July - August - 2012 |
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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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Next Act: Network Merger The year 2012 marks a new stage in the history of this magazine, one that will lead to improvements in web-based services for food co-ops. Following is one view (skewed, naturally) of how we got... |
07 Aug 2012 | #161 July - August - 2012 |
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New Study on Impact of Food Co-ops A fascinating and detailed look at the impact of food co-ops has just been released by the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA). Available as a pdf, this 21-page report compares co-op... |
06 Aug 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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"The Cooperative Turn" A new article, subtitled "Building the right kind of autonomy," provides an excellent overview of what cooperatives can offer a world that is in economic crisis. "The Cooperative Turn," written... |
04 Aug 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Credit Unions Seek Senate Support Urge your senators to listen to the credit unions -- the ones with the plan for helping small business and our nation's economic recovery. That’s the message from the CEO of the Credit... |
20 Jul 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Follow the Farm Bill at sustainableagriculture.net The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) continues to provide current and complete information on the Farm Bill as it moves through Congress: www.sustainableagriculture.net. This... |
14 Jul 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Cooperative Grocer Magazine transferred to CGIN To the delight of the almost seventy people attending the Cooperative Grocers’ Information Network annual meeting at CCMA in Philadelphia in June 2012, it was announced that the National... |
20 Jun 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Be the Best You Can Be—Quicker You know the feeling: you walk into your first meeting, you don’t know anyone, you’re not sure what to say or do, and everyone but you seems to know what’s going on. That’s... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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Neighboring Food Co-ops Focus on Cross-Sector Collaboration On a bright, beautiful February day in Putney, Vt., members of the Neighboring Food Co-op Association (NFCA) gathered at the Putney School’s Calder Hall. "It’s always a... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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Cuban Cooperatives Advance, Diversify We were lucky to be invited by Wendy Holm, a Canadian agronomist, to attend a conference on cooperative development in Cuba. In her words, this conference grew out of the nexus between her work... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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Educating and Energizing Startups The third annual "Up and Coming, Up and Running" food co-op startup conference took place in Bloomington, Ind., on March 8–10, 2012. This year’s gathering attracted 81... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
