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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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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 |
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A SLICE of Cooperation SLICE: Strengthening Local Independent Co-ops Everywhere, is an annual conference and organizing project in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. The SLICE vision of an expanding cooperative... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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Stronger Together Works in HR, Too When working with Outpost Co-op managers on a particularly sticky employee issue, I often hear, "I’m glad I don’t have your job!" Although I may think the same thing of... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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Time Management "Time management is the act or process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase efficiency or... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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Buying Clubs Try to define "buying club." Is it a food co-op without a storefront? A stepping stone to a future retail store? A group effort to buy food as cheaply as possible? The only viable option... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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The Howard Bowers Fund and CCMA The Howard Bowers Fund was established to honor Howard Bowers, who dedicated his life to the consumer co-op movement. In his five-decade career, he worked for food co-ops throughout the Midwest... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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Go Co-op! Can We? The International Year of Cooperatives continues to remind us that cooperatives are a global movement of great impact and even greater potential. Some of the examples being highlighted encourage... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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Measuring Ends, Telling Our Story Why does the work of measuring the co-op's accomplishments and telling the co-op's story matter? |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Coordinating a Collaborative Commissary Kitchen It's 5:00 p.m. on the first Friday night in January as I swing behind the old Coca-Cola building near downtown Bloomington, Ind. At the buzz of the intercom, a staff person from the... |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Don't Wait—Act Today! Competition in the grocery industry is fierce. With more retailers entering the natural and organic market and more shoppers purchasing natural and organic foods |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Accounting Best Practices: Internal Control Summary: Our previous articles were on the balance sheet and the income statement. This article covers internal control. There will be a final article on cash management. Our vision for this... |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Balancing Employers and Employees Food co-ops are known for being compassionate employers. Unlike some of our big competitors in the grocery industry who only work to maintain their organization's interests, food co-ops seem... |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Startup Technology Choices Been called by a new food co-op for advice recently? The number of startup food cooperatives is swelling, and with it, the ranks of cooperative advisors. |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Promoting the International Year of Cooperatives Video Series on Food Co-ops A video series, "Lights, Cameras, Co-ops: Exploring the Country's Thriving Food Co-ops" has been launched by the National Cooperative Grocers Association... |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Diverse Means, Common Ends Alongside many new cooperatives that are springing up, established food co-ops continue to evolve and deepen their community roots. This edition has several substantial reports that illustrate... |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Owner Bond Drives Support Growth at Willy Street Back in April 2010, Willy Street Co-op (Madison, Wis.) launched an owner bond drive to raise money to support the opening of a second retail store, Willy West. |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Food Justice in Its Simplest Form Food has an amazing way of bringing people together. We all relate to the fact that we need to eat, every day. This is why I chose to become a dietitian; I knew that I could connect to anyone... |
18 Jan 2012 | #158 January - February - 2012 |
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Marquette Co-op: Building Local Food In a small, rural community in the Upper Peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan, a vibrant cooperative grocery store is proving to be a growing local economic player. Marquette Food Co-op (MFC) boasts... |
18 Jan 2012 | #158 January - February - 2012 |
