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A Community of Co-ops Grows in Philly By 2007, Weavers Way Co-op was a Philadelphia neighborhood institution, with a growing urban farm program, expanding partnerships with local schools, nearly 3,000 member households, and annual... |
20 Feb 2013 | #164 Jan-Feb 2013 |
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CreekSide Co-op: Opened November 2012 Of the many startup food co-ops in and around Philadelphia, the furthest along, and the one with which Weavers Way has worked most closely, is CreekSide Co-op, which opened for business in... |
20 Feb 2013 | #164 Jan-Feb 2013 |
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Agile and Efficient: Board Committees and Committee Structures that Work The use of committees by boards is ubiquitous—as it should be, considering a small group’s agility when compared to a whole board. Unfortunately, boards often end up with... |
20 Feb 2013 | #164 Jan-Feb 2013 |
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A Global Cooperative Mandate The world clearly is in dire need of approaches to social issues that are more democratic and more just. In this vein, the potential for cooperative enterprise is receiving greater attention,... |
20 Feb 2013 | #164 Jan-Feb 2013 |
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Taking Care of Board Fundamentals As cooperative boards strive for heavenly results, they need to be sure the devil is not in the details. When boards of directors consider their duties—ensuring organizational accountability... |
20 Feb 2013 | #164 Jan-Feb 2013 |
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Capital: Sources and Abuses Discussions here reflect much that has been learned about coopera-tive capital as well as lessons still to be absorbed by some food co-ops. Gone, for the most part, are formerly common practices... |
11 Apr 2013 | 165 April 2013 |
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NCGA Expands Development Focus The "Healthy Foods, Healthy Communities" independent study of the social, economic, and environmental benefits of food co-ops, recently released by the National Cooperative Grocers... |
11 Apr 2013 | 165 April 2013 |
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Food Co-op Initiative—Three Years March 17, 2013, marks three years of Food Co-op Initiative (FCI), and we invite you to celebrate with us. What are we celebrating? Since we began our work, |
11 Apr 2013 | 165 April 2013 |
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Get Ready for the Cooperative Decade During 2012, the UN International Year of Cooperatives (IYC), many U.S. cooperators took the opportunity to work together to promote existing co-ops and lay the groundwork for a stronger movement... |
11 Apr 2013 | 165 April 2013 |
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Grow Your Co-op Whether your co-op is at an early stage or a long-established business planning for expansion, one of the biggest challenges is the "Sources" side of your statement of Sources and Uses... |
11 Apr 2013 | 165 April 2013 |
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Time to Recycle Cooperative Wealth One of the more popular definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. And so it goes with our economy. The all-too-familiar boom-and-bust... |
11 Apr 2013 | 165 April 2013 |
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Investing in Staff Satisfaction Don’t open a shop unless you like to smile. – Chinese proverb Embedded in the words of this proverb is the assumption that happy workers are good for business... |
11 Apr 2013 | 165 April 2013 |
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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 |
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Terrible Fix, Farm Bill in "Uncharted Territory" The nine-month “fix” in the farm bill is worse than nothing. With the last-minute approval of this compromise, largely without debate, we lost relatively inexpensive yet... |
21 Jan 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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My Co-op Rocks! Winners Available Now available for online viewing are winners of an annual contest sponsored by several leading cooperatives that generates imaginative tributes to cooperatives. The My Co-op Rocks Video +... |
27 Dec 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Resources from International Co-op Summits Cooperators everywhere can view online presentations and research delivered at major international cooperative meetings held in late 2012. The International Summit of Cooperatives in Quebec City,... |
25 Dec 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Accounting Best Practices Primer Now Available Accounting Best Practices for Food Co-ops: A Primer is now available, an excellent and concise (14-page) summary in four sections: balance sheet, income statement, internal control, and cash... |
15 Nov 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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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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Cooperative Ownership Gaining Attention The flowering of new worker-owned cooperatives and other innovative forms of economic democracy is slowly gaining more attention in various cities and through diverse media channels. One such... |
31 May 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
