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Cesar Chavez: His Lifelong Links With Cooperatives When Cesar Chavez died on April 23, 1993 the cooperative movement lost one of its great believers. From the moment Cesar became an organizer in his early twenties until the end of his life he was... |
09 Jan 2004 | #047 July - August - 1993 |
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CGIN Highlights New Services The Cooperative Grocers Information Network -- CGIN -- held its fifth annual meeting at the June CCMA conference this year. For those of you who were unable to join us, highlights included: |
07 Jan 2004 | #102 September - October - 2002 |
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CGIN News: More Resources Added to www.cgin.org Thanks to generous contributions submitted by members of the Cooperative Grocers' Information Network (CGIN), we've been able to add the following new items to our site in the past couple of... |
07 Jan 2004 | #100 May - June - 2002 |
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CGIN Unveils New Website In 1997, a group of retail food cooperative leaders got together to build the framework for an online, member-based resource to support the growth and development of food co-ops nationwide.... |
11 Feb 2008 | #134 Jan - Feb - 2008 |
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CGIN's New Web Services
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27 Dec 2008 | #108 September - October - 2003 |
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CGIN: 10 Years and Changes Ahead This year will mark the 10th anniversary of the Cooperative Grocers’ Information Network (CGIN), which inspires us to reflect on what we’ve been able to accomplish as we close in on a decade of... |
20 Jan 2009 | #129 march - april - 2007 |
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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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Championing the Organic Label Organic has received a lot of bad press lately, from the Senate investigation on liquid nitrogen fertilizers to a Washington Post article questioning the “purity” of the organic label, published... |
22 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
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Characteristics of Effective Supervisors Whether you oversee a whole department of employees or one assistant manager or an ever-changing group of volunteers, you as a supervisor are ultimately responsible for the work of others. This... |
09 Jan 2004 | #006 August - September - 1986 |
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Chasing the Gap Download the spreadsheet for this article download pdf of article CoCoGAP is a data sharing program, a tool that measures a co-op’s performance in key operational areas against... |
18 Jan 2009 | #140 January - February - 2009 |
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Chatham Marketplace Opens Its Doors “When are you opening?” Without exaggeration, I can say I must have heard that question about 954 times in the last few months. After three years of effort, our cooperative finally opened on May... |
08 Aug 2006 | #125 July - August - 2006 |
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Chequamegon: Now Twice the Co-op At first glance, Ashland, Wisconsin does not appear a likely location for a food cooperative. It is a blue collar, post-industrial town with a modern day strip of fast food... |
08 Jan 2004 | #096 September - October - 2001 |
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Chinese Delegates Visit San Diego Co-op In an impromptu visit, 18 delegates from China came to Ocean Beach People’s Organic Food Co-op in San Diego to learn about issues involving agricultural food quality, with a focus on the co-op’s “... |
31 Dec 2009 | #146 January - February - 2010 |
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City Center Market In small-town Cambridge, Minn., MOMS Food Co-op opened the doors to our new store, City Center Market, on January 4, 2007. This was just 18 months after learning we needed to find a new home and... |
20 Jan 2009 | #129 march - april - 2007 |
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Clarifying Board and Management Roles in Expansion/Relocation Projects Many co-ops talk about the need to move or expand for years. Often it is all talk, with a few false starts and little formal planning or action. For other co-ops, an opportunity to... |
08 Jan 2004 | #083 July - August - 1999 |
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Closing Mountain Warehouse Mountain Warehouse was a cooperatively owned distributor of natural foods, with 1990 sales of $2.2 million. Located in Durham, North Carolina, it serviced accounts throughout North Carolina and... |
09 Jan 2004 | #037 November - December - 1991 |
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Closing the ‘Gap’ Many cooperatives struggle to find appropriate operational benchmarks and to set challenging yet attainable goals. Without the use of external data to help them understand how the industry may be... |
29 Nov 2006 | #126 September - October - 2006 |
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Co-op Advantage Program: Midwest Stores Cooperate Not a day goes by when the savvy retailer hasn't asked: How will my store continue to compete in an industry as dynamic as natural foods? Smart co-op retailers are looking to... |
08 Jan 2004 | #086 January - February - 2000 |
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Co-op as Gift I read a lot of co-op newsletters, and by a combination of scanning and close reading learn a lot from them. Obviously, a site visit would be more informative, and a sight by means of one good... |
09 Jan 2004 | #024 September - October - 1989 |
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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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Co-op Atlantic: End of the Saga? download pdf of article In the winter of 2008 after years of organizational and market struggles, the Consumers Community Co-operative (CCC) merged with Co-op Atlantic (CA). The 17 former... |
27 Dec 2008 | #139 November - December - 2008 |
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Co-op Awards Co-op Awards |
07 Jan 2004 | #107 July - August - 2003 |
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Co-op Awards Given at CCMA Cooperative Service: Gail Graham |
26 Aug 2004 | #113 July - August - 2004 |
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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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Co-op Challenged by Member Boycott Request The views and perspective expressed are our own, and not necessarily those of the co-op members, the co-op staff, or the board of directors of People’s Food Co-op of Ann Arbor Michigan. |
19 Jan 2009 | #136 may - june - 2008 |
