How do we sustain our success? Is our board helping our co-op remain competitive? These and other questions are asked by directors attending the Consumer Cooperative Management...
"I wouldn’t keep coming back if I didn’t find it inspiring," said Jens Koepke, director, Co-opportunity, Santa Monica, Calif., at his sixth CCMA (Consumer Cooperative Management Association)....
We all want to leave the co-op better than it was when we came on the board,” said Rachel Soffer, board president of Lakewinds Natural Foods, with stores in the Minneapolis suburbs of Anoka,...
Building on last year’s theme of co-ops and democracy, CCMA 2005 focused more clearly on what is important about cooperation. “We had three keynote speakers instead of two—Gar Alperovitz, Brett...
Some 100 co-ops representing over 30 states made this year’s CCMA annual conference feel like a family reunion. We talked with cooperators whom we had not seen since last year or longer. We...
After attending my third CCMA annual conference, it still felt like a religious revival meeting-after which we went home to evangelize about the co-op difference. Many directors shared the...
Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) conference will be held June 12-14 at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Lexington, Kentucky. For more information, contact Ann Hoyt at 608/262-7390 or...
