Enjoy the archive of Cooperative Grocer magazine, with articles going back to 1985.

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Also available in the archives is LEADer, the NCG Governance Newsletter

    Title Issue Date
    Expanding Co-ops and Fair Trade Networks
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Although cooperatives have pioneered in building organics and local food production, we have a long way to go before we’ll know what a sustainable food system looks like.

    		 144 September - October - 2009 January 5, 2010
    Building a Cooperative Base and Future
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    These may actually be good circumstances for cooperatives.

    		 145 November - December - 2009 January 5, 2010
    Shared Co-op Values, Multiple Stakeholders
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Are cooperatives ready for new challenges? They are receiving greater attention as a democratic means for addressing social and economic needs—and those needs are growing.

    		 146 January - February - 2010 January 5, 2010
    A Cooperative Grievance Procedure
    BY Carolee Colter

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    		 146 January - February - 2010 December 31, 2009
    Uncovering History of Cooperatives, Labor and Communities
    BY Stuart Reid

    John Curl has documented a part of America’s cooperative history that few of us are aware of.

    		 146 January - February - 2010 December 31, 2009
    NCGA and Wedge Co-op Honored with dotCoop Awards
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    On November 18, dotCoop, the sponsor of the .coop domain name, announced its first Global Awards for Cooperative Excellence.

    		 146 January - February - 2010 December 31, 2009
    Open Book Management
    BY Terry Appleby

    The systems and culture of the Hanover Co-op have been developing for nearly 75 years.

    		 146 January - February - 2010 December 31, 2009
    Mondragón and the United Steelworkers
    BY Erbin Crowell

    The previous issue of Cooperative Grocer (Nov.–Dec.

    		 146 January - February - 2010 December 31, 2009
    Learning While Leaping
    BY Dan Gillotte, Michael Owens

    Wheatsville Food Co-op in Austin, Texas, recently completed a major renovation, successfully doubling selling space, improving stocking areas and moving the offices to an adjacent building.

    		 146 January - February - 2010 December 31, 2009
    Chinese Delegates Visit San Diego Co-op
    BY Staff

    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 “g

    		 146 January - February - 2010 December 31, 2009
    A Recipe for Good Board Meetings
    BY Michael Healy

    Here it comes again: the monthly board meeting. You’ve figured out child care for the fourth Monday of every month, that version of parental Olympics where Mom runs out the door as Dad runs in.

    		 146 January - February - 2010 December 31, 2009
    A Faster Path to the Bottom Line
    BY Mari Roseman

    Wheatsfield Co-op didn’t want to reinvent the wheel. The Ames, Iowa, co-op was expanding and working through the plethora of challenges and decisions such projects present.

    		 146 January - February - 2010 December 31, 2009
    LEADer Winter 2009 Issue 6
    BY Martha Whitman, Paige Lettington, Lucinda Berdon, Marcia Shaw, Cindy Owings
    		 LEADer Board Newsletter December 1, 2009
    More on Payment Card Security Compliance
    BY Tak Tang

    All merchants, including consumer cooperatives, must and should meet the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) if they wish to a

    		 145 November - December - 2009 November 19, 2009
    Organic Advocates Optimistic About New Appointments
    BY Mari Roseman

    Along with new members of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), the National Cooperative Grocers Association and its partners in the National Organic Coalition (

    		 145 November - December - 2009 November 19, 2009
    Menus Get the Message Out
    BY Julie Cross

    The Davis (Calif.) Food Co-op has long held a strategy of winning by becoming the “authority on everything.” We’ve spent literally years cultivating that strategy, answering countless peculiar phon

    		 145 November - December - 2009 November 19, 2009
    Common Ground Food Co-op
    BY Jacqueline Hannah

    In the fall of 2007, an envelope landed on my desk at Common Ground Food Co-op (Champaign-Urbana, Ill.).

    		 145 November - December - 2009 November 19, 2009
    Organic Advocates Optimistic About New Appointments
    BY Mari Roseman

    Along with new members of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), the National Cooperative Grocers Association and its partners in the National Organic Coalition (

    		 145 November - December - 2009 November 19, 2009
    Asking Powerful Questions
    BY Thane Joyal

    “A vital question, a creative question, rivets our attention. All the creative power of our minds is focused on the question. Knowledge emerges in response to these compelling questions.

    		 145 November - December - 2009 November 19, 2009
    Bringing Low-Income Shoppers into the Co-op
    BY Clem Nilan

    Once upon a time in Burlington, Vt., on the shores of Lake Champlain, the downtown grocery store went belly up.

    		 145 November - December - 2009 November 19, 2009