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    Review: Making Membership Meaningful
    BY Karen Zimbelman

    In 1995, an international consortium of co-op academics and practitioners collaborated on a book called Making Membership Meaningful: Participatory Democracy in Co-operatives.

    		 072 September - October - 1997 January 9, 2004
    Meeting Preparation:
    BY Karen Zimbelman

    Do your board meetings have any of these features?

    		 068 January - February - 1997 January 9, 2004
    Linking Buying Clubs and Retails for Co-op Development
    BY Deb Maynard, John Hatton, George Southworth

     

    		 068 January - February - 1997 January 9, 2004
    Can We Help Build Inner City Co-ops?
    BY Ellen Sturgis

    As a staff and a member of consumer co-ops for nearly twenty years, and as a community development lender for the past three, I have observed a need and desire in the consumer co-op

    		 071 July - August - 1997 January 9, 2004
    Knowing Your Customers:
    BY Paul Cultrera
    "About 41% of retailers have, or are in the process of developing, databases that will enable them to track consumer purchases, as well as behavioral and demographic data."
    		 071 July - August - 1997 January 9, 2004
    Building a Customer Service System
    BY Marilyn Scholl
    The key to exceptional services lies in building relationships, and in the quality of relationships, with customers and with employees.

    		 073 November - December - 1997 January 9, 2004
    25 Years: Continuing Contributors
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    This year's co-op conference gave an unusual "milestone" award by recognizing a generation of food co-ops: ones that have recently reached age twenty-five.

    		 071 July - August - 1997 January 9, 2004
    CCMA Highlights Needs and Spirit
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    At the Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) conference held in May, the theme was "two-stepping between evolution and extinction" -- highlighting food co-ops' need to

    		071 July - August - 1997 January 9, 2004
    Surveying Members on Membership
    BY John Corbett

    Increasing numbers of co-ops conduct an annual survey of members or of shoppers in the store.

    		 067 November - December - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Seven Steps to a Successful Membership Drive
    BY Patricia Cumbie

    The success or failure of your next membership drive hinges on more than signage, brochures and the free thing you give away to every new member who joins.

    		 064 May - June - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Using the Spreadsheet Template
    BY Scott Beers, Margaret Lund

    Creating a good template for financial planning is an investment on the co-op's part -- a darned good one.

    Computer spreadsheets make the task of financial

    		 067 November - December - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Produce Department Review
    BY Shade Gomez

    The produce department, like any other department in a co-op, is there for the co-op's members. Serving them should be our major focus.

    		 064 May - June - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Cooperative Principles Updated
    BY Ann Hoyt

    "We have to do it this way. After all, that's what makes us a co-op."

    		 062 January - February - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Old and New
    BY Dave Gutknecht

     

    Times like the present help me appreciate anew the place of cooperaives. But then, this nation has always been dominated by private capital.

    		 066 September - October - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Niche Glitch
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Themes linking this edition's feature co-op and the results from our annual survey:

    		065 July - August - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Member Discounts
    BY Scott Beers, Margaret Lund

    Did you know that giving member discounts is not one of the cooperative principles?

    		 063 March - April - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Financial Planning: A Context in Which to Measure Performance
    BY Scott Beers, Margaret Lund

    Planning is about thinking of what you would like to have happen and then making an educated guess about what is likely to happen in the marketplace and what you would reasonably

    		 066 September - October - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Assessing the Big Picture
    BY George Southworth

    This article will explore the issues and historical precedents that are driving the massive changes in the manufacture, distribution and sales of food in the United States and world

    		 066 September - October - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Running a Successful HBA Department
    BY Jane Kennedy

     

    		 065 July - August - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Handling a Sexual Harassment Claim
    BY Carolee Colter

    What you are trying to find out through an investigation is:

    		 066 September - October - 1996 January 9, 2004