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The Blooming Prairie Foundation is accepting applications for the 2018 grant cycle. Non-profits working in the following are encouraged to apply: |
January 18, 2018 | |
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Many of today’s food co-ops lead their community and marketplace in key ways, though they do not have a dominant share of its total grocery sales. |
194 Jan.-Feb. 2018 | January 27, 2018 |
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In 2016, National Co+op Grocers (NCG) embraced a new advocacy priority to address climate change within the context of food system sustainability and resiliency. |
194 Jan.-Feb. 2018 | January 27, 2018 |
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In an increasingly competitive grocery market, it is common to recruit and train with a focus on business acumen. |
January 27, 2018 | |
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On the board of directors of a food co-op, one thing you can absolutely predict is that there will be unexpected tough turns in the road at times—and there’s a good ch |
194 Jan.-Feb. 2018 | January 27, 2018 |
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As food co-ops forge ahead in the “the new normal,” they often find themselves in the precarious place of trying to both differentiate from and conform to competitors. |
194 Jan.-Feb. 2018 | January 27, 2018 |
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Retail grocery co-ops are as quintessential Vermont as the brilliant colors of our fall foliage, the hallmark herd of Holsteins on the pasture, or the one-room schoolhouse a |
194 Jan.-Feb. 2018 | January 27, 2018 |
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WILLY STREET CO-OP • Madison, Wisconsin Total active owners – 34,753 |
194 Jan.-Feb. 2018 | January 27, 2018 |
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In March 2017, the CGN board met for a retreat just before and during the Up & Coming Food Co-op conference. During two days of deep conversation, we identified our chief initiative: working to |
January 27, 2018 | |
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Co-op education and training sholarships are regularly disbursed by the Bowers Fund, administered by the Cooperative Development Foundation. February 15, 2018, is the immediately upcoming deadline |
February 7, 2018 | |
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February 8, 2018 | |
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Co-op milestones are given recognition and celebrated at the June conference reported in this issue. |
191 July-August 2017 | February 10, 2018 |
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About the CGN board |
February 10, 2018 | |
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The Cooperative Grocer Network (CGN) board of directors held a retreat in early March 2017, before and during the Up & Coming food co-op conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
191 July-August 2017 | February 10, 2018 |
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Since late 2015, National Co+op Grocers (NCG) has been publishing short, targeted resources that can help retail co-op staff efficiently and effectively manage various proce |
191 July-August 2017 | February 10, 2018 |
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Nancy Casady was introduced to cooperatives when she was hired as the general manager at Ocean Beach People’s Organic Food Co-op in 1997. |
191 July-August 2017 | February 10, 2018 |
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No one is a perfect communicator, and no co-op experiences completely effective communication at all times. |
191 July-August 2017 | February 10, 2018 |
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If we created opportunities in meaningful participation by seeking win-win, it would be a game changer—in our relationships, in our customer service, in our strategies, in our partner |
191 July-August 2017 | February 10, 2018 |
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It has been an interesting year for new food co-ops. |
191 July-August 2017 | February 10, 2018 |
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From the United States to Communist Eastern Europe to West Africa, few people have made more of an impact in fostering the cooperative movement on a global scale than Rosemary Mahoney. |
Endcap Articles | February 18, 2018 |
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