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 Issuesort descending Date
    Fair Trade banana producers need consumer co-op help
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Fair trade bananas enable small producers to survive and thrive -- IF they organize as cooperatives.  Organized demand through consumer cooperatives also is key.  For background on these production

    		 Endcap Articles March 17, 2017
    New Co-op Conversion Case Study
    BY

    A new publication provides a very informative look at converting an existing store to a community-based cooperative.  Locate this free pdf at:

    		Endcap Articles August 9, 2013
    Cuba's Food Innovations
    BY

    Cuba’s ongoing advances in both urban agriculture and cooperative formation are now more open to visitors and shared knowledge.

    		 Endcap Articles April 20, 2016
    Food Co-ops and the Road to Organic Valley: Part 2
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    [Originally published in "RootStock," Spring-Summer 2009]

    		 Endcap Articles November 20, 2010
    Creating Resilience: The Larger Agenda
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Here is a quote, from David Orr’s book Down to the Wire, which captures the scope of what we need to be doing to build the transition to a more resilient and possibly sustainable society:

    “Every increase in local capacity to grow food, generate energy, repair,

    		 Endcap Articles September 5, 2010
    The LEADer – Dealing with a Downturn
    BY Ellen Michel

    The Fall 2015 issue of The LEADer, Dealing with a Downturn, is available at the LEAD Program Space.

    		 Endcap Articles October 6, 2015
    Dubuque Food Co-op Closing
    BY external news source

    After two and a half years, the Dubuque Food Co-op has announced it will close.

    		 Endcap Articles January 16, 2017
    Independent Grocers See Earnings Shrink to Under 1 Percent
    BY

    Food co-ops are hardly the only ones experiencing greater competitive pressures.

    		 Endcap Articles December 7, 2015
    Bowers Fund Fall Grant Cycle
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    The fall grant cycle for the Howard Bowers Fund is here—U.S. food co-ops can now apply to receive leadership education and training scholarships for co-op boards of directors and co-op staff.

    		 Endcap Articles August 7, 2017
    Blueprint for a Cooperative Decade
    BY

    The International Cooperative Alliance has produced an impressive document that follows upon the International Year of Cooperatives.  Follow this link,

    		Endcap Articles March 17, 2013
    Follow the Farm Bill at sustainableagriculture.net
    BY Dave Gutknecht
    The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) continues to provide current and complete information on the Farm Bill as it moves through Congress:
    		Endcap Articles July 14, 2012
    "Food for Change" Documentary Nears Completion
    BY

    A new feature film on co-op history and today’s food co-ops is nearing completion.  With some 35 co-ops already contributing support for production of “Food for Change” and about 80 percent of the

    		Endcap Articles May 23, 2013
    My Co-op Rocks! Winners Available
    BY

    Now available for online viewing are winners of an annual contest sponsored by several leading cooperatives that generates imaginative tributes to cooperat

    		 Endcap Articles December 27, 2012
    Cuba's Food Innovations
    BY

    Cuba’s ongoing advances in both urban agriculture and cooperative formation are now more open to visitors and shared knowledge.

    		 Endcap Articles April 20, 2016
    Prospects in Hard Times: Part 3
    BY Dave Gutknecht
    [“Rootstock” Part 3: 2009, unpublished]
    		Endcap Articles November 20, 2010
    Amazing Grains Closes
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    The board of directors of Amazing Grains, a small co-op in Grand Forks, North Dakota, announced the co-op’s imminent dissolution—the notification came just before the co-op’s annual meeting on Apri

    		 Endcap Articles May 1, 2017
    Small Farms Create More Jobs
    BY Dave Gutknecht
    Gene Logsdon is a wise and delightful writer on food and farming.
    		 Endcap Articles September 14, 2011
    Hanover Co-op Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary!
    BY Dan Nordley

    Seventy-five years ago—a general meeting was held in the library of the Hanover, New Hampshire, High School at 7:30 p.m., January 6, 1936, for the purpose of organizing a consumers’ club.

    		 Endcap Articles January 14, 2011
    Financing the New Economy
    BY

    An excellent report and overview appeared in a recent issue of Dollars and Sense and may be found on its website:  htt

    		 Endcap Articles December 20, 2013
    Survey of Co-op Potential in "Yes" Magazine
    BY

    "A Cooperative Economy" is the theme of "Yes!" magazine's spring 2013 issue: http://www.yesmagazine.org -- covering such examples as worker ownership, food

    		Endcap Articles February 11, 2013