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 ascending Date
    Growth Stories and Quandaries
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    At the heart of our cooperatives is growth of services through communities of owners, employees, suppliers, and allies.

    		 176 January-February 2015 February 12, 2015
    Telling the Co-op Story
    BY Patricia Cumbie

    Stories are as old as humankind.  If we didn’t have stories, we wouldn’t have progress or evolution.  It’s how people communicate, organize, and instruct.  Nor could most of us imagine a childhood

    		176 January-February 2015 February 12, 2015
    Ever'man Enjoys Expanded Enterprise
    BY Lauren Southern-Goodwin

    In early April of 2014, Ever’man Natural Foods Co-op, Inc.

    		 176 January-February 2015 February 12, 2015
    New Name, New Look: National Co+op Grocers
    BY National Co+op Grocers

    Since its formation in 1999, National Cooperative Grocers Association has been working on behalf of its member and associate food co-ops to strengthen purchasing power, optimize operational and mar

    		 176 January-February 2015 February 12, 2015
    A Tool That Works: Revisiting 4 in 3
    BY Stuart Reid
    		 176 January-February 2015 February 12, 2015
    The Merger of Two Co-ops
    BY Michelle Schry

    On January 2, 2012, People’s Food Co-op in La Crosse, Wisconsin, merged with the Good Food Store Co-op in Rochester, Minnesota.  That connection created a single co-op, known as People’s Food Co-op

    		 176 January-February 2015 February 12, 2015
    The Coming Wave
    BY Carolee Colter

    As we all know, the baby boom generation is hitting retirement age. Roughly a quarter of the U.S. population was born between 1946 and 1964, and every month a quarter million more are turning 65.

    		 176 January-February 2015 February 13, 2015
    Cooperatives and Democratic Challenges
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    In October, the world witnessed the International Climate Summit in New York City, sponsored by the United Nations, and an International Summit of Cooperatives in Quebec, sponsored by the Internati

    		 175 November-December 2014 December 24, 2014
    Co+op Forest 2014
    BY Allie Mentzer

    The holiday season can be a hectic time of year at the co-op and at home.

    		 175 November-December 2014 December 24, 2014
    Give Where You Live:
    BY Patricia Cumbie

    When cooperatives work together to set aside funds to benefit groups in their local communities, the impact is multiplied.

    		 175 November-December 2014 December 24, 2014
    Thoughts on Positive Culture and Accountability:
    BY Stephanie Merriman

    I have a passion for positivity and its close counterpart, accountability.

    		 175 November-December 2014 December 24, 2014
    Ensuring Meaningful Elections
    BY Thane Joyal

    Within a consumer cooperative, the purpose of electing the board of directors from among the owners is to democratically control the co-op.

    		 175 November-December 2014 December 24, 2014
    Reinventing Our Cooperative Democracy: A conversation
    BY Art Sherwood, Todd Wallace

    In 2013, the International Cooperative Alliance, in its “Blueprint for a Cooperative Decade,” identified the elevating of participation as a key component of its 2020 Vision for more and stronger c

    		 175 November-December 2014 December 24, 2014
    Cooperatives in Cuba
    BY Stuart Reid
    In January of this year, NCBA CLUSA and SOL2 Economics jointly assembled a working group of U.S. cooperators to research and learn from the co-op movement in Cuba today. The Cuban Cooperative Working Group was formed with an initial membership of 13 cooperative leaders from many sectors of the U.S. movement.
    		175 November-December 2014 December 25, 2014
    A Perspective on Cooperative Wages and Values
    BY Melanie Reid

    Co-ops are not typically thought of as “the place to work if you want to earn a lot of money.” However, as values-driven organizations, co-ops have striven to face the challenge of pay head-on and

    		175 November-December 2014 December 24, 2014
    Conflicts of Interest in the Management of Co-ops
    BY

    Conflicts of interest are impossible to avoid within a co-op.

    		 165 March-April 2013 April 11, 2013
    Investing in Staff Satisfaction
    BY Carolee Colter, Helena O'Connor

    Don’t open a shop unless you like to smile. 

    – Chinese proverb

    		 165 March-April 2013 April 11, 2013
    Time to Recycle Cooperative Wealth
    BY Adam Schwartz

    One of the more popular definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. And so it goes with our economy.

    		 165 March-April 2013 April 11, 2013
    NCGA Expands Development Focus
    BY C.E. Pugh

    The "Healthy Foods, Healthy Communities" independent study of the social, economic, and environmental benefits of food co-ops, recently released by the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCG

    		 165 March-April 2013 April 11, 2013
    Food Co-op Initiative—Three Years
    BY Stuart Reid

    March 17, 2013, marks three years of Food Co-op Initiative (FCI), and we invite you to celebrate with us. What are we celebrating? 

    Since we began our work,

    		 165 March-April 2013 April 11, 2013