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    Title Issue Date
    Public Ownership: "Socialism, American Style"
    BY

    If cooperatives are an essential component of a fair economy, public ownership has an even bigger role.  Think essential infrastructure and services:  roads, water and other utilities, emergency re

    		 Endcap Articles May 23, 2013
    "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
    Rebecca Dunn Inducted to Cooperative Hall of Fame
    BY

    Congratulations to Rebecca Dunn, who was inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame on May 8.  Dunn, the executive director of the Cooperative Fund of New England for the past 27 years, was honored

    		 Endcap Articles May 17, 2013
    Organic Valley Headquarters Closed by Fire
    BY

    Updates at bottom:  On May 14, a fire badly damaged the headquarters of Organic Valley in La Farge, Wisconsin.  No one was injured, according to LaCrosse news station WXOW.com:

    		Endcap Articles May 15, 2013
    Looking at Energy Use in the Food System
    BY

    These days, we’re all learning about our energy supply, whether we expected to or not -- and that includes advocates of a healthier food supply.  

    		 Endcap Articles May 13, 2013
    Looking at Energy Use in the Food System
    BY

    These days we’re all learning about our energy supply, whether or not we have expected those lessons, and that includes advocates for a healthier food supply.  For a broad overview of the food syst

    		 Endcap Articles May 13, 2013
    Visioning a Better Future of Business
    BY

    Advocates of cooperatives need allies with compatible visions of social change – including, most challengingly, visions that assume limits to growth and capital.

    		 Endcap Articles May 2, 2013
    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
    Grow Your Co-op
    BY Ben Sandel

    Whether your co-op is at an early stage or a long-established business planning for expansion, one of the biggest challenges is the "Sources" side of your statement of Sources and Uses of capital.

    		 165 March-April 2013 April 11, 2013
    Get Ready for the Cooperative Decade
    BY webster walker

    During 2012, the UN International Year of Cooperatives (IYC), many U.S. cooperators took the opportunity to work together to promote existing co-ops and lay the groundwork for a stronger movement.

    		 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
    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
    Capital: Sources and Abuses
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Discussions here reflect much that has been learned about cooperative capital as well as lessons still to be absorbed by some food co-ops.

    		 165 March-April 2013 April 11, 2013
    A Credible Alternative to the Current Economic System
    BY

    A TED presentation in the U.K.

    		 Endcap Articles April 8, 2013
    Isla Vista Food Co-op Purchases Its Home
    BY

    Through a grassroots funding campaign, along with lender support from NCB (National Co-op Bank) and NCDF (Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund), the Isla Vista Food Co-op has recently been abl

    		 Endcap Articles March 21, 2013
    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
    Building the GMO Labeling Campaign
    BY

    The growing demand for labeling that identifies genetically modified ingredients (GMOs) lost the California referendum but will be on the ballot later this year in the state of Washington.  Whole F

    		 Endcap Articles March 11, 2013
    LEADer Spring 2013 Issue 19
    BY Martha Whitman, Gail Graham, Paige Lettington, Cindy Owings
    		 LEADer Board Newsletter March 1, 2013