Karen Zimbelman

Karen Zimbelman is the Senior Director of Membership and Cooperative Relations at National Co+op Grocers.
Author's Articles
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Since its reorganization in 2004, National Co+op Grocers (NCG) has mostly directed its communications to top managers at its member and associate co-ops. |
March 31, 2018 | |
The Cooperative Grocers Information Network -- CGIN -- held its fifth annual meeting at the June CCMA conference this year. For those of you who were unable to join us, highlights included: |
102 September - October - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
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104 January - February - 2003 | January 7, 2004 |
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108 September - October - 2003 | December 27, 2008 |
The website owned by and operated for the benefit of food co-ops at www.cgin.coop continues to grow in scope and volume with each passing month. |
111 March - April - 2004 | December 27, 2008 |
At our seventh annual meeting this year in Minneapolis, Cooperative Grocers’ Information Network (CGIN) members enthusiastically offered up contributions of all types. |
114 September - October - 2004 | December 27, 2008 |
Food co-ops banded together to form the Cooperative Grocers’ Information Network (CGIN) in 1997. |
116 January - February - 2005 | January 21, 2009 |
This year’s CCMA conference once again afforded CGIN (Cooperative Grocer’s Information Network) the chance to hold its annual meeting and report |
120 September - October - 2005 | January 21, 2009 |
Your online resource, CGIN—the Cooperative Grocers’ Information Network—continues to make improvements and enhancements, in response to member input and suggestions. |
123 March - April - 2006 | January 20, 2009 |
Nine years ago, at the 1997 CCMA (Consumer Cooperative Management Association) conference in Alexandria, Va., a workshop was held to discuss how co-ops could use the Worl |
125 July - August - 2006 | August 8, 2006 |
This year will mark the 10th anniversary of the Cooperative Grocers’ Information Network (CGIN), which inspires us to reflect on what we’ve been able to accomplish as we c |
129 march - april - 2007 | January 20, 2009 |
CGIN was pleased to unveil a new service to members in June: a photo gallery. |
096 September - October - 2001 | January 8, 2004 |
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098 January - February - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
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092 January - February - 2001 | January 8, 2004 |
097 November - December - 2001 | January 8, 2004 | |
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100 May - June - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
Members are the lifeblood of a co-op: a truism of cooperatives. Without members, a co-ops wouldn't be a co-op; it would be just another local grocery store. |
080 January - February - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
Does the idea of planning sessions with your co-op board of directors fill you with dread? Do you spend more time talking about planning than actually doing any planning? |
086 January - February - 2000 | January 8, 2004 |
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 |
Are any of these scenarios familiar to you? |
070 May - June - 1997 | January 9, 2004 |