181 Nov-Dec 2015

#181 Thirty Years Before the Masthead
By Dave Gutknecht

NETWORK NEWS
Welcome to the new CGN!
BY Ellen Michel

National Co+op Grocers Welcomes New Members
By National Co+op Grocers

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Operational Wisdom from General Managers 8
By Thane Joyal

Premature Expansion Forces a Co-op Recovery 12
Buy Mary Overlie

OPERATIONS
Let’s Talk about Unions in Co-ops
By Heather Wright, ATTY.

DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Diversity: The strategic advantage and future cooperation
BY LaDonna Sanders-Redmond

Boycotts and Democracy: The Eden Foods product boycott
as an opportunity to renew co-op participation and democracy 19
By Todd Wallace

Bringing Grocery Stores to Low-Income Urban Food Deserts
By Mary Stennes Wilbourn

Issue Number:

181

Issue Months:

11-12

Issue Year:

2 015

Issue's Articles

Title	Issue	Date
Bringing Grocery Stores to Low-Income Urban Food Deserts BY Mary Stennes Wilbourn Food Access Terminology: Food Co-op Initiative uses the terms food desert as well as low access or limited access, along with underserved.	181 Nov-Dec 2015	December 11, 2015
Diversity BY LaDonna Sanders–Redmond Simply having differences is interesting; doing something with them is powerful.	181 Nov-Dec 2015	December 10, 2015
Let's Talk About Unions in Co-ops BY Heather Wright For several decades, only a handful of food co-ops across the country were unionized.	181 Nov-Dec 2015	December 3, 2015
Premature Expansion Forces a Co-op Recovery BY Mary Overlie Everything I’m not happy about was because we didn’t implement it completely, not the system itself,” reflects Dennis Montgomery, former chair of the Harmony Co-op board in Bemidji, Minn	181 Nov-Dec 2015	December 2, 2015
National Co+op Grocer Welcomes New Co-ops BY National Co+op Grocers National Co+op Grocers (NCG) is pleased to announce the addition of one new member co-op and four new associate co-ops to our organization.	181 Nov-Dec 2015	December 2, 2015
Operational Wisdom from General Managers BY Thane Joyal Successful cooperatives are guided by strong boards, and those boards rely on strong individuals to manage the cooperative’s business enterprise with excellence.	181 Nov-Dec 2015	December 2, 2015
A Message from the CGN Board President BY Annie Hoy Having a place to ask questions, receive answers, give answers, and build relationships is an important part of our success as food co-ops and cooperators.	181 Nov-Dec 2015	December 2, 2015
Welcome to the New CGN BY Ellen Michel I’m pleased to say that the new Cooperative Grocer Network (CGN) platform is up and running at www.grocer.coop.	181 Nov-Dec 2015	December 2, 2015
Thirty Years Before the Masthead BY Dave Gutknecht	181 Nov-Dec 2015	December 2, 2015