Endcap Articles
Issue's Articles
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Two sources of excellent examples and thoughtful questions about cooperatives and their potential: John Restakis, author of Humanizing the Economy: Cooperatives in the Age of Capital and |
Endcap Articles | January 13, 2014 |
In an unfortunate action that is the first of its kind, at least for the current generation of food co-ops, Elm City Market in New Haven, Connecticut, has demutualized and is no longer a co-op. Th |
Endcap Articles | October 17, 2014 |
Excellent work and analysis on cooperative development continues to be found at community-wealth.org, a project of the Democracy Collaborative. For people interested in cooperative development gen |
Endcap Articles | October 20, 2014 |
Accounting Best Practices for Food Co-ops: A Primer is now available, an excellent and concise (14-page) summary in four sections: balance sheet, income statement, internal control, and c |
Endcap Articles | November 15, 2012 |
World hunger is real and widespread -- but it is not for lack of food, rather lack of food justice. Cooperators can help address these issues by being well-informed. Here are two links to excelle |
Endcap Articles | November 10, 2014 |
The so-called sharing economy, a model of business innovation based on open-source software and broad participation of a cooperative nature, is thoughtfully examined by Nathan Schneiderman at the S |
Endcap Articles | December 2, 2014 |
How to build a broader movement for social change. How to evaluate the cooperative alignment and potential of allies such as nonprofits, land trusts, and advocacy groups? |
Endcap Articles | December 17, 2014 |
In Seattle, Washington, Central Co-op is ahead of the curve in implementing the city's new minimum wage of $15, seven years in advane of the mandated schedule. This may well be the highest grocery |
Endcap Articles | January 23, 2015 |
Endcap Articles | January 14, 2015 | |
This spring, food co-ops are urged to honor one of their outstanding trainers and leaders, Ann Hoyt, while supporting co-op development through the Cooperative Hall of Fame. The Hall honors decade |
Endcap Articles | February 4, 2015 |
Jacqueline Hannah, previously general manager of the Common Ground Food Co-op in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, brings her co-op expertise and passion to Food Co-op Initiative where she will share it |
Endcap Articles | February 19, 2015 |
A final and typically useful report by Mark Bittman signals the end of his column in the New York Times, a platform from which he has succinctly highlighted food justice questions, support |
Endcap Articles | September 16, 2015 |
The Fall 2015 issue of The LEADer, Dealing with a Downturn, is available at the LEAD Program Space. |
Endcap Articles | October 6, 2015 |
The Cooperative Foundation board of directors recently announced an additional $25,000 in grants for cooperative development (listed below)—bringing its 2015 grants awarded to nearly $90,000. |
Endcap Articles | December 1, 2015 |
Food co-ops are hardly the only ones experiencing greater competitive pressures. |
Endcap Articles | December 7, 2015 |
The next round of co-op training and education grants from the Howard Bowers Fund has an October 15 deadline. |
Endcap Articles | September 17, 2014 |
Endcap Articles | September 4, 2014 | |
The international cooperative domain name, .coop, has now been joined to a cooperative marque or brand with the same letters. Our national cross-sector cooperative trade organization, NCBA CLUSA, |
Endcap Articles | July 23, 2014 |
[First published 2008 in Organic Valley's Rootstock.] |
Endcap Articles | October 7, 2010 |
A valuable discussion by members of GEO (Grassroots Economic Organizing) and readers of its website examines why a key company comprising part of the world’s strongest worker-owned complex in Mondr |
Endcap Articles | January 27, 2014 |