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Gyst – Maker to Market
Building a Triple Win:
Maker to Market “Food Accelerator” Goes from Farm to Retail
Updating Food Cooperative Member Labor Issues
Scenario Planning:
Organizing Your Blue Sky Thinking
Staying Connected:
National Co+op Grocers Newsletter for Board Members
How Municipalities Can Support Retail Food Co-ops
Small Farmers in Fresh Produce:
Is There a Place at the Table?
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April 19, 2018
Produce Manager
Prairie Roots Food Cooperative
Fargo
APPLY BY May 1, 2018
April 19, 2018
General Manager
Prairie Roots Food Cooperative
Fargo
APPLY BY July 1, 2018
April 18, 2018
Shift Coordinator
Takoma Park Silver Springs Food Co-op
Takoma Park, MD
APPLY BY May 18, 2018
April 17, 2018
Assistant Store Operations Manager
Great Basin Community Food Cooperative
Reno, NV
APPLY BY May 28, 2018
April 17, 2018
Store Manager
Great Basin Community Food Cooperative
Reno, NV
APPLY BY May 24, 2018
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Scenario Planning and Forecasts
The Editor Notes March-April 2018
In a time of confused voices, it is important to expose what is merely denial, however comforting, and to state what is well-supported, however discomforting.When I read the article on scenario...
Nominate Candidates for Cooperative Excellence Awards
March 23 is the deadline for the 2018 Cooperative Excellence awards to be presented at the June CCMA (Consumer Cooperative Management Association) conference.  Sponsored by Cooperative Development...
Rosemary Mahoney Honored for Cooperative Service:
Induction into Co-op Hall of Fame
From the United States to Communist Eastern Europe to West Africa, few people have made more of an impact in fostering the cooperative movement on a global scale than Rosemary Mahoney. Across her 30...
Marilyn Scholl Recognized for Co-op Leadership:
Induction into Co-op Hall of Fame
Her name will be familiar to readers of Cooperative Grocer and this website—Marilyn Scholl has been a major contributor here for years, as well as the author of valuable food co-op resources such as...
Feb. 15 Deadline for Bowers Fund Applicants
Co-op education and training sholarships are regularly disbursed by the Bowers Fund, administered by the Cooperative Development Foundation.  February 15, 2018, is the immediately upcoming deadline...
2018 Cooperative Grocer Network Board Retreat
Before Up & Coming in Milwaukee, WI
In March 2017, the CGN board met for a retreat just before and during the Up & Coming Food Co-op conference. During two days of deep conversation, we identified our chief initiative: working to...
Cooperate and Differentiate
Many of today’s food co-ops lead their community and marketplace in key ways, though they do not have a dominant share of its total grocery sales. Co-op leadership can be seen in support for local...
Twenty-First Century Box
The Editor Notes
The death recently of my good friend of five decades, Bruce Bacon, is another reminder to enjoy what remains and also look to the future. Beginning on family-owned land 45 years ago, Bruce was among...
The dangers of chlorpyrifos—why organics matter
In a piece in the New York Times on Sunday, October 29, 2017, Nicolas Kristof argues that  "Trump’s most enduring legacy may be cancer, infertility and diminished I.Q.s for decades to come." Kristof...
Prairie Roots Food Co-op Opens
Congratulations to Prairie Roots Food Co-op, which opened its new store in Fargo, North Dakota, after more than six years of preparation. Providing 30 new jobs, the full-service store has 5,600...
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