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Board of Directors / Governance

• 
  
• Helping Build a Thriving Future for Food Cooperatives
  
• A Board’s Duty
  
• A Member Linkage Tool Builds Policy and Action
  
• A Participative Process of Cooperative Planning
  
• A Recipe for Good Board Meetings
  
• A Review of Practices
  
• Abandoned Member Property Need Not Escheat to the State
  
• Abuse -- and Answers
  
• Adding Widgets, Blurring Accountability
  
• All Your Board Can Be
  
• An Agreement for Disagreements
  
• Annual Meetings
  
• Appreciating the Diversity of Member Needs and Motivations
  
• Are You Ready?
  
• Asking Powerful Questions
  
• Asking Powerful Questions2
  
• Assessing Board Performance
  
• Assessing Management Performance
  
• Assessing the Adequacy
  of Your Co-op's Bylaws
  
• Avoiding Post-Expansion Burnout
  
• Balance Sheets:
  
• Budgets:
  
• Bylaws: How Strong Is Your Co-op's Foundation?
  
• Confidentiality: An Issue for Co-op Boards
  
• Cooperative Accountability
  
• Cooperative Principles Updated
  
• Creating Boards That Lead
  
• Defending Fundamentals
  
• Democracy Works
  
• Demystifying Policy Governance
  
• Director Compensation: They Deserve It -- Or Should
  
• Director Recruitment:
  The Nominations Process
  
• Does Practice Reflect Purpose?
  
• Duties and Responsibilities of Cooperative Board Members
  
• Employee Attitude Surveys:
  
• Encountering Cooperative Extremists
  
• Ends: Defining Your Cooperative Advantage
  
• Evaluating Co-op Boards
  
• Evaluating the General Manager
  
• Explore the New Legal Flexibility
  
• From Conflict to Wisdom
  
• From Nonprofit to Cooperative
  
• General Manager Evaluation:
  
• Getting Down to Values
  
• Grievances: Doing the Right Thing
  
• Hiring A General Manager
  
• Hiring a General Manager
  
• How to Critique a Business Plan
  
• How Visioning Becomes Real
  
• Learning From A Failure
  
• Learning from Boards that Deliver
  
• Lessons from the Planning Front Lines
  
• Maintaining Co-op Democracy
  
• Making the Minutes "Ours"
  
• Management Evaluation Under Policy Governance
  
• Management Reporting to the Board of Directors
  
• Meeting Preparation:
  
• Member Labor, Member Loans Threatened
  
• Mission Statement - or (Still) Missin' Statement?
  
• Monitoring the Manager
  
• Myths and Maxims for Co-op Boards
  
• No Bags Allowed
  
• On Fundamentalism and Policy Governance
  
• Patronage Dividends: A Primer
  
• Policy Governance: A New Look
  
• Practicing Policy Governance
  
• Promoting Organizational Healing:
  
• Protecting Member Loan Programs
  
• Putting Your Best Slate Forward
  
• Securities Laws And Co-op Member Loan Programs
  
• Setting a Process for General Manager Compensation
  
• Should Co-op Staff Serve As Directors?
  
• Should Co-op Staff
  Serve As Directors?
  
• Start Thinking Like a Member
  
• Still Drinking Policy Governance Lite
  
• Still Drinking Policy Governance Lite
  
• Taking Policy Governance to Heart
  
• The Board's Role in Expansion Planning
  
• The Co-op Empowerment Stream
  
• The Spirit of Generosity
  
• Thinking Strategically
  
• Time To Reshape Cooperative Identity?
  
• To Condemn or To Condone?
  
• Turnover or Tenure:
  
• Using Policy Governance to Improve Board Leadership
  
• What is the President's Job?
  
• What Would Your Board Do?
  
• Why Co-ops Die
  

Cover Section

• 500 Co-ops in 10 Years!
  
• A Cooperative Grievance Procedure
  
• A Faster Path to the Bottom Line
  
• A Model for Cooperative Challenges
  
• A Model for Ownership Succession
  
• A Neighborhood Co-op Market
  
• A View from the CEO of National Co-op Bank
  
• Against the Odds
  
• An Evolution in the Coffee Aisle
  
• Beyond Organic
  
• Blooming Prairie Foundation Announces Grant Awards
  
• Board Orientation, Training, and Education
  
• Board Training at Two Startup Co-ops
  
• Brand Readiness Hits the Road
  
• Bringing Low-Income Shoppers into the Co-op
  
• Building Democratic Culture
  
• Carrots in the Classroom
  
• Co-op as Store Becomes Co-op as Community
  
• Co-op Awards Given at CCMA
  
• Co-op Helps Build Local Business Alliance
  
• Co-op Power
  
• Co-operative Solutions in Hard Times
  
• Community Food Co-op in Bellingham, Washington
  
• Democracy in Cooperatives
  
• Fair Trade Roundup
  
• Food Co-op 500
  
• Global Warming on Your Plate
  
• GMOs: We Can’t Ignore the Consequences
  
• Help Guide America into the New Age
  
• Home-Grown Talent
  
• How we built a Cooperative Model for a Livable Wage
  
• Is ‘Green' a Cooperative Principle?
  
• La Montañita's Co-op Trade
  
• Learning While Leaping
  
• Leveraging Benefits for Producer, Consumer Co-ops
  
• Making Member Relations the Co-op's Organizing Principle
  
• Making Movies
  
• Members Speak
  
• Menus Get the Message Out
  
• Moving from the Fringe to Downtown
  
• Natural Food Training
  
• New La Crosse Store and Restaurant Opens
  
• New Strategic Plan for CCC
  
• Open Book Management
  
• Principles and Values of Co-operative Sustainability
  
• Principles of Domestic Fair Trade
  
• Recognizing Crisis, Sharing Opportunies
  
• Remember the Member
  
• Removing the President of the Board
  
• Seward Co-op in Minneapolis
  
• Small Town Success from Building Membership
  
• Small Town, New Building
  
• Staying Healthy in an Unhealthy Economy
  
• Sustainability Context- Economy within Society within Ecology
  
• The Board Role in the Accountability Stream
  
• The Real Business of the Co-op
  
• Tipping the Scales for Local Foods
  
• We Own It—At Last!
  
• What’s New @ CGIN?
  
• Working Together Toward Sustainable Business
  

COVER STORY

• 
  
• $3 Billion in Sales by 2020-What Does It Take?
  
• A Small Co-op Grows Greener
  
• Additional Stores: Expanding
  
• Bringing Fair Trade Home
  
• Capitalization Strategies
  
• Co-op Challenged by Member Boycott Request
  
• Co-op Partners Warehouse
  
• Competition Drives Co-op Improvements
  
• Credit Union Collaboration
  
• Elk Grove Case Study
  
• Embracing a New Era
  
• Grocery Shopping in a Recession
  
• Handling Emotional Conflict of Interest
  
• Is This Person For Real?
  
• Manager Compensation
  
• Membership Is Ownership:
  
• Mentoring Startups:
  
• Organic Agriculture, World Hunger, and Global Warming
  
• Preparing for Disaster
  
• Pure Governance Versus Relative Governance
  
• Sharing the Wealth of Knowledge
  
• Strong Performance But Can We Sustain It?
  
• Task Force Eyes Cooperative Equity Fund
  
• Truckload Sales Drive Value
  
• What We Pay
  
• Where there’s fire there’s water
  

Education

• 
  
• Art Danforth
  
• Berkeley: Lessons for Co-op Leaders
  
• Co-op Education is About Cooperatives
  
• Co-op Principle 5: Continuous education
  
• Communicating "Co-op"
  
• Field to Plate - Teaching taste to dietitians
  
• Is There an Education Foundation in Your Future?
  
• LETTERS: Co-op Discounts, Co-op Democracy
  
• Member Services, Education and Outreach
  
• Mission or Missin' Statement
  
• More on Mission and Capital
  
• Review: Making Membership Meaningful
  
• Social Capital and Membership
  
• Staff Education Prevents
  A Generation Gap
  
• The Past as Prelude
  
• “It’s Not Really a Co-op”
  

Expansions

• A Greater Share in Your Future?
  
• Build the Crew Before You Build the Walls
  
• Clarifying Board and Management Roles in Expansion/Relocation Projects
  
• Construction Delays: Curses and Blessings
  
• Cost Overruns and Expansion Problems
  
• From Corporate to Co-op
  
• Getting Ready
  
• Growth Possibilities
  
• Merger Saves Anoka Co-op, Expands Lakewinds
  
• More Co-ops = More Co-op Difference
  
• Preparing For Expansion
  
• Project Management for Cooperatives
  
• Remodeling for Fun and Profit
  
• Remodeling for Fun and Profit
  
• Steps to Effective Store Design
  
• Tallahassee’s New Leaf Market Flourishes in Expanded Store
  
• Tax Deduction Supports Accessible Remodeling
  
• Transitioning to a Restructured Organization
  
• U.S. Worker Co-ops Unite!
  
• What We All Can Do Better
  

Featured Store

• Background: Lake Superior
  
• Common Ground Food Co-op
  
• Opportunity Knocks in Moscow
  
• Patience and Perseverance Yield Success
  
• Small Co-op Realizes Larger Vision
  

Food Politics / Organics

• A conversation with Mark Ritchie on food and co-ops
  
• An Exchange on Organic Fiber Standards
  
• An Exchange on Regulation of Supplements
  
• Bioterrorism: A Call to Action!
  
• Cesar Chavez: His Lifelong Links With Cooperatives
  
• Co-ops and Environmental Action
  
• Co-ops Take Action on GMOs
  
• Countdown To USDA Organic
  
• Editorial
  
• Farm Aid 2002
  
• Farm Bill Signed - But Not Yet Sealed or Delivered!
  
• Farm Bill: Fight to the Finish
  
• Farmer Co-ops vs. Plantations
  
• Global Organics: Christmas Every Day?
  
• Gone Fishin'?
  
• Grassroots Deliver BIG Wins in the Senate -- Every Voice Still Needed in House-Senate Conference Committee
  
• How Will Organic Rules Affect Retailers?
  
• Introducing the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
  
• It's Time To Act
  
• Kids Meet Natural Foods
  
• Minnesota Fair Trade Wild Rice
  
• Organic and Wild: A New Level of Standards
  
• Organic Cotton: Growing Need and Supply
  
• Organic Rule Still Needs Comments
  
• Organics: Report from the Lone Star State
  
• Pro-consumer? An Exchange on Co-ops and the FDA
  
• Reclaiming the True Meaning of Organic
  
• Report from Cancun
  
• Retailer Organic Certification: Coming Soon to a Store Near You?
  
• Stalking the Organic Asparagus
  
• Sustainable Ag Programs Under Attack
  
• Sustainable Agriculture: Farm Bill Fractures
  
• Symbolic Gardens, New Faces
  
• Wanted:
  

International

• At 50, Japanese Co-ops Emphasize Education and Food Safety
  
• Atlantic Canada Merger After Eighteen Months:
  
• Atlantic Canadian Co-ops Meet Globalization, Plan Merger
  
• Canada's Co-op Atlantic
  
• Canadian Co-op Systems Thrive
  
• Co-op Kanagawa
  
• Co-op Principles Then and Now
  (Part 2)
  
• Cooperative d'Alentour Grows, Links with Co-op Atlantic
  
• Eastern Canada: Natural Food Co-ops See Growth, Threats
  
• El Salvador Co-ops
  
• Italy's Co-ops Draw Strong Public Support
  
• Italy's Emilia Romagna
  
• Japan Co-ops Endure Recession, Innovate
  
• Mondragon Retail Strategy: Eroski Partnership Path
  
• Mondragon's Eroski as a Mass Retailer
  
• New Millennium, New Future
  
• One Hundred Years of Japanese Co-ops
  
• Return to Co-op Atlantic
  
• The Potential of a Cooperative System:
  
• UK: Aging Co-ops at a Crossroad
  
• Weaving a Cloth of Many Threads
  
• When the Weather Gets Rough, Co-ops Are Tough
  

Letter to the Editor

• Credibility in Organic Production
  
• Letters: Co-op Capital and New Co-op Laws
  
• More on Conflicts of Interest
  

Marketing & Merchandising

• All Atwitter in Seattle
  
• Babyseat Rental Program
  at Hanover Co-op
  
• Building an Advertising Strategy
  
• Buying Clubs: Competition or Opportunity?
  
• Creating a Co-op Niche
  
• Creating Successful Food Demos
  
• Defining Your Market
  
• Determining Your Market Niche
  
• Directors Find Gold at 50th CCMA
  
• Dressed to Sell
  
• Formulating a Market Strategy
  
• Guerilla Marketing in Isla Vista
  
• Less is More:
  
• Linking Buying Clubs and Retails for Co-op Development
  
• Merchandising Management
  
• Pricing for Results
  
• Promoting the Co-op Store
  
• Putting Your Best Slate Forward
  
• Radio Marketing Can Be Cheap and Powerful
  
• Seven Steps to a Successful Membership Drive
  
• Signs Sell:
  
• Suggestion Box:
  As Good As a Ballot Box
  
• Surveying Members on Membership
  
• When the Price Is Right
  

Merchandising

• An Exchange on Price and the Mainstreaming of Natural/Organic
  
• Eco-Labels
  
• Eco-Labels   Truth or Consequences
  
• Ins and Outs of Grocery Specials
  
• Space Case: Make It Count
  
• Understanding Organics
  

Network News

• "We Need You to Be Successful"
  
• 2008 Grants and 2009 Plans at the Howard Bowers Fund
  
• 25 Years: Continuing Contributors
  
• 30 Years of Vitality
  
• CGIN Highlights New Services
  
• Cooperative Grocer and the National Cooperative Grocers Association Join Forces
  
• A Common Vision?
  
• A Good Servant to the Co-op Community
  
• A Greater Velocity of Cooperation
  
• A Guide to the 2007 Farm Bill
  
• A Year Past Reorganization
  
• Acquisition Nearly Doubles the U.K. Cooperative Footprint!
  
• Advocating for the Organic Community in the Farm Bill
  
• After the Deluge
  
• An Open Letter
  
• An Open Letter to the Farmer in Chief
  
• Anatomy of a Recovery
  
• Annual Conference Gives Inspiration, Advances Cooperative Associations
  
• Apples to Apples:
  
• Becoming a Community Hub
  
• Beyond the Basics
  
• Bigger Is Better
  
• Blooming Prairie Foundation Announces 2007 Awards
  
• Blooming Prairie Foundation Announces Grant Awards
  
• Blooming Prairie Proposal Offers Opportunity to Strengthen Our Retailer Network
  
• Blooming Prairie: The Next Chapter
  
• Bloomingfoods Caters Kinsey Coming Out Party
  
• Building a Controlled Label Program
  
• Building a Cooperative Virtual Chain
  
• Building a Foundation for Co-op Programs
  
• Building a Unified System
  
• Building Momentum
  
• Buying the Farm
  
• Café Verde Expands Ann Arbor Co-op
  
• CCMA 2007: La Crosse, Wisc.
  
• CCMA Crowd Enjoys Pittsburgh, Honors Achievements
  
• CCMA Highlights Needs and Spirit
  
• CCMA Inspires Directors
  
• Certified Organic Personal Care Recommended
  
• CGIN News: More Resources Added to www.cgin.org
  
• CGIN's New Web Services
  
• CGIN: 10 Years and Changes Ahead
  
• CGIN: Online Community
  
• Championing the Organic Label
  
• Chatham Marketplace Opens Its Doors
  
• Chinese Delegates Visit San Diego Co-op
  
• City Center Market
  
• Co-op Advantage Program: Midwest Stores Cooperate
  
• Co-op Awards
  
• Co-op Conference: Getting Out of Hand?
  
• Co-op Devolution Part 2:
  
• Co-op Devolution:
  
• Co-op Distributors Close: Mountain Warehouse and WholeFood Express
  
• Co-op Grocers Unite When Disaster Strikes
  
• Co-op Legacy
  
• Co-op Management Master’s Degree Program: Lessons Learned
  
• Co-op Turns Neighborhood Loss into Second Store
  
• Co-ops Bowers Fund Grows
  
• Co-ops Rock!
  
• Conference and Survey Show Stronger Co-ops, Yet Many Challenges Remain
  
• Conference Highlights Outstanding Contributions, Larger Challenges
  
• Consumer Perception
  
• Cooperating for Health Care
  
• Cooperative Development Fund Announces 2007 Totals, New Grants
  
• Cooperative Grocer finds its Niche
  
• Cooperative Grocers Associations
  
• Cooperative Grocers Associations
  
• Cooperative Grocers Associations in 2003
  
• Cooperatives Work for Organic Integrity and Funding
  
• Cornucopia Institute’s Complaints Expose Outlaw Factory Dairy Farms
  
• Corporate Ownership
  
• Creative Solutions Bring New Look to Dated Store
  
• Davis Co-op and Community Get Together for a Blood Drive
  
• Directors at CCMA Get Refreshed Ideas, Renewed Commitment
  
• Directors Encouraged to Attend CCMA
  
• Directors Find Value and Camaraderie
  
• Directors’ Perspectives on the CCMA Conference
  
• Discussion Course on Cooperatives Receives Award
  
• Does Horizon Think We Just Fell Off the Turnip Truck?
  
• Don McLemore and the New NCGA
  
• Down the Drain?
  
• E-Merging Co-ops
  
• End of a Transition
  
• Exemption Sought For Co-op Member Labor Programs
  
• Expanding Co-op Community Funds
  
• Expanding Cooperative Community Funds
  
• Extreme Makeover at Sacramento Co-op
  
• Farm Aid 2001
  
• Farm Aid 2005
  
• Farm Aid 2007
  
• Feedlot Organic
  
• Finding Common
  
• First Alternative, Second Store
  
• FMI Neighborhood Partnership Award Again Goes to a Co-op
  
• Food Alliance Certification
  
• Food Co-op 500
  
• Food Co-ops Can benefit From National Society of Accountants for Cooperatives
  
• Food Co-ops Rock!
  
• Food, From Start to Finish
  
• Four Years Early
  
• General Assembly: Colorado
  
• Georgia General Assembly
  
• Getting to the Heart of Organic
  
• Global Organics Bring New Challenges
  
• Good News and Old News
  
• Grants Announced for Organic and Cooperative Projects
  
• Graphic News From CGIN
  
• GreenStar Rising
  
• Grow Co-op!
  
• Growing Co-op Community Foundations
  
• Growing Local and National Cooperative Communities
  
• Growing New Mexico's Co-op Economy
  
• Growing Retail Resources
  
• Harvey Case Tests National Organic Program
  
• Have You Registered Your .Coop Domain Names?
  
• Hot Time in Atlanta
  
• Howard Bowers Day 2008
  
• Howard Bowers Day October 9
  
• Hyde Park Co-op Closes After 75 Years
  
• In Memory of Eric Kindberg
  
• In the News
  
• In Tune with Food Trends
  
• Information Technology Team Sees Co-op Benefits
  
• It’s all Connected! It’s all Alive!
  
• Joint Purchasing, Ready or Not!
  
• Just Food Hits the Ground Running
  
• Lending to Natural Foods Cooperatives
  
• Letter to the Editor
  
• Local Co-ops Build national Presence
  
• Lost River Community Co-op-
  
• Manager on Contract Program Strengthens the Co-op System
  
• Marketing Matters 2008:
  
• Michael Moore on Co-ops
  
• Michigan Federation Folds, Business Sold to North Farm
  
• Misguided Power Politics Make Us Sick - Grassroots Democracy Is the Cure
  
• Mississippi Market Opens
  
• Mondragón and the United Steelworkers
  
• My Co-op Rocks! Video Contest
  
• National Co-op Advantage Program Set To Launch
  
• National Organic Coalition Responds to Harvey Rulings
  
• Natural/Organic Industry Outlook
  
• NCBA Trip to Singapore and Indonesia
  
• NCGA and Wedge Co-op Honored with dotCoop Awards
  
• NCGA Board Envisions Big Picture
  
• NCGA Focused on Realizing National Potential
  
• NCGA Joins Organic Trade Association Leadership Circle
  
• NCGA Names CEO
  
• NCGA Partners with Retailers in Organic Fraud Detection
  
• NCGA Signs National Purchasing Agreement
  
• New @ CGIN
  
• Nine Years and Counting @ CGIN
  
• Northwest Greening
  
• October Is Co-op Month
  
• Old and New
  
• Old Bakery…New Co-op
  
• Open Harvest Co-op Receives Federal Grant for Community Food Project
  
• Organic Advocates Optimistic About New Appointments
  
• Organic Advocates Optimistic About New Appointments
  
• Organic Community Celebrates Too Soon
  
• Organic Mushrooms? Shiitake Happens!
  
• Organic Ruling Updated,Hot Issues Remain
  
• Organics: New Board Members, New Questions
  
• Outpost Co-op Opens Third Milwaukee-Area Store
  
• Ownership Matters!
  
• Payment Card Security Compliance
  
• PCC Natural Markets Raises the Bar
  
• Planning in Collaboration
  
• Pointing Resources Toward A Strong National Network
  
• Prepared Foods: Get Positioned for Success
  
• Ratios Rectified - and a Rebate Request
  
• Reaching Youth at coopsrock.coop
  
• Reader Survey Brings Praise…
  
• Recovering from Financial Mismanagement
  
• Remember the Farmers
  
• Remembering Sid Pobihushchy
  
• Remodeling Plans
  
• River Valley Market Celebrates Groundbreaking
  
• Robynn Shrader Elected to Board of National Banking Co-op
  
• Ruling Prompts Controversy
  
• Scared Chipless
  
• Social Justice in Agriculture Forum
  
• SPECIAL REPORT:
  Cooperative Grocers Associations
  
• Stormy Weather in California
  
• Support our Success:
  
• Swarthmore Co-op Gets a New Store
  
• Tell the Fair Trade Story
  
• The Editor Notes
  
• The Editor Notes
  
• The Farmer and the Feds
  
• The Fresh Competitive Advantage
  
• The Write Stuff and More
  
• Think Virtual, Act Real
  
• Tucson Co-ops Recover
  
• Uncovering History of Cooperatives, Labor and Communities
  
• Watchdogging Organic Standards
  
• What's New @ CGIN
  
• What’s New @ CGIN
  
• What’s New @ CGIN.coop?
  
• Why Accounting Standards Matter
  
• Willy Street Co-op Triples Production Space at New Off-Site Kitchen
  
• Year Four: CGIN Progress and Plans
  
• Year One of the National Organic Program
  

Operating Excellence

• An Eaters’ Bill of Rights
  
• Back on Our Feet
  
• Bread Program Makes the Co-op a Neighborhood Destination
  
• Carving Out Meat Profits
  
• Chasing the Gap
  
• Co-op Atlantic: End of the Saga?
  
• Co-Shop: Willy Street Co-op's online
  
• Collective Management
  
• Cooperative Expansion at La Montanita:
  
• Counting on Co-op Employees
  
• Differentiating Your Co-op in Tough Times
  
• Domestic Fair Trade Association Launched
  
• Evaluations That Inspire
  
• Fair Trade Finance: Where Is Your Money?
  
• Foodborne Illnesses and Practical Protections
  
• Fostering Creativity: Marketing Matters
  
• Gold Is Where You Find It
  
• Introducing Desire for Change and Willingness to Take Risks
  
• Japan: Land of Cooperatives
  
• Making Money in Meat
  
• Managing Key Indicators
  
• Managing the Everyday Merchandising Puzzle
  
• Marketing “Local”
  
• Mind Your Meat, Part 3
  
• Park Slope Food Co-op Is an Energy Star
  
• Partnering with Customers
  
• Patronage Refund Systems That Work
  
• Payment Card Security Compliance
  
• PCC Cooks
  
• PCC Natural Markets
  
• Reducing Turnover and Increasing Job Satisfaction in Food Services
  
• Reducing Turnover and Increasing Job Satisfaction: What Worked
  
• Selling Clothing and Predicting the Future
  
• Share the Pain, Share the Gain: Co-ops Network to Improve Point of Sales
  
• Sharpening Our Focus:
  
• Soy Production Boosts Co-op
  
• Staying Open
  
• Sticker Shock and Accurate Rings
  
• We Are What We Sell
  
• What to Expect from a New Point of Sale System
  

Retail Finance

• Building Financial Partnerships
  
• Cooperative Capital and Member Equity Systems:
  The Heart of Cooperatives
  
• Dealing With Risk
  
• Discounts and Death
  
• Discounts Provoke Discussion!
  
• Eastside Food Co-op
  
• Economics 101: Sunk Costs and Opportunity Costs
  
• Finance Committee Finesse
  
• Financial Planning: A Context in Which to Measure Performance
  
• First Alternative Upgrades Member Labor Accounting
  
• Member Discounts
  
• Member Discounts: Boon or Bane?
  
• Raising the Stakes?
  
• The Co-op Difference and Capital
  
• Translating Operations into Financial Statements
  
• Understanding Audits
  
• Understanding Ratios
  
• Using Financial Ratios
  
• Using the Spreadsheet Template
  
• What Your Lender Looks For
  

Retailing

• "Reasonable Accommodations" Under the ADA
  
• 5 a Day: Serving Good Health
  
• Sales and Labor in 20 Retail Food Co-ops
  
• Intensive Training Builds Staff Skills
  
• A "Non-Working, Non-Worrying" Member
  
• A Smoother Road to Deli Margins
  
• A Tale of Two Brands
  
• Act Locally Against GMOs
  
• Act Now on Allergens
  
• Adding an E-Newsletter to the Media Mix
  
• Advertising: Taking the Alternate Route
  
• Americans with Disabilities Act: Reviewing Your Hiring Practices
  
• Analyzing Your Store's Systems
  
• Another Look at Member Labor
  
• Are Co-op Employees More Satisfied? Surveys Say So
  
• Are You Experienced?
  
• Assessing the Big Picture
  
• Avoiding Post-Expansion Burnout
  
• Building a Customer Service System
  
• Building a Sustainable Food System in the Age of Wal-Mart
  
• Building Accountability
  
• Building Relationships With Financial Partners
  
• Building the Cooperative Software Revolution
  
• Business Discounts
  for Co-op Members
  
• Business Plans: Doing the Groundwork
  
• Busy Delis: a touch of Self-Help
  
• Can Co-ops Pay a Livable Wage?
  
• Can We Help Build Inner City Co-ops?
  
• Characteristics of Effective Supervisors
  
• Closing the ‘Gap’
  
• Co-op Union Conflict Yields Problem-Solving Lessons
  
• Co-ops to Classrooms
  
• Co-ops—Hold, Buy or Sell?
  
• CoCoFiSt Data Sharing Strengthens Co-ops
  
• CoCoFiSt Tools Boost Southeast Co-ops
  
• Conducting Member Loan Campaigns
  
• Controlling Your Inventory
  
• Cooperation Among Cooperatives
  
• Cooperative Grocer 2000 Retail Operations Survey
  
• Cooperatives and Multi-Culturalism: The Challenge of Difference
  
• Cooperatives Face Diversity Challenges
  
• Coordinating Communications
  
• Crafting Cash Flow Budgets
  
• Create a Marketing "Profit Center" With an Effective Newsletter
  
• Creating a Culture of Food Safety
  
• Cultivating Local
  
• Cutting Edge in the Cotswolds?
  
• Deli Signature Flavors—Your Private Label
  
• Demo Coordinators Add Value in Aisles
  
• Democratic Management in the Real World
  
• Did They Get the Message?
  
• Disaster Preparedness
  
• Diversity Training Challenges the Co-op
  
• Does Merit Pay Really Work?
  
• Doing It for Ourselves
  
• Don't Buy That New POS System Just Yet!
  
• Don’t Prove, Persuade
  
• Educating Staff About Nutrition
  
• Enjoying Employing
  
• Equipment Acquistion:
  New or Used?
  
• Fair Trade Cocoa: North and South
  
• Finding the One
  
• Firing: When Worse Comes to Worse
  
• Foodservice Productivity: A New Metric
  
• Foodservice: Fast Forward
  
• From a Monocultural
  to a Multicultural Organization
  
• Get Down, Get Ahead
  
• Get Up, Stand Up!
  
• Getting and Giving Employment References
  
• Great Expectations
  
• Grocery Co-ops Seek Organic Certification
  
• Growing Out of the "Small Deli Blues"
  
• Growing Retail Resources
  
• Handling a Sexual Harassment Claim
  
• Hello Goodbye: Conducting Exit Interviews
  
• Hiring in a (Still) Tight Labor Market
  
• How Much Can I Borrow?
  
• Human Resources Survey
  
• Human Resources Survey Gives a Close Look at Co-op Compensation
  
• Hunting Elephants and Taking Bus Rides: Leading a Fine Co-op Forward
  
• Improving General Manager Compensation Packages
  
• Improving Performance:
  Conducting a Traffic Flow Analysis
  
• Improving Store Security
  
• Internal Service
  
• Interview Guidelines: Getting to Know All About You
  
• Invest in Success
  
• Investing in the Cooperative Economy
  
• IS4C: Integrated System for Co-ops
  
• Keep It Fresh!
  
• Keeping Our Mission, Changing Our System
  
• Keeping Staff Committed to the Cooperative
  
• Knowing Your Customers:
  
• Knowing Your Mass Market Competition
  
• Location, Location, Location
  ...and Site, Site, Site:
  Co-ops are Retailers Too
  
• Maintaining Store Equipment
  
• Making Co-ops A Great Place to Work
  
• Making It Real
  
• Managing Working Members
  
• Market Strategy: Three-Part Research
  
• Meet in the Middle
  
• Member Labor Issues
  for Retail Food Co-ops
  
• Member Labor:
  
• Minneapolis Co-op Contrast: Groundbreaking and Closing
  
• Motivational Fit:
  
• Murky Water
  
• New Developments at Food Co-op 500
  
• Northeast: Cooperatives Seek Integration
  
• Operational Improvement and You
  
• Organics and E. Coli
  
• Orienting New Co-op Workers
  
• Outside the Footprint
  
• Pay for Performance
  
• Planning for Productivity
  
• Planning Management Succession
  
• Practicing the Art of Uncommon Courtesy
  
• Promoting Pre-order Sales:
  
• Pursuing a Co-op Controlled Label
  
• Ready or Not…Competition is Coming to Town
  
• Real Work Yields Real Progress at Hanover
  
• RETAIL OPERATIONS SURVEY 2000
  
• Retained Earnings or Returned Earnings?
  
• Salaried or Hourly?
  
• Seeking Local Organic Producers
  
• Seize the Moment
  
• Setting High Standards in Training
  
• Shoplifting Prevention
  
• Shopper Credit Cards and Member-Owner Benefits
  
• Should Food Retailers Promote Community Supported Agriculture?
  
• Should Your Store Be Planning On Scanning?
  
• Staff Teams Build Effective Solutions
  
• Store Audits Reveal Benefits of Peer Review
  
• Store Security
  
• Streamlined System Multiplies Members, Member Investment and Community Contributions
  
• Strong Results, Debatable Future
  
• Strong Training in Operations: Important for Strong Co-ops!
  
• Sustainable Business Models for “Organic and Beyond”
  
• Sustainable Seafood and the Tsunami
  
• Taking Food Safety to the Source
  
• Taking Stock of Your Customer Service Level
  
• The Basics of Taking Inventory
  
• The Farmers Market: An Invitation to Play
  
• The Perils of Co-Management
  
• Tracking the Co-op’s Local Impact
  
• Transforming Workplace Culture
  
• Two Co-ops, One General Manager
  
• U.K. Cooperatives on the Move
  
• Using Brokers Successfully
  
• Using Survey Data to Improve Co-ops
  
• Weaver Street Finds Success in Recruiting and Retaining Latino Staff
  
• What Co-op Employees Think
  
• What Good Is A Business Plan?
  
• When a natural foods supermarket arrives in town, the co-op changes.
  
• Where Are You Growing?
  
• Who Benefits From Co-op Member Labor?
  
• Who Does What in Personnel, Part 2
  
• Will You Burn Bright or Burn Out?
  
• Winning Customer Service
  
• You're Gonna Have to Serve Somebody
  
• Your New Store: Meeting First Year Challenges
  

Special Feature

• Building the Future
  
• CGIN Unveils New Website
  
• Co-op Expansions Raise the Bar
  
• Cooperative Community Funds
  
• Cooperative Grocer Logo
  
• Remembering Ivano Berberini
  

Store Departments

• Making Bulk User Friendly
  
• Are You Certifiable?
  
• Building and Improving Membership Programs
  
• Collaborating on Perishables
  
• Culture and Community Meet in the Produce Aisle
  
• Deli Leader: Quest for the Best
  
• DEPARTMENT REVIEW:
  
• Developing Nirvana
  
• Got the AM/PM Blues?
  
• Grocery: The Core of the Store
  
• Herbs / Supplements / Health and Beauty
  
• Improving Your Deli's Hot Case
  
• Interview:
  
• Interview: Produce Backroom Handllng
  
• Is It Locally Grown?
  
• It's Winter, So Think Summer!
  
• Local and Organic: Going Beyond the Expected
  
• Local Buyers: Meet Local Growers
  
• Making Grab and Go, Go!
  
• Managing Your Cheese Section
  
• Merchandising Body Care and Supplements
  
• Operating a Deli for Fun and Profit
  
• Organic Bedding Plants Bonanza
  
• Planning Deli Success
  
• Planning for Productivity
  
• Pow-wows Not Pinballs
  
• Produce Career: "If You're Gonna Stay, You Gotta Play"
  
• Produce Section Time Management
  
• Produce: Train, Train, Train
  
• Pumping Deli Sales With Less Labor
  
• Running a Successful HBA Department
  
• Sampling Equals Sales and Satisfaction
  
• Setting Up The New Meat Department
  
• The BIG Scoop
  
• The Farmer in the Deli
  
• What Cost Ignorance?
  
• Working with Community Supported Agriculture for the Benefit of All
  

Store Profiles

• 14 Carrots:
  New London Co-op
  
• Ocean Beach People's Co-op Goes Green
  
• A Near Miss at Mississippi Market
  
• A Suggestion for Co-op Survival
  
• Arcata: Double Trouble
  
• Bellingham Co-op: Moving Down The Relocation Road
  
• Branching, Blooming, and Branding
  
• Brattleboro Food Co-op:
  Coming of Age
  
• Building Controversy in Bozeman
  
• Cambridge Central Square Saga
  
• Chequamegon: Now Twice the Co-op
  
• Co-opportunity Thrives Again
  
• Community Food Co-op
  
• Community Mercantile Meets Compressed Timeline
  
• Davis Food Co-op: Turnaround Tale
  
• Detroit's Cass Corridor Food Co-op Expands, Encounters Competition
  
• Food Co-op Triples Its Size
  
• Green Fields Anchors Main Street
  
• GreenStar Co-op:
  A Different Look at Growth and Expansion
  
• In Corvallis, First Alternative Celebrates Its New Store
  
• Kootenay Thrives on Local and Organic
  
• Magic Mill Gains Co-op Market Share
  
• Making an End of It:
  
• Making Two Co-ops Into One (Part 1)
  
• Mississippi Market Manages Changes
  
• Naturally Northwest
  
• New Co-op Market Finds Success in Boulder
  
• New Leaf Market Finds New Life
  
• New Pioneer Opens Coralville Site
  
• New Pioneer: Successful by Working on the Basics
  
• Panzanella: Fresh Ideas at Weaver Street Market
  
• People's Food Co-op Grows a Green Store
  
• Quincy Co-op: 25 Years, New Home
  
• Small Co-op, Big Leap!
  
• Taking a Hard Look at
  'The Co-op Difference'
  
• The Long Road Back
  
• Tidal Creek Triples Its Size
  
• Two Stores and Growing: Bloomingfoods Market and Deli
  
• Valley Natural Foods Relocates
  
• Village Cooperation Builds A General Store
  
• Weaver Street Market:
  

Surveys: Operations and Other

• 2003 Survey Shows Strong Growth, New Challenges
  
• Cooperative Grocer 2000 Retail Operations Survey
  
• Cooperative Grocer 2001 Retail Operations Survey
  
• Celebrating Excellence and New Co-ops
  
• Cooperative Grocer 1999 Retail Operations Survey
  
• Retail Operations Survey 2002 Statistics
  
• Survey Highlights Gaps in Manager Compensation
  

Sustainability

• Engaging Our Community to Create Shared Vision
  
• Fair Trade Towns:
  
• Fair Trade:
  
• Intensive Learning and Gardening at Co-op’s Urban Farm
  
• Opportunities and Threats for Co-op Values
  
• Thinking Outside the Co-op
  
• Transforming Meade Street into Green Street
  

The Editor Notes

• "We Live In A Political World"
  
• "Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore."
  
• Against War: A Co-op Primer
  
• As Always, the Future Is Now
  
• Best Practices and Balancing Acts
  
• Building a Cooperative Base and Future
  
• Co-op as Gift:
  
• Co-op Boards and Why We Do What We Do
  
• Co-ops and the Three R's
  
• Co-ops in the Present and Future Communities
  
• Conservation, Everyone?
  
• Cooperation Among Cooperatives
  
• Cooperative Resurgence and Renewal
  
• Cooperative Resurgence and Renewal
  
• Cooperative Views - from Appalachia to Atlantic Canada
  
• Development Directions
  
• Development Directions
  
• Disasters and Opportunities
  
• Editorial
  
• Expanding Co-ops and Fair Trade Networks
  
• Exploring Sustainability:Co-op, Community, Global
  
• For Today, For Our Future
  
• From Home to Peru and Back
  
• Future of Food—Future of Fun
  
• Generation Gaps
  
• Half Full -- and Half Empty
  
• Hang Together - Or Be Hanged Separately
  
• Imbalance Sheets
  
• Indivisible Capital, Indivisible Future
  
• Is Your Cutting Edge Dull?
  
• Know where you’re going? Build cooperative capital
  
• Living Dangerously: Food and the Future
  
• Local to Global, It’s All Connected
  
• Locally Grown Conservation
  
• Millennial Musings on Dot Co-op and Democracy
  
• Mobilizing for Organics and Conservation
  
• New Cooperatives and New Alliances
  
• Niche Glitch
  
• Not Too Late To Integrate
  
• Opportunities and Obligations
  
• Opportunity Knocks
  
• Past Year Fast Here
  
• Peruvian Percolator
  
• Relief for Human Disasters
  
• Retail Rock and Roll
  
• Seeking Cooperative Alignment and Identity
  
• Seeking Sustainability, Planning for Disaster
  
• Seeking Sustainability, Planning for Disaster
  
• Shared Co-op Values, Multiple Stakeholders
  
• Survival Issues
  
• The Big Picture
  
• The Company Store and the Co-op Store
  
• The Editor Notes
  
• The Editor Notes
  
• The Editor Notes
  
• The Editor Notes
  
• The Editor Notes
  
• The Editor Notes
  
• The Editors Notes
  
• Twenty Years Before the Masthead
  
• Warming to the Tasks at Hand
  
• Weathering the Storm, Greening the Store
  
• What's in Community Contributions?
  
• What's Next?
  
• Where We Are, Where We’re Going
  

Wholesaling

• An Update from the Frontier Co-op CEO
  
• Blooming Prairie: "The most important strategies are those that strengthen our retail members."
  
• Closing Mountain Warehouse
  
• Disappearing Distributors
  
• Frontier CEO Describes Turnaround Progress, New Board Election
  
• Northeast Cooperatives: "Together we will create a stronger cooperative system."
  
• Understanding Distributor Dynamics
  
• Warehouses Test
  Cooperation Among Co-ops
  

Editor: Dave Gutknecht dave@cooperativegrocer.coop
Managing Publisher: Dan Nordley dan@triangleparkcreative.com
Webmaster: webmaster@cooperativegrocer.coop