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30th Aug, 2017

Everyone Welcome? Personal Narratives about Race and Food Co-ops

By |2023-05-05T20:06:12-04:00August 30th, 2017|

By Jade Barker and Patricia Cumbie We believe that now is a critical time to engage our cooperative community in important conversations about racism and oppression. Everyone Welcome? Personal Narratives about Race and Food Co-ops presents a variety of perspectives on what can be done to make food co-ops more racially inclusive. Fifteen co-operators from a variety of backgrounds — class, gender, race, ethnicity, [...]

5th Nov, 2018

Study Guide for Cooperative Values:  Fostering Racial and Economic Equity in Cooperatives

By |2023-05-05T20:26:11-04:00November 5th, 2018|

Discussing each principle and value through the lens of racial and economic equity will provide a starting point for promoting a more inclusive and effective movement. This is a resource for boards of directors, management teams, and study groups who especially want to explore the impact of dominate white culture on co-ops, and who want to find a way to create a dialogue to [...]

5th Nov, 2018

Study Guide for Cooperative Principles: Fostering Racial and Economic Equity in Cooperatives

By |2023-05-05T20:27:02-04:00November 5th, 2018|

Discussing each principle and value through the lens of racial and economic equity will provide a starting point for promoting a more inclusive and effective movement. This is a resource for boards of directors, management teams, and study groups who especially want to explore the impact of dominate white culture on co-ops, and who want to find a way to create a dialogue to [...]

5th Apr, 2023

the Co-op Cafe

By |2025-03-13T20:19:40-04:00April 5th, 2023|

Co-op Cafe 2022: An 8th Cooperative Principle? Co-op Cafe 2021: Proceed with Purpose Co-op Cafe 2020: Cooperative Resilience Co-op Cafe 2019: Everybody Can Shop at the Co-op Co-op Cafe 2018: Expand the Vision of 'We' [...]

20th Jan, 2021

Incorporating Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Into Board Policies: A CBLD Field Guide

By |2023-05-05T20:05:51-04:00January 20th, 2021|

Many cooperatives, social justice organizations, and businesses have begun to directly confront their own role in the social systems that perpetuate racism and inequity. Boards of directors who use Policy Governance®  should feel empowered to use their policy document to clarify their expectations around the work of dismantling systems of racism and oppression.

24th Mar, 2023

Co-op Cafe 2022

By |2023-03-24T18:10:24-04:00March 24th, 2023|

The Co-op Principles Song! Music and Lyrics by Shawn Furst and Mykle Hansen, with animations by Sarah Mirk See ALL the Co-op Cafe videos. Read about the Co-op Cafe in the Columinate Library Co-op Cafe 2022 Videos The [...]

7th Nov, 2018

The Wisdom of “Everyone Welcome?”

By |2023-05-05T20:26:04-04:00November 7th, 2018|

Jade Barker, Governance Consultant with Columinate and co-author of "Everyone Welcome?", shares some of the wisdom that she gained in working on the "Everyone Welcome?" project. In this video Jade shares some of her personal experience as a person of color in the predominantly white food co-op sector and what it has been like on her 15 years journey so far with food co-ops.

12th Jul, 2017

Everyone Welcome? Considering Race and Food Co-ops

By |2023-05-05T20:06:17-04:00July 12th, 2017|

Three years ago, we were participants in a workshop designed to raise awareness of racial bias, particularly in progressive organizations. As part of that Training for Change session in Minneapolis in 2014, everyone was asked what we would like to do as next steps. Part of our professional work as consultants is to bring a variety of people together in co-ops to better [...]

5th Dec, 2017

Everyone Welcome? Examining Race and Food Co-ops

By |2023-05-05T20:05:58-04:00December 5th, 2017|

By Patricia Cumbie, Jade Barker "The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others."—James A. Baldwin Part of our professional work is to support people acting together for a common purpose. We do this by working with co-ops to improve their relationships with all their stakeholders—owners, staff, board, managers, communities—to better [...]

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