2025 Enrollment Now Open! Our Cooperative Board Leadership Development (CBLD) team is looking ahead to another great year of supporting your organization’s success through our award-winning CBLD program. Now in its 21st year, CBLD provides an annual program of board support that includes monthly consulting, facilitated board retreats, a wealth of online webinars and other board trainings, and a [...]
Supervision and evaluation of a general manager (GM) are some of the most important tasks that a food co-op board can have. Columinate Board Development Consultant Molly Snell-Larch has developed two useful guides for navigating the sometimes complex processes of general manager evaluation and compensation.
Power in Cooperatives: Fruitful Conversations to Seed Transformation We are excited to offer you a reimagined Co-op Cafe in 2024! We have redesigned the Co-op Cafe with folks from all areas of the Co-op in mind: directors, managers, staff and community members, from all sectors of the cooperative landscape. Understanding how power operates within a model built to be principled, [...]
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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 [...]
