Boards that want to provide the best leadership possible will regularly evaluate their own performance to highlight successes and areas needing improvement. Using your board’s stated policy agreements as the basis of your assessment offers one straightforward approach to self-evaluation.
Michael Healy and Mark Goehring are shooting the breeze in this casual (and short) video recording featuring some great pointers for boards and meeting facilitators to help get you through your meeting agendas on target and on time.
Meetings are foundational to cooperative culture. 2 levels of learning Thane Joyal Presenter "Playing together is the best way to learn. We've designed these workshops to allow participants to experiment with different roles and different voices and to have fun doing it." [...]
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' [...]
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.
Hiring a General Manager is one of the biggest decisions a food co-op Board of Directors will ever make. A thorough, thoughtful and transparent process is needed to ensure the best outcome. Your Content Goes Here Our experts provide full process support to both the search committee and the Board of Directors to ensure the [...]
Leading an independent grocery store has never been as difficult as it is now. And leading a multi-stakeholder organization like a cooperative brings additional complexities to an already challenging role. Your Content Goes Here Leading an independent grocery store has never been as difficult as it is now. And leading a multi-stakeholder organization like a cooperative [...]
The CBLD Policy Template GM Report Support Compilation GM Report Support By Policy Video Guides About the GM Report Support Project In 2005, GMs asked for support and the opportunity to collaborate in [...]
Access the Cafe Workbook >> The Harvest During the 2021 Co-op Cafe events, sponsored by NCG, cooperators shared stories, reflected on how we’ve adapted, celebrated our achievements, and considered the challenges co-ops have faced. On this page, you'll find a Cafe Toolkit, year-end video walkthrough, article about this year's events and what to expect in 2022, directions [...]
The Abolitionists Challenge An Anti Racism Program Presented by LaDonna Sanders Redmond The Abolitionists Challenge, presented by LaDonna Sanders Redmond, is a movement for anyone who identifies as a cooperator and is interested in gaining an understanding of how they can commit to anti racism and eliminate white supremacy in cooperative spaces and in the [...]
