Cultivate Your Community

Encountering Cooperative Extremists

By |2023-05-08T14:43:55-04:00July 4th, 1999|

By David Fowle, Marilyn Scholl 083 July - August - 1999 Do the following statements or situations sound familiar in our cooperatives? "The co-op shouldn't carry (X), because these products are not natural." "This is a co-op, so all the members should have a voice in operational decisions -- otherwise I may as well shop down the block." "This decision is too controversial, so [...]

Building and Improving Membership Programs

By |2023-05-08T14:43:57-04:00February 22nd, 1999|

By Karen Zimbelman, Marilyn Scholl 080 January - February - 1999 Members are the lifeblood of a co-op: a truism of cooperatives. Without members, a co-ops wouldn't be a co-op; it would be just another local grocery store. A co-op exists to serve the needs of its members. But members provide more than a co-op's reason for being. They provide the capital, the patronage, [...]

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