Annual Planning Calendar
CBLD - Board Annual Calendar Template 2016 Updated: August, 2016
A Recipe for Good Board Meetings
By Michael Healy 146 January - February - 2010 Here it comes again: the monthly board meeting. You’ve figured out child care for the fourth Monday of every month, that version of parental Olympics where [...]
Expand Trade Area and Grow Sales with Research Data
Good stories often start in the middle of the action. That’s where the good research you can use to build sales starts, too. Getting data on your current customers always starts with one primary activity: [...]
Asking Powerful Questions: Co-op boards open up possibilities through conversation
By Thane Joyal 145 November - December - 2009 “A vital question, a creative question, rivets our attention. All the creative power of our minds is focused on the question. Knowledge emerges in response to [...]
Thinking Strategically: Learning owners’ needs, expectations through study and engagement
By Marshall Kovitz 144 September - October - 2009 When we look at the future for the co-op, what do we see and how do we express it? These are vital questions for board members [...]
Capital Campaign Workbook
UPDATED: March 2016
Perpetuating a Strong Board
A director should be equally as concerned with the future of the governance of their co-op as they are with the issues of the present day. Recruitment and orientation of new directors is the role [...]
Evaluating the General Manager
By Mark Goehring, Carolee Colter 143 July - August - 2009 A board evaluating the general manager (GM) of a food co-op…now there’s a process that directors should be able to describe, defend, celebrate [...]