CCMA – Columinate

Kevin Edberg Receives Innovation Award as CCMA Honors Exemplary Co-op Leaders

By Kelly Kristl|2024-07-01T13:16:11-04:00June 25th, 2024|

Kevin Edberg and Cooperative Development Services: "We have been lucky to have Kevin and CDS in our corner all these years." Michelle Schry of National Co+op Grocers introduced the Cooperative Innovation Award and Kevin Edberg, who she described as the "longtime brain, backbone, and captain of Cooperative Development Services" (CDS). CDS is a nonprofit co-op development organization founded 38 years ago in Minnesota/Wisconsin, and it has had a profound impact for food co-ops and other ventures. What follows is edited from Schry's CCMA introduction:

BriarPatch Food Co-op’s Chris Maher Wins 2024 Cooperative Service Award

By Kelly Kristl|2024-06-25T11:54:43-04:00June 24th, 2024|

Chris Maher, general manager of BriarPatch Food Co-op in California, won the 2024 Cooperative Service Award, presented at the Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) recent annual conference in Portland, Maine. This award goes to someone who has contributed outstanding and sustained work in consumer cooperatives. CCMA is presented by the UW-Madison Center for Cooperatives (UWCC) has served as an interdisciplinary teaching and research center for all sectors and types of cooperatives since 1962: https://uwcc.wisc.edu/

CDS Consulting Co-op Wins Innovation Award at CCMA

By Columinate|2023-05-05T20:07:59-04:00July 3rd, 2014|

The members of the CDS Consulting Co-op were deeply honored and humbled by the Howard Bowers Fund Award for Cooperative Innovation and Achievement bestowed on CDS CC at the Consumer Co-op Managers Association conference in Madison, Wisconsin, this past month. It is certainly gratifying to be recognized for the programs we instigated, like Cooperative Board Leadership Development (CBLD), Four Pillars of Cooperative Governance, and [...]

From Food Desert to Food Oasis: How Co-ops Can Make a Difference

By Columinate|2023-05-05T20:34:41-04:00June 17th, 2011|

Current discussions among food cooperatives often turn to the presence of food deserts in our cities and towns and what co-ops might do to address them. Mari coined the now-popular term to describe neighborhoods where mainstream grocers are distant. The statistically significant impacts on disease and life for people living in food deserts are well known. There won't be a single solution to the [...]

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