Equity

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: DEI Teams Can Set a Foundation for Success

By Rachel Krause|2023-05-05T20:05:05-04:00June 20th, 2022|

Columinate Intercultural Facilitator Darin Short has worked with a range of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) committees, task forces, and teams across many sectors. Darin recently led a workshop, “Why Some Diversity Teams Succeed While Others Do Not” at the Thought Leadership conference in Elkhart, Indiana, in May. “No matter what setting you’re in, DEI is an emotional topic,” says Short. “We need to create safe spaces where people can express their emotions and can say exactly what they need to say with respect for the collective goal.”

Ensuring Internal and External Pay Equity

By Columinate|2023-05-05T20:05:26-04:00April 26th, 2018|

Many co-ops using policy governance have an Ends policy requiring staff compensation that is both internally and externally equitable. However without diligent attention, pay scales and what individual staff end up making can get out of whack over time. Below are a few tips to keep you in compliance. Compensation market study. Make sure you are staying up-to-date on what the external market is [...]

Why Equity is Part of the Co-op Difference

By Columinate|2023-05-05T20:07:19-04:00April 7th, 2015|

Seward Co-op's GM, Sean Doyle, has a passion for finances, and he's here to share his passion with you! Sean discusses some unique lending avenues available to many co-ops and why equity may just be the key to the cooperative difference.

Grow Your Co-op: Know your sources of capital

By Ben Sandel|2023-05-05T20:08:00-04:00March 3rd, 2013|

Waking the Sleeping Giant: Recognize patronage dividends for what they are, co-op capital

By Marilyn Scholl|2023-05-05T20:21:48-04:00May 15th, 2010|

By Marilyn Scholl, Joel Dahlgren, Bruce Mayer 148 May - June - 2010 Creating solutions begins with building the foundation for the future you want. One of the remarkable things about cooperation is that mutualism encourages solution-oriented growth, built on a vision of the common good. How profitability and capitalization are handled in cooperatives is an indicator of how much the co-op is actively [...]

Membership is Ownership: The Cooperative Advantage

By Marilyn Scholl|2023-05-05T20:22:19-04:00May 16th, 2008|

By Marilyn Scholl 136 may - june - 2008 Interest in food cooperatives is growing, due both to increased interest in local, natural, and organic foods and to increased awareness of our economic vulnerability. More and more communities want the stability and accountability that a cooperative can offer. Cooperative ownership is an economic model that can create great benefits for our communities and member-owners. [...]

Member Economic Participation

By Marilyn Scholl|2023-05-05T20:22:21-04:00April 16th, 2008|

Capitalization Strategies for New Co-ops

By Bill Gessner|2023-05-05T20:22:36-04:00March 15th, 2007|

By Bill Gessner 129 march - april - 2007 Where we gonna get the grubstake? The 300 food co-op stores in the United States, owned by more than 400,000 consumers, face the continuing challenge of building capital if they are going to continue to grow and develop to serve their members and communities. As much as we might want to ignore this challenge, co-ops [...]

Best Practices for Membership Development

By Marilyn Scholl|2023-05-05T20:22:48-04:00October 14th, 2005|

We Own It: A Workbook about Member Equity

By Columinate|2023-05-08T14:44:04-04:00December 31st, 1995|

By Rob Wilson and Rob Okun

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