To celebrate the International Year of the Co-op, The National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA), the National Association of Housing Cooperatives, and U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives are sponsoring "My Co-op Rocks" a photo and video contest. The contest is open from March 1 - April 30 and anyone over the age of 18 is invited to submit a video or photo to show how their "co-op rocks". Website visitors get to weigh in on the decision and help choose the winner. Go to www.mycooprocks.coop for more details. So go out there and show how your co-op rocks!
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February 22, 2012
Debbie Trocha, Executive Director, Indiana Cooperative Development Center
February 20, 2012
Debbie Trocha, Executive Director, Indiana Cooperative Development Center
Two years ago state policymakers in Massachusetts agreed to let small companies form purchasing cooperatives to bargain for better rates. That decision is now paying off with savings of 20% and even more. According to the Boston Globe, "The new, less costly health plans are the result of a partnership between Steward Health Care System, the for-profit provider network run by Ralph de la Torre; Fallon Community Health Plan, the state’s fourth-largest insurer; and the Retailers Association of Massachusetts, which was instrumental in winning passage of the group-purchasing cooperatives." Read the full article at http://tinyurl.com/7vuam31.
February 17, 2012
Debbie Trocha, Executive Director, Indiana Cooperative Development Center
The National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) has developed a series of videos celebrating 2012 International Year of Cooperatives and hosted by celebrity chef Kevin Gillespie. In this video, Kevin travels to Valley Natural Foods in Burnsville, MN to see how their connection to local food has grown to include their own community garden. Kevin also travels to Gardens of Eagan, an organic farm owned by The Wedge Co-op. Watch and you'll quickly discover the many ways food co-ops, their shoppers and owners, and their communities are stronger together.
February 14, 2012
Debbie Trocha, Executive Director, Indiana Cooperative Development Center
Are you planning a new food co-op in your community or have you recently opened a food co-op? If so, the 3rd Annual Food Co-op Start-up Conference is for you. A cooperative effort between the Indiana Cooperative Development Center, Bloomingfoods and the Food Co-op Initiative, The conference is a great opportunity for anyone interested in growing their food co-op to learn and connect with board members and managers from other food co-ops and food co-op development experts from across the country.
Join us March 9-10 in Bloomington, IN, for a great training and networking opportunity. Visit our website www.icdc.coop for additional details and to register for the conference. See you there!
February 14, 2012
Debbie Trocha, Executive Director, Indiana Cooperative Development Center
Want to tell the story of your co-op? Visit www.stories.coop. In their own words, here's the background on this website: "Stories.coop is the world's first global, digital campaign to spread the benefits of cooperation through the tradition of story-telling. Stories connect people through the power of words and the power of pictures. Stories tell the facts and they connect to our emotions, so your story of cooperation can make a lasting impact. Stories.coop delivers the UN’s message “Cooperative enterprises build a better world” to the global public in International Year of Cooperatives 2012."
Check it out. It's amazing!
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