Stuart Reid

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http://www.foodcoopinitiative.coop

Email:

stuart@foodcoopinitiative.coop

Organization:

Food Co-op Initiative

Phone Number:

507-664-2034

Stuart Reid is the Executive Director of Food Co-op Initiative, a non-profit foundation providing technical assistance, information and resources to groups organizing new retail food co-ops across the United States. He served as the Food Co-op Development Specialist for Food Co-op 500 (the pilot project that grew into FCI) for three years. Stuart has an extensive background working with a variety of cooperative and investor-owned businesses. Most recently, he served as General Manager of Just Food: Northfield Community Co-op in Northfield, Minnesota where he had full operational responsibility for its opening and then led the store through its first two successful years. Prior to joining Just Food, Mr. Reid was General Manager of Seward Co-op, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Author's Articles

Title	Issue	Date
Jacqueline Hannah Joins Food Co-op Initiative BY Stuart Reid Jacqueline Hannah, former general manager of the Common Ground Food Co-op in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, brings her co-op expertise and passion to Food Co-op Initiative where she will share it with		December 17, 2014
2014 Brings a Diverse Crop of New Food Co-ops BY Stuart Reid This year’s new crop of food co-ops spans the country from Hawaii to the tip of Maine. Not surprisingly, there is as much diversity in the co-ops as in their geography.	173 July - August 2014	August 25, 2014
Approaching the Summit BY Stuart Reid Last June, cooperators from across the country gathered in Austin, Texas, to build a vision for future food co-op development in the U.S.	171 March-April 2014	March 25, 2014
A Fresh Look at Membership Recruitment BY Stuart Reid Community organizing evokes a -variety of images and reactions.	170 January - February 2014	February 6, 2014
Food Co-op Initiative Welcomes New Staff BY Stuart Reid Please join all of us at Food Co-op Initiative (FCI) in welcoming Suzi Carter as our new director of programs and partnerships.	168 September-October 2013	October 14, 2013
New Co-ops Are Rocking BY Stuart Reid Every year at CCMA, we recognize the milestones of co-op anniversaries.	167 July-August 2013	August 22, 2013
Food Co-op Initiative—Three Years BY Stuart Reid March 17, 2013, marks three years of Food Co-op Initiative (FCI), and we invite you to celebrate with us. What are we celebrating? Since we began our work,	165 March-April 2013	April 11, 2013
Why (Some) New Co-ops Fail BY Stuart Reid The mayor spoke at the co-op’s ribbon cutting, and it seemed like the whole town turned out to celebrate. The local paper wrote excitedly about the new grocery store. The future seemed bright.	163 November-December 2012	December 4, 2012
Buying Clubs BY Stuart Reid Try to define "buying club." Is it a food co-op without a storefront? A stepping stone to a future retail store? A group effort to buy food as cheaply as possible?	160 May - June - 2012	June 4, 2012
The Politics of Cooperation: Exploring the Landscape BY Stuart Reid Cultivating cooperation, by its nature, means working with many different groups.	155 July - August - 2011	August 28, 2011
The New Co-op Kids on the Block BY Stuart Reid When Food Co-op 500 was founded in late 2004, it took its name from Marilyn Scholl's challenge to the co-op community to build our sector to 500 storefronts within the next 10 years.	154 May - June - 2011	April 25, 2011
The Cooperative Economy Is Booming! BY Stuart Reid Six years ago, Food Co-op 500 started with a volunteer task force and no staff.	152 January - February - 2011	February 3, 2011
Pioneer Market Meets Downtown Troy BY Stuart Reid Pioneer Market opened on Oct. 5 after five years of organizing.	152 January - February - 2011	February 3, 2011
St. Peter Food Co-op Chooses Flexibility in Reincorporation BY Stuart Reid St. Peter Food Co-op in Minnesota reincorporated under Minn. 308b statutes, one of the first state limited cooperative associations (LCA) options, in 2007.	151 November - December 2010	December 8, 2010
The Changing Face of Co-op Development BY Stuart Reid How do you start a new retail food co-op? Can you give me a checklist and a budget? I’ll take it from there!	149 July - August - 2010*	October 15, 2010
Harvest Moonrise BY Stuart Reid Five years of hard work and a million dollars in owner investment have resulted in the store the community dreamed of.	150 September - October 2010	October 5, 2010
Co-op Construction: Working on the Dream BY Stuart Reid Once a year or so, I have been writing about the work of Food Co-op 500 and the newly forming co-ops that we support.	147 March - April - 2010	March 22, 2010
Uncovering History of Cooperatives, Labor and Communities BY Stuart Reid John Curl has documented a part of America’s cooperative history that few of us are aware of.	146 January - February - 2010	December 31, 2009
Sharing the Wealth of Knowledge BY Stuart Reid	144 September - October - 2009	September 22, 2009
Just Food Hits the Ground Running BY Stuart Reid At 7:00 p.m. on December 15, Just Food opened its doors for the first time to a waiting crowd.	117 March - April - 2005	January 21, 2009