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Issue's Articles
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 Sugar Beet Co-op in Oak Park, Illinois, was presented the Startup of the Year award from Food Co-op Initiative (FCI) on June 2,  | 
                      Endcap Articles | June 14, 2018 | 
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 Sugar Beet Co-op (www.sugarbeet.coop) in Oak Park, Illinois, was presented the Startup of the Year award from Foo  | 
                      Endcap Articles | June 14, 2018 | 
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 From the United States to Communist Eastern Europe to West Africa, few people have made more of an impact in fostering the cooperative movement on a global scale than Rosemary Mahoney.  | 
                      Endcap Articles | February 18, 2018 | 
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 Save the dates—December 14-16, 2017.  | 
                      Endcap Articles | August 18, 2017 | 
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 The fall grant cycle for the Howard Bowers Fund is here—U.S. food co-ops can now apply to receive leadership education and training scholarships for co-op boards of directors and co-op staff.  | 
                      Endcap Articles | August 7, 2017 | 
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 There is now opportunity to recommend how USDA should implement the 2016 law requiring a system for labeling GMO (genetically modifed organisms).  | 
                      Endcap Articles | July 21, 2017 | 
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 Lexington Co-op in Buffalo, N.Y. opened its second store on July 12, 2017.  | 
                      Endcap Articles | July 12, 2017 | 
| Endcap Articles | June 21, 2017 | |
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 Ever want to know a bit more about co-ops in the United Kingdom? An annual summary of these co-ops is now available: http://bit.ly/2t2D0H3.  | 
                      Endcap Articles | June 20, 2017 | 
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 Cate Hardy, the CEO of the Seattle area's leading food co-op, PCC Natural Markets, comments in a recent newspaper report that they are already very familiar with competition from Whole Foods and Am  | 
                      Endcap Articles | June 17, 2017 | 
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 The Lawrence, Kansas food co-op in mid-May announced its plans for summer 2017 construction of a major solar power installation—what will be the largest one in town.  | 
                      Endcap Articles | May 16, 2017 | 
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 Myths get in the way of our ability to restore degraded soils that can feed the world using fewer chemicals.  | 
                      Endcap Articles | May 5, 2017 | 
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 The board of directors of Amazing Grains, a small co-op in Grand Forks, North Dakota, announced the co-op’s imminent dissolution—the notification came just before the co-op’s annual meeting on Apri  | 
                      Endcap Articles | May 1, 2017 | 
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 The March 2017 Up & Coming food co-op conference featured larger-than-ever attendance and a training program of increased depth and breadth.  | 
                      Endcap Articles | March 18, 2017 | 
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 Fair trade bananas enable small producers to survive and thrive -- IF they organize as cooperatives. Organized demand through consumer cooperatives also is key. For background on these production  | 
                      Endcap Articles | March 17, 2017 | 
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 Myths and prejudice about food stamp (SNAP) recipients received front-page reinforcement in the New York Times recently, in an article and photo telling us that SNAP recipients purchase “a l  | 
                      Endcap Articles | January 19, 2017 | 
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 After two and a half years, the Dubuque Food Co-op has announced it will close.  | 
                      Endcap Articles | January 16, 2017 | 
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 Investment clubs have been pooling the resources and magnifying the financial impact of their members for a long time—and the potential of that model for cooperative development is getting more att  | 
                      Endcap Articles | December 21, 2016 | 
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 One relatively untried method for capitalizing co-ops, a Direct Public Offering, is discussed in a new posting by Food Co-op Initiative (FCI), which is assisting startups across the country. An in  | 
                      Endcap Articles | November 18, 2016 | 
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 Among the best results of the recent election is the abandonment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) treaty, which was an attempt to extend international corporate power and undermine democratic  | 
                      Endcap Articles | November 18, 2016 | 
