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WHAT’S NEXT?

  • Just closed on financing

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  • Construction!

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  • 400 more LOCAL memberships by open
  • Community focus groups, surveys, meetings
  • Marketing Strategy and design
  • Open a grocery store!

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What does it mean to be an owner?

  • What is the expectation of ownership?

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What is a Coop?

  • A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-controlled enterprise".

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Cooperative Principles

  • 1. Open and voluntary membership
  • 2. Democratic member control
  • 3. Member economic participation
  • 4. Autonomy and Independence
  • 5. Education, training, and information
  • 6. Commitment to community

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Why Coops

  • Practice community self-determination
    • Community transformation + Economic Development= Freedom Movement
  • Participation- transform recipients to co-creators
    • Hope as a strategy
  • Cooperative Advantage
    • Asset Based Community Development

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Participant Democracy- an opportunity to develop our practice thru learning thru action

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Shared Process of Creation�

    • Developing mission at community meetings

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    • Architecture open houses

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    • Committee formation

    • Recruiting leaders and staff from volunteers

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    • Deep listening vs canvassing

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    • Popular education

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    • Children’s cook-offs

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    • Tabling and attending community events

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    • Social and recreational events

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    • Intentional marketing practices

Approaching this as organizers

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