The New Orleans Food Cooperative

Co-op News - April 18, 2008

john — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:54:27 +0000

Hello Co-op friends. This has been a banner week for our food
co-op in terms of membership growth. In the past week we have gained
38 new members!!! This brings our current founding member total to
262. We gained 31 of these members in the last 3 day alone. This is
by far the fastest growth our co-op has ever seen. Thank-you to all
the members who spread the word and encouraged others to join

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NOFC receives $25K Grant from Entergy

budd — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:40:26 +0000

New Orleans Food Cooperative Receives

$25K Development Grant from Entergy

Food Co-op Store to Help Revitalize St. Claude Avenue

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Co-op News - March 24, 2008

john — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:34:47 +0000

Hello co-op friends and Welcome new founding members! This has
been an exciting and action-packed week for our co-op. We had the
biggest membership growth week in our history with 24 people joining.
This brings our current total to 162 founding members. (more…)

Co-op News - March 13, 2008

john — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:56:23 +0000

Hello co-op friends. This is your regular update letting you
know what is happening with our co-op. This will be sent out about
once a week and will always include our current member total. We have
gained 23 new members in the last 2 weeks bringing our current total
to 138 founding members!! (more…)

Yours, Mine and Ours - Gambit Weekly article

NOFC — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:54:50 +0000

In the March 11th edition of the Gambit Weekly, the headline News & Views article focused on the co-op and the developing Healing Center. We are pleased to re-present this article in it’s entirety here by permission of the Managing Editor of the Gambit. The article is also available on their site via this link. Click more to read the entire article, and many thanks to author Sarah Andert and Editor Kandace Graves.

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NOFC promotion video

budd — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:11:30 +0000

An interested citizen took it upon himself to author this fantastic video promoting the co-op and idea of a locally-oriented member-owned storefront at St. Claude and St. Roch. Many thanks to Charlie for the wonderful video! The video is hosted on viddler.com, so if you have the time, please check out Charlie’s other inspired works. Congratulations and salutations to Charlie, one of our newest Founding Members!

CityBusiness reports on our Momentum

budd — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:07:28 +0000

CityBusiness recently mentioned to co-op in their online publication. The article, entitled Momentum builds for N.O. food co-op gives a brief summary of the project and our role. It features quotes from our own John Calhoun, and from Pres Kabacoff the lead developer of the Healing Center. (more…)

Co-op News - February 22, 2008

john — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:21:00 +0000

Hello co-op friends!! This is your weekly food co-op announcement which will always include our latest member total. I will also talk about upcoming events and volunteer opportunities. Thank-you everyone for helping to make Monday’s potluck dinner at Holy Angels such a wonderful event. We had over 65 people in attendance!! (more…)

Business Planning Workshop

NOFC — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:50:30 +0000

A representative from the Food Coop 500 will be in town in early March to lead a business planning workshop. The Food Co-op 500 Program is a support system that seeks to enable a faster and more efficient start-up process to develop new retail grocery co-ops. These heavy hitters are getting behind our effort here in New Orleans.

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Co-op News - February 12th, 2008

john — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:41:19 +0000

Hello Co-op friends!! This is your latest food co-op update. In
the last 6 days we have added two new founding members bringing our
total up to 97! We are so, so close to reaching our first milestone of
100 founding members. This is great, and we still need many more
members to reach our goal of having 300 members by May 1. So please,
please spread the word about your co-op and encourage everyone you
know to become a member. If you or anyone you know wants to become a
member please send them www.nolafoodcoop.org and they can print out a
membership application. (more…)