http://nolafoodcoop.org Towards healthy and affordable groceries Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:14:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://nolafoodcoop.org/2008/04/20/co-op-news-april-18-2008/ New Orleans Food Cooperative Receives $25K Development Grant from Entergy Food Co-op Store to Help Revitalize St. Claude Avenue http://nolafoodcoop.org/2008/03/25/nofc-receives-25k-grant-from-entergy/ 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. http://nolafoodcoop.org/2008/03/25/co-op-news-march-24-2008/ 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!! http://nolafoodcoop.org/2008/03/16/co-op-news-march-13-2008/ 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 ... http://nolafoodcoop.org/2008/03/14/yours-mine-and-ours-gambit-weekly-article/ 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 ... http://nolafoodcoop.org/2008/03/12/nofc-promotion-video/ 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. http://nolafoodcoop.org/2008/03/11/citybusiness-reports-on-our-momentum/ 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 ... http://nolafoodcoop.org/2008/02/22/co-op-news-february-22-2008/ 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 ... http://nolafoodcoop.org/2008/02/21/business-planning-workshop/ 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 ... http://nolafoodcoop.org/2008/02/12/co-op-news-february-12th-2008/