October Round Up
Every month we highlight an organization you can support at the register.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our September Round up at the Register for Fishtails Animal Rescue
We raised over $500!
Our October Round Up is Food Co-op Initiative (FCI) in honor of Co-op Month!
Launched in 2006, FCI is a small non-profit that works with community organizers across the country to help them successfully open food co-ops in their own towns. FCI provides training, educational materials, conferences, and customized technical support. These services are all provided at no cost to the startups.
Food Co-op Initiative is the only non-profit organization that helps communities across the country start food co-ops (like ours). They support community organizers from the early exploration period all the way through store opening. They provide customized technical support, various training opportunities, conferences, live webinars, workbooks, guides, and other resources.
FCI helps nearly 100 organizing food co-ops each year — at no charge — because of the generous support of individual donors, organizations, and co-ops like ours.
One of the Cooperative Principles (#6) is 'Cooperation among Cooperatives'.
By raising money for FCI through our Round Up program, you are funding FCI’s ability to keep creating new training materials and provide vital support to the community organizers working to start food co-ops in their own towns. With FCI’s assistance, more food co-ops successfully go from the ‘idea’ stage to ‘grand opening’. The cooperative movement is stronger when we all work together, so it benefits us all to have an effective path for food co-ops to open successfully.
FCI has a large library of resources on their website and is constantly creating new training materials to meet the needs of the community organizers they work with. Funds will help ensure FCI’s ability to continue to develop new materials and grow their library of free resources.
Visit FCI.coop to learn more about their mission and work and peruse the extensive library of materials that donations made possible!