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
Co-op News - April 18, 2008
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Apr 202008
NOFC receives $25K Grant from Entergy
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Mar 252008
New Orleans Food Cooperative Receives
$25K Development Grant from Entergy
Food Co-op Store to Help Revitalize St. Claude Avenue
Co-op News - March 24, 2008
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Mar 252008
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. Continue reading »
Co-op News - March 13, 2008
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Mar 162008
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!! Continue reading »
Mar 142008
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.
Mar 122008
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!
Mar 112008
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. Continue reading »
Co-op News - February 22, 2008
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Feb 222008
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!! Continue reading »
Business Planning Workshop
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Feb 212008
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.
Post-Mardi Gras News
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Feb 072008
Hello Co-op friends. This is another installment of our regular
news bulletin. We have gained 11 members since this last announcement
bringing our total up to 95. This is great!! We are almost in the
triple digits!!
