The Co-op Food Stores of New Hampshire and Vermont

added 05/05/10

Slow Money

Investing in Local Food Systems
On Friday, June 4, join Woody Tasch and other Slow Money leaders at a roundtable entitled “Slow Money — Investing in Local Food Systems” from 1 to 3 p.m. (with optional lunch noon to 1 p.m.) at World Learning, Kipling Road, Brattleboro, VT, in The Stephen and Nita Lowey International Center, Room 101.

The event kicks off the 2010 Strolling of the Heifers weekend, which is highlighted by the Strolling of the Heifers Parade on Saturday, June 5 at 10 a.m. For a full schedule of events throughout the weekend, from Friday evening through Sunday, just visit the Strolling web site at www.strollingoftheheifers.com.

Slow Money is a new nonprofit organization founded by Woody Tasch, a pioneer in merging investing and philanthropy. Slow Money’s mission is to build local and national networks, and develop new financial products and services.

To pre-register for this event, please email your name, any business or organizational affiliation, and whether or not you will be eating lunch at World Learning to Carrie Walker

Board of Directors Meetings

The Co-op’s Board of Directors holds meetings on the third Wednesday of every month, starting at 5:30 p.m. in the Boardroom upstairs at the Hanover Food Store. We post the agenda on the Board of Directors web page, by the Friday before the scheduled meeting. Please contact “Genie Braasch“mailto:gbraash@coopfoodstore.com, Co-op Board Administrator, at (603) 640-6340 if you plan on attending.

How to be a Co-op Member

Did you pick up this copy of the Co-op News in one of our stores and are wondering about Co-op membership? It takes only a few minutes to join the Co-op by visiting the Service Desk at either Co-op Food Store. Want to save time? Download and fill out an application from our website and bring it with you. Each member household buys ten $5 shares of Co-op stock. This one-time $50 investment entitles you to full membership in the Co-op.

Subscribe & Follow

E-News
When we launched our e-newsletter program a little more than a year ago, we began with a handful of subscribers. (There were three, actually, and one of them was the wife of the guy who built the thing.) Our goals were to develop a quick and easy way to keep Co-op fans up to date with what is going on at the Co-op while reducing our printed material, thereby doing our part for sustainability.

Today our e-newsletter program has more than 1,100 subscribers, and the number grows higher each day. Thanks to all of our subscribers for making it such a big success! If you haven’t signed up yet, it’s easy. Go Here. You can sign up for just the information you want to receive, opt out at anytime, and we’ll never release your information to third party evildoers, no matter what.

Hop and Vine
Already an e-newsletter subscriber? Why not click on the sign-up box and check out what’s new? Based on the program’s popularity, we’ve launched new e-newsletters, so you might want to sign up for something you aren’t already receiving. In particular, check out our newest and very popular e-newsletter the Hop and Vine! It’s dedicated solely to specialty beers and wine, and has a very dedicated following.

Facebook
Much like our e-newsletter program, our Facebook page started slowly, but quickly caught on and developed into a dedicated community of lively, contributing fans. Today we have more than 500 fans, and that number also grows daily. Co-op Facebook fans are a particularly lucky bunch, as our Facebook page is a very handy place to let folks know about all those little things that crop up from time to time—a great new product we have in limited supply or an upcoming event you should sign up for soon. Become a fan and tell other Co-op fans you know to join, too. Go here and click on the Facebook badge at the bottom of the page.