nfca fifth annual meeting morning presentation, march 5, 2016

F I FTH ANNUAL MEET ING

“Reflect ing on the Midd lebury

Man i fes to”

5 t h March 20 16

The Ar t s B lock Greenfie ld , MA

NFCA Fifth Annual Meeting 2016

NEIGHBORING FOOD CO-‐OP ASSOCIATION


SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

Kari Bradley !  President & Chair,

NFCA Board of Directors

!  General Manager, Hunger Mountain Co-‐op


WELCOME TO OUR 5TH ANNUAL MEETING!

!  Brattleboro Food Co-‐op (VT) !  Buffalo Mountain Food Co-‐op (VT)

!  City Market / Onion River Co-‐op (VT)

!  Co-‐op Food Stores / Hanover Consumer Co-‐op (NH & VT)

!  Fiddleheads Food Co-‐op (CT) !  Franklin Community Co-‐op (MA)

!  Hunger Mountain Co-‐op (VT) !  Leverett Village Co-‐op (MA) !  Littleton Food Co-‐op (NH) ! Middlebury Natural Foods Co-‐op (VT)

!  Plainfield Food Co-‐op (VT) !  Putney Food Co-‐op (VT) ! Quabbin Harvest Co-‐op (MA) !  River Valley Co-‐op (MA) !  Rutland Area Food Co-‐op (VT)

!  Stone Valley Community Co-‐op Market (VT)

!  Upper Valley Food Co-‐op (VT)

! Wild Oats Co-‐op Market (MA)

! Willimantic Food Co-‐op (CT)


WELCOME, MEMBER CO-‐OPS!

! Amherst Community Co-‐op (MA)

! Assabet Village Food Co-‐op (MA)

! Dorchester Community Food Co-‐op (MA)

! Granite City Grocery Co-‐op (VT)

! Great River Co-‐op (NH)

! Manchester Food Co-‐op (NH)

! Merrimack Valley Food Co-‐op (MA)

! Morrisville Food Co-‐op (VT)

! Souhegan Valley Food Co-‐op (NH)

! Urban Greens Food Co-‐op (RI)


WELCOME, MEMBER START-‐UPS!

! Artisan Beverage Co-‐op ! Associated Buyers ! Berkshire Co-‐op Market (MA)

! CDS Consulting Co-‐op ! Coös County Co-‐op (NH, Start-‐Up)

! GreenStar Co-‐op Market (NY)

! Harvest Co-‐op (MA) ! Mansfield Community Co-‐op (VT, Start-‐Up)

! National Cooperative Business Association / CLUSA International

! National Co+op Grocers ! National Cooperative Bank (NCB)

! New England Farmers Union (NEFU)

! Office of Consumer Advocate (NH)

! Valley Alliance of Worker Co-‐ops (VAWC)

NFCA Fifth Annual Meeting 2016Cooperative Fund of New England (CFNE)

WELCOME, GUESTS!

!  Kari Bradley, President (General Manager, Hunger Mountain Co-‐op, VT)

!  Ed King, Vice President (General Manager, Littleton Food Co-‐op, NH)

!  Kay Litten, Secretary (Board Member, Co-‐op Food Stores / Hanover Co-‐op, NH & VT)

!  Suzette Snow Cobb, Treasurer (Marketing & Membership, Franklin Community Co-‐op, MA)


NOTES FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

!  Faye Conte (Board Member, City Market / Onion River Co-‐op, VT)

!  Glenn Lower (General Manager, Middlebury Natural Foods Co-‐op, VT)

!  Sue Miller (General Manager, Upper Valley Food Co-‐op, VT)

!  Joanne Todd (Board Member, Willimantic Food Co-‐op, CT)

! Michael Wells (Board Member, Putney Food Co-‐op, VT)


INCOME 2015

Member Dues 60%

Other Income

15%

Frozen Foods 25%


EXPENSE

Programs 11%

Cost of Goods Sold

26%

Operations 5% Other Expense

3%

People 55%


TOTAL EQUITY

$-‐ $10,000 $20,000 $30,000 $40,000 $50,000 $60,000 $70,000 $80,000

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

! Keynote Speaker ! Judy Ziewacz, President & CEO of NCBA CLUSA

! Staff Report ! Erbin Crowell & Bonnie Hudspeth

! Small Group Dialog: The Middlebury Manifesto ! Lunch // Peer Networking Tables ! Afternoon Workshops ! Elections, Appreciations, Evaluations & Raffle ! Co-‐op Happy Hour!


AGENDA FOR THE DAY

Keynote: Judy Ziewacz

THE NEXT 100 YEARS OF CO-‐OPERATION IN THE

UNITED STATES


Judy Ziewacz !  President & CEO, NCBA CLUSA !  Advocate for USDA’s Rural

Cooperative Development Grant Program (1990).

!  Executive Director of the Cooperative Development Foundation (1996)

!  Advocate for “dotCoop” as a Top Level Domain (TLD).

!  Boards of the National Cooperative Bank (NCB), Capital Impact Partners & Group Heath Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin.

!  Co-‐op Hall of Fame 2014


OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER


THRIVING FORCE

That Builds a Better World

Judy Ziewacz President & CEO

National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International

Cooperatives are the


We’re Celebrating…

•  Our 1916 incorporation in Illinois as Cooperative League of the USA (CLUSA)

•  Our uniqueness as the only national cross-

sector co-op association in the US •  Our decades of promoting the cooperative

business model •  Our successful history of assembling

coalitions, advocating for the business model, uniting all sectors

100 years of Supporting Cooperatives that build a better world!

•  Member highlights •  Monthly Themes •  PBS Visionaries Doc •  Co-ops Village on

the National Mall •  Smithsonian Exhibit

www.ncbaclusa100.coop


Our Past… •  Incorporated in 1916 in Illinois as Cooperative

League of the USA (CLUSA). •  1944, helped establish Cooperatives for

Assistance and Remittances to Europe (CARE) •  Expanded internationally in 1953 helping to

build the IFFCO cooperative in India

•  1960’s members were primary advocates for Food for Peace and USAID funding

•  1980’s helped create the National Consumer Cooperative Bank (now: NCB)

•  1990’s lobbied for and created RCDG grant

program at the USDA

•  2000 successfully created the .coop domain


Just 3 things…

1

2

3

When & Why do co-ops THRIVE?

What do co-ops look like TODAY?

What’s NEXT?


Why Co-op’s Thrive…

Use innovation

to fill a social need

Focused on people over profit

Insure access to

all community members


Quote… “You cooperatives brought credit when it seemed unobtainable. You brought light and power to rural Americans when it appeared out of reach. You brought modern telephone service to tens of thousands and lowered the price of gas and fertilizer to many thousands more.!!You did all of these things, and more, because you believed that the strength of the fortunate many should be used to help the unfortunate few.” !

–Lyndon B. Johnson!36th President of the United States of America!


Where we are today…

40,000 + co-ops 1 in 3 people have ownership in a co-op

Electric co-ops power 18 million homes, schools and businesses

•  U.S. co-ops provide nearly 2 million jobs and create more than $74 billion in annual wages with a revenue of $650 billion

•  Food co-ops reinvest in their communities an average of 14% more than conventional grocers

•  Nearly a million of the nations farmers belong to a co-op, accounting for 55% of total US agriculture sales


Can you see your co-op?


Economic Diversification….

Top 100 Cooperatives in the United States represent

$234.5 billion

of the nations economy2:

Agriculture $148 Grocery $ 33 Energy & Comm. $ 19 Finance $ 12 Hardware $ 9 Healthcare $ 9 Other sectors $ 4

(revenue measured in billions)

2National Cooperative Bank – 2014 Coop 100


Where we are today… TRENDS

Increase in Worker Co-op formation

Conversion Solution

Increase desire for greater ownership

And one more thing…


TRUST Trust in cooperatives is at an all-time high with increasing numbers of consumers looking for businesses that share their values.


73% of Americans polled TRUST CO-OPS over

traditional businesses.**

** Data based on 2015 Independent poll *Results from 2015 Gallup poll

Organized Religion

U.S. Congress

Banks 28%

42%

8%


What are you doing with that TRUST?


Next 100 years…

Creating awareness through core

messaging of values and principles

Shaping public policy through

advocacy

NCBA CLUSA is meeting that challenge and pivoting to the next 100 years of supporting cooperative business by:


Awareness…

Media Engagement Op-Eds

placement with targeted print

and online media

Member profiles to showcase

cooperatives to broadcast

media

High level editorial boards


Advocacy…

Public Policy Engagement

Bi-partisan Cooperative

Business Caucus

Interagency Working

Group on Cooperative Development

Cooperative Council of Economic Advisors


“By contributing to human dignity and global solidarity, cooperatives truly do build a better world.”

-Ban Ki Moon Secretary General of the United Nations


Q&A


Thank You!

Judy Ziewacz President & CEO

Erbin Crowel l & Bonnie Hudspeth STAFF REPORT


Supporting shared success through… ! Education & Outreach

! Peer-‐to-‐Peer Collaboration

! Regional Sourcing ! Network Partnerships


OUR ACTIVITIES

! Education & Outreach ! Formalization of UMASS Program

! Peer Network Development ! Two Peer Training events in 2015

! Regional Sourcing ! Associated Buyers, Farm to Freezer, Natural Value

! Organizational Development ! Strategic partnerships, explore expansion


PRIORITIES FOR 2015

Raising awareness of the co-‐op difference… !  Ads & Press !  Slow Living

Conference

!  NOFA Conferences !  Co-‐op Track

!  “Go Co-‐op” initiative


EDUCATION & OUTREACH

!  UMASS Co-‐op Enterprise Collaborative

!  NFCA !  Valley Alliance of

Worker Co-‐ops !  UMASS Amherst

Economics Department !  Association of

Cooperative Educators Institute

!  2016 – Expanded internships


UMASS CO-‐OP ENTERPRISE CERTIFICATE


PEER NETWORK DEVELOPMENT

Linking our members for shared success… ! Member Gatherings ! Monthly Coordinated Start-‐Up Calls

! Healthy Food Access Collaboration

! Peer Networking Events


MARKETING & MEMBERSHIP TRAINING


ORGANIC VALLEY FARM TOUR

Harnessing our shared purchasing power… ! Value added producer grant with NEFU, Deep Root Organic Co-‐op

! Associated Buyers Partnership ! Affordability: Natural Value Products

! Innovation: Relaunch of Farm to Freezer


REGIONAL SOURCING


RELAUNCH OF FARM TO FREEZER

Increasing our impact through collaboration… ! Cooperative Fund of New England

! Valley Alliance of Worker Co-‐ops

! New England Farmers Union

! Associated Buyers ! Food Co-‐op Initiative ! Welcome Food Co-‐ops from ME & NY, today!


ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Organizational Development ! Open membership to ME and Upstate NY

!  Exploration of opportunities for alignment with NCG

Marketing & Education !  Update impact statistics !  Develop UMASS certificate program, internships

Regional Sourcing !  Associated Buyers !  Farm to Freezer & Natural Value projects

!  Explore future product and staffing opportunities

Peer Networking !  Regional start-‐up conference

!  Peer networking event for HR staff

!  And…


2016 PRIORITIES


60TH CCMA IN NEW ENGLAND!

www.ncba.coop/ccma-‐2016-‐conference


YOUR FEEDBACK & QUESTIONS

Small Group Tables

REFLECTING ON THE MIDDLEBURY MANIFESTO


1.  Common Commercial Activities

2.  Sharing operational & organizational insights

3.  Collective action for a co-‐operative economy

4.  Leadership & management capacity


THE MIDDLEBURY MANIFESTO

5.  Advance the state of co-‐operative knowledge

6.  Gatherings to build human connections

7.  Engender joy, enthusiasm and optimism

8.  Devotion of resources to advance our values and secure our ends

1)  What activities of the NFCA have been most effective in advancing the your goal?

2) What are some key opportunities we have for advancing this goal in the future?

3) What is the ONE opportunity that your group would recommend that the NFCA consider moving forward?


SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION

In 60 seconds or less, summarize your group’s NUMBER ONE opportunity for the future of the NFCA.


SMALL GROUPS REPORT OUT


LUNCH THANK YOU,

FRANKLIN COMMUNITY CO-‐OP & OUR CO-‐OP COMMUNITY

SPONSORS!