Since its founding, the Bowers Fund has given 66 grants for $256,311.  One grant is given every year to the University of Wisconsin for approximately 20 scholarships to CCMA and the rest have gone to a variety of cooperatives and organizations.  Here is a sampling:

• $500 to Mountain People’s Co-op to send a staff member to a CoCoWorks produce workshop
• $2,500 to the Common Market for the Manager on Contract program
• $5,000 to Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund for its Traveling Co-op Institute
• $2,000 to Chatham Marketplace, a new co-op, for staff and board training
• $5,000 to Cooperative Development Services to develop the flow chart component of Food Co-op 500
• $2,575 to Harlem Food Co-op for business development
• $3,000 and $5,000 to CGIN to start and update the on-line “How to Start a Food Co-op” manual
• $1,000 to Plainfield Food Co-op to develop and implement a policy governance model
• $7,500 to NCBA for its Retail Basics program
• $1,000 to Fort Collins Food Co-op for board training
• $5,000 to Keystone Development Center for its April 2011 regional workshop for new co-ops and groups organizing a co-op

For a list of the Howard Bowers Day grants given, click here.