These grants break down to:

- Over $8,000 for board training

- Over $183,000 for general training

- Over $30,000 for programs and workshops

- $13,500 for publications and other tools

- Over $65,000 for training for new and about-to-open food co-ops

- $4,000 for other

General training includes a grant every year to the University of Wisconsin for approximately 20 scholarships to CCMA.  The rest have gone to a variety of cooperatives and organizations.  Here is a sampling:

  • $5,000 to the Indiana Cooperative Development Center for its February-March 2013 regional workshop for new co-ops and groups organizing a co-op
  • $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