Great potluck! Next organizing meeting is TUESDAY.

The potluck was fantastic - so many people showed, we ran out of chairs. There were several new faces as well, which was exciting to see.

Thanks to everyone who came; it was really inspiring to see the energy for our co-op project continuing to grow.

And special thanks to:
-Dean DeCrease and Raw Space, for the donated venue, and
-Cloudview Eco Farm for the potatoes and garlic


Now, it's time to start moving forward again.
Our next organizing meeting is scheduled for
NEXT TUESDAY, January 19, 6:00 - 8:00pm, at the Ecumenical Church
400 N Anderson, 1/2 block behind Safeway

A couple suggestions for ground we could cover:


1. Make any final small revisions to the Community Survey, and collectively sign off on it so we can move on to creating a distribution strategy and preparing for the e3 Winter Fair.

Hopefully, we can get the near-final version of the survey out in time for you to review it before the meeting...stay tuned.


and

2. Starting a timeline of action steps for getting us from here...................................to open for business!

If you can make time, consider doing a little preparatory research for this meeting so we'll be even more effective. Some suggested resources:

-review the notes from our Nov 17 meeting, where we brainstormed on different activities for each working group. The notes are posted to the blog (click here for a direct link)

-Go deeper on a particular topic or focus area by reading a relevant section of CGIN's "How to Start a Food Co-op"

 

-read this interesting report on indicators of success for rural food co-op startups

-dig into other information resources for topics of interest, related to our project, such as:

Cooperative Grocer, a great online publication - here's a link to their Index of Topics

Thanks all - looking forward to seeing you on Tue!