Co-op News Round-Up 6/18

All the co-op news that's fit to print, June edition

🌹New Hope Media's Douglas Brown interviewed NCG CEO Tandy Harvey about her first six months with the organization and her plans for co-op dominance in the grocery world.

🌹Fifteen different NCG Co-ops are celebrating their 50th anniversaries in 2026. Stores around the country like Middlebury, La Montañita and Flatbush Co-op are marking their golden anniversary with a half-century in business. Congrats to all!

🌹In the latest version of the Park Slope Food Co-op's Linewaiter's Gazette, the magazine posted more than three dozen letters to the editor, mostly about the membership's vote to boycott products from Israel. The letters shared a variety of perspectives on the issue and voting process.

🌹The Food Co-op Initiative (FCI) launched their 2026 Full Circle campaign to raise funds to support their work with startup food co-ops. FCI worked with 62 startup co-ops in 2025 alone and has mentored hundreds since their founding in 2005.

🌹A group of members have filed suit against the Board of Directors at the People's Food Co-op in Kalamazoo, MI. The group is alleging the Board violated co-op bylaws and Michigan state law.

🌹On the final day of CCMA 2026 in Tacoma, WA, the conference announced that next year's edition would be held in Ithica, NY and hosted by GreenStar Food Co-op.

🌹Lastly, as always, we commend a piece from the Cooperative Grocer Magazine archives. This article from June 2011 by Dave Gutknecht titled In a Food and Fuel Fix discusses how co-ops address rising fuel costs and national supply chains that bend under pressure from worldly events. Sound familiar?