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December, 2007
I didn’t grow up on a farm. When I was young, I never learned how to fix a screen door let alone a tractor. I didn’t know which end of a seed to plant in the ground. If you had told me twenty years ago that I would own the [...]
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Health & Wellness meeting notes
Posted in Events, Member education, tagged cooking, education, health, minutes, movies on October 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
First Health and Wellness Eduction Committee Meeting:
Thank you all who made it to this meeting in spite of the slippery roads!
Last Wednesday we held our first Health and Wellness Education Committee at our downtown volunteer center. We had a great turnout with 11 folks interested excited and enthusiastic about educating our community about getting [...]
Health and Wellness Education Committee
Posted in Events, Member education, tagged committees, education, health, meetings, planning on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Please come to the Health and Wellness Education Committee’s first meeting:
6 PM Wednesday October 28th
FCCM Volunteer Center
542-4th Suite 100B
(This is beneath the Veterans Affairs office. Go in the door to the right of the Vet office and down the stairs. The door will be unlocked until 6:45)
Join us for our first Health [...]
Sustainable Community Movements
Posted in Events, Member education, tagged community, education, planning, sustainability on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Richard Seifert, an energy and housing specialist with the Cooperative Extension Service, will be giving a talk on sustainable community movements (“Connecting University Research to Communities”), Wednesday, Oct. 21, from 6:30 to 8 pm at Noel Wien Library (1215 Cowles in Fairbanks). This talk is part of the Community Energy Forum, sponsored by the Alaska [...]
Meeting minutes from June 4, 2009
Posted in Business, Events, tagged bylaws, committees, education, financing, health, meetings, minutes, operations, planning, product selection, vendor selection on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
FCCM Minutes for June 4, 2009 (as approved June 11)
Present were Mary Christensen, Rob Leach, Lela Ryterski, and Ian Olson.
The minutes from the previous meeting were read and accepted.
COMMUNITY/OUTREACH: Mary reported on the June 2nd meeting. Three new members came to that meeting: Shawn Lott, Sue Sprinkle, and Jackie Sunnyboy. Also present [...]
Health Fair & Communications Committee meeting
Posted in Business, Events, Member education, tagged education, health, meetings on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
FCCM will be participating at the Health Fair being held at the Friends Community Church, 1485 30th Ave., April 17 – April 18, 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. this event offers low cost blood tests, free medical screenings, and an abundant array of health educators! To volunteer contact Tom and Barb @ barbarajbradley@yahoo.com.
The next [...]
Ripe for Change at Schaible Auditorium
Posted in Events, Food, Issues, Member education, tagged education, movies, politics on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Sustainable Campus Task Force is hosting a showing of the documentary Ripe for Change, Tuesday, March 3, 6:30-8:30pm in Schaible Auditorium on the UAF campus. This documentary explores the intersection of food and politics in California over the last 30 years and highlights some of the major issues associated with large-scale agriculture practices in [...]
Bill Gessner and capitalization strategies
Posted in Business, Member education, tagged education, financing on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bill Gessner, of the group Cooperative Development Services, has quite a few useful articles on organizing, funding, managing, and expanding co-ops. Here is an excerpt from one he published in Cooperative Grocer (#129. March-April 2007):
Capitalization Strategies
by Bill Gessner
Where we gonna get the grubstake? The 300 food co-op stores in the United States, owned by more [...]
Next meeting: Jan 8 at 5:30
Posted in Events, tagged education, meetings on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The next meeting will be held at Foodland, on Thursday, January 8 at 5:30 pm. Brave the cold and come out for a warm gathering!
Please note also that there is a webinar scheduled for January 7th on Planning a Member Loan Campaign. You can register here. There are several more upcoming webinars through the CDS [...]
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