Co-op 101
The History of Worker Cooperatives
Worker Cooperatives Even though there is no universally accepted definition of a Workers’ Cooperative, they can be considered to be businesses that make a product or offer a service to sell for profit where the workers are members or worker-owners. Worker-owners...
Students Can Live their Values and Transform their Community
In a world where corporate giants dictate our choices, where every dollar we spend seems to feed into a system that values profit over people, it’s easy to feel like just another cog in the machine as you make your purchases. This feeling may become most...
Co-ops Keep Democracy Alive
Our society should work for everyone This should not be as lofty of a goal as it is made out to be. And yet, this simple idea must work through a web of institutional failures that we are tasked with undoing and fixing in order to become a reality. This work requires,...
Co-op Board Members Make a Difference
As a member of the Davis Food Co-op, have you ever stopped to consider the role that the board of directors plays in ensuring the success and sustainability of the organization? ​ The board serves as the governing body, responsible for setting the vision and direction...
A Brief History of our Grocery Co-op Neighbors
October is Co-op Month and Cooperation Among Cooperatives is Cooperative Principle #6 (that sentence is a mouthful). The year 2022 is also the 50th Anniversary of the formation of the buying club that eventually became the Davis Food Co-op. Since we have already...
Co-ops are Climate Change Leaders
Since 1880, Earth’s temperature has risen by 0.14° Fahrenheit per decade, increasing to more than twice that (0.32° F) per decade since 1981. Each of us sees and feels the effects of climate change nearly every day with BIPOC, low income, and migrant communities...
Staff Resources at the Co-op
Cooperative Principle #5 is Education, Training, and Information. Meaning that the Davis Food Co-op is responsible for educating, training, and informing our owners, shoppers, and staff on related matters inside and outside the store. In today’s blog, we will be...
A Very Short History of BIPOC Cooperation in the US
The cooperative business model offers communities a highly effective way to meet their needs for goods and services while prioritizing people over profit. And in 2021, you can find cooperatives in nearly all sectors of the U.S. economy. Increases in consolidation...
DFC Ends #4:
Staff who are valued, educated and motivated
The Davis Food Co-op exists to serve as a community store and gathering place for current and future owners, so they have: A thriving cooperatively owned business,Access to healthful, local and high-quality food,A store that makes environmental sustainability a...