Pauline Ranta

Finland Finland

Founder / Chairman of the board

NGO / Public Service

In November 2011, I started a food circle in my home neighbourhood Laajasalo. A year later, together with 10 active community members, we started a co-op to manage locally produced services, the food circle and an organic food store, Saaremme Puoti. I was chosen as chairman of the board and have been in that position since the start. In this role, my responsibilities have included: - responsible for the co-operative's finance - making business decisions to promote the success of the co-operative - recruiting new members to the co-operative - media and stakeholder contacts - organising and leading board meetings and member's meetings At the moment I'm working on a project which aims to ...