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The NFCA, Cooperative Fund of New England, and Hunger Free Vermont have worked with NFCA members to implement programs addressing food access and community ownership. Since 2014 seven NE food co-ops have implemented new “Food For All” programs, making healthy food and co-op ownership more accessible to people with limited incomes. This presentation covers how regional co-op collaboration and strategic partnerships helped neighboring food co-ops across New England address food access, enhance community identity, increase the collective impact of co-ops on food security, and how working with USDA helps ensure this model is sustainable and replicable across the country.
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During this interactive workshop, IMPACT participants will learn how NCFA’s structure as a federation of food co-ops is supporting innovation and learning among member food co-ops about sourcing, healthy food access, economic inclusion and peer collaboration. Participants will learn techniques and tools to evaluate and improve programs to engage and better serve low-income and marginalized community members and expand co-op membership and participation. You’ll leave with the tools necessary to help differentiate your co-ops in the marketplace and use community feedback to improve your co-op’s image and relevance—particularly among people who don’t see themselves reflected at your store.
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Advancing Healthy Food Access Through Regional PartnershipsNFCACoops
The NFCA, Cooperative Fund of New England, and Hunger Free Vermont have worked with NFCA members to implement programs addressing food access and community ownership. Since 2014 seven NE food co-ops have implemented new “Food For All” programs, making healthy food and co-op ownership more accessible to people with limited incomes. This presentation covers how regional co-op collaboration and strategic partnerships helped neighboring food co-ops across New England address food access, enhance community identity, increase the collective impact of co-ops on food security, and how working with USDA helps ensure this model is sustainable and replicable across the country.
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The roots of the co-operative movement are in food security. Faye Conte from Hunger Free Vermont presents the challenges around access to healthy, affordable food in New England, and how can our food co-ops be a part of the solution, inviting more people to be a part of our movement?
Breaking down walls and building participationNFCACoops
For more than 170 years, food co-ops have worked to achieve the ideals of democracy, empowerment and inclusion—ideals we continue to strive toward today. How can co-ops continue to work to ensure our doors are open to all people, "without gender, social, racial, political or religious discrimination," in keeping with the 7 Cooperative Principles? This starts by identifying who we’re excluding and then taking action to be more welcoming, recognizing that we are better—and more successful and relevant—when we are more inclusive, when we lift one another up, and when we work together to remove barriers to participation. Join us to explore how the Neighboring Food Co-op Association (NCFA) is working with its 35 member food co-ops, startups and partners across New England to address this question through our Food Co-ops & Healthy Food Access work.
During this interactive workshop, IMPACT participants will learn how NCFA’s structure as a federation of food co-ops is supporting innovation and learning among member food co-ops about sourcing, healthy food access, economic inclusion and peer collaboration. Participants will learn techniques and tools to evaluate and improve programs to engage and better serve low-income and marginalized community members and expand co-op membership and participation. You’ll leave with the tools necessary to help differentiate your co-ops in the marketplace and use community feedback to improve your co-op’s image and relevance—particularly among people who don’t see themselves reflected at your store.
Presenters: Erbin Crowell, Executive Director, Neighboring Food Co-op Association & Bonnie Hudspeth, Member Programs Manager, Neighboring Food Co-op Association
Many of our member co-ops are facing new and serious challenges due to competition, financial pressure and/or conflicts between stakeholder groups. Opportunities for growth and success require a high level of collaboration. More than ever, food co-ops need to develop strategic alignment between the governance and operational aspects of their organizations. This presentation explores some of these challenges and opportunities and offers some examples from food co-ops in our region.
This is a project aimed to (a) help farmers get a fair price for their produce and (b) provide urban households value-for-money access to fresh farm produce.
The Co-operative Difference in Challenging Times: Why Co-operatives MatterNFCACoops
How is the co-operative model resilient in times of change, conflict and transition? This presentation gives an overview of how the co-operative difference can deliver success and make the world a better place. Over the past forty years, J. Tom Webb has been a co-operative board member, senior manager, consultant and educator. He is a co-founder of the Co-operative Management Education program at Saint Mary’s University (mmccu.coop), the co-editor of a book on co-operative economics and author of numerous papers and articles on co-operative business.
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Healthy Food Access: Lessons From The Field, CCMA 2013NFCACoops
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Economic Democracy: Building Co-operative PowerNFCACoops
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How to Start or Convert to a Co-op BusinessNFCACoops
This presentation was part the Co-op Track at the 2019 NOFA Summer Conference. Looking to start a business or for a business succession plan that retains jobs and builds economic sustainability? Co-ops root business in communities, strengthen buy-in, and build resilient and sustainable economy and food systems. Learn how co-ops work, the startup process, benefits of conversion, financing, and history. Presenters will shares stories of the process of converting businesses to the co-op model, starting worker co-ops, food co-ops and producer co-ops.
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Local food hubs
1. 1Farm to School Summit June 2013
Local food distribution hubs
2. 2
Regional Food Hubs
•Regional Food Hubs
• Defining characteristics of a Regional Food Hub
•Carries out or coordinates the aggregation,
distribution, and marketing of primarily
locally/regionally produced foods from multiple
producers to multiple markets.
•Considers producers as valued business partners
3. 3
Regional Food Hubs
• Works closely with producers
• Uses product differentiation strategies to ensure that
producers get a good price for their products.
• Aims to be financially viable while also having positive
economic, social, and environmental impacts within their
communities
• “Food Hubs” without infrastructure
• Developed strategic partnerships with other supply chain actors who can
provide warehousing, processing, and distribution services.
4. 4
Regional food hubs
• How do they help farmers and ranchers?
• Expanded market and revenue options
• Good for farms that may need to sell beyond direct market channels, but lack
supply to effectively work with wholesale markets
• Distribution and Marketing services
• Good for farms who are unable to devote time and capital to distribution
infrastructure and wholesale market relationships.
• How do they help buyers?
• Wholesale buyers often find it too costly to purchase products directly from
numerous farms and prefer to reduce transaction costs by buying product
from distributors.
5. 5
Regional Food Hubs
• What are the impacts of food hubs?
• Economic Impacts
• Based on the 2011 National Food Hub Collaboration (NFHC) survey, food hubs
gross nearly $1 million in annual sales on average, with many showing double
and even triple digit annual sales growth
• Example: The Oklahoma Food Cooperative, which started in 2003 with 36
customers and $3,500 in sales in its first month of operation, now generates
about $70,000 in MONTHLY sales of products from approximately 200
producers.
• Job Creation
• From the survey: Food hubs create an average of 7 full-time jobs and 5 part-
time jobs.
6. 6
Regional Food hubs
• What are the impacts of food hubs?
• Retaining and Creating Other Agricultural Jobs and Businesses
• Offering producers an opportunity to capture higher value for their
products
•A recent USDA Economic Research Service report that studied five local
food supply chains found that producers in the local food supply chain
received a greater share of the retail price than they did from a
mainstream food supply chain, with producer net revenue per unit in local
chains ranging form roughly equal to more than seven times the price
received in mainstream chains.
7. 7
Regional Food hubs
• Other impacts of Regional Food Hubs:
• Community development
• Healthy Food Access
8. 8
Aggregation and Distribution
• Models and Examples
• Aggregation facilities with distribution
• Aggregation facilities without distribution
• Distribution/Marketing services without aggregation facilities
• Web-based aggregation
14. 14
Economic Viability OF Food Hubs
• Based on the profiles of food hubs interviewed
• Viability is not based on geographic location or type of legal
structure
• Median years of operation for economically viable food hubs was
9.5 years.
• Economically viable food hubs reported minimum gross sales of $1
million per year and median gross sales of $6 million per year.
15. 15
Economic Viability
• Investing in growth while supporting broader social
missions
• Many food hubs may be well positioned to carry out the core
aggregation and distribution functions without external subsidies,
they recognize that they need further support/partnerships if they
are to offer a variety of complementary producer and community
services.
16. 16
Challenges
• Balancing supply and demand
• Most of these food hubs are finding that the demand for locally
produced food is simply greater than their regions can supply,
especially within certain product categories
• Price Sensitivity
• While demand is there, many wholesale buyers resist paying more
from a food hub than they would from another distribution entity.
• Managing Growth
• Knowing when and how much to invest in infrastructure to keep up
with market demand
17. 17
Challenges
• Access to capital
• Not only for infrastructure investments, but also for securing short-
term revolving credit lines to maintain adequate cash flow for
payments.
• Other notable challenges
• Dependence on volunteer labor
• Finding reliable seasonal and part-time staff
• Food safety requirements
• Licensing and permit requirements
• Legal parameters of hub relationships
18. 18
Challenges
• Learning from a co-op closure
• Dissolution of Producers and Buyers Co-op holds lessons for
others pursuing institutional markets.
• By Margaret M. Bau, Co-op Development Specialist
• USDA Rural Development, Wisconsin
• Producers and Buyers Co-op
• It was a multi-stakeholder cooperative in which members
represented all aspects of the local food system: producers, local
processors, transport providers, and regional institutions. For three
years, the co-op coordinated the processing and delivery of locally
grown chicken, beef, cheese, pork, produce, fish, eggs, bison and
lamb to area hospitals.
19. 19
Challenges
• Producers and Buyers Co-op
• Lesson #1: Multiple Members are needed in each membership
class; don’t become identified as one member’s project.
• Lesson #2: Raise sufficient capital before launching; hire an
experienced manager
• Lesson #3: Require contracts between parties
• Lesson #4: Educate and train members at all levels
20. 20
Finding funds
•Funding Search Resources
•Got Moola – (Google “Got Moola DATCP”)
• Carl Rainey, 608-224-5139, carl.rainey@wi.gov
•Government Funds:
•Building Sustainable Farms, Ranches, and Communities -
https://attra.ncat.org/guide/
•
•Page 35 in the USDA Regional Food Hub Resource guide has
identified 30 grant and loan programs that could potentially
finance various aspects of food hubs
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Finding funds
• Foundations in Wisconsin -
http://www.wifoundations.org/ (Demo the online version
there)
• (414) 288-1515, Mary.Frenn@Marquette.edu
• Community/Social Investment opportunities
• Slow Money
• Community Investment Funds
• Selling stock
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Other Resources
• USDA AMS – Regional Food Hub Resource Guide
• Building Successful Food Hubs – A business Planning
Guide for Aggregating and Processing Local Food in
Illinois
