working member opportunities

[Melissa Bridges]

Be a part of our volunteer community.... St. J. Food Co-op ~ 802-748-9498 www.stjfoodcoop.com Working Member Opportunities for the week of January 16…and beyond The Co-op is a member-owned organization requiring member investment for success.  In addition to spending your grocery dollars at the co-op consider volunteering.  Here’s some ideas on how to do it...... 1.    Computer Data Collecting.  Michel has 2 projects that will be on-going.  Updating our vendor contact information and extracting sales info from the computer.  Contact Michel to schedule training. 802-748-9498 2.     Plastic Egg Crates and vegetable seed catalogues with good photos.  We are collecting plastic egg crates to create mini greenhouse as garden activities.  Save them up and bring them in. 3.    And we always have order to unpack, shelve, stock.  We always have dusting, cleaning, polishing….come in give us .5hrs or 3 hours…whatever you can. 4.     Reporter needed to record photographically and in words all that we are doing here and submit this to the media on a regular basis. 5.     $500 challenge!  Organize an event to raise $500 (or thereabouts) to donate to the co-op to assist in reducing historic vendor debt.  Examples of on-going challenges:  ·         50/50 cash raffle.  Buy a ticket. ·         Bottle Drive.  Bring us your deposit bottles. Contact members Amanda Weisenfeld 748-3189 or Vicki Moore 748-2655 if you think you would like to do this…other ideas: car wash, yard sale, bake sales…..       Be a part of our volunteer community.... Melissa Bridges Education and Outreach Director St. J. Food Co-op 802-748-9498 "To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.' - Gandhi