Today, we are proud to present *TWO* awards 🏆 to amazing startup food co-ops at this year's CCMA for Consumer Co-ops . Congratulations to SunCoast Market for winning the Bill Gessner Startup Food Co-op Award! Congratulations to Detroit People's Food Co-op for winning Startup of the Year! We'll share more in the coming weeks about these co-ops and their stories but couldn't wait to share the news today 🎉🎉 (fb)

The entire FCI staff team is at the annual CCMA for Consumer Co-ops food co-op conference today and tomorrow! While the conference is predominantly attended by established food co-ops, there are still several startup food co-ops in attendance and the *impact* of the startup food co-op movement is palpable everywhere - we're going to have photos and stories for you about how the power of startup food co-op showed up at CCMA in the coming days! The first day of CCMA also marked the kickoff of our annual Full Circle funding campaign and we walked in 10% of the way to our goal of $100,000 in support from established food co-ops before the conference even started! That Full Circle pledge board has quite a few more co-op on it now, we can't wait to show you how full it is at the end of this weekend! (fb)