CO-OP LEADERS GET BACK TO BASICS
March 8, 2017
By Guy Gregory
MCDC Communications Specialist
Cooperative and community leaders from across Montana came together to learn from one another at the second annual Back to Basics Cooperative Summit. Eighty-nine people attended this year’s summit at Fairmont Hot Springs which was co-hosted by MCDC and the Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center, a division of Lake County Community Development Corporation.

NCBA President & CEO Judy Ziewacz
National Cooperative Business Association President and CEO Judy Ziewacz delivered this year’s keynote address followed by four concurrent tracks. Tracks featured headline speakers and distinguished panelists that included Dan Hobbs of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Cooperative Development Center; Christina Jennings of Shared Capital Cooperative, and Paul Travitz, organizer of the Riverside Crossing Adult Cottage Cooperative in Hamilton, Montana. Each track focused on a different co-op business sector: food and agriculture co-ops; housing co-ops; consumer and shared service co-ops; and community investment co-ops.

USDA-RD MT State Director Janelle Gustafson
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