Build a Team
Dreaming of a student-run café? Want to start a campus food cart? Launching a buying club or dinner night? You’re in good company--Friends in other teams across the continent are starting and running amazing projects! Together, these teams are creating the CoFED solidarity network to make real change on their campuses. Check out their stories and contact information below!
Looking for more support? You are capable of anything you set your mind to, but if you want more support, your Regional Organizer is only a phone call away and can come visit you and help with challenges. Learn about your Regional Organizer below and contact them directly.
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Regions & Teams
California
The California region has drawn much strength and knowledge from the cooperatives and food business professionals in the state.
California RO: Eric joined the CoFED network in 2011 as a member of the Humboldt Student Food Collective. As an RO, he offers insight in how to build a strong student organization and start a cooperative food business, and is excited to build a strong network in California! Contact him at eric@cofed.org.
Pacific Northwest
The Northwest has an amazing network of established student-run food coops, as well as awesome student groups organizing on their campuses for ecologically-sound and socially-responsible food options outside of their corporate food service provider. Whether you're a student-run restaurant or grocer, bulk buying club or garden club, we want you to be in our regional network! We like to meet up often, support each others' efforts, and have fun! For more information on the coops, see their websites (linked) or contact anna@cofed.org.
Northwest RO: While working at the Flaming Eggplant Cafe, Anna learned crucial skills for organizing and facilitating successful collective structures. She loves to share this knowledge with others and create networks for collectives to share knowledge with each other! Contact her at anna@cofed.org.
Northeast
Students across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic are reclaiming the food system through cooperation. Our projects range from long-established to just-getting-started and take many forms: food carts, pot luck dinners, grocery stores, catering, cafés, gardens, bulk buying clubs, CSAs. We seek to share our questions, struggles, and joys as we learn together and build skills and relationships that honor and enact our values. Check out our words and images or contact lauryl@cofed.org for more info.
Northeast RO: Lauryl had experience organizing a bulk buying club at Sarah Lawrence and is now offering her smarts, kindness, and sincere helpfulness to Northeast teams in hopes of getting them resources and tools to support their amazing work! Contact her at Lauryl@CoFED.org.
