Community

Community Support Donations

Monadnock Food Co-op contributes food or gift cards regularly to a wide range of community organizations that align with the following guidelines:

• Support the Monadnock Region / Southwestern New Hampshire.
• Have no political or religious affiliations.
• Have a goal of improving and/or educating consumers about the nutritional quality of food; improving sustainability in food production; and/or supporting local food production.
• Support cooperative values, such as farm production co-ops.
• Support learning and personal development, such as educational institutions.
• Promote buying from locally owned businesses and support the local economy.
• Provide support to members of the community who are in need, such as low-income households.
• Support environmental stewardship.

Please allow up to 3 weeks for us to process your donation request.

Tabling & Petitioning

We provide opportunities for partnering not-for-profit organizations (501c3) to network with our community on Co-op property. Priority will be given to groups that have a direct impact on our Mission and Ends Policy or Cooperative Principles.

Eligible organizations interested in tabling or petitioning at the Co-op are required to fill out the Tabling & Petitioning Form at least two weeks in advance.

Round It Up Drives

Our Co-op holds monthly Round It Up donation drives allowing customers to round their purchase up to the nearest dollar, five or ten at the register, and donate their change to a non-profit that works locally and aligns with our mission.

The goal of our Round It Up Donation Drives is to raise funds for initiatives that improve the health of our community and help create a vibrant, sustainable local food system.

We give priority to applicants who:

• work in partnership with Monadnock Food Co-op or our suppliers to extend our cooperative’s impacts and meet our Ends Policies in ways that our own organization cannot
• work within the Monadnock Region

Round It Up Schedule for 2023:

• May: Monadnock Food Co-op Farm Fund
• June: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Focus
  • June 3 – 9: American Independent Business Alliance
  • June 10 -16: The Daily Good
  • June 17 – 23: Keene Pride
  • June 24 – 30: Monadnock Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Coalition
• July: Monadnock Food Co-op Farm Fund
• August – Food Connects
• September – NOFA – NH
• October – Co-op Community Fund
• November – Cornucopia Project
• December – The Community Kitchen

Our Round It Up Donation Drive Partner Application Period is currently CLOSED.

The application period for 2024 will open in December 2023.

Contact community@monadnockfood.coop if you have any questions.

Monadnock Cooperative Community Fund

In 2016 our cooperative established the Monadnock Cooperative Community Fund within the Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation (TCPF). This fund operates somewhat like an endowment, in that money contributed to the fund by our co-op and Member-Owners will be pooled with contributions from 40+ other cooperatives to support cooperative development throughout the United States. We donate the interest earned on these funds to non-profits of our choice here in our community. For example, over nearly 20 years, the Hanover Co-op’s CCF has donated almost $200,000 to local nonprofits. Donating to this fund is a win-win strategy for supporting our community as well as the growth of other co-ops.

Over a million dollars of these funds are deployed right here in New Hampshire through the NH Community Loan Fund, Cooperative Fund of New England, and the ICA LEAF Fund. These three regionally-based co-op organizations make loans to food, housing, worker, and other types of cooperatives in our state. The funds invested by TPCF leverage over $30 million for cooperative development.

Monadnock Food Co-op seeded this fund in 2016 with $5,000, which was matched by a cumulative donation of $5,000 by six cooperatives we work with: Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Equal Exchange, Frontier Co-op, Organic Valley, National Co-op Grocers, and Capital impact. This fall, we will offer the option for Member-Owners to donate their patronage refunds from Fiscal Year 2021 to the Monadnock Cooperative Community Fund, ensuring the dollars they spend at our co-op continue to do even more good for our food system, our community, the cooperative movement and beyond!