Q:  What is a Full Circle co-op?

A: Full Circle co-ops are open food co-ops that pave the way for future food co-ops by donating annually to FCI’s work. They are the partners to our small-but-mighty FCI staff team who deliver direct support, peer programs, organizing tools, and a national conference to support actively-organizing startup food co-ops across the country! 

Full Circle co-ops make the startup food co-op movement possible. FCI was founded by open food co-ops as their promise to communities across the US that want to open their own cooperative grocery store that the movement would be here to help them do it. Our Full Circle co-ops are the foundation of our funding, the bedrock we rely on so we can keep supporting startups even when the winds of federal and charitable funding sources change.