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Food Co-op Annual Report 2017-2018 v 2.1

In the summer of 2015, a group of individuals came together as a result of their interest in forming a food cooperative in downtown Indiana PA.

Initial meetings set in motion a feasibility study that was conducted by Keystone Development Corporation. Key findings from the feasibility concluded that the financial results were “cautiously positive” (Smith, 2015, p. 3).

As a result of these findings, steering committee members continued with plans to develop a smaller market as a predecessor to a stand-alone full-line grocery store.

A small group of the initial steering committee continue to operate with scaled-backed plans. By means of various community fund-raising activities, these committee members raised enough funds to finance initial legal steps such as Articles of Incorporation through the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and possibly nonprofit status through the IRS.

The co-op market opened at in August 2017 and has raised over $35,000 through sales, membership dues, and fundraisers, with the large majority of that money going back into our local economy.

Steering committee members and supporters: Colleen Donovan, Eric Barker, Taylor Pascuzzo, Jenna Deardorff, Ed Stancombe, and Christian Jerman