So, you’ve heard about the Bethlehem Food Co-Op, and now you want to get involved. But how? What can you do?
No matter what your skill sets are, there’s surely something you can contribute! What specific skills the co-op needs most will change as we progress towards opening, but you can always visit this page for ideas about how you can contribute at the current stage!
Currently, we are building interest, researching, and planning.
Here is what you can do:
Show Your Support
- Join our mailing list. Send an email to info@bethlehemfood.coop and include your name and contact information!
- Subscribe to receive email updates. There’s a place to enter your email address on the homepage.
- Like our Facebook page.
- Tell us about yourself by filling out the member profile. It’ll help us know what resources we have!
- Tell us about your shopping habits by filling out the feasibility study.
Share Your Ideas
- Participate in the discussion forums.
- Attend meetings! Our meetings are the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Lehigh Valley (424 Center Street, Bethlehem)
- Write a post for the co-op blog! It could be about news relating to cooperatives in general, a personal connection to the co-op, or an update on what our group is doing! Email your idea to info@bethlehemfood.coop.
Volunteer Your Talents
- Offer your time, skills or services (right now, we are especially in need of legal & accounting services donation)
- Join a committee! Email info@bethlehemfood.coop to sign up for either the planning, finance, communications, or membership committees.
- Volunteer to help at the North Side Cleanup & Earth Day Celebration on 4/28! Cleanup is from 9am-11am, and we need people to staff our table from 11am-2pm. Email info@bethlehemfood.coop to sign up. (We’ll also need someone to provide a table for us to use!)
- Volunteer to help at the Historic District Farmer’s Market. Email info@bethlehemfood.coop to express interest, and we’ll fill you in when we have details!
Spread the Word
- Print & distribute flyers. Click here to download them in English. Click here to download them in Spanish.
- Share links to our website and Facebook page with your friends and family!
- Tell your community leaders about us—We need the support of people in high places to make this happen!
Buy Fresh Buy Local Greater Lehigh Valley
Hello! Im Sharon Beck, Host of “community connection” on WLVR 91.3fm radio. My show runs thru-out the week 5 to 6 times a day and is a 5 to 8 minute long news report consisting of three segments all involving the local community. #1 is keeping you in the know #2 is keeping you on the go, #3 (and this is where I’d like to include you) is Keeping you involved. I would really like to do a piece on the Bethlehem co-op and have it run as my third segment one week in the near future, I would like the peace to include a telephone interview (short 1 to 2 minutes) with one of the people in charge of getting the co-op up and running. If this is something you would agree to do, please contact me at the above email address, and I really hope I hear from you soon! Thank You and Good Luck! Sincerely Sharon Beck