Get the business set up and ready to open.
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Set up office and hire staff. |
Startup accounting, communications, and support staffing; Sample job descriptions and personnel handbooks; Trainings for management, staff, members and board. |
An office set up and staffed. |
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Contract for and market products and services. Presell members and/or customers products and services. |
Lessons learned by other projects; sample marketing materials. |
Initial products and services ready to offer; Customers signed up for products and services. |
| You will need to... | CDI can provide... | By the end of this phase... |
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Orient new members to their roles and responsibilities. |
Sample Member orientation materials. |
Members educated about their rights and responsibilities as co-op members. |