QuickStart Board Training is a virtual FCI Classroom class created made up of eight individual lessons. 

QuickStart was designed for the needs of new startup food co-op board members. It’s intended to help newly elected startup board members get up to speed fast on the basics of the responsibilities of a working board of a startup food co-op and on the startup food co-op development model. This class was designed for active board members of startup food co-ops working on opening brick-and-mortar, cooperatively-owned, grocery stores. This class is not appropriate for board members of open and operating food co-ops, as their boards are governing, rather than working, boards. 

QuickStart Syllabus: 

• Lesson 1 – The Startup Movement 
• Lesson 2 – Core Board Responsibilities
• Lesson 3 – the Three Stages of Development
• Lesson 4 – the Four Resource Cornerstones
• Lesson 5 – Finding and Assessing Feasibility
• Lesson 6 – Delegation of Responsibility
• Lesson 7 – Who’s Who and Lingo of the Movement
• Lesson 8 – The Grocery Industry