Agriculture Community Development Leadership 
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms. What might building strategic relationships look like?
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 8, 2022
One strategy for achieving that vision is to support urban agriculture and community agency, giving people the chance to produce their own food. Advancing urban agriculture in Camden. VF enables large-scale agricultural production in environments where space and soil are limited. Food Justice Innovation Hub.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
And in so doing we are challenging the community development field to do better—by creating new tools to support truly equitable food-oriented development. Many large community development financial institutions , credit unions, and foundations present themselves as community-based food financing leaders.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Two White women and one Black woman, who shared a history of food and farm activism, led the initial campaign to form Louisville Community Grocery. The current Louisville co-op organizing effort is committed to BIPOC leadership, a departure from earlier food activism practices. Notes See also L. Halliday and M.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 21, 2023
By Vurayayi Pugeni , Caroline Pugeni & Dan Maxson International community development has changed significantly over its history, shifting from primarily responding to disaster events to improving communities using a sectoral approach to issues like health, agriculture, and water and sanitation.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
In 1979, I discovered financial cooperatives—namely, credit unions—and I joined the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions in 1980. Michael McCray: I was born into community development finance. Cliff Rosenthal: I abandoned a career as a Russian historian to be a co-op organizer starting in the 1970s.
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 15, 2022
The delta is a largely rural, agricultural area with a troubled history of racial and economic disparities. Co-ops play a critical role in supporting Black farmers and communities across the state. MEGA’s efforts have expanded to include youth leadership and mentorship, community engagement, and health education.
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