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Executive Director

Anedot

The organization fosters a strong, interconnected community through collaboration, advocacy, and direct aid. The organization is guided by the values of human dignity, social justice, equity, inclusion, and comunidad (community). Support for displaced ranch tenants through collaboration with local partners. Reyes Station.

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Gumbo for the Struggle: Recipes of Liberation from the Cultural Kitchen

NonProfit Quarterly

Based in Oakland, CA, and launched in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the cooperative is forging a table of Black women-led, community-based organizations so Black cultural production across the city can thrive. So too is collaboration. However, disruptions are being cooked up. East Bay PREC purchased Esther’s for $1.5

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Scaling Deep, Not Up: Lessons from Detroit

NonProfit Quarterly

Also, because successful collaborations with local actors benefited all collaborators, one success bred another, creating a chain reaction of more local bricolage that extended the ventures’ duration. As a result, the ventures’ growth was not fast, but steady and durable.

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How to Advance a Regenerative Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

Mapping a Just Transition from an Extractive Economy At the end of 2020, People’s Economy Lab convened about 20 BIPOC community leaders to create a roadmap for a just transition to a regenerative economy in the Greater Seattle area. This process closes the food waste loop, keeping financial and natural resources in the community.

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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

Since January 2020, I’ve had the honor of leading the United Northeast Community Development Corporation (UNEC), a neighborhood-based community development corporation founded and led by residents of Northeast Indianapolis, a center of Black life in this Midwestern city for generations.

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How Land Banks and Community Land Trusts Can Partner for Racial Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Back in 2012, longtime CLT advocate John Emmeus Davis wrote in Shelterforce that collaboration between the land banks and CLTs is, to use the hackneyed phrase, an obvious “win-win.” Local government wins because properties are back in productive use, generating taxes.

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Making Food Systems Work for People of Color: Six Action Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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