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NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Image credit: Steve Dubb Food is the cover story. Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Up & Coming Food Co-op C onference panel September 15, 2023 There is a wave of food co-ops opening in majority-Black communities, as NPQ has covered. But organizing a food co-op is not easy. The real story is Black self-determination.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 3, 2025
Just as Hemstreets community built Opportunity Threads, Reverend Dr. Pastor Heber Brown organized within his community of Black parishioners in Baltimore to help form the Black Church Food Security Network. Like Hemstreet, Pastor Brown just got started, and worked to build community.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
The resources involved were modest ($240,000 total) but the ambition was large—namely, to assist Native nations to “regain control of their land and natural resources, revitalize traditional stewardship practices, and build sustainable stewardship initiatives that contribute to tribal economic and community development opportunities.”
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 24, 2023
It was a smaller autonomous school called the School of Social Justice and Community Development. First, it is critical to be able to “articulate a program around food sovereignty,” including the development of community farms. Akuno explained that 20 years ago, he was working in Oakland, California.
Getting Attention
AUGUST 3, 2012
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Bloomerang
JULY 31, 2021
And I always like to point this out because I think mental health is extremely important, especially as the fact that you’re dealing with populations who might be they’re doing one of the most vulnerable parts of their lives, or maybe there’s a cause that is really, really necessary to focus on and requires all your mental energy.
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 4, 2023
To transform our economy, we need to network, learn, ideate, iterate, and resource the work together as nonprofits, for-profits, community leaders and members, philanthropic institutions, governments, donors, and investors. At the same time, one of us, Lizzy Baskerville, managed a community garden for elder Asian neighbors.
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