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Detroit People’s Food Co-op: How to Advance Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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From Food Pantry to Urban Farming: Food Justice Lessons from Camden

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is part of Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level. How can a community reduce food insecurity?

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com How do you support development across the food system in a way that builds community ownership and power for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities? This is a question that a group of food system activists of color have come together to address.

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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change. Over the years, I’ve seen corporate food giants pack up and leave our neighborhoods.

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Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

And, as in so many other cities, Louisville’s predominantly Black neighborhoods are subject to food apartheid. Downtown grocery stores have recently disappeared, exacerbating food apartheid: between 2016 and 2018, five grocery stores in Louisville’s urban core closed. Some of these projects were top-down in conception and execution.

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Meet April’s Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) Cohort

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

To name a few: Mercedes E Pringle , Executive Director, Age Concern Bermuda Margo M Holleran , Patient Advocate/Fundraiser, HealthTree Foundation Dan Sloat , Founder & President, Advanced Air Mobility Institute Josette Raper , Agency Capacity Specialist, United Food Bank Brian Cancian , Senior Manager, Audience Insights Nicole Ewing , Operations (..)

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For the Love of Humankind: End of Year Fundraising for Community impact

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Whether we are working in community development, food insecurity, or racial justice, our fundraising must be grounded in our organization’s mission as we work to center the community we seek to serve and develop measurable impact and progress. . The answer should simply be “ For the love of humankind.” .

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