Community Development Food Foundations 
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
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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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
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.
NonProfit Leadership Alliance
MAY 31, 2024
Effective leadership is crucial for these organizations to thrive and continue to serve their communities.
Ann Green
APRIL 7, 2015
Create community. Develop a community. Some organizations participating in Give Local America, like Infinite Hands Initiative and the East Hampton Food Pantry , use flyers and other print materials. People want to support you. You just have to be, as Gail Perry says, “ cheerfully aggressive ” about asking. Go old school.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 25, 2023
A salient example is of organizations that are focused on community development but invest in mass incarceration. To date, discussion on mission-aligned investing has largely focused on wealthy foundations and endowed institutions, but over half of all charitable organizations have total assets of less than $1 million.
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