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Does Alternative Meat Need Philanthropy to Take It Beyond?

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

With donations from Bezos Earth Fund and Open Philanthropy, the Good Food Institute has helped shaped the market for alternative meat. Yet the industry doesn’t appear to be taking off. Support from philanthropy helped to spark an alt-meat boom. But can it be sustained?

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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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Green Your Detox: Eco-Conscious Foods and Habits for a Clean Liver

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Green Your Detox: Eco-Conscious Foods and Habits for a Clean Liver Detoxifying the liver is essential for maintaining overall health, as this organ plays a crucial role in filtering toxins from the body, processing nutrients, and supporting metabolic functions. In addition, consider the environmental impact of food packaging.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

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. Finance for Justice Engaging finance for justice may seem daunting.

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Towards Thriving: Building a Movement for Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

This article introduces 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. These communities still live under food apartheid.

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Disaster Recovery Requires Community Care—But Also Government Support

NonProfit Quarterly

In North Carolina alone, over 100 people lost their lives as a result of the storm , many from drowning or the result of complications from environmental exposure. BeLoved Asheville immediately began distributing food, water, diapers, and other supplies to people in need.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Nessa Richman What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple scales—our food system is difficult to transform. Talking about “systems” can be very abstract.