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Ep251: This Social Enterprise is Using Shea Butter to Grease Wheels of Progress for African Women

Selfish Giving

Her social enterprise Shea Yeleen markets and distributes high quality skincare products, while providing living wages to cooperative members in Northern Ghana. The line of shea butter products is being distributed through retailers such as Whole Foods, MGM Resorts and Amazon. Why did you decide to form a for-profit business?

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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. This work is worth supporting.

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The capital markets that can invest in social enterprise are chaotic and low-impact. 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.

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Diaspora Philanthropy 3.0

Stanford Social Innovation Review

On the periphery of the traditional philanthropic sector described above are social enterprises and impact investing in India that benefit from growing diaspora involvement.

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Lauren Lawson-Zilai

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Lauren Lawson-Zilai is the director of public relations and national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International , a social enterprise that provides job training to nearly ten million people a year through the sale of donated clothes and household goods. Tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro.

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Amanda Maksin

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

SDD is a social enterprise of the Westmoreland Community Action (a nonprofit in Greensburg, PA), and is located in Mount Pleasant, PA. This provides money for the nonprofit programs like Head Start, mental health programs, food pantries, etc. Would YOU like to be featured in this series? It opened its doors in April 2012.

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How to Advance a Regenerative Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

Fellows include an Indigenous creatives’ collective, food share programs, a systems design consultancy, a driver’s union, and a community-owned real estate developer. Based in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, R2G turns restaurant food scraps into compost for the neighborhood’s elder gardeners. R2G Volunteers.