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Food Co-op Leaders Say the Cure for Gentrification Is Solidarity

NonProfit Quarterly

The position of food co-ops in this mix can be ambiguous. On one hand, community-owned food co-ops can be a powerful strategy to assert community control over local food and avoid resident displacement. Yet food co-ops are also sometimes criticized as being potential agents of gentrification.

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Newsletter: A Cause for Shell-ebration ; Kansas Humane Society Launches ‘OnlyPaws’ Campaign ; How to Do Cause Marketing with Chambers, Associations

Selfish Giving

How to do cause marketing with chambers and associations. Marketing Your Cause 1. How partnership teams can build authenticity into their marketing. Brain Food 1. Be sure to support turtle rescues in your area. And if you ever encounter a turtle in the middle of the road, here's what you should do to help!

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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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Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India

Stanford Social Innovation Review

India’s fragrant spices, cornucopia of foods, and breathtaking biodiversity compelled despots and discoverers alike to traverse its mystical landscapes, from the mighty Himalayas to the valiant Deccan. And in doing so, they have relentlessly decolonized what land and food have meant for my people.

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Newsletter: CVS Accused of Fundraising Fraud at Checkout ; KFC Hits the Road in Charitable Food Truck ; 3 Things to Do Now to Crush It in 1st Quarter

Selfish Giving

KFC hits the road with Blessings in a Backpack in a charitable food truck. Marketing Your Cause 1. Director of Development and Strategic Partnerships, Associated Black Charities , Baltimore ($79.5k) 2. Brain Food 1. Please forgive me, Boston Globe ! A slide for your pitch deck. A good thing to know. Cool Jobs in Cause 1.

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Newsletter: Top Social Impact & Partnership Trends of 2022 ; Company to Staff: Get a booster, We'll Give Food Bank $100 ; How Your Nonprofit Can Use QR Codes

Selfish Giving

Action-triggered cause marketing for the win! ?? Marketing Your Cause 1. If you don't know who your supporters are you can't market them to potential partners. Director, Corporate Development, United Spinal Association , Queens, NY 6. Brain Food 1. Think about the possibilities for cause marketing!

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Newsletter: Company Donates Super Bowl Ad Money to Covid Support ; Should Audio be a Part of Your Nonprofit’s Marketing Plan?; 5 Best Nonprofit Marketing Campaigns of 2021

Selfish Giving

Marketing Your Cause 1. Five of the best not-for-profit marketing campaigns to win The Drum Awards in 2021. Associate Director of Philanthropy - Corporate & Community Giving, University of Kentucky , Lexington, KY ($48k - $81k) 4. Brain Food 1. Did you get a free ride home via public transit on New Year's Eve ?