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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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Building Community Through Soccer: Maigan T. Bridgette’s Story at Sporting Kansas City

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

With a passion for political science and social justice, she initially envisioned a career in law but found herself drawn to the nonprofit sector. “From the roaring crowds at Children’s Mercy Park to the grassroots initiatives fostering youth development, Sporting embodies the ethos of community engagement and empowerment.”

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Exposed and at Risk: New Report Shows Farms Do Little to Protect Workers from Harm

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Tim Mossholder on unsplash.com “All they care about is the harvest,” Gracida Daleyza, a farmworker and mother of two young disabled children, told Lookout Santa Cruz. The report also uncovered that compliance with existing pesticide enforcement laws, meant to protect farmworkers, is “woefully low.”

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To Reduce Carbon Emissions, Set Out a Fridge

NonProfit Quarterly

These are just a few of the food items one might find in the most unusual of places: in a refrigerator placed out on the street. These can also offer fresh vegetables, dairy, meat, and other perishable food items. Image credit: Mx. Granger, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Fresh produce. Even leftover pizza. Enter the fridge.

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Redefining Black Farming

NonProfit Quarterly

As defined by the National Agricultural Law Center, agritourism links agricultural production with tourism to entertain with and educate about farming, ranching, or any agricultural business. Achieving Food Security. Food sovereignty has always been a focus for Brown as healthy food access continues to be racialized.

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How Gig Work Exploits Instead of Empowers Women in the Global South

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A year into the pandemic, Saqib Munir, an executive at the food delivery app Glovo, declared that “the gig economy is the future of work” in Africa. Across the world, and particularly in the Global South, where labor laws often lag far behind the reality of workers’ lives. Some of this story is positive, but much of it is not.

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Newsletter: The Perils of Ignoring Cause Marketing Regulations ?? ; Keds, Fashion Designer Release ‘Hysterical’ Shoe You Can Wear to Vote ; Does Your Nonprofit Need Its Own Flavor?

Selfish Giving

Thanks for your patience waiting for the results of the 2019 Selfish Giving / Accelerist Partnership Law Survey many of you took back in May. Karen Wu of Perlman & Perlman and I received a lot of questions about corporate partnerships and the law. Are cause marketing advertising disclosure “best practices” also required by law?