Community Development Construction Food Governance 
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
After seven years of kitchen-table and Zoom organizing, a multi-stakeholder, cooperative, community-owned grocery store is taking shape in Louisville, KY. In October, the metro council of Louisville’s combined city-county government voted to allocate $3.5 Construction is anticipated to start in the third quarter of 2023.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 12, 2023
Image Credit: Abe Camacho on unsplash.com This article introduces a new NPQ series, Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. All too often, development seems to be designed solely for a new crop of incoming residents. Meanwhile, the longtime residents who were the “early investors” are cut out.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 24, 2023
It was a smaller autonomous school called the School of Social Justice and Community Development. Ultimately, this self-questioning convinced Akuno that changing ownership of the economy was critical to liberation; that there had to be a pivot in strategy toward cooperatives and toward the construction of a solidarity economy.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 13, 2024
Nowhere is this more evident than in the construction and decimation of the social safety net. The number of people going hungry increased from 35 million in 2019 to 50 million in 2020, overwhelming food banks around the country. These racist stories then shape our policies for years and years.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Back in 2019, I published a study on what I called “cooperative cities” in which I wrote about how local governments in a dozen US cities create enabling environments for developing and sustaining worker cooperatives. Only a handful of municipal leaders at the time referred to this work as “community wealth building.”
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 10, 2024
Image credit: Drew Katz Black Bostonian communities citywide have more than just something to say for themselves: their economies are building institutions that prioritize asset-based community development and are creating the foundations for a local solidarity economy. In his eyes, “We can’t pilot this stuff anymore.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 26, 2023
4 Once on Prospect, I was awash in a sea of excitement and activity as over 150 residents, labor activists, students, and onlookers buzzed about, handing out food and water, playing with young children, stewarding informational tables, dancing to the music, and finishing a massive art project that immediately drew my attention.
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