Community Development Food Social Enterprise 
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 3, 2025
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
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.
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NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Image credit: Ian Nicole Reambonanza on Unsplash This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). How does a refugee community organize itself?
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 4, 2023
To transform our economy, we need to network, learn, ideate, iterate, and resource the work together as nonprofits, for-profits, community leaders and members, philanthropic institutions, governments, donors, and investors. At the same time, one of us, Lizzy Baskerville, managed a community garden for elder Asian neighbors.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 17, 2023
Most practitioners working in community development have accepted this as the reality of impact investing: The harder you drive for social impact in disadvantaged communities, the farther away you get from unbuffered full market return.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 1, 2023
Honoring the memory of our ancestors, BlacSpace is cooking up a savory dish with the intention of feeding communities for generations. Our food is not scarcity-based stone soup but rather a rich, sumptuous, and nourishing gumbo for transforming struggle into an open, connected, and creative way of being—into livity.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Image credit: “ Nature, food, landscape, travel ” on istock.com Creating and preserving quality affordable housing is notoriously difficult, with the number of available units declining each year as landlords raise rents ever higher. In this area, one strategy is being tested by Integrity Community Solutions, Inc.
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