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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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Gumbo for the Struggle: Recipes of Liberation from the Cultural Kitchen

NonProfit Quarterly

The cultural sector is actively seeking alternatives to business-as-usual. This article concludes the series, “ Remember the Future: Culture and Systems Change ,” which is co-produced by Art.coop and NPQ. And, of course, providing for people’s artistic and cultural needs is a core part of building a thriving community economy as well.

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Early on, the community established itself enough to have its own cultural center, known as Cambodia Town. Here in America, surviving victims and perpetrators (the youth forced to commit atrocities) live together in a culture still beset by racism. But so too is the creative spirit. Can we learn to trust one another?

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Co-ops and Solidarity: Reflections from Barcelona

NonProfit Quarterly

Though many early cooperatives and the cultural ecosystems built around them disappeared due to the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist dictatorship that followed, Sants’ residents have fought in recent years to revitalize, recover, and keep the collective memory of economic self-governance alive. Food co-ops were set up in food deserts.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Biodiversity Loss and Global Corporations The imminent loss of one million species presents a grave threat, impacting human health, food security, rural communities worldwide, and over half of the global GDP. Cultivate biodiversity-friendly organizational cultures. For companies in land-based sectors (i.e.,

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The Colors Co-op Experiment: Learning the Right Lessons from Our Failure

NonProfit Quarterly

As a former Windows on the World worker and a co-founder of ROC who witnessed the restaurant’s opening (2005) and closing (2020), I believe it is important to assess what worked, what did not, and what can be learned from the experience that might inform future co-op and social enterprise efforts. Lessons for Social Enterprise.

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Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

These communities lack access to health care , struggle with food insecurity and water scarcity , and generally have difficulty meeting basic needs. For instance, Bayer is working with the social enterprise reach52 as a part of its The Nutrient Gap Initiative. Investment.

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