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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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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

At present, one of UNEC’s most critical projects is to convene a multi-partner collaboration in the city’s Northeast Corridor neighborhoods to transform our local food system. I’ve observed the inner workings of a complex food system that, when it functions well, nourishes our bodies, families, and cultures.

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Using Social Media to Engage and Recruit Volunteers

The Volunteer Hub

Social media is a powerful, yet affordable, way to inform, engage, and recruit volunteers. Did you know that 47% of nonprofit leaders say recruiting sufficient volunteers is a big problem for their organization? If you’re wondering if social media can be an effective tool to recruit volunteers, the answer is yes.

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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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Cooperation Jackson at 10: Lessons for Building a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

KA: I had a good education in that movement about cooperatives. It was something that I knew existed, but I didn’t know how dependent I was on it until I got to college and started to pay my own food bills. SD: You have spoken before about your experience working in public education prior to moving to Mississippi.

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Report Finds a “Crisis” of Nonprofit Workforce Shortages

NonProfit Quarterly

When any of those happen, the ripple effects cannot be ignored: communities lose access to food, shelter, mental health care, and other vital services on which people depend (iii). Providers of human services accounted for one-third of all nonprofits reporting salary compensation as a challenge in recruiting and retaining workers.

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

But to build cooperative intelligence, cooperative education needs to start at a much earlier age. Such, at least, is the thesis of work I’ve been involved in to create a cooperative education curriculum at the high school level in the Bronx. In Dare the School Build a New Social Order? ,