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Newman’s Own Foundation Announces Inaugural Food Justice for Kids Prize

NonProfit PRO

Newman's Own Foundation opened applications for the inaugural Food Justice for Kids Prize to support organizations fighting food injustice.

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Rockefeller Foundation Pledges $80 Million to Continue Its Food Is Medicine Programs

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Afriyie/AP The Food Is Medicine program targets diet-related diseases, such as diabetes. Also, two real-estate development companies donated $20 million worth of land in Utah to the Huntsman Cancer Institute, and the Ballmer Group has given $15 million to reduce greenhouse gas emissions owing to food waste.

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Two Young Leaders Address Food Insecurity

NonProfit Quarterly

All the while, they noticed signs of distress around them—including a stark rise in food insecurity exacerbated by the pandemic. “We We saw news reports which were showing people waiting in very long lines for food. They decided to start their own nonprofit, with the goal of getting food to those in their community who needed it.

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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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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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John Deere Foundation Awards $19 Million to Reduce World Hunger

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Also, Cincinnati Children's received $15 million from a local family foundation; and Google gave $2 million to two historically Black institutions. Prest Gabriela Vivacqua, WFP Alex Korayi travels by boat to reach a World Food Program distribution site on Amech Island, South Sudan.

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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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