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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 also come from a family of grocery workers and managers. When I was little, my dad managed a large local grocery. A Positive Vision of Food Sovereignty.

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What Will Replace 'Checkout Charity' After Big Retailers are Gone?

Selfish Giving

Over a decade the retailer had raised $100 million dollars for the hospital's cancer care and research, making Kmart the hospital's biggest donor in its 50+ year history. "It Behind all the smiles and applause in Memphis was the cold truth that online retail would soon steamroll Kmart into oblivion. Next $100 million in five years!

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How Dollar Store Kudzu Consumes Local Economies—And What to Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Justin Wilkens on unsplash.com In 2021, more than 40 percent of all retail stores that opened in the United States were dollar stores. Increasingly, dollar stores are driving “grocery stores and other retailers out of business” (6), according to a recent report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.

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Partnership Lessons From Rome's Colosseum ; Booking.com Creates ‘Travel Proud’ Program for LGBTQ+ Community ?? ; Black Rifle Coffee: Socially Conscious, Politicly Incorrect ??

Selfish Giving

Our tour guide was discussing preservation efforts at the Colosseum and how the Italian government had turned to the business community for support. Our tour guide was discussing preservation efforts at the Colosseum and how the Italian government had turned to the business community for support. Brain Food 1. I'm back! ????

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Black Organizers in Boston’s Roxbury Neighborhood Provide a Path Forward

NonProfit Quarterly

Opened in 2023, this full-service grocer focused on the African diaspora through food (including a halal butchery, restaurant, cafe, and gathering space) has the audacious goal of controlling the food marketplace and attaining food sovereignty. The need for food sovereignty is urgent, to hear Samad tell it.

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Newsletter: Your Nonprofit Needs an Audience ; Wash-for-a-Cure Aims to Raise $100,000 ; Can You Use a DAF to Pay for an Event Ticket?

Selfish Giving

About the same time last week I was speaking at the New Strategies Program at Georgetown University about audience-centric fundraising , Mark Hrywna at The Nonprofit Times was preparing to release an article that highlights just how much nonprofits need to focus on audience-building and raising more money from individuals.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.