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Ep251: This Social Enterprise is Using Shea Butter to Grease Wheels of Progress for African Women

Selfish Giving

Her social enterprise Shea Yeleen markets and distributes high quality skincare products, while providing living wages to cooperative members in Northern Ghana. The line of shea butter products is being distributed through retailers such as Whole Foods, MGM Resorts and Amazon. Why did you decide to form a for-profit business?

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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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How to Advance a Regenerative Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

Fellows include an Indigenous creatives’ collective, food share programs, a systems design consultancy, a driver’s union, and a community-owned real estate developer. Based in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, R2G turns restaurant food scraps into compost for the neighborhood’s elder gardeners. R2G Volunteers.

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The Social Impact Investment Mirage

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Kahi is the CEO and founder of Eat Offbeat, a refugee-driven food company that delivers meals conceived and prepared by refugees. Corporate promises of “partnership” and leveraging their buying power from social enterprises can also be elusive. Manal Kahi told us she had a similar experience.

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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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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

At the time, the store owners, along with 32 other small businesses in the plaza, received a notice that their businesses would be demolished to make room for a fast-food drive-through in a community that already lacked access to healthy and quality food. It grew fast and he soon needed a food truck.

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Newsletter: Thinkers vs Feelers vs Deferrers ; IKEA Encourages School Kids to Bully Plant ; Why Does This Bee Have a QR Code Glued to It?

Selfish Giving

Did your next cause marketing just move into the food court at the mall? Many are choosing to incorporate food halls and grocery stores. As the parent of a daughter with a severe peanut and shellfish allergy, I'm really digging this new Canadian campaign from Phil Haid's team at PUBLIC for Food Allergy Awareness Month.

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