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From Food Pantry to Urban Farming: Food Justice Lessons from Camden

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is part of Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level. How can a community reduce food insecurity?

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A Growing Movement for Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is part of Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level. Confronting a history of exclusion.

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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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Good Medicine: Centering Food Justice Work in Indigenous Maternal Knowledge

NonProfit Quarterly

As a nonprofit, CC’s organizational structure was influenced by ceremonial and Indigenous values. When one of us in the community gave birth, we would support the new mother for 40 days in this manner by bringing food. It impacted the local food system in South Phoenix, and many food-based businesses faced closure.

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The Value of Keeping Things Simple

Ann Green

Over the years I’ve come to find the value of keeping things simple. Instead of saying something like We’re helping underserved communities who are experiencing food insecurity, say – Thanks to donors like you, we can serve more families at the Eastside Community Food Bank. .

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Why Social Movements Require Entrepreneurial Values

Blue Avocado

When the news broke a few months back about my nonprofit Swipe Out Hunger acquiring the College and University Food Bank Alliance (CUFBA), we received an overwhelming positive response alongside a dose of skepticism about the term “acquire.” The post Why Social Movements Require Entrepreneurial Values appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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Newsletter: 3 Value Scales to Determine What Matters to Partners ?? ; Court Dismisses Challenges to CVS’s Donation Checkout Program??? ; 2,000 Year-Old Marketing Advice That’s Still True Today

Selfish Giving

Image via winnifredxoxo on Flickr This month's thought-provoking article in the Harvard Business Review is titled 3 Ways to Determine What Your Customer Really Values. Let's change the title to 3 Ways to Determine What Your PARTNER Really Values and see what we can learn about corporate partnerships. Brain Food 1.

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