Posts in Food Systems
Organization for Human Rights & Democracy (OHRD)

Founded in 2014, the Organization for Human Rights and Democracy (OHRD) (formerly, the Atlanta Public Sector Alliance) engages in multi-issue, grassroots, radical, and intersectional human rights organizing to transform communities and the world using Metro-Atlanta as the model. 

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Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO)

Since 1994, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization has strived to build a sustainable community that promotes the healthy development of youth and families, provide economic justice, and practice participatory democracy and self-determination.

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Cooperation Jackson

“The broad mission of Cooperation Jackson is to advance the development of economic democracy in Jackson, Mississippi by building a solidarity economy anchored by a network of cooperatives and other types of worker-owned and democratically self-managed enterprises.”

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Healthy Black Families, Inc.

Healthy Black Families, Inc (HBF) formed as a non-profit organization in July 2013. However, since 2002 some of the individuals on the Board of Directors were on the Community Advisory Board of the Berkeley Black Infant Health (BIH), a program of the Berkeley Health Department.

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Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)

Since 1993, Asian Pacific Environmental Network seeks to empower low-income Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities to achieve environmental and social justice.

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Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP)

Since 2001, the Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP) has developed various interactive and participatory programs to help the large population of Mixtecs in Ventura County overcome everyday obstacles and build community pride.

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PODER SF

After 5 years of organizing and gathering community input, PODER unveils Hummingbird Farm! The opening ceremony unveiled the new name and gathered the community to feast and plant seeds on the land around the farm.

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ROSEBUD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (REDCO)

The Rosebud Economic Development Corporation (REDCO) is a tribally chartered corporation owned by the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, home of the Lakota Sicangu Oyate, (burnt thigh nation). In 1999, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Government took a tremendous step forward by establishing REDCO, a corporation independent from local politics designed spur the local economy.

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SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT (SWOP)

SWOP seeks to redefine power relationships by bringing together the collective action, talents, and resources of the people within our communities. We work primarily in low-income communities of color to gain community control of our land and resources.

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Pan-African Community Development Initiative (CDI)

Pan-African Community Development Initiative (CDI) is an organization based in the Bronx, NY. PACDI realizes that in order to stimulate the Bronx community (the most unbanked community in the state of New York) they need to help establish a local credit union to relieve residents of this borough of all the predatory lending services that are available.

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Black Women for Wellness

Black Women for Wellness (BWW) is a community-based grassroots organization in Los Angeles, CA that works to address the health and well-being of Black women and girls through health education, empowerment, and advocacy

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