Federal legislation passed last year has made a record amount of public funds available. Yes, what made it across the finish line falls trillions short of what President Joe Biden advocated. Even so, the March 2022 $1.9 trillion American Recovery Plan Act (ARPA) (with its $350 billion in flexible relief funds for states, localities, tribes,
“Food changes into blood, blood into cells, cells change into energy which changes up into life…food is life.” – Culinary griot Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor “This work we’re doing in food culture is ultimately healing work. And those foods, and seeds, and the land are the agents of healing: They are the healers, they are the curanderas,
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Photo by Randy Jacob on Unsplash Last week I wrote The Leechers, an article about a practice all too common in society, including our sector. It is the surreptitious extraction of value in a relationship of inequality. It is defined as “using too much of what is freely given without contributing a reasonable amount back
Image Credit: Brock Wegner on Unsplash Last December, the Urban Institute, a prominent Washington DC-based thinktank, issued a short report, A New Era of Racial Equity in Community Development Finance: Leveraging Private and Philanthropic Commitments in the Post-George Floyd Period. Could a new era of racial equity in community development finance be upon us? The
