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Grants to church food pantries promote purchases from local farmers and restaurants
Engaging churches in hunger-policy work is a long-term effort. (Photo Minimal Church, By Thomas...
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Activists Pushing For Change
Commentary: From Juneteenth to Reparations: Reclaiming Our Stolen Stories
(Illustration by Cienpies Design/Adobe Stock) In order to achieve full reparations, we need to ...
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Black Voices
The decline of area Black-owned farms in recent decades mirrors a national trend
Jamel Rahkeera leads the team at Village Family Farms that transformed abandoned plots of land into ...
The Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund aims to address the historical racial land ownership dispari...
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Black Voices
Juneteenth provides an opportunity to look at Black land ownership and the economic power it brings.
The proportion of the United States under Black ownership has actually shrunk over the last 100 year...
Referrals by faith groups helped Dayton lawn-care business survive the first two years of the pandem...
An early 20th-century NAACP map shows lynchings between 1909 and 1918. The maps were sent to politic...
LunarX Agency is entering its next phase by launching a new suite of wrap-around consulting services...
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Many connections exist between faith and entrepreneurship. Here are a few.
Churches contribute substantially to the economy and provide entrepreneurs with social capital. ...
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COVID Can't Stop Us
Churches are becoming players in making housing—and cities—more affordable
“Lots of churches are land-rich and cash-poor, but also interested in sticking around and serving ...
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COVID Can't Stop Us
How faith-based organizations are making manufacturing more inclusive
Sewing programs run by faith organizations might not scream “manufacturing,” but to the Urb...
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Tribes need accurate and timely information to exercise economic self-determination
Tribal governments need high-quality data to fully serve the needs of communities in Indian Country....
