Above: CCFI Team with a beautiful bunch of kohlbari greens from the Lawrence Community Garden for the food share distribution At the Kheprw Institute, we believe the people who live and reside in grassroots underserved communities must be at the forefront of identifying and implementing solutions to address the challenges they face. Why? Because these are the people most impacted …
It’s Not About Gentrification
Now that the question of gentrification is not a subject only talked about behind closed doors, it’s time to dig deeper into the root causes of gentrification. While we continue to debate whether economic development will lead to physical and cultural displacement, the issue of gentrification is merely a symptom of much deeper structural/cultural challenges. There are a litany of …
Community Controlled Food in October!!
Thanks to Anne Fassnacht of Wit Wisdom & Food for contributing this blog post October should be feeling a lot like fall, but it seems to be holding back a little bit. Some of our produce this month looks surprisingly like summer. Bell peppers, tomatoes, and cucumbers–I am looking at you. However, the rest of the list is starting to …
Early Childhood Education: Strategies for Combatting the Ills of Urban Education
by Kahlil Mwaafrika Often referred to as “daycare,” Early Childhood Education has the potential to close the achievement and developmental gap between inner city children and affluence. To avoid overstatement, there is a plethora of documented research, specifically the High Scope Perry Preschool Project and the Heckman Study , that validate the assertion. For us laymen, I have composed a …
CCFI in September: Fresh Food as Fall Approaches!
Thanks to Anne Fassnacht of Wit Wisdom & Food for contributing this blog post! We have passed the last holiday of summer and while we still have a few weeks until it is technically Fall, you can feel it in the air already. It is always exciting to find out what we are getting in our shares for the month! …
A Shift Towards Social Entrepreneurship
– Contributed by Dr. Stephanie Fernhaber Violence. Gentrification. Poverty. Affordable housing. Food access. These are just a few of the many social issues being faced here in Indianapolis. And, they do not seem to be going away. The traditional approach to addressing social issues involves solutions that rely heavily on grant funding. While such efforts can and do provide some …
Growing Organic Lessons in Social Entrepreneurship
I’m going to talk about what I learned about social entrepreneurship through working on the Community Controlled Food Initiative (CCFI). So, there are about a million and one things I’ve learned over the last two years with Kheprw Institute. Some of the basic things I’ve learned learned include the importance of partnerships, the need to spend time thinking constantly about strategies to …