Bringing equity to black america
The Problem
Due to years of segregation, oppression, and systemic policies rooted in racism, there exists a massive wealth gap between Black and White people in Cincinnati, and this wealth gap has created barriers to basic human rights: healthy food access, adequate education, and affordable housing/healthcare.
Our mission
We are committed to removing the barriers within Black America that impedes the accessibility to healthy food security, housing, education, healthcare, and wealth.
our Solutions
Through our program, Nurture Our Own, we focus on creating equity in healthy food access in three different ways: recovery, distribution, and production of healthy foods.
We are focused on breaking down the barriers of transportation, physical access, and affordability through distributing directly to residents of Cincinnati at no price. We currently distribute to four different locations.
We use a trifecta system to fight food insecurity and food waste In our cincinnati neighborhoods. We are committed to the following:
Recovery and waste diversion of healthy foods from several different organizations, farms, and markets.
direct Distribution of healthy foods to our community members
and the production of organic foods within our community garden in avondale.
We grow produce with the help of our partner, Queen Mother’s Market! We grow tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, greens, and more for the communities that we serve!
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We support a black women led cooperative grocery store as a long term solution.
In 2017, a chain grocery store shuttered in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Walnut Hills, leaving Walnut Hills in a food apartheid.
Queen Mother’s Market (QMM) has created a regional Buyers Club in Walnut Hills that provides access to healthy, affordable foods. They are working toward opening a Black- and women-led co-op grocery store in the neighborhood by 2024. As a co-op, QMM will be owned by the community and the store’s employees.
We support the implementation of Queen Mother’s Market by supporting and partnering with QMM on several different projects including the Buyer’s Club.
Creating equity in education
We believe strongly in the power of having equity in literacy. Reading is essential for the development of the minds in the Black youth of our society. We have hosted with the help of community partners book clubs, read alouds, Black literature drives, and literacy workshops to improve literacy rates within our community
Through Liberated Minds Institute, our educational wing, we provide education programs, workshops, and instructional classes that are designed to boost both knowledge and confidence.
In the photo shown, we spoke to UC students about the need for more affordable housing here in Cincinnati and how experiencing homelessness affects individuals.
Homelessness affects Black people at a disproportionate rate compared to white people. Affordable Housing is a significant need here in Cincinnati.
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We are a volunteer-based grassroots organization that can use all the help available to keep our services free, and readily accessible for our communities. If you feel the need to help support us, donations are welcomed!
