tools

Best Practices in
Developing A Successful
Food-Based Entrepreneur Pipeline

MP developed this toolkit to provide a framework for practitioners seeking to increase income-generation opportunities for local entrepreneurs in unincorporated Alameda County, with a focus on food-based businesses.

4 Phases: Developing a Community Food Hall

4 Phases highlights the concept behind creating and launching a community food hall, Ashland Market & Cafe, through a robust community engagement process. The model demonstrates how to uplift local assets, and create tangible economic opportunities for community residents through resident-led decision making. 

Equitable Food Oriented Development (EFOD)

Mandela Partners in collaboration with several leading national practitioners, developed EFOD --a development strategy that uses food and agriculture to create economic opportunities, healthy neighborhoods, and explicitly seeks to build community assets, pride, and power by and with historically marginalized communities.