About

This open source code food entrepreneurs web portal was developed by Food & Society at the Aspen Institute as part of its Open Access: Equitable Equity For Food Entrepreneurs initiative. Funded with an scoping grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and support from the Walmart Foundation and US Bank, the initiative aims to eliminate barriers to financing and business ownership among entrepreneurs of color. This open-source code web portal is designed for local governments or organizations to customize with current sources of start-up and working capital financing, education, and support resources available to food entrepreneurs in their communities.   

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Food & Society at the Aspen Institute brings together public health leaders, policymakers, researchers, farmers, chefs, food makers, and entrepreneurs to find practical solutions to food system challenges and inequities. The goal is to help people of all income levels eat better and more healthful diets—and to enjoy them bite by bite. Under the leadership of Corby Kummer, senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science, longtime Atlantic editor, and winner of six James Beard Journalism Awards, Food & Society initiatives share these common themes:

  • Identify and bridge the gaps where systemic barriers have continued to cause people of color and underserved communities to receive inadequate and incomplete nutrition and assistance
  • Keep food-service workers, particularly the workers of color who have been disproportionately devastated by Covid-19, safer and healthier
  • Give BIPOC food entrepreneurs the tools—and the credit and capital—they need to thrive
  • Build sustainability into food companies of all sizes
  • Find and train the food-system leaders of the future, prioritizing leaders from marginalized communities, and keeping front and center the Aspen Institute values of open communication, social and environmental justice, and crossing divides

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