Category
Nutrition & Food Security
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“An 8-block community nestled in a blighted, high poverty, disenfranchised area of West Jackson, Mississippi... Co-op NWJ is a grassroots effort to transform a neighborhood marred by violence, drugs, abandonment and neglect, now targeted for new economic development, into a sustainable model community by securing property in a community land trust and employing a creative reside strategy to incubate cooperative enterprises based on the underutilized skill sets of residents.”