Hunger, Nutrition & Health Community Based Organization Innovation Lab

Urban Growers Collective is a Black- and women-led non-profit farm in Chicago, Illinois working to build a more just and equitable local food system. We aim to address the inequities and structural racism that exist in the food system and in communities of color. Rooted in growing food, our mission is to cultivate nourishing environments which support health, economic development, healing, and creativity through urban agriculture.

The Brotherhood Sister Sol (BroSis) is where Black and Latinx youth claim the power of their history, identity and community to build the future they want to see. By educating, organizing and training, we are challenging inequity and creating opportunity for all.

Established in 2010, our mission is to foster a healthy, self-reliant, fair, and sustainable food system in the Paso del Norte region of southern New Mexico and El Paso, TX. We are committed to building strong relationships and creating empowering spaces for youth and families to grow and cook good food, create positive change, and foster connections among food, health, and local economies.

Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services is a federally qualified health center serving the richly diverse community of Kalihi in the City of Honolulu. Our patients are 93% Asian and Pacific Islander with nearly half best served in languages other than English. KKV is the nation's only community health center to have a 100-acre nature preserve as a site for healing. Guided by a holistic approach to health, we provide primary care services and an array of community and cultural programs that connect people to family, culture, community, and land.

In 2011, a group of Hmong American farming families formed the Hmong American Farmers Association (HAFA) because we believed the best people to support Hmong farmers are Hmong farmers themselves and that we are all lifted up when those who are affected by an unfair food system lead the change we seek.

Higher Purpose Co.'s® mission is to build community wealth with Black residents in Mississippi by supporting the ownership of financial, cultural, and political power. Our theory of change is anchored by an integrated model: asset building, narrative change, and advocacy.

Farmer Frog started with a food garden at a school in South Everett, Washington in 2009-2010. Today we support over a dozen school gardens in the state, work with several sites in urban and rural communities, and are developing several farms on acreage. We cultivate programs, school gardens, and hands-on learning to nurture communities.

Dreaming Out Loud is rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through cooperative social enterprise: increasing access to healthy food, improving community health, supporting entrepreneurs and cooperatives from low-income communities; and creating opportunities for at-risk residents to earn sustainable, family-supporting wages and build wealth.

The mission of Dream of Wild Health is to restore health and well-being in the Native community by recovering knowledge of and access to healthy Indigenous foods, medicines and lifeways.

Corbin Hill Food Project (CH) is a Harlem-based nonprofit working at the intersection of food access, justice, and sovereignty. For over a decade, CH’s mission has been connecting BIPOC growers upstate to communities in New York City. Our innovative, community-driven initiatives increase access to affordable, fresh produce while leveraging purchasing power–creating economic opportunities for BIPOC growers and producers. Through a local and national network, we seek to build a new food system that is transformative, inclusive, and equitable where our communities thrive.