Mandela Marketplace

To improve health and create wealth in low Income.

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http://www.mandelamarketplace.org/

Overview

The California FreshWorks Fund awarded a grant to Mandela Marketplace to support a comprehensive business analysis of its operations and potential expansion for the Mandela Food Cooperative (MFC) a worker owned fresh food store dedicated to increasing healthy food access and building assets for low income workers. MFC is the first retail outlet of any kind to focus on offering healthy food in West Oakland and Mandela Marketplace is working to develop local wealth and alternative direct from farmer food supply chains. Mandela currently has 8 employees.