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HELPING BUILD A COMMUNITY
RENAISSANCE IN A FOOD DESERT

We’re working with the residents in Northeast Greensboro as they prepare
to open their community-owned cooperative grocery store on Phillips Ave.

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Grassroots Economies

In order to build communities that are democratic, just and sustainable, we need businesses that are rooted in their place and responsive to the communities they serve. We are working across the Southeast growing new economies based on these principles.

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Grassroots Fundraising Matching Grants

For the last eight years, F4DC's matching grant programs have helped groups develop bases of support capable of providing long-term sustainable financial support -- right from the very communities in which they work. With F4DC sunsetting in 2020, we're focusing our remaining grant dollars on the sustainability of our existing grantees and partners. This has two…

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Original art by Mo Kessler

Big Ideas that Guide Our Work

Big Ideas that Guide Our Work Over the ten years that F4DC has been in existence, a few key frameworks – some invented by us, some shaped by us, and some stolen wholesale from other smart people – have come to influence our thinking and decisions about where we put our time and resources: Authentic…

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