Food 4 Social ChangeChanging the local economy one

business at a time.

Food 4 Social Change Multi-Staked Cooperative will be a marketplace, for vendors to sell their produce; value-added products and services.

The Cooperative’s members are a community of like-minded Social Entrepreneurs. We’ll help our members to:

* Expand & grow their business, * Create jobs with fair wages* Have more buying and selling power, * Improving their lives and the people in the local economy. * Do Marketing, Funding sources, collaborate, and whatever they need to be strong and prosper.

What we are about..

Cooperatives PrinciplesEquity. Equality. Self-help. Self-responsibility. Democracy. Solidarity. These are the values on which the modern cooperative movement was founded and the basis for the organization of every cooperative enterprise in the world today.

Cooperatives are differentiated from other business entities in three ways: member ownership, member control, and member benefit. A cooperative is an enterprise where ownership, control, and benefit are all held by the same group of people: the cooperative members.

Co-ops also abound internationally. In Quebec (Canada), Northern Italy, India, and Japan, for example, cooperatives play a significant role in the national and regional economies. The most famous worker co-ops in the world are the Mondragon cooperatives in the Basque region of Spain, an association of over one hundred cooperative enterprises, forming an entire cooperative economy in which factories, schools, banks, retail stores, and services operate on a cooperative basis.

**Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives Manual @Kent State University

What is a Multi-Staked

Become Involved..

* Become a consumer member* Become a vendor/member* Sit on the Board of Advisors* Sponsor us* Fund us* Join our crowd-sourcing projects* Share and promote us

Contact us....

Mari-Lyn Harris - Foundert: 510-564-7880

contact at food4socialchange.comWebsite: http://food4socialchange.comTwitter: http://twitter.com/Mari_LynHarris

Facebook: http://facebook.com/food4socialchangeGoogle Community: http://goo.gl/Pde8G

Thank you!