Mandela Marketplace is a non-profit organization that works in partnership with local residents, family farmers, and community-based businesses to improve health, create wealth, and build assets through cooperative food enterprises in low income communities.
Who we are
Mandela MarketPlace uses a community-driven economic framework to improve health, create wealth and build assets in low-income communities. The organization evolved since 2001, first as a
project of the Environmental Justice Institute - Tides Center, until
incorporating in 2005 as a stand-alone 501c3 organization. Mandela MarketPlace innovates the assessment, development, and application of a community food system economy that strengthens community health, integrity and identity through
economic opportunity and empowerment for inner-city Oakland residents
and businesses, and local family farms.
Mandela's core values
Mandela Marketplace's core values establish the foundation of our organization culture and guide how we interact with each other and our community, how we set goals, establishing measurements, and solve problems:
We believe in empowerment of community and self We believe in cooperative work, wealth, and responsibility Our ideas and actions are community driven Sustainability drives the way we honor the earth, build partnerships, and lead programs Professionalism guides our culture, practices, and activitiesWYSE: Food People Power
Recently, our youth team, WYSE, and their corner store delivery project were highlighted in a video produced by Story Tellers for Good.
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Mail checks to 1364 7th Street, Oakland, CA 94607