POWER IS GIVING BLOG

Eating well isn’t confusing because people lack discipline, motivation or knowledge. It’s confusing because access to nourishing food and credible nutrition education has been deliberately disrupted and deprioritized in certain communities, a reality we know as food apartheid. Whole food, plant-based eating isn’t a trend, and it isn’t a lifestyle reserved for the privileged. It’s a practical, evidence-based approach to nourishment centered on foods grown from the earth, one t

From collards, black-eyed peas and lima beans to yams and watermelon, plants that once sustained our ancestors here and, in the motherland, have become longstanding symbols of pride and tradition.

For generations, Black-led and Black-serving nonprofits have been starved by philanthropy. 2% and 4% aren’t ingredients for equity, they’re a recipe for erasure. This Black Philanthropy Month, we’re naming the root cause and calling for an equitable funding shift to rebuild from the ground up.