Industry: Food and Beverage
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Number of employees: 6
Became employee owned: 2020
Assistance: Upside Down Consulting
From the company
- https://www.chifreshkitchen.com/
- GoFundMe – ChiFresh Kitchen Co-op — feeding our community
- Upside Down Consulting – ChiFresh Kitchen Overview
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- Block Club – Co-Op Owned By Formerly Incarcerated Black Women Wins Grant To Bring More Healthy Meals To South And West Sides (2020)
- Next City – Formerly Incarcerated Women Launch Worker-Owned Food Business During COVID-19 (2020)
- Fifty by Fifty – Formerly Incarcerated Women Launch Chicago Worker Cooperative (2020)
- Chicago Tribune – As the need for food aid soars, small Chicago grassroots efforts are stepping up. (2020)
- NBC 5 – ChiFresh Kitchen Gives Formerly Incarcerated Women a Second Chance (video) (2020)
- NCBA CLUSA – Camille Kerr, Founder of ChiFresh Kitchen, and Alison Powers, Cooperative & Community Initiatives Manager at Capital Impact Partners, Appear on Everything Co-op (2020)
- Everything Co-op – Alison Powers, Cooperative & Community Initiatives Manager at Capital Impact Partners, and Camille Kerr, Founder of ChiFresh Kitchen (audio) (2020)
- NCBA CLUSA – Women returning citizens launch worker-owned food cooperative during COVID-19 (2020)
- Free Spirit Media – Meet the formerly incarcerated women who started a worker-owned business providing meals in response to COVID-19 (2020)
- The Counter – Can a co-operative kitchen survive during the Covid-19 pandemic? (2020)
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