Industry: Grocery
Location: Oakland, California
Number of employees: 7
Became employee owned: 2009
Learn more
- https://www.mandelagrocery.coop/
- NPQ – Worker-Run Food Co-op in Bay Area Eyes Expansion as It Turns 10 (2019)
- Oakland Post – Mandela Grocery Cooperative Celebrates a Decade of Thriving (2019)
- The Root – New Generation of Black-Led Co-ops Want to End Food Insecurity (2019)
- San Francisco Chronicle – Mandela Grocery Cooperative marks 10 years in West Oakland and announces plans for expansion (2019)
- East Bay Express – Community Foods Market Targets Mid-May Opening in West Oakland (2019)
- Fast Company – To End A Food Desert, These Community Members Opened Their Own Grocery (2018)
- KQED – An Oakland Community Grocery Store Feeds Its People (2018)
- SF Gate – Mandela Foods Co-operative set to expand into larger West Oakland space (2017)
- East Bay Times – West Oakland foods cooperative defies odds, serves people (2017)
- New Economy Coalition – How Cooperative Grocery Stores are Bringing Food Access to Low-Income Neighborhoods (2015)
- Civil Eats – James Berk of Mandela Foods Brings Produce to the People (2011)
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