ChiFresh Kitchen
ChiFresh Kitchen (a fiscally sponsored project of the Chicago Food Policy Action Council) is a Black-owned commercial food service contractor. Structured as a worker cooperative, ChiFresh demonstrates a business development model centered around food justice and sovereignty, where marginalized workers are the primary decision-makers. The five formerly incarcerated co-owners of ChiFresh Kitchen served their first meals as a new business in May of 2020. During the pandemic, ChiFresh has prepared 50,000 fresh, hot, healthy meals for food-insecure residents of Chicago.
Strategy: Worker Ownership or Co-ops
Industry: Food Service,
https://www.chifreshkitchen.com/
Project Details
Worker Target: Formerly incarcerated Black women
Innovation Fund Cycle: Fall 2020
Status: Finalist,
Organization Type: Worker Co-ops,
Stage of Development: Implementation,
What We're Asking:
- What needs do our formerly incarcerated worker-owners have in order to show up fully, and how can the cooperative sustainably meet those needs?
How do we successfully transfer the administrative and professional responsibilities that worker-owners want to take on from consultants / advisors (managing the finances, sales, partnership development, etc.), and what kinds of training / professional development is best suited to transition those skills and roles?
What kinds of policy and practices can be implemented to build a culture of trust, accountability, performance, care, and kindness?
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