Tackling Food Deserts and Urban Insecurities: Good Food Markets’ Story
Good Food Markets opened its pilot location at 2006 Rhode Island Ave. NE in January 2015.
Good Food Markets is a neighborhood grocery store and social enterprise that blends for-profit and nonprofit activities to develop retail solutions for underserved food desert communities. The pilot GFM location opened on Rhode Island Avenue NE in January 2015, eradicating a food desert in Woodridge and proving there’s no shortage of Washingtonians looking for fresh, healthy food.
Food deserts remain a problem in every major U.S. city. The primary hurdle is not bringing the community to the store — it’s bringing financing to the desert. To address these challenges, GFM works with educational and non-profit partners to bring health education and job training resources to the community.
In this open discussion with Good Food Markets’ Christopher Jones and Philip Sambol, we will cover the relative benefits of different corporate structures, employment opportunities for returning citizens, accessing diverse funding sources, urban agriculture, managing a small business, and anything else that may come up!
Location
KCDC Pop-Up Learning Space
1613 Rhode Island Ave. NE
Washington,
DC
Neighborhood: Langdon/Brookland
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Instructor
Christopher Jones and Philip Sambol have been with Good Foods Markets since it opened on Rhode Island Avenue NE in January 2015. Chris is a cashier and stock clerk, and Philip is general manager.