Acorn Supporters

Say hello to our neighbors who support Acorn RMC’s efforts for self-resilience, dignity, justice, and belonging in our space.

Feed Black Futures

Created in May 2020 in response to the concerted attack on Black Lives in the US – from the devastatingly disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black communities in LA to the state-sanctioned police violence against Black people. Founder, Ali Anderson, first became passionate about Black food sovereignty and food justice while serving as a doula in New York City and working on farms in New York, Jamaica, and Southern California.

Feed Black Futures addresses Black economic and health inequities for families in LA, San Bernardino, and Alameda counties. We buy produce and eggs from small-scale Black and Brown farms utilizing regenerative agriculture. We deliver to Black mamas & caregivers supporting their families facing food insecurity due to or exacerbated by justice system involvement. We give these mamas & caregivers the resources to support their families in growing food to eat or sell by providing farmer training and food justice education.

FBF partners with Essie Justice Group and a New Way of Life Reentry Project, both of which are led by Black women and serve primarily, Black, system impacted trans and cis women and gender nonconforming people.

Our Impact Since launch, we have:

Given 2,200 food deliveries nourishing 165 individuals.

Installed edible gardens for 5 families with 33 people.

Paid for 4 mamas/caregivers to go through farmer training.

Given 5 trainings educating and engaging 166 people in food justice

For more information please visit our website feedblackfutures.org or on Instagram @feedblackfutures

organizers of Feed Black Futures

Mandela Grocery Co-op

We’re excited to meet you at the Co-op for a store tour to show you our delicious selection of healthy groceries, healing herbs, and household items.

While you’re here, check out our newly renovated kitchen scheduled to open this summer with flavorful prepared foods we know you’ll love.

Mandela Grocery Cooperative is the only Black worker-owned grocery store in California and we’re right here in your neighborhood, located across the street from the West Oakland BART station. We’re open Monday through Saturday from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM. A cooperative grocery store also called a food Co-op is a business that is owned and operated collectively by its workers.

delicious produce at the co-op

We’re honored to serve you. We are the organic store you can afford. See you soon.

Mandela Partners: Food Equity Team

Mandela Partners is a non-profit organization based out of West Oakland that is working towards changing the way we get the food we want in our neighborhoods. With direction from the community (you!), Mandela Partners hopes to leverage its resources to create programs residents want to see and take ownership of in both Oakland and urban unincorporated (Ashland, Cherryland, and San Lorenzo) neighborhoods.

We have various programs ranging from business development, job force training, and health and wellness workshops. By working in partnership with local residents, family farmers, and small businesses, we hope to identify resources and tools needed for the community to feel empowered and self-reliant.

Our first project at Acorn is led by Nina Arrocena and Theresa + Acorn RMC team, coordinating free produce bag giveaways every Thursday, with plans to expand!

We are excited to get to know residents and work together to reimagine what community care can look like here at Acorn.