OCTOBER, 2012

Microlending in the USA: Mandela Foods received $5,000 Kiva Zip loan as a Mandela Marketplace Trustee
Consumer Media Network

All Together Now: World Food Day 2012 + Mandela Marketplace
Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER, 2012


Liquor Store Makeover: Booze And Produce Together At Last
Care 2 Make a Difference

White House Celebrates Oakland Food Champion
Oakland North

Food People Power - Dana Harvey, Champion for Change
White House Champions for Change Blog

West Oakland Activist Honored by the White House
KQED News

West Oakland Group Partners with Liquor Stores to Offer Fresh Produce
Oakland North

White House Honors Food Security Activists as 'Champions of Change'. Dana Harvey, Mandela Marketplace Executive Director
Obama Foodorama

Youth Entrepreneurs Bring Oasis to West Oakland Food Desert
Oakland Local

AUGUST, 2012

Healthy Food Grows on 7th Street
West Oakland Works

Earth's Produce Distribution Brings Fresh Produce to Ashland's National Night Out

Ashland Cherryland Garden & Arts Network

JULY, 2012
Millennial Social Entrepreneurs Are Making Their Own Education
Forbes.com

Bay Area Youth in Washington DC! WYSE & Banking on Youth
Ashoka Youth Venture

Thousands of California Families to Get Year-Round Access to Healthy Foods
The Culinary Scoop

JUNE, 2012
Building a Local Food Economy in West Oakland: Mandela Marketplace Shows us How it's Done
Food and Faith, Presbyterian Hunger Program Blog


2011
Use Your Money- Mandela Foods Co-Op
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Ella's Voice

Mandela Marketplace moves on following theft
Oakland Local, Community Voices

James Berk of Mandela Foods Brings Produce to His People
Lettuce Eat Kale, the blog of food writer Sarah Henry

An Oasis in a Food Desert
Yes! Magazine


2010
Mandela Marketplace Meets Challenge of Being a West Oakland Grocer
KQED Community Blog

Mandela Food Cooperative gets the Redford Nod
San Francisco Bay Guardian

Local Teen Shines While Receiving Art in Activism Award
Oakland Local

Mandela Foods Co-Op- Planting Seeds of Change
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Ella's Voice


2009

Urban Food Co-op Tackles Economic Empowerment
by Dana Harvey, Mandela Marketplace Executive Director