The California FreshWorks Fund issued a press release today announcing a grant award of $25,000 to our venture. This grant is important to us as it provides crucial funding in support of, as the press release notes, “a Direct Public Offering to raise at least $500,000 in equity for the market, and open the door […]

Watch our CEO, Brahm Ahmadi, present a five minute pitch on People’s Community Market at the lively entrepreneur showcase at the 3rd annual Slow Money National Gathering, which was held at Fort Mason in San Francisco on October 13, 2011.

Brahm Ahmadi is speaking at an event on Monday, November 14 entitled Healthy Harvest. The event is being organized and hosted by the Native American Community Health Program of the SEVA Foundation and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. The event is a benefit in honor of World Diabetes Day and Native American Heritage […]

Brahm Ahmadi will be speaking on a panel at the Community Food Security Conference in Oakland on Sunday November 6 at 10:45AM. The panel is entitled “Thinking Outside the Big Box: Strategies for Healthy Food Retail“. Central themes of the panel will include:   —How supermarket attraction strategies can incorporate food justice principles such as […]

This week Brahm Ahmadi is presenting at the Entrepreneur Showcase at the Slow Money National Gathering at Fort Mason, October 12-14. This is their third National Gathering and the first two have launched national activity that holds great promise for all of us who want to see our food system transformed. At their last national […]

Assembly Bill 581 – the California Healthy Food Financing Initiative – which was sponsored by Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez was signed into law today by Governor Jerry Brown. While there’s still a ways to go before this initiative is established under the California State Treasury, the passing of the legislation is a significant step […]

Our CEO, Brahm Ahmadi, attended the Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) Conference in September where he presented in the Fast Pitch showcase and participated on a panel about the newly launched California FreshWorks Fund (see previous post for details). After he gave his presentation in the Fast Pitch showcase Brahm was also selected as one of […]

The Social Capital Markets 2011 Conference, also known as SOCAP11, is coming up on September 6-9 at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. People’s Community Market is definitely going to have a presence at this critical gathering focused on the intersection of Money + Meaning. Our CEO, Brahm Ahmadi, will be participating in two […]

A new article in Reuters about the financing and development of grocery stores in under served communities features a quote from our CEO, Brahm Ahmadi, about how independent stores are well positioned to serve these neighborhoods. The article also features celebrated independent grocer Jeff Brown, owner of a number of ShopRite supermarkets in under served […]