ChiFresh Kitchen

• Mother Jones – Be Your Own Boss: More Co-Op Businesses Are Returning Workers’ Power (2021)

From the company

• https://www.chifreshkitchen.com/
• GoFundMe –  ChiFresh Kitchen Co-op — feeding our community (2021)

Media

• Crains Forum – More than a $15-an-hour job: People ‘want ownership’ (2021)
• Morning in America – What’s good: Formerly incarcerated hired to help those in need (2021)
• Shared Capital – Shared Stories by Shared Capital: ChiFresh Kitchen (2021)
• Mother Jones – Be Your Own Boss: More Co-Op Businesses Are Returning Workers’ Power (2021)
• UIC – Flourishing at ChiFresh Kitchen: UIC Law’s CESEC Helps Launch Worker-Owned Cooperative (2021)
• Laura Flanders Show – Covid Couldn’t Stop Worker-Owned Co-ops   (2021)
• Ownership Matters – A Conversation with Camille Kerr of ChiFresh Kitchen (2021)
• Chicago Community Trust – Fast-Growing Food Enterprise Run by Entrepreneurs of Color Secures New Home (2021)  
• Big News Network – Worker cooperative to supply school meals in place of big corporations (2021)
• Block Club – Co-Op Owned By Formerly Incarcerated Black Women Wins Grant To Bring More Healthy Meals To South And West Sides (2020)
• Next City – Formerly Incarcerated Women Launch Worker-Owned Food Business During COVID-19 (2020)
• Fifty by Fifty – Formerly Incarcerated Women Launch Chicago Worker Cooperative (2020)
• Chicago Tribune – As the need for food aid soars, small Chicago grassroots efforts are stepping up. (2020)
• NBC 5 – ChiFresh Kitchen Gives Formerly Incarcerated Women a Second Chance (video) (2020)
• Everything Co-op – Alison Powers, Cooperative & Community Initiatives Manager at Capital Impact Partners, and Camille Kerr, Founder of ChiFresh Kitchen (audio) (2020)
• NCBA CLUSA – Women returning citizens launch worker-owned food cooperative during COVID-19 (2020)
• Free Spirit Media – Meet the formerly incarcerated women who started a worker-owned business providing meals in response to COVID-19 (2020)
• The Counter – Can a co-operative kitchen survive during the Covid-19 pandemic? (2020)
• Upside Down Consulting – ChiFresh Kitchen Overview (2019)