Field Reports
Applying A Racial Equity Lens To Volunteer Programs Across Non Profits
Akeisha Latch,
Emerson Fellow
About Fresh,
Published 2022-2023
Boston, Massachusetts
My Hunger Free Community Report will inform and serve as a global toolkit for nonprofits to assess whether a Racial Equity Lens is being applied to their current volunteer programs and if not, how to begin with some fundamental steps. By using this toolkit, nonprofits can cultivate a space that fosters inclusion, security, and communication between their organization and volunteers and more so, adopt principles that will ground staff in principles of recognizing their biases and inequity that has long been a part of the nonprofit structure and moving towards working in fellowship (co-creation) with their community.
Publication tags: Field Reports - Racial Equity
Akeisha Latch is originally from Jamaica, before emigrating to the States in 2004. She recently graduated from Clark University with a B.A. in English and concentration in comparative race and ethnic Studies. As an undergraduate student Akeisha has also pursued further education in Public Administration under an accelerated degree program at Clark University. In the past two years, Akeisha has interned at Waterbury Bridge to Success as a Community Impact and Marketing Intern and at New Britain OIC as a Summer Youth Employment Coordinator, putting what she has learned in the accelerated program into practice.
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About Fresh is on a mission to strengthen communities by getting fresh food to the households that need it most. About Fresh believes three key factors impact how we relate to, shop for and consume food: retail access, culture and built environment, and purchasing power. About Fresh programs are designed and sequenced to address these impact areas: Fresh Truck brings healthy food closer to communities, and Fresh Connect connects patients to the food they need to be healthy.
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