Congratulations to Detroit People’s Food Co-op for winning Startup of the Year!

Detroit People’s Food Co-op met *all* of the award criteria through:

• Incredible community engagement and visibility in the community that resulted in 4,000 owners by opening day, with nearly 1,000 of those becoming members in the weeks leading up to opening
• Business planning that leaned heavily into expert retail grocery resources and consulting, while also challenging these partners to develop methods and processes that better serve historically red-lined and other communities that have been systemically excluded.
• Organizing with, and often led a coalition of Black-led startup food co-ops to solve for how to adapt current startup food co-op support and expertise to their community and innovating new practices where what they needed did not exist.

DPFC has won multiple awards, such as the 2023 Up & Coming Food Co-op Conference’s Best of the Best and recently celebrated their 1 year anniversary of opening their grocery store.

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