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Rising Women

A Crossroads Social Enterprise Project

FOOD JUSTICE AT CROSSROADS

Helping to ensure that the benefits and risks of where, what, and how food is grown and produced, transported and distributed, accessed and eaten are fairly shared. Rising Women works toward an important social goals by empowering women to make a difference in the community.

Social Enterprise

Empowering Women through Food & Entrepreneurship

Rising Women is a social enterprise project run by the women of Crossroads and community volunteers who use locally donated fruit to make marmalade, preserves, granola, kombucha, herbed lemonade and specialty salts. Working together, women  learn successful business practices for operating in a sustainable framework. Rising Women not only actively combats the problem of thousands of pounds of fruit wasted each year in California backyards, but also provides revenue for the food justice program at Crossroads.The Rising Women program is a testament to the idea that businesses are fully capable of selling delicious, unique products, building community, benefitting the planet, and still bringing in profit.

Core Values

  • Equality: All who are involved in Rising Women work together as equals.
  • Sustainability: We use seasonal, donated fruit to promote the best interests of the planet
  • Education: Learning takes place in the kitchen and at our selling platforms.
  • Community: We build community in the kitchen and at our selling venues.
  • Opportunity: We provide training opportunities for women.