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SoLA Food Cooperative proud to be one of the 64 food retail and food retail supply chain projects receiving technical assistance funding through the 2024-25 funding rounds of America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) Food Access and Retail Expansion (FARE) Fund (04/16/2026)
SoLA Food Co-op highlighted in “Maps that Matter: From “Food Desert” to Food Apartheid” published by Seeds of (in)Security (09/15/2025)
“Community-Owned, Community-Fed: The SoLA Food Co-Op Story…” aired on the Re-Imagining Community with Garland podcast hosted by Garland Fuller (06/11/2025)
“SoLA Food Co-op seeks food justice” published by Our Weekly LA (04/30/2025)
The hurdles facing SoLA Food Cooperative’s goal of opening a grocery store take center stage in “Why does LA have so few cooperative markets?” published by LA Public Press (03/13/2024)
SoLA Food Co-op mentioned in “Black Owned Grocery Stores For Non GMO and Organic Foods! Seeking To Connect To African Markets” published by Black Coral (09/07/2023)
SoLA Food Co-op signs on in support of Assembly Bill 1857, sponsored by the California Food and Farming Network andEconomic Security California Action, against restrictive grocery store covenants in California (06/15/2023)
SoLA Food Co-op makes the list in “Black-Owned Farmers Markets To Visit To Support Black Farmers And Vendors” published by Blavity (04/07/2023)
SoLA Food Co-op mentioned in “Black-led Food Co-ops Restore Justice, Hope, and Power” published by Food Tank (01/28/2023)
SoLA Food Co-op is proud to be a featured startup in FCI’s 2023 annual report (2023)
SoLA Food Co-op’s provision of free bags of groceries mentioned in “Harris-Dawson Spearheads Opening of Housing Units for Homeless Seniors” published by the LA Sentinel (11/29/2022)
SoLA Food Co-op mentioned in “Co-Op Grocery Stores Expand Their Mission to Equity and Food Justice” published by Civil Eats (09/19/2022)
“SoLA Food Co-op seeks support from stakeholders” published by Our Weekly LA (04/27/2022)
“South LA Community Group Loses Bid to Acquire Crenshaw Mall Despite Offering the Most Money” mentions SoLA on Eater.com (07/27/2021)
Former President of the National Association of Housing Cooperatives and cooperative advocate Vernon Oakes interviews SoLA founder Bahni Turpin on the Everything Coop podcast (04/22/2021)
“South LA Residents Working to Open Healthy Grocery Store in Food Desert” published by Spectrum News 1 (03/30/2021)
SoLA founder Bahni Turpin interviewed in the online magazine Voyage LA (09/21/2020)
SoLA Food Co-Op featured on the Hey Sister blog (undated)
SoLA Food Coop mentioned in “Shop Black: Complete List Of African American Owned Grocery Stores & Farmers Markets” published by Black Doctor (11/17/2016)
SoLA Food Co-op highlighted in the LA Green Grounds blog (05/28/2016)
“SoLa Food Co-Op Hosts A Free High Blood Pressure Awareness Workshop in South L.A.” published by the LA Sentinel (11/13/2014)
SoLA Food Co-op mentioned in Ebony Magazine (10/02/2013)
SoLA Food Co-op profiled by CBS (2013)
Fir st market study completed for SoLA Food Co-op by Prescription for Justice (2012)

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