San Diego Food Justice Project

We are very excited to spread the word about this to the community members.

San Diego Food Justice Project has received $1 million dollars in grant money from the State of California. The team their is planning to use the grant money to support 100 small business applicants who are marginalized business owners regardless of their immigration status.

The San Diego Food Justice Project team has been supporting small food business entrepreneurs and has been advocating for supporting small food businesses, home kitchen based food businesses and sidewalk food vendors.

Please check out their site for more details here

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