Business@American Blog

American University’s Kogod School of Business recently released its second “Greater Washington Millennial Index,” which reveals how important workplace autonomy and flexibility are for millennials. Addressing this need can equip employers to better attract, engage, and retain millennial talent.

MoGro is a food subscription program that serves Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and rural and pueblo sites in the region. Resourcefulness is at the heart of MoGro's business model shifts over the years, with important lessons about sustainability for organizations addressing food inequity in their communities. 

David Styles and his wife Adjua, along with several big-name partners from the hip-hop world, are partners in Juices For Life, a juice bar with a mission to raise health consciousness in underserved communities.

Though Detroit is 80 percent African-American, there are no black-owned grocery stores in the city. Entrepreneur Raphael Wright’s mission is to create a new store that provides high-quality food in the inner city and introduce a group investment platform through the venture. 

More than a decade after Hurricane Katrina, the Lower 9th is still struggling, and like many poor urban areas, access to fresh, nutritious food is still limited. With some luck and persistence, Nat Turner has transformed a 2-acre pocket of this decimated neighborhood into a produce and economic mini-engine.

The founders of Josephine wanted to make food more personal, more human, and give a boost to people who wouldn’t otherwise have the resources to turn their culinary skills into income. That, they started to see, might have the added benefit of bringing food to areas with little or no access to it.