Community Street + Co

04/29/2026

This is the kind of storytelling I love and need😊

Shane meets with local Mexican chefs committed to reviving the sacred heritage of maize.

03/23/2026

03/18/2026

03/09/2026

Portsmouth Public Schools is hosting an Auxiliary Services Job Fair tomorrow March 10 from 5–7 PM with on-the-spot interviews available.

They’re currently hiring for several positions. If you’re looking for a meaningful role supporting local students and schools, this is a great opportunity to join the team.

Apply today at ppsk12.us/jobs

03/03/2026

For Hampton Roads Content Creators. Check it out to find out more and sign-up.

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03/03/2026

📣Are you a vendor market or event manager?

Im designing Community Market Operation Systems and Audits starting within the Hampton Roads area. I’m interviewing market and event operators about vendor retention and sustainability challenges.

Here’s what I have thus far.

Community market systems design involves structuring the entire network of actors, rules, and supporting functions—such as infrastructure, finance, and information—to create sustainable local exchanges. It aims for inclusivity and resilience by strengthening connections between producers and consumers, rather than just delivering aid. Effective design utilizes a "five Rs" framework (Resources, Roles, Relationships, Rules, and Results) to ensure local, economic benefits. [1, 2, 3]

Key components and principles for designing community market systems include:

• Inclusive Systems Approach: Focusing on making markets work for marginalized groups by increasing their access to resources, skills, and financial services.
• Systemic Change: Moving beyond short-term interventions to create lasting change, such as facilitating new business partnerships or improving local regulations.
• Five Rs Framework:

• Resources: Identifying input, finance, and infrastructure.
• Roles: Defining actors (producers, traders, consumers, policymakers).
• Relationships: Fostering collaboration among actors.
• Rules: Aligning formal and informal norms/policies.
• Results: Aiming for competitiveness and resilience.

• Market Assessment: Analyzing local economic power, population density, and existing infrastructure to determine whether to apply a "light touch" or direct intervention.
• Local Value Chain Strengthening: Supporting small-scale producers through relevant technology (e.g., small tools vs. large machinery) and improved market linkages.
• Public Market Success Factors: Ensuring consistent, high-quality, and, localized, products that connect community members. [2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]

Common tools include building "results chains" to visualize how interventions will lead to specific, sustainable, economic, impacts. [7]

AI responses may include mistakes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJjGxj5qtBI
[2]https://beamexchange.org/media/filer_public/94/71/9471630d-5e98-4004-85b5-fbb985731da2/2240_local-systems-and-market-systems.pdf
[3] https://www.enterprise-development.org/implementing-psd/market-systems/
[4] https://www.sdc-economy-education.ch/en/market-systems-development
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APqyW13fELU
[6] https://beamexchange.org/implement/research/systemic-change/systemic-change-market-systems-development/
[7] https://dai-global-developments.com/articles/market-systems-development-a-primer-on-pro-poor-programming/
[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsMcsSZBgDI
[9] https://beamexchange.org/participate/blogs/inclusive-markets-matter/
[10] https://www.pps.org/article/tencharacteristics-2

I care about creative spaces thriving long-term not just surviving season to season.

Please help me! Reach out if you know anyone who manages any type of markets or events?

100 well-tested tips on how you can create your own great market.

03/02/2026

02/11/2026

Continuing our VA Black History: Food Insecurity Fighters series, we’re honoring Thelonius Cook, a Virginia Black farmer and food justice advocate.

As the founder of Mighty Thundercloud Edible Forest, Cook is growing culturally rooted foods, practicing sustainable agriculture, and expanding access to fresh, healthy food for communities across Virginia.

His work highlights how caring for the land and investing in community are essential to building lasting food security🧡.

Follow along as we continue spotlighting Virginia’s Black leaders fighting food insecurity.

02/09/2026

01/19/2026

The public is welcome to attend a brief opening reception on Friday, January 30, 2026: “Community and Cocoa” Kick-Off for the Season for Nonviolence at 5:30PM in the ViBe Creative District at 20th St and Cypress Ave. Citizen volunteers will offer remarks about the meaning of the Season, recognize highlights for the season, local students will offer poetry readings and update the on-site garden with kindness rocks.

The Season for Nonviolence is celebrated annually from January 30 to April 4 as a national 64-day educational, media, and grassroots campaign dedicated to demonstrating that non-violence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities.

In Virginia Beach, the ViBe Creative District has worked with citizens and members of the Human Rights Commission to champion the cause since 2018.

Learn more at: https://vibecreativedistrict.org/the-art-of-humanity/