Business

Name of Initiative: Blacktion: Enough Food Sovereignty Initiative (2025-2030)

Mantra: Community-Rooted Impact-Driven

Mission and Vision: The Enough Food Sovereignty Initiative (EFSI) will establish a Black-led, culturally relevant agri-food ecosystem producing African and Afrocentric crops and livestock products specifically for Black communities across Canada.

Web Address: https://www.theenoughinitiative.com/the-lab

Program Description: The Enough Food Sovereignty Initiative (EFSI) is a Black-led pilot project designed to cultivate, process, and distribute culturally significant African and Afro-Caribbean foods for Black communities across Canada. Rooted in food justice, cultural preservation, and economic empowerment, EFSI aims to establish a sustainable agri-food ecosystem beginning in Southern Alberta. Through community-led farming, education, and culinary engagement, this initiative will address systemic food insecurity while building long-term Black food sovereignty and resilience.

Name of Initiative: Blacktion: Strategy and Digital Visibility Program (2024-2025)

Mantra: Talk About It. Think About It. Be About It.

Mission and Vision: Blacktion is a black-led community support, advocacy, incubation, and sustainability ecosystem from the Afroriginals. It is designed to mobilize initiatives focused on re-educating, re-imagining, reviving, and re-establishing the Black community globally.

Web Address: https://www.theafroriginals.com/blacktion

Program Description: The Blacktion Strategy and Digital Visibility Program is designed to provide strategic planning and implementation, digital design and visibility, and performance evaluation and continuous improvement services for Black small businesses and initiatives. The mandate is to realize good health and well-being for these black leaders, provide economic growth strategies, innovate new ways of doing business for the black community, reduce inequalities in the space of black entrepreneurship, and partner with them for continuous improvement as they grow.

Name of Initiative: How Bout Dat Store

Mantra: Stay Original Be Authentic

Mission and Vision: If you could wear your thoughts on your chest or, better yet, encourage those around you without saying a word, then you'd have lived what our apparel is all about.

Jurisdiction(s): North America, United Kingdom, Australia,

How'Bout Dat is a statement clothing line designed to give its bearer unspoken confidence through apparel. Our mantra, "Stay Original Be Authentic," serves as a reminder to everyone that your originality breeds the authenticity we all need from each other.