{"id":8923,"date":"2023-04-13T00:49:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T00:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaspora.coop\/?page_id=8923"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:56:15","slug":"network-impact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/diaspora.coop\/?page_id=8923","title":{"rendered":"Network &#038; Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"8923\" class=\"elementor elementor-8923\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2640eae0 wd-section-stretch elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2640eae0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9bcfe6c\" data-id=\"9bcfe6c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63019e6f elementor-widget elementor-widget-wd_title\" data-id=\"63019e6f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wd_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"wd-section-title-css\" href=\"https:\/\/diaspora.coop\/wp-content\/themes\/woodmart\/css\/parts\/el-section-title.min.css?ver=7.1.4\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\" \/> \t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"title-wrapper set-mb-s reset-last-child wd-title-color-white wd-title-style-default wd-title-size-extra-large text-center\">\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"liner-continer\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"woodmart-title-container title wd-fontsize-xxxl\">Projects<\/h4> 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elementor-element-c6344a0\" data-id=\"c6344a0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a1aed87 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wd_title\" data-id=\"a1aed87\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wd_title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"title-wrapper set-mb-s reset-last-child wd-title-color-default wd-title-style-default wd-title-size-extra-large text-left\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"title-subtitle subtitle-color-default subtitle-style-default wd-fontsize-m\">\n\t\t\t\t\tStory of success\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"liner-continer\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"woodmart-title-container title wd-fontsize-xxxl\">Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective<\/h4> \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c9dee55 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wd_text_block\" data-id=\"c9dee55\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wd_text_block.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"wd-text-block-css\" href=\"https:\/\/diaspora.coop\/wp-content\/themes\/woodmart\/css\/parts\/el-text-block.min.css?ver=7.1.4\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\" \/> \t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wd-text-block reset-last-child text-left\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\"><b>Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective<\/b><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a cooperative of Black cocoa farmers and chocolate makers in 13 countries from Africa to the Caribbean to the US. Their goal is to decolonize the chocolate industry. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They formed to teach each other processing methods, market together, and share equipment in order to keep profits in the Black communities where they originated and break the hold that European and US chocolate multinationals have over small cocoa farmers. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the start of 2022, j<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ust a few months into the Cross-Atlantic Chocolate Collective's membership meetings, Collective Diaspora was able to help bring Cross Atlantic's co-founder and convener, Gillian Goddard, to the US to participate in a March 2022 convening of Black cooperatives organized by the Baltimore-based Network for Developing Conscious Communities. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During that trip Gillian recruited US-based Black cooperators eager to learn the art of making chocolate into the Collective and made presentations before Equal Exchange, the US-based worker-owned distributor of fair trade chocolate and other products. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We made it a point to help amplify their work beyond Gillian's trip by featuring the Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective as the first Black co-op to be featured on our inaugural Black Co-ops for Change webinar series profiling Black cooperatives.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> And of course we made sure to shine a light on them on social media in the months before and after. Those efforts helped fuel the buzz that led to more meetings with Equal Exchange, resulting in the Collective's first large order - for 18,000 beautifully packaged chocolate bars for sale on Equal Exchange's platform - all processed, packaged, and delivered by a Black cooperative with products from Malawi, St Lucia, Grenada, Trinidad, Nigeria, and Ghana. You can order Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective's beautiful chocolate box set from the Equal Exchange platform<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.equalexchange.coop\/collections\/cacc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Projects Explore our current projects, all serving to strengthen the Black cooperative ecosystem by deepening relationships, growing resources, providing education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8923","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaspora.coop\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaspora.coop\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaspora.coop\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaspora.coop\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaspora.coop\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8923"}],"version-history":[{"count":83,"href":"https:\/\/diaspora.coop\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14249,"href":"https:\/\/diaspora.coop\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8923\/revisions\/14249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaspora.coop\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}