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Building Assets

Building Worker Ownership: Asset Development for Southern Rural Black Women

Women living in the impoverished rural areas of Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi are not faring well in the current labor market and are poorly positioned to adapt to future economic challenges. Lack of economic opportunity, quality education and training, limited child care, and persistent racial inequality remain huge obstacles. In a survey of rural black women, 80 percent identified unemployment as a problem.

We provide:

  • Project and Business Planning

  • Organizational Development

  • Resource Development

  • Product/Market Development and

  • Targeted Training and Technical Assistance

We build skills, cooperative networks, and worker owned businesses in sectors that add value to local resources, restore and enhance the natural and built environment and demonstrate growth potential:

• Southern Journeys LLC, a worker-owned social enterprise draws inspiration from piece sewing and quilting traditions originating in the rich cultures of West Africa.  Member owners and sewers, many of them quilters or former sewing factory workers, can earn income from contract sewing while learning business skills and building community assets.

• MS Delta SRBW in Ag AAL, the first women's agricultural cooperative in MS supplying fresh produce to local schools, restaurants, farmers markets and grocery chains and is currently developing a line of value added products.

• Commercial Kitchen: SRBWI has partnered with local nonprofits in Georgia and Mississippi to develop licensed commercial kitchens - Bakers Goods (GA) and Crossroads Commercial Kitchen (MS) equipped for catering and commercial food preparation.

• Local Cooperative Enterprise Development - SRBWI staff and consultants work with local women’s groups to develop income producing, community asset development projects from the Women on the Move transportation company in Mississippi to the Southern Alternatives worker-owned pecan processing cooperative in Georgia to the Sea and Sew nonprofit sewing venture in Alabama.

• EITC and Other Benefits - SRBWI state lead organizations connect women in its networks to Earned Income Tax Credit Volunteer Income Tax Assistance sites (EITC VITA sites).

Skill building and networking activities are designed in response to emerging enterprise and project needs ranging from developing local and regional food systems and connecting women to agricultural production and marketing networks to selling products and attending workshops at the New York International Gift Fair in New York City.

Contact: Sarah Bobrow-Williams, SRBWI Asset and Finance Development Director, at sbobrow@msn.com