Bull City Cool made headlines in the News & Observer today in Virginia Bridges’ article “Durham’s Bull City Cool food hub connects.” Bridges highlights what makes our food hub so cool – our public interest focus. Not only does the hub “serve as a key connection for local nonprofits, small businesses and farmers,” but Bull […]
Locally Produced Video Promotes Local Produced Food
Guest post by Peter Skillern, Executive Director of Reinvestment Partners, introducing our much anticipated Bull City Cool video: Bull City Cool Food Hub is promoting the local food economy. Reinvestment Partners – founder of Bull City Cool – commissioned Roman Gabriel of MoonMan Productions to produce a video on the interconnectedness of the local food […]
Grand Opening packed a punch… and a crowd!
We celebrated our Grand Opening on Thursday, September 10th, to a crowd of almost 100 people! Elected state and county officials, neighborhood residents, funders, and government partners all came through the doors of Bull City Cool to welcome the new Food Hub to the neighborhood. Senator Floyd McKissick, Jr. was one attendant of the Grand […]
Re-Introducing 902 N Mangum St
Just over a year ago we introduced you to 902 N Mangum St, and it wasn’t a pretty sight. Today we re-introduce you – this time to the new Bull City Cool Food Hub. And what a transformation! It was oversized and outdated, its excessively blocky structure resembling something you might find in the popular […]
We’re Sprouting up in the News
The Bull City Cool Food Hub is making the news! We’ve “sprouted up” in two articles this week. Check out Todd Cohen’s article “Nonprofit food hub emerges in Durham” in Philanthropy North Carolina, which offers great insight into Reinvestment Partners’ community development mission at large and specifically through the food hub. We’ve also been featured […]
We are the Champions!
Bull City Cool is… well, inherently Cool… and we’re not the only ones who think so! As winner of the Triangle Community Foundation’s 2015 Innovation Award, it’s clear that the Bull City Cool Food Hub Collaborative (BCCFHC) is growing in popularity. The BCCFHC was one of many great applicants for the Innovation Award, and one […]