Community Equitability Group

At A Glance

Contact: 

Ellen Fine

Location: 

Needham, Massachusetts

Primary Issue Area:

  • Food
  • Living Economies
  • Environmental Health
  • Climate Change & Energy
  • Land & Water

Active since:

2020

Tax Status:

Ad-hoc
  • Community Equitability Group Food Bags
  • Irina & Alex: Always Offering Mutual Aid
  • Jemy and Fairland Distributing Grow Bags
  • Ellen and Andrea: Laughing Pollinator Garden Kits
  • Ellen Presents: A Pollinator Garden Kit and the Future Home of the CEG Food Hub
  • Resiliency Gardens Winter Grow Kits
  • Early Spring Planting
  • Magdala's Garden:  In Production!
  • Gardening Neighbors Magdala and Irina
  • Magdala's Hot Peppers
  • The Tomato Hoop House: Magdala and Ellen
  • Magdala's Bounty
  • Seedling Day:  Emma, Eva, Teresa and Ellen
  • Jill's Pollinator Garden
  • Resiliency Gardening In a Drawer
  • Emma's Resiliency Gardens Community
  • New logo
  • Delivering Food
  • Deb & Ellen:  Getting Ready for Winter Market
  • Magdala's Garden Joy
  • Mary Delivers

Our Purpose

Community Equitability Group (CEG) was founded during the Covid-19 Pandemic. We connected to discuss our food insecurity/access and health.We focus on 6 major areas of concern: 1) Food Justice: access, sovereignty, cultural/religous & health appropriate foods 2) economic inequality & empowerment 3) health & well-being  4) Climate & environmental justice, focus: floods, pollinators 5) land access, organic regenerative repair with  Indigenous community & lands, 6) tech justice. Our first solution: The Resiliency Gardens Project was created to increase Food Justice: grow organic food in raised beds in our yards. CEG Food Bags: organic produce donated by local farmers & rescued food from grocery stores through a wonderful partnership with Foodlink. They rescue & deliver, we store, pack & distribute. In 2023, we distributed 12,500 pounds of food.CEG Food Bags focus on people experiencing food insecurity, living in public housing, recent refugees & folks stuggling with food prices.  We support people in medical and family crisis, too. We founded on mutual aid principles, we model 'Community Equitability' with a wide ranging sliding fee scale for our Resiliency Gardens Project program. 'The Growing Space' follows our mission: grow local organic produce, regional just transistion, economic empowerment, creativity. Model small, local sustainable business while creating a regional just economy.