Finally Got a Location!
Finding good real estate has been by far the most challenging part so far about the With Love project. As I’ve said before, there is considerable real estate here in...
How to Live/Think/Buy Locally: What it Means to Support Your Local Community
My previous post was about how With Love defines local. This week I will throw out a few practical ways to live, think, and buy locally.Humor me for a minute...
With Love has a local focus. How do we define local?
Defining local is not as simple as you’d expect. Buying local. Hiring local. Selling local. You could go very extreme and say that you will only buy from/frequent/or hire within...
Art and the Inner-City
Southwest LA is a colorful place. Whether it’s a graffiti’ed wall or a painted storefront mural, it seems as if everyone in the neighborhood is an amateur artist. All of...
The Last 18 Months: Top Ten Unexpected Things We’ve Encountered
With Love Community Market and Café began almost eighteen months ago as a vision. Today it is much, much more than that. Over the course of that time, we have...
Keeping the Ball Rolling
At With Love, one of our most common mottos is “keep the ball rolling.” When we say this, we mean that no matter what the obstacle or level of activity...
The Benefit Corporation: A Corporate Structure for the Common Good
At With Love Community Market and Cafe, we want to be more than just a business. We want to be a profit-making enterprise that uses those profits for the community...
Transitioning Careers
Before I started the With Love project, I could say that I had a successful professional career. For nearly ten years, I worked in online sales and marketing for various...
Ups and Downs: Reflections on the With Love Experience
Life is like a boat in the ocean, full of ups and downs, currents and ripples, favorable winds and foreboding waves. Every fruitful season seems to be followed by a...
Why Southwest LA and not South LA?
“Where is that?”I get asked this question almost every time I tell others that we are focusing on Southwest LA.When I tell them that its just west of USC, south...