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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 (social enterprise), to the glory of God. To do this, we needed to find a business model that reflects and supports these commitments. Through our research we found that the business model that best represents our social enterprise mission is a “benefit corporation” structure/status.
Created in 2010, the benefit corporation is a corporate structure designed for a social enterprise like ours. Every business needs to have some sort of business model, whether its a corporation, LLC, sole proprietorship, or some other structure. The type of structure your business chooses affects how it is taxed. It also has legal implications. In most aspects, the benefit corporation operates like a normal business. The difference lies in its purpose. While the goals of most businesses are to maximize profit, the stated goal of a benefit corporation is improving the “public benefit” of society and the environment. This mission, written into the very legal papers forming the benefit corporation, requires the director and officers of the corporation’s board to pursue both financial interest AND public benefit. Benefit corporations are also required to release an annual “benefit report” detailing the business’ impact to the public. This keeps the business transparent about its efforts.
This is all ideal profit-making business that benefits the public! But if you solely focus on just one of those aspects, it will make it hard to have a successful business meeting the stated mission and goals. At With Love, we understand this full well, and know that holding both a profit-making business goal and a socially-impacting business goal equally will be a tension with the decisions we make and how we choose to run the business. The idea that a business can openly hold public benefit on the same level as profit is radical. It challenges the status quo. One advisor we spoke with perfectly articulated the cynical conventional wisdom when he said that “to put sustainable public benefit equal to or primary to profitability is not logical.” Well, when logic elevates profit over people, money over lives, empires over communities, then yes, With Love is not logical. Thankfully, the absence of this logic allows for a humble acceptance of divine vision, of a plan for community transformation with Jesus’ name all over it. A business can succeed while caring about its community and the long-term impact it has, and we are set out to prove it!
Join with us and pray to that end, that we can truly impact and change our community by running a successful business that meets the needs and seeks to empower our community. We can’t do this alone, we’ll need a lot of support to make it happen!
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With Love Community Programs needs your help to cover equipment and staff costs, and your donation (or your company's) could help make that happen! We are now a not-for-profit 501(c)3 through our partnership with Compassion Creates Change, and you can write-off the donation. Win/win for everyone!
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With Love Market and Café
With Love Market & Cafe is located in Southwest Los Angeles. We provide locally-sourced and organic produce, meats & dairy (think farmers market products) with a café featuring delicious prepared foods and high-quality coffee, teas, juices and smoothies. The physical space of the store is meant to creatively reflect and encourage Southwest LA pride and artistry. However, what truly sets the market/cafe apart is our mission:
Jobs: The store will provide jobs, internships and improvement classes for locals, store employees and suppliers. Training, equipping and empowering youth and local residents is one way we make a difference.
Food: The market purposefully carries fresh and healthy foods from local sources, rare commodities in Southwest LA. The market also features home-cooked foods produced by local residents. The cafe offers fair-trade coffee, teas, juices and smoothies in an ambient atmosphere to come and eat/drink, work, socialize, and relax.
Investment: The profits of the store will be reinvested into the community in the form of training, educating, employment, and more. At every level of operation, the guiding principle behind the store is that a business can become a force of good for the people that they serve.
With Love Market and Café3 hours ago
Just a reminder that we will be meeting to pack fresh produce bags for families in need tomorrow, Monday 4/29, from 8 AM to 10:30 AM! If you're interested in volunteering, please visit https://buff.ly/3Sg198t: 💚 🛄
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With Love Market and Café2 days ago
We're looking for some of our lovely community members to help us pack fresh produce bags for families in need! We will meet this Monday from 8 AM - 10:30 AM. If you're interested in volunteering, please visit https://buff.ly/3Sg198t: 💚 🛄
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With Love Market and Café3 days ago
If you're looking to reserve a space, look no further! Whether you're looking to host a social event or give a presentation, we have the perfect spaces! ✨
You can reserve our spacious outdoor patio space or our community rooms for a productive workspace. Book online or email [email protected] for more info 😍
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You can reserve our spacious outdoor patio space or our community rooms for a productive workspace. Book online or email [email protected] for more info 😍
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With Love Market and Café4 days ago
Thank you so much for your love and support! 🥰
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#repost @karmenhuertatv The secret is out @withlovela_ is keeping me well fed and refreshed in mind, body and spirit. Go support this community gem! ✨
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#repost @karmenhuertatv The secret is out @withlovela_ is keeping me well fed and refreshed in mind, body and spirit. Go support this community gem! ✨
#withlovemarketandcafe #withlovecafe #withlove #tagus #befeatured #southLA #losangeles #community #smallbusiness
With Love Market and Café6 days ago
Have CalFresh EBT? Use it to get free groceries everyday at With Love! 🍎🥕🍅
When you buy groceries with your EBT, you can redeem one of the following rewards per day:
❤️ spend $5 on groceries and get $5 of FREE produce
❤️ spend $10 on groceries and get $20 of FREE produce
We hope to see you shopping at With Love soon 🥰
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When you buy groceries with your EBT, you can redeem one of the following rewards per day:
❤️ spend $5 on groceries and get $5 of FREE produce
❤️ spend $10 on groceries and get $20 of FREE produce
We hope to see you shopping at With Love soon 🥰
#withlovemarketandcafe #withlovecafe #withlove #market #cafe #groceries#freegroceries #calfreshebt #ebt #southLA #local #community #picounion #smallbusiness
With Love Market and Café1 week ago
Spring is here and so are the mangoes 🥭✨ Grab some from the all-natural supply at With Love! 🤩
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