“Cincy Nice began as a simple idea: create more spaces where we can be ourselves and have fun together.

Our collective popped-up as the Cincy Nice Social House, a community lounge during BLINK 2019—the city’s largest arts and lightestival. We designed a physical space where people could kick back together, make new friends, reconnect with old ones, enjoy good music, food, positive vibes and just feel free to be themselves.”

In a region called Cauca, they have an initiative they’re trying to propagate after seeing success on their estate farms. The idea is to eliminate synthesized chemical additives to the plants and soil and create a bio-fertilizer production facility in the area run by farmers for the community. This has trickle-down effects not only on the health and well-being of the soil and water run-off, but also on the financial sustainability of the community. Farmers can run the production and make secondary income while also being able to offer a less expensive option to their community farmers looking to fertilize their land.

While SFSM gets funding through grants and other partnerships, they rely heavily on donations. Each month they have to spend roughly $3,200 on food/supplies just for the Dining Room program. That is why, SFSM is our local Community Giveback Partner for the first half of 2021, and your giveback funds will help underwrite this expense to directly impact those who are needing nourishing meals especially in this difficult time.

So for this round all of you Community Blend drinkers are helping fund an ENTIRE new classroom for a school. And when we say classroom we truly mean the walls, rafters, desks and all…

Cincinnati's historic West End neighborhood has experienced a long stretch of disenfranchisement common to many of America's cities. Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses is an organization rooted in the West End which offers programs and services that truly improve the quality of life of its neighbors. With the COVID crisis threatening to displace residents, the Neighborhood House's Eviction Assistance Fund offers relief and stability when it's needed most. This is what it means to be community.

Coffee is Tanzania's largest export crop and is the livelihood of 400,000 families. Historically, progress has taken the form of increased production, but "home processing" led to inconsistency in cup quality and thus lower prices on the international market. Mwika North, a cooperative of 180 farmers, has cultivated a vision of how a centralized mill and member education could boost quality and create consistency. It is a community-focused project that is primed for partnership.