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30 June 2020
Karen Karp talks about the history of KK&P, her motivation for starting the company and the work still left to do.
8 May 2020
K&KK&P 2016-2020: Guiding Values-driven Procurement by Institutions and Corporations Karen Karp and Senior Consultant Ben Kerrick talk about the period between 2016 and 2020 and KK&P’s long history of guiding values-driven procurement by institutions and corporations. Read More. K&P 2011-2015: How KK&P’s Implementation Capacity Sets It Apart KK&P’s Good People division is unique among food...
28 April 2020
Wright’s Dairy Farm and Bakery is seeking a talented, experienced and focused Chief Operating Officer (COO) to lead key activities of the organization through the next level of significant growth.
27 April 2020
Months before the coronavirus crisis hit, KK&P began working with JMF to design a special new initiative that would support the New England region’s food system. As the Covid-19 crisis emerged and escalated, we quickly pivoted with JMF to guide the development of the New England Food System Resilience Fund, which recently awarded $347,000 in grants to 11 organizations as the first part of a new initiative aimed at strengthening the New England food system. 
26 April 2020
Our friends at the James Beard Foundation have launched a Food and Beverage Industry Relief Fund to provide financial assistance to independent businesses.
26 March 2020
We know that this newsletter is crossing your desks at a time of great challenges and upheaval. The coronavirus outbreak and our national, local, organizational, community and personal efforts to contain or slow it are causing massive—in many cases unprecedented— disruptions.
26 March 2020
A month ago, we would not have been able to comprehend the world we are living in today—a global crisis we may have believed could happen, but which we still could not (or would not) dare to imagine.
25 March 2020
KK&P Senior Consultant Ben Kerrick was quoted in a March 18 New York Times article on the challenges faced by New York City’s food distribution network. This, and other highlights of what we’ve been reading about COVID-19’s impact on the food system.
20 February 2020
In 2018 and 2019, with the help of Karen Karp & Partners, four NYC-based anti-hunger organizations—New York Common Pantry (NYCP), Project Hospitality, St. John’s Bread and Life (SJBL) and West Side Campaign Against Hunger (WSCAH)—researched and launched a pilot collective purchasing program.
18 February 2020
KK&P is delighted to announce the hiring of Rodney Solomon as the RI Food Policy Council’s Director of Workforce Initiatives.
19 November 2019
Situated on a mountaintop, in the Idanha-a-Nova region of Portugal, on the border of Spain and roughly equidistant from Lisbon, Porto and Madrid, Monsanto is considered “the most typical of Portuguese villages.” A fitting, picturesque setting for the recent Fourth Annual Idanha Food Lab Event.
3 October 2019
The first-ever dataset investigating the funding of female vs. male founded Agri-FoodTech startups was recently released, and Karen Karp & Partners is proud to have been one of three food system leaders who led the charge.