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Practice Experience Organization

The Bread Project is a social enterprise in Berkeley that provides technical training in the baking industry, as well as general professional development skills, to low-income residents of the Bay Area who have various barriers to employment. Populations with "barriers" can include refugees, immigrants, those with incarceration records, the homeless, the disabled, survivors of domestic abuse, single parents, and more. It is a non-profit organization receives tax-exempt donations, but it also supplements its financial needs with a social enterprise. The Bread Project partners with local Bay Area vendors to provide products for sale. For instance, Ayesha Curry's restaurant International Smoke features our sweet potato buns for their burgers, The Bread Project makes all the edible cookie dough for a cookie dough cafe in San Francisco called DoughP, and Berkeley's own Melo Melo Kava Bar serves Bread Project cookies. Additionally, The Bread Project rents out its commercial kitchen space to women and minority-owned businesses who do not yet have enough capital to invest in their own full kitchen space.

Wikipedia Article Selection

Area

San Francisco Bay Area

For the reasons aforementioned below in the Article Evaluation section, I'll be contributing to the "Economy" section of the San Francisco Bay Area article. There is more evidence available, as well as more room for deeper and relevant analysis, within the San Francisco Bay Area article rather than the East Bay article. I'll be able to draw from greater phenomena (technology industry, startup culture, NGO/non-profit work, anti-poverty frameworks) to discuss the causes and sources of poverty in the region.

Sector

Social economy

I intend to contribute to the currently very sparse United States section, as well as the introductory "Social Enterprise Compass" section which outlines frameworks for the various actors within a social economy. They outline a rigid framework about the legal and financial structures of social enterprises which I intend to expand.

Article Evaluation

Area

San Francisco Bay Area

This article discusses the Bay Area's history thoroughly, however its depiction of the contemporary Bay Area is primarily focused on the booming technology industry. While this is a crucial aspect of the San Francisco Bay Area's current state of being (politically, economically, socially, etc), this does not show the entire picture.

Such a lack is most clearly shown in the Economy section, which again only focuses on how Silicon Valley's startup culture has permeated into the greater San Francisco Bay Area. My goal is to contribute a paragraph or two (or more!) about the realities of poverty in the region. While plenty have benefitted from the technology boom, many have also suffered. From rising housing prices and gentrification to homelessness and low-income communities, I feel that bringing in sources revolving the area's poverty is absolutely crucial for this Wikipedia page to portray a more holistic reality of life in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Sector

Social economy

This article as flagged as having multiple issues, including "needs attention from an expert in economics." My plan is to work on two key projects within the article. Firstly, I'll be re-working and contributing to the United States section, which touches very briefly on the various legal and financial hybridized structures that social enterprises may take. I'd like to discuss more on both the difficulties and flexibilities that are social enterprises encounter given the United States policies on obtaining and maintaining a 501(c)(3) non-profit status.

Additionally, I plan to add to the social enterprise compass which immediately follows the introduction. It outlines a rigid structure, with spectrums in a grid-like structure of socially-driven versus profit-driven operations and financial statuses. I intend to add more about hybridized structures here as well, not refuting but complicated and expounding on the aforementioned framework.

Overall, I hope to expound on the possibilities of a "social economy" such that it does not necessarily represent a right- or left- politically minded ideology; instead, I hope to show that (especially in the United States) a social economy can, in fact, be the solution to many issues of poverty while maintaining a feasible, productive free market economy.

Scholarly Sources

Area

San Francisco Bay Area- Economy

1) Schildt, Chris. “Building a Robust Anti-Poverty Network in the Bay Area.” Community Development, Sept. 2012.

https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/files/wp2012-03.pdf

This paper takes a largely technical approach to "building an anti-poverty network," exploring the various demographic components, employment rates, and social services available within East County. Although this focuses on East County and not necessarily the Bay Area as a whole, the general poverty diagnoses and anti-poverty strategies can be extrapolated and applied to Berkeley and Oakland as well. It discusses policy and power, key aspects of Katz' exploration of the causes of poverty. This report will help provide a framework from which to conceptualize and diagnose the causes of poverty in the Bay Area for the Wikipedia article.

2) Mann, Geoff. “What's in a Day's Wage? Raced Work and the Social Production of Skill.” Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers, and the Political Economy of the American West, by Geoff Mann, University of North Carolina Press, 2007, pp. 81–113.

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=rykiahl0ISsC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=the+bread+project+berkeley&ots=I4F9dLU5-e&sig=zcXS4nPtkr0Hc7l8WYxKrBsgN9Y#v=onepage&q&f=false

The information from this book could be applied to either sector or area, depending on which sections I pull from. It provides a relatively rested (published in 2007) historical analysis of work and wages in the American West. This will help me analyze some of the issues with market-based solutions to poverty that suggest entry into the job market as the way to end poverty. I'm hoping it will give me insight as to one of my greatest concerns about the Bread Project: do entry-level jobs really provide enough to make a living? What are the ultimate cost and benefit when considering the potentially lost state assistance plus time spent at work (i.e., no longer qualify to receive SNAP or unemployment but earns only marginally more while working more hours, thus tacking on costs of childcare, transportation, etc that may not have been costs present prior to employment).

3) Walker, Richard. Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area. PM Press, 2018.http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/search~S1?/XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ/XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBKEY=Bay+Area+poverty/1%2C58%2C58%2CB/frameset&FF=XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ&8%2C8%2C

Given its recent publishing date, this up-to-date source should provide insight as to the contemporary causes of poverty in the Bay Area, which is ever so quickly giving way to the technology industry and its well-paid employees who enter the local areas, push out low-income populations, and gentrify its businesses. I hope Pictures of a Gone City will offer some evidence-based examples and statistics of the effects of gentrification (and technology as a whole) on low-income communities to help shed light on poverty in the Bay Area (and East Bay in particular, if possible) for the Wikipedia article.

4) Plaster, Joseph. Importing injuries: how deregulation and the Wal-Mart poison the Port of Oakland's neighbors and force poverty wages on its truckers.http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/search~S1?/XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ/XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBKEY=Bay+Area+poverty/1%2C58%2C58%2CB/frameset&FF=XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ&18%2C18%2C

This source does sound like it may contain some bias and political skewing. However, if it contains reliable statistics regarding the specific, evidence-based results of Wal-Mart and deregulation on poverty levels, it may offer important insight on how and when poverty emerged in the Bay Area more contemporarily, as well as what catalyzed it.

5) Whittle, Henry J, et al. Food insecurity, chronic illness, and gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area: An example of structural violence in United States public policy. Journal of Social Science and Medicine, 2015.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953615300794

Sector

Social Economy- United States and Social Enterprise Compass

1) Goode, Judith, and Jeff Maskovsky. The New Poverty Studies: the Ethnography of Power, Politics, and Impoverished People in the United States. New York Univ. Press, 2001.http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/search~S1?/Xnew+poverty+studies&searchscope=1&SORT=D/Xnew+poverty+studies&searchscope=1&SORT=D&SUBKEY=new+poverty+studies/1%2C1026%2C1026%2CB/frameset&FF=Xnew+poverty+studies&searchscope=1&SORT=D&1%2C1%2C

This source, too, could be used for either area or sector depending on how specifically it delves into location. It should help contextualize what poverty looks like for different people who have faced different life hurdles - or, as the Bread Project would call them - employment barriers. It appears that this book will touch on the various answers Katz explores to "What kind of a problem is poverty?" because there are sections on gender and class (people problem), economic and cultural reconstruction of low wage labor markets (political economy), and activism (power). I hope to carry these various lenses of interpreting and understanding poverty into my various projects in 105 this year to reference as a framework. This book should be informative in helping me analyze the Bread Project's effectiveness as well as the overall issues with community education that frames employability as the end-all solution to poverty.

2) Pavel, M. Paloma. Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the next American Metropolis. MIT Press, 2009.http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/search~S1?/XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ/XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBKEY=Bay+Area+poverty/1%2C58%2C58%2CB/frameset&FF=XBay+Area+poverty&searchscope=1&SORT=DZ&15%2C15%2C

I aim to specifically focus on the section titled "A global perspective: community-driven solutions to urban poverty" will provide a global perspective that I can use to improve my sector article, Community Education, which was flagged for not representing a global view. I hope to also explore the section titled "Bridging the Bay: University/community collaborations in the San Francisco Bay Area." Again, depending on specific content (need to check out from library), this source could be used for area or sector. This should provide information as to what formal education at universities, which is often far out of reach for the low-income and/or those with employment barriers, actually provide to the communities which keep them afloat.

3) Dees, Gregory. Framing a Theory of Social Entrepreneurship: Building on Two Schools of Practice and Thought.

https://centers.fuqua.duke.edu/case/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2015/02/BookChapter_Dees_FramingTheoryofSE_2006.pdf

4) See Area source #4, which could also be used for sector.

5) Anderson, Beth Battle and Dees, Gregory. For-Profit Social Ventures.

http://catcher.sandiego.edu/items/soles/DeesAndersonCase.pdf

6) Fruchterman, Jim. For Love or Lucre.Stanford Social Innovation Review.

https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1472574/files/73651631?module_item_id=15638455

Summarizing and Synthesizing

Area: San Francisco Bay Area

Here, begin to summarize and synthesize what you are beginning to learn from your sources. Here, don't tackle each source separately, but synthesize them. Aim to articulate key historical events and relevant public debate you're learning about (this is usually part of your area research, and also part of applying Fraser) and key debates/different approaches (usually part of your sector research) within which or vis-á-vis you might situate your PE org's approach.

Drafting

Here, begin to draft sections to add to Wikipedia Article and be sure to add citations using citation tool.