Roots & Dreams and Mustard Seeds Inc. believes that economic participation and ownership is key to the empowerment of our most vulnerable community members. This type of participatory cooperative model aspires to true equity and justice, where everyone has a voice in their work, housing, local, state and national government and can easily access basic needs that extends to social, educational and artistic endeavors. Organized and led by members with lived experience of poverty, projects include co-op business development, community owned real-estate, co-op housing development, food justice, mutual aid, youth and wellness programming, and a community owned real-estate project that holds our community center.