Mission & Values
Our Mission
Our mission is to create a healthier and more sustainable community by providing local, organic, and socially responsible products, and by offering education around nutrition, environmental stewardship, and consumer awareness.
We believe in doing business differently, with integrity, accountability, and care for people and the planet.
Our Commitment to Solidarity & Collective Care
Community Market has always been shaped by the belief that food, care, and community are inseparable. As a worker-run, not-for-profit organization, how we show up for our workers and our neighbors matters, especially in moments of harm, fear, and uncertainity. The following statement reflects our ongoing commitment to solidarity and collective care, and to supporting both our workers and community in acting accoring to their values.
Community Market stands in solidarity with our immigrant community and with all people whose basic human rights, safety, and dignity are under threat. We unequivocally denounce ICE and the harm its policies and practices cause to individuals, families, and communities across our country. We reject systems that rely on fear, detention, and separation.
We believe collective action, including strikes and other forms of collective action, is a legitimate and necessary response when basic human rights, safety, and democracy are under attack.
We fully support our workers in their right to participate in collective action, including strikes, in whatever way feels right to them. Their safety, autonomy, and voices matter, and we stand behind their right to act according to their values and conscience.
As a small, worker-run organization, we hold two responsibilities at once: to speak out for justice and human dignity, and to protect the livelihoods of the peole who make this place possible. Supporting justice means caring for people beyond our doors and caring for the workers inside them.
This organization was founded out of activism. It was built as a way to challenge systems that weren't serving our community and to create something more just and accessible. Organizing, speaking out, and building mutual aid networks is how this organization began. We are stewards of that work, carrying it forward means continuing to show up and take a stand, even when it's uncomfortable. That isn't a shift for us. It's who we are.
In Solidarity,
Community Market
Our Commitment to Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
We are committed to building a just and inclusive organization that centers equity in everything we do.
As an organization, Community Market humbly recognizes the need to practice basic justice, equity, and nonviolence in our everyday activities, professionally and personally.
We therefore accept the responsibility to dismantle racist systems and gender disparities, as well as any ideologies that unwittingly betray our common human rights and needs, within our scope of service.
In practice, we aim to cultivate the diversity and inclusivity that will serve to sustain healthy human interdependence. To provide an oppression-free and equitable work environment is our goal in serving the greater community.
Land Acknowledgement
Community Market acknowledges that we operate on the traditional lands of Indigenous peoples. We recognize the long histories and continued presence of Native communities in the places we now live and work.
Santa Rosa
We acknowledge that our Santa Rosa store is located on the ancestral land of the Pomo, Miwok, and Wappo people, who have stewarded this land for thousands of years.
We offer our respect to their elders past and present, and to all Indigenous peoples today.
Sebastopol
We acknowledge that our Sebastopol store sits on the traditional lands of the Southern Pomo and Miwok people.
We honor the enduring relationship between Indigenous peoples and their homelands, and we commit to learning and acting in solidarity.