Philabundance Takes on “Food Desert” in Chester, Penn. - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active an engaged democracy.

Philabundance Takes on “Food Desert” in Chester, Penn. - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active an engaged democracy.: n Chester, the plan to establish a new grocery is nonprofit from start to finish. The nonprofit emergency food aid group Philabundance has purchased a vacant building that hosted the last supermarket in the city before it closed in 2001. Philabundance plans to open a 13,000 square foot “Fare and Square” grocery there in about a year’s time.