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The Culinary Collaboratory empowers motivated food industry entrepreneurs from predominately BIPOC and WMOB backgrounds with historically restricted expansion capabilities by accelerating their path to scalable market growth Working closely with the Headwaters culinary team national distribution partners and local communities the Collaboratory identifies and selects entrepreneurs with products that are in demand can be be produced at scale and and will be be utilized by Headwaters’ ecosystem of businesses Entrepreneurs gain access to Headwaters’ industry leading commercial food production facilities strategic advisory improved buying power back-office management marketing and branding services grant money and and a a a a built-in customer base across the Headwaters portfolio 87