People want the product.
Customers are choosing our African food, pastries, catering, and restaurant experience. Demand gives the mission an operating foundation.
Boston Innovation Community
A nonprofit model built to give back
A restaurant that feeds a bigger mission.
We operate Teranga Grill, a nonprofit African restaurant. Food and catering generate revenue; after operating costs, 100% of our profits are reinvested back into underserved communities through meals at no cost and support for aspiring entrepreneurs who lack access to opportunity.
Meals
100% Free
For underserved communities
“It takes us to save us.”
That belief is the operating model. Customers support the restaurant. The restaurant supports the mission. The mission turns everyday business activity into meals, opportunity, and a stronger local economy.
A Bridge Across GenerationsCredibility behind the mission
Support that helps a mission move forward.
Josh Kraft, shown here standing with Ahmad Barry Jr., is one of Boston Innovation Community’s biggest donors and supporters. His belief in the mission represents the kind of established Boston leadership standing beside a grassroots effort built around food, opportunity, and community.
Why his support matters
His long-standing commitment to Boston communities, youth development, and neighborhood opportunity reflects the kind of partnership BIC hopes to bring together around this next chapter — established community leadership standing beside a grassroots mission focused on feeding people and opening doors.
Proof before expansion
We proved the model. Now we need room to scale it.
Teranga Grill began as a way to connect a real business with a real community mission. Customers responded. The food, pastries, catering, and experience created traction — and that traction is now bigger than the space we operate from.
20,000meals served in just 6 months
We outgrew the space.
The current location limits how much we can cook, cater, teach, gather, and give back. Growth has become a capacity problem.
A permanent home for the whole mission.
Ownership gives BIC the room to grow the businesses that fund the mission while adding education, entrepreneurship, gathering, and more meals at no cost.
Teranga Grill is proof. The building is the scale.Why the building matters →
The Peter James Condakes Building · Nubian Square
Why this building. Why now.
We are not seeking a building simply to have more space. We are seeking a permanent community asset where revenue-generating businesses and community programs can reinforce one another under one roof.
In Loving Memory ofPeter James Condakes Building
African Culinary Arts School
For many aspiring cooks, the missing ingredient is not talent — it is access. As African cuisine earns more attention across Boston and Massachusetts, BIC wants to create a professional place where people can turn family recipes, cultural knowledge, and passion into real culinary skill, confidence, and a path into the food business.
Dining Restaurant
African dining is becoming a stronger part of Boston’s food story as students, families, professionals, and visitors look for authentic flavors and new experiences. Teranga Grill has already seen that appetite firsthand. The next restaurant is designed to make that experience bigger, warmer, and more memorable — if you can’t travel to Africa, Africa will come to you.
French Bakery
French pastries and bakery products have broad, year-round demand. We want to bring that market into the building as a distinctive customer draw, a training opportunity, and another revenue stream that strengthens the mission.
Social Hall
A warm gathering place where families, community groups, businesses, and neighbors can celebrate, connect, and create opportunities together — keeping community at the center of the building.
Why Nubian Square
Rooted in Roxbury. Built for what comes next.
Why this place matters
Nubian Square carries generations of Black history, local enterprise, and civic life — including the formative years Malcolm X spent in Roxbury. BIC wants that history to remain connected to ownership and opportunity as the district grows.
Build with the history.Partner in what comes next.
History with weight.
Roxbury's story includes Black entrepreneurship, culture, leadership, and the years Malcolm X spent here as a young man.
A district moving again.
Nubian Square is seeing renewed attention. We want local culture, businesses, and community ownership to remain part of that growth.
Our Newbury Street ambition.
Help make Nubian Square a Boston destination for food, culture, entrepreneurship, and gathering — with Roxbury at the center of the value created.
HELP US SAVE THIS COMMUNITY HOME
Help us save the Peter James Condakes Building.
We already have $600,000 committed. Now we must raise the remaining $1.4 million by October 30 to secure this building for Boston Innovation Community.
We are fighting for a different future: a home where meals are served 100% free, at no cost to underserved community members, while creating opportunities through entrepreneurship, culinary training, jobs, and community connection.
$600KCommitted
$1.4MStill to raise
