Roger Wareham: The benefit is being able to access some grants; we had a grant from BET [ Black Entertainment Television] at one point. We have not been able to access as many grants as we should because we are a black organization and people are very clear what our position is around stuff. So I think that's probably been a factor in terms of not being able to get as many grants as we might otherwise. We've been able to survive because we have a core of people who volunteer to do this work, nobody gets paid either here or in the market, and that's why we've been able to sustain it is we have people who are committed to continuing this as an important symbol of what it is black folks are able to do in the interest of black folks. If we were paying folks we would have gone under, so this is a part of people's political commitment to provide the highest quality of life to people in our community. This has been all volunteer from 1988 when we were first setting up the market] out on the street, All of the funding comes internally, from fundraisers and people in the community. 

 Sistas Place and the market have been an anchor for the re-gentrification of this area, because when we came here this was a crack block, people were just doing whatever they wanted. We cleared all that out in our area and we said this isn't going to happen. In an ironic sort of way it has created the conditions for folks trying to get us outta here. They're trying to get us outta here, that's why we're in a different location because the landlord… there's too much community support for us so they're doing it gradually. We're looking to raise the money to get our own spot because you've gotta control your own space.