Grantees

18 Reasons is a nonprofit community cooking school on a mission to empower our community with the confidence and creativity needed to buy, cook, and eat good food every day. We offer three food education programs: our 18th Street Kitchen program, which raises money through ticket sales; and our free Cooking Matters and Nourishing Pregnancy programs for families in low-income neighborhoods, which offer cooking and nutrition education, grocery donations, maternal health support, and peer support.

The African Alliance of Rhode Island (AARI) was founded in 2004 to promote unity within the African Communities in Rhode Island, advocate for the rights of Africans in RI, and educate the American public about Africa while elevating the profile of the continent and facilitating linkages between Americans and Africans. Today, AARI provides a range of services to low-income people of all origins and ethnicities, including many refugees and immigrants living in Providence.

ALBA's mission is to create economic opportunities for limited-resource farmers through land-based training in organic farm management.

Alchemist CDC is a mission-driven organization that connects Sacramento area communities to land, food, and opportunity toward a vision in which all neighborhoods are vibrant, equitable, healthy, and diverse. We are best known for enhancing the quality of life in under-resourced communities by improving access to nutritious foods, implementing community-supported public green spaces, and fostering economic self-sufficiency through business entrepreneurship.

We utilize the Lakota philosophy of Mitakuye Oyasin, "we are all related," as our guiding principle, to unite, reinvest in and empower our communities. We use traditional teachings along with modern and technological knowledge to advance education, promote culture, further self-sufficiency especially food sovereignty, and to encourage reconciliation and cooperation among all peoples, creating pathways to living in unity.

First Nations Kitchen is primarily a justice-focused, Gospel-based ministry. Its primary intent is to provide food to indigenous people who would not otherwise have access to high-quality, fresh organic food in an environment of radical hospitality and cultural empowerment.

The Berkeley Food Network seeks to end hunger and poor nutrition by using innovative, community-centered solutions to build a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable food system.

Bessie Green’s mission is to serve our neighbors with compassion and dignity. We have been in operation since 1978. Over the last three years, our soup kitchen has served over 58,000 meals to people in our community. We also provide a clothing barn and food pantry. Bessie Green is doing all it can to supply fresh food for those in need. Our goal is to increase the number of people we serve by 50% by the end of the year. Bessie Green is continuing to serve more people every week. As the coronavirus has shut down businesses and laid-off workers, our attendance has spiked.  The goal of this project is to supply fresh produce to a designated food desert, which includes a vulnerable populations. As our numbers grow, we need to improve our kitchen’s ability to provide healthy fresh food and preserve that food after.

Blackstone-Millville Food Pantry works to ensure that everyone in our community has food.

Carol’s Kitchen, Inc. is a 501(c)3 charity that has served over 800,000 meals since it began operations in 1998, providing meals to the hungry in the San Gorgonio Pass communities of Beaumont, Banning and Cabazon in Southern California without lists, interviews, questions or judgements. Today, our volunteers operate six kitchens a week at three locations and serve an average of 5,000 meals per month to anyone who is hungry--regardless of race, gender, creed, or age.