Grantees

EATS stands for Eat Awesome Things and began in 2013 concerned with the goal of removing the 15 most harmful ingredients from school lunch. Fast forward to where scratch-made lunch has now become a reality in all seven of the school district’s elementary and middle schools. With school lunch now on a healthier path, EATS remains dedicated to its mission of empowering and growing healthy communities with fun, food, and nutrition advocacy.

The Eco-Justice Center began in 2004 with a mission of environmental education and its vision is sowing community for a fertile future. Our 15-acre farm is open to the public and serves the Southeastern Wisconsin community as a model of environmental stewardship and sustainability. We protect and provide this unique setting which supports our leadership and educational programming focused on justice, healing, and right relationships among all Creation. We believe systemic change comes from our interactions and engagement with the youth who attend our field trips, summer camps, and school and work programs. The Eco-Justice Center provides opportunities for youth to participate in hands-on garden-based food and nutrition lessons that connect them to the earth, their environment, and how their food is grown and distributed. Farm produce is sold locally at Racine area farmers markets and donated to local food pantries.

The Eco-Justice Center began in 2004 with a mission of environmental education and its vision is sowing community for a fertile future. Our 15-acre farm is open to the public and serves the Southeastern Wisconsin community as a model of environmental stewardship and sustainability. We protect and provide this unique setting which supports our leadership and educational programming focused on justice, healing, and right relationships among all Creation. We believe systemic change comes from our interactions and engagement with the youth who attend our field trips, summer camps, and school and work programs. The Eco-Justice Center provides opportunities for youth to participate in hands-on garden-based food and nutrition lessons that connect them to the earth, their environment, and how their food is grown and distributed. Farm produce is sold locally at Racine area farmers markets and donated to local food pantries.

We are a community of people committed to creating peer-led, community-funded, transformational change. Our work aims to build immediate and increased equity throughout Portland’s BIPOC (black, indigenous, and people of color) communities through a combination of fund development and network building opportunities that center economic equity.

Farm Fresh Rhode Island is growing a local food system that values the environment, health and quality of life of New England farmers and eaters. Farm Fresh Rhode Island began offering Bonus Bucks for SNAP shoppers at its own 8 farmers markets in 2009, funded completely with corporate, foundation and individual donations. In 2015, Farm Fresh signed on to a multi-state funding program that allowed us to offer Bonus Bucks at markets statewide. And in 2019, Farm Fresh increased the amount of incentive available from 40% of a SNAP purchase to 100% of a SNAP purchase, with the support of federal funding. Bonus Bucks bring fresh local foods within reach for many families by making the healthy choice the easy choice, while at the same time creating viable farmer markets in low-income neighborhoods.

At Farmshare Austin, our mission is to grow a healthy, just and equitable local food system by increasing community food access and cultivating new farmers. We envision a future of resilient local food economies that ensures equitable access to food and to the resources needed to farm. Farmshare Austin builds bridges between the produce grown on our 10-acre certified organic farm in Eastern Travis County and food access programs reaching food insecure communities in Central Texas.

The mission of Double Trellis Food Initiative is to serve as an immediate stopgap for the most food-insecure individuals in marginalized communities of Philadelphia in a way that is both culturally relevant and grounded in human dignity and social justice, while also working to directly address some of the root causes of food insecurity through our workforce development program, educational nutrition workshops, and food justice advocacy work.

FFT’s goal is to alleviate weekend food insecurity among students whose families are low income. FFT’s only program is to provide food so students experiencing poverty can leave school on Friday afternoon with the confidence that they will be able to prepare and eat simple meals throughout the weekend. In its elementary and middle schools, FFT’s volunteers pack and distribute PowerSacks that contain nonperishable items that can feed a family of four two meals, plus snacks. In all high schools and some middle and elementary schools, FFT operates food pantries where students can select the foods they prefer. The program delivers food to each school throughout the school year (36 weeks). Deliveries are made to each school every other Friday so FFT can serve more schools than it would otherwise be able to, given funding limitations. However, because almost every family has at least two students attending the school, most families will receive two PowerSacks, which will provide enough food for two weekends.

The Food Project’s mission is to create a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system. Our community produces healthy food for underserved residents of Greater Boston and the North Shore in Massachusetts.

FoodCorps believes in a future where every child—regardless of race, place, or class—gets the nourishment they need to thrive. We partner with people dedicated to creating that future: from educators and school leaders, to national alliances and community-based organizations, to our AmeriCorps service members and students themselves. We collaborate with these peers to demonstrate the power of food in schools and ensure our country’s systems work together to nurture every child’s potential.  For nearly a decade, FoodCorps has collaborated with school communities to connect kids to healthy food. Our culturally responsive direct service program centers our community partners’ visions to transform schools into places where kids learn about healthy food, fall in love with it, and eat it every day. We leverage our school-by-school impact to influence changes in the systems, policies, and culture that shape our kids' relationship with food.