2020

CORA is a nonprofit organization that serves residents in need of food within Chatham County. Our ultimate goal at CORA is to build a community without hunger by soliciting, collecting, and purchasing food for distribution through our Food Pantry. CORA is meeting food insecurity needs for families making 200% of the poverty level ($51,500/year for a family of four). CORA is a critical source of relief that will provide safe and nutritious foods to approximately 18,000 food-insecure individuals in Chatham County 2019/2020.

Since 2007, Ceres’ core program, Healing Meals for Healthy Communities, has created and delivered organic, nourishing meals for thousands of people experiencing health crisis. With an overarching commitment to Food as Medicine, Ceres meals help our clients with serious illness by relieving stress, preventing malnutrition, and connecting nourishing food to health. We use all organic foods, mostly fresh and local, to maximize our meals’ healing power and reduce exposure to toxins. Notably, we are the only meal service that puts youth at the heart of this work.

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

LCSG promotes healthy behaviors, increases nutrition knowledge, and builds skills for cooking and gardening with kids and families in Longview and Kelso, WA. Because of us, families have increased access to fresh, organic, locally grown produce, regardless of their ability to pay, their ability or interest in gardening or their lack of access to fresh foods because of where they live. Each day, we are meeting children where they already learn and play, providing them the skills, exposure and excitement to foster healthy habits that last a lifetime.

The Homeless Garden Project is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that has spent 30 years providing the essential business of growing food for the community and human services to those experiencing homelessness. HGP has been growing and innovating for better and more sustainable services providing job training, transitional employment and support services to people who are experiencing homelessness.

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.

The mission of the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS or the Center) is to research, develop, and advance sustainable food and agricultural systems that are environmentally sound, economically viable, socially responsible, nonexploitative, and that serve as a foundation for future generations. Our certified-organic 33-acre farm and 3-acre garden are used for undergraduate education, training in organic farming and gardening, and research on organic production methods.

Seed Savers Exchange’s mission is to conserve and promote America’s culturally diverse but endangered garden and food crop heritage for current and future generations by collecting, growing, and sharing heirloom seeds and plants. Requests for seeds are flowing in via multiple channels, and we are working to keep our employees safe while meeting the sharply increased demand for seeds—symbols of security, hope, and resilience—in these uncertain times. Enhancing access to open-pollinated seeds directly impacts access to fresh, healthy food.

Organic Seed Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that advances ethical seed solutions to meet food and farming needs in a changing world. Our work ensures an abundant and diverse supply of ecologically grown seed, tended in perpetuity by skilled and diverse communities of seed stewards.

MATTER is on a mission to move people forward by giving them a chance at a healthier life. Internationally, we give hospitals the tools they need to care for the sick and injured in dignified ways and create sustainable farms. Opportunity also reaches people through the MATTER Innovation Hub, a portable learning environment that can implemented anywhere in the world. In the U.S. we activate healthy eating for kids and families through the MATTERbox, a novel solution to food insecurity and nutrition education.