SPROUT supports established and developing small-scale and sustainable farmers in Louisiana with technical and social support to build a stronger, more equipped community of growers in Louisiana and help all New Orleanians be part of a community food system.
Our mission is to ensure sustainable fisheries, resilient communities, and a healthy ocean for years to come. Our 10-year vision is that Monterey Bay is home to a thriving fishing community, supported by local consumers, and contributing to a resilient regional food system. To achieve this, we are putting more local food on local dinner tables by increasing food equity and security, supporting working waterfronts, ensuring dollars spent locally are reinvested locally, and building community.
The Rhode Island Public Health Institute’s mission is to eliminate health disparities in Rhode Island and beyond. RIPHI oversees direct service programs, policy advocacy, research, and trains the public health workforce. RIPHI’s diverse team of public health experts, researchers, and medical providers work collaboratively to eliminate health disparities, solve complex public health challenges, and improve community health.
The mission of FoodRecovery.org is to recover surplus food that would be sent to landfills. While hunger continues to be one of the most urgent issues, the United States wastes 119 billion pounds of food. According to the USDA, over one third of food produced goes to waste, while 1 in 8 individuals are food insecure. The issue of hunger and wasted food seem counterintuitive, and FoodRecovery.org exists to connect these issues to fight food insecurity and protect our environment. All for free.
Founded in 2017 to spark climate action within the grocery industry, the Climate Collaborative grew into an independent 501(c)(3) in 2023, and now offers ongoing education, policy engagements, and collaborations. Our mission is to activate rigorous climate action in pursuit of a world nourished by a just and regenerative grocery industry. We provide leaders with tools to operationalize best practices, resources for pre-competitive problem-solving, and pathways toward meaningful climate action.
National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) is the nation's premier corporate supplier diversity organization, leading in capacity development, promotion, networking, acceleration, and connection to business opportunities for certified minority business enterprises (MBEs). Our mission is to accelerate economic growth for MBEs across all sectors of the American economy by driving opportunities and collaboration between government agencies, corporations, and minority-owned businesses.
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.
Hope & Main’s mission is to empower an inclusive community of entrepreneurs to jumpstart and cultivate thriving food businesses that are the foundation of a more just, sustainable, and resilient local food economy. As RI’s original, most comprehensively equipped, and experienced food business incubator, we have assisted 500 plus aspiring food-preneurs of all means and backgrounds to launch their businesses since 2014. Of the entities launched at Hope & Main, 45 percent are successful and still in business.
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 residents of the city and suburbs, provides youth leadership opportunities, and inspires and supports others to create change in their own communities.
Kitchen of Purpose uses the power of food to change lives. An agent for social change, Kitchen of Purpose generates workforce and entrepreneurship development and provides healthy food assistance in the D.C. metro area. Our training programs create career pathways via bilingual, vocational and technical education. Together, the Kitchen of Purpose community–staff, students, entrepreneurs, partners, supporters–create employment opportunities, launch new food businesses, and work to end hunger.