The Good Acre is led by farmers who have been in your boots, instructors who have cooked in the kitchens, and specialists who have trained in the trenches. With a dedicated team with decades of experience in farming, logistics, training and culinary arts, we blend all the right ingredients to be your stable partner, expert resource and trusted guide. Our mission: we connect and strengthen farmers, food makers, and communities through good food.
Community Driven is a registered 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit organization operating in the Twin Cities. Community Driven's mission is to help ensure that all people deserve and have all of their basic needs met from education, housing, food, and long-term stability through public education and direct charitable support.
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.
Youth Farm Project is dedicated to healing our food system through an anti-racist organizing lens by bringing together youth to explore environmental and social injustice within the food system. Our mission is to engage youth from diverse social and economic backgrounds as integral participants in building equitable local food communities.
YMCA Southcoast’s mission is the improvement of the spiritual, mental, social, educational, and physical conditions of all persons. It has been working to provide health and social services to thousands of youth, families, and individuals throughout the southcoast region for 150 years. Sharing the Harvest, a project of YMCA Southcoast, was established in 2006 as a grassroots effort to alleviate hunger, promote volunteerism, and teach community members about food insecurity and farming.
The Rhode Island Food Policy Council is building a more equitable, accessible, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable food system in Rhode Island. Founded on October 24, 2011 and established as a 501(c)3 nonprofit in 2021, RIFPC serves as the backbone network for the people, businesses, government agencies and community organizations that make up Rhode Island’s food system.
DC Central Kitchen (DCCK) is an iconic nonprofit and social enterprise that combats hunger and poverty through job training and job creation. The organization provides hands-on culinary job training for individuals facing high barriers to employment while creating living wage jobs and bringing nutritious, dignified food where it is most needed. DCCK’s social ventures include serving scratch-cooked farm-to-school meals in DC schools, delivering fresh, affordable produce to corner stores in neighborhoods without supermarkets, and operating a fast-casual cafe.
SPROUT supports small-scale and sustainable farmers in Louisiana with technical and social support to build a stronger community of growers and help all New Orleanians be part of a community food system. We work for community control of food, recognizing that food sovereignty requires everyone is given access to locally produced, culturally relevant food. Our work addresses food access problems at their root by giving New Orleanians a stake in their own food, from production to composting.
Our mission is to advance the social, economic, and environmental sustainability of Monterey Bay fisheries. We increase public access to healthy, sustainably caught seafood while preserving an integral part of our region's economy, heritage, and biodiversity. We collaborate with the fishing industry, government, non-profits, food service, and food systems partners to achieve our vision of a thriving and resilient fishing industry with seafood as a cornerstone of our local food system.
The Rhode Island Public Health Institute (RIPHI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization; our mission is to reduce health disparities in Rhode Island and beyond. RIPHI oversees public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, and trains students and public health practitioners.