Grantees

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. Our 19 gardens are filled with healthy, fresh and organic food in beautiful outdoor learning spaces. Much of our produce is consumed by kids while they are participating in our garden-based programs; extra food is distributed to families who need it in our community through various methods and community partners.

Mada's mission is to help people in need with the basic necessities of life while preserving their dignity and helping them become self sufficient members of the community. To educate about poverty and inspire caring, sharing and sensitivity towards those in need. To be a platform for meaningful projects and educational opportunities.

Farm Fresh Rewards helps low-income Mainers put more healthy food on their tables by doubling the buying power of their SNAP benefits. For every $5 of local foods purchased, we provide a $5 voucher toward local fruits and vegetables.
Farm Fresh Rewards vouchers enable customers to stretch their dollars while contributing to the local economy and feeling greater control over their choices—an empowering way to get more food on the table. While food banks help to bridge this gap, the experience can be difficult and isolating for some low-income residents. Providing increased purchasing power for our participants strengthens their sense of community and agency. As one customer shared, “This program is on many levels a life-saver, in that I get to eat good quality food, I get to support my local farmers and vendors, and in my mind all of that is a win-win.”

MOFGA is a broad-based community that educates about and advocates for organic agriculture, illuminating its interdependence with a healthy environment, local food production, and thriving communities. MOFGA envisions a future of healthy ecosystems, communities, people and economies sustained by the practice of organic agriculture.

Mandela Partners uses food to empower communities of color and communities of limited means to build health, wealth, well-being, and economic opportunities in their own neighborhoods. Founded in West Oakland, CA in 2004, our work responds directly to the longstanding inequities our communities face – an extractive food system that withholds access to fresh foods, a racist legacy of redlining and economic disinvestment, and exclusion from long-term wealth-building opportunities.

Founded in 1971 by a group of people who felt that people should always have access to food, Manna has been providing food assistance to those in our community who are in need.

Our mission is simple — “To feed hungry people in the Conejo Valley.” Manna served approximately 7,532 people in 2019.

The Massachusetts Food System Collaborative (hereinafter, the Collaborative) supports collective action toward an equitable, sustainable, resilient, and connected local food system in Massachusetts.

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. MATTERbox snack packs and meal kits were developed to address the challenge that due to obesity, unhealthy eating and physical inactivity, kids today may have a shorter life expectancy than their parents, especially for people living at or below the poverty level. In response to this alarming trend, MATTER partnered with dietitians to craft the MATTERbox. Working with community partners, MATTERbox snack packs and meal kits are distributed to kids and families in need.

Matthew 25's mission is to improve the health of people and neighborhoods by investing in quality affordable housing, healthy food, educational opportunities, and community building.

We exist to give Hope to our neighbors experiencing homelessness and those living in poverty.

Moments of Hope Outreach operates a homeless outreach, provides emergency shelter to our unsheltered neighbors, operates a food pantry, and hosts a weekly community outreach luncheon rain or shine with a mobile pantry, health screenings, bike shop, clothing ministry, homeless services, and prayer. We began as a one-man homeless outreach in late 2014, began serving Saturday lunches in late 2015, became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 2016, launched our emergency shelter program in 2017, and opened our food pantry in January 2019. “Mo Hope” serves Hanover and Henrico counties, and Richmond north of the James River in Virginia.