We’ re excited to continue blowing up this fundraiser in the coming years. The funds went towards purchasing PPE and school supplies for each child to cope with pandemic-style schooling. MLK is a community school that serves kids from underserved, underprivileged communities, including ours. With your help, we donated $6,400 to the Parent-Teacher Organization at the school across the street from us, MLK Jr. Stop giving Jeff Bezos your money and come shop with us! Second Annual Fundraiser to Benefit MLK Jr Elementary We were surprised to see this very-slapped-together pandemic pivot contributed over 10% of our sales last year. Ministries’ Thanksgiving dinner drive! This donation was made possible by the generous funding of Providence Presbyterian Church and our Sysco rep Tom, who moved mountains and cut through red tape to get us turkeys delivered at cost during a pandemic year when turkeys were scarce. I am especially proud that we were able to finagle a gift of 132 turkeys for Camp St. Getting a call from them when they know our team or I can be helpful lets us know that we’re an appreciated resource to our community. (FYI This work is ongoing, and you can support it with your purchase!)īefriending our neighborhood activists Jackie, Donver, Eugene & Helen, and brainstorming ways to work together, has been a gift for us. Every week since April, we have committed to 30 grocery bag donations for their clients, whose limited access to fresh produce was further curtailed by the pandemic.
Ministries, our local neighborhood food pantry.
This is rewarding work! What made me really excited about expanding our grocery program was the collaboration with Mt. Some customers, like our friend Jesse, have been relying on our Grocery Bag as their main source of food at home. I didn’t think it was going to stick, and I’m glad we tried it anyway because it has stuck. (You can read more about it here and here.) Grocery has been a surprisingly sustainable source of work for us! The best thing to come out of this program (for me) was the unexpected pleasure of signing up to do something you’re not 100% about and then just getting really into it and working hard to make it successful. We did our first run of Grocery Bags on April 2, 2020. Thank you for choosing with us! OK, here we go! Launch of Grocery! You have a choice in which business practices you support every time you open your wallet. We are so dearly grateful for our loyal, encouraging supporters! This magic literally could not happen without you. This is only a sampling of what we accomplished with your support this year.
We get far more out of celebrating the successes we’ve had, and we’ve had a few in spite of the swirling sh*tstorm we’ve collectively endured. But we’re not going to get much out of dwelling on the hardships. If you put a drink in my hand, I’d tell you all the ways in which this year absolutely sucked as far as running a food business. This pandemic has really whooped our asses. As we set our goals/intentions for the new year, we look back at our successes during 2020 and reflect on ways to build on them moving forward. This 2020 recap is a few days overdue, but we would be remiss if we didn’t take the opportunity to reflect on our year as a team and to look forward to the next year.
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