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City Fresh

City Fresh is building a bridge between social justice and the local food movement. Help us grow!

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City Fresh

City Fresh

City Fresh

City Fresh

City Fresh

City Fresh is building a bridge between social justice and the local food movement. Help us grow!

City Fresh is building a bridge between social justice and the local food movement. Help us grow!

City Fresh is building a bridge between social justice and the local food movement. Help us grow!

City Fresh is building a bridge between social justice and the local food movement. Help us grow!

Nick Swetye
Nick Swetye
Nick Swetye
Nick Swetye
1 Campaign |
Cleveland, United States
$5,598 USD 44 backers
9% of $60,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Choose your Perk

City Fresh Bumper Sticker

$25 USD
Est. Shipping
June 2015
5 claimed

Hand-Screened Bag

$50 USD
Est. Shipping
June 2015
12 out of 200 of claimed

Guided Tour of the GJF

$100 USD
0 out of 50 of claimed

Engraved Memorial Stone

$250 USD
Est. Shipping
September 2015
0 out of 200 of claimed

Full Season Single Share

$500 USD
Est. Shipping
June 2015
1 out of 1000 of claimed

Full Season Family Share

$750 USD
Est. Shipping
June 2015
1 out of 600 of claimed

Share plus PIE

$1,250 USD
Est. Shipping
June 2015
1 out of 50 of claimed

Gourmet Farm Dinner for Two

$5,000 USD
0 claimed

10th Anniversary of City Fresh

More than 49 million American's live in food desert communities, where grocery stores have closed and left residents without access to fresh, healthy food.  Since 2006, City Fresh has worked in these communities to offer low-income residents local, sustainably-grown fruits and vegetables in weekly share baskets. Your contribution subsidizes shares in these communities and keeps small, local farmers growing.

The campaign video is from our presentation at Social Venture Partner’s 2014 BigBANG! Event. We went on to win the competition, open 18 Fresh Stop locations, deliver more than 11,000 baskets of fresh, local food in our region, and inspire more than 800 students to come to our farm, learn about where their food comes from and to consider sustainable farming as a future career. 


Our price model, which relies on volunteerism and philanthropic support, provides top quality local fruits and vegetables at approximately 1/4 the cost of grocery store prices.  And yet, we can return more than $0.80 of customer dollars to the farmer who grew the food - compared with an average of just $0.10 at box-store grocers.

With 4 full and part-time staff, 20 farmers, more than 100 volunteers, and a box truck that runs on waste vegetable oil, we have delivered more than 100,000 of these baskets in the last 9 years.

Help us continue to build more justice into our regional food systems!


What We Need

We need the funds on hand to start our season, pay farmers, spread the word about our program through community events and social and print media, pay for rent, utilities, communications, get our trucks in tip-top shape, and pay our small team - in short - we need money with no strings attached, or general operating funds.

Our 2015 Budget breaks down as follows:
EXPENSES
153,000  • Food Purchases
130,000  • Staff Wages
 38,000   • Taxes
 15,000   • Fleet Repair and Fuel
 12,500   • Rent, Communications, Utilities
 10,000   • Depreciation
   8,500   • Market & Event Supplies
   7,500   • Insurance
   5,500   • Improvements/Upgrades
380,000 • TOTAL EXPENSES

INCOME
220,000  • Share Sales
 30,000   • Events, Classes, & Tours
 80,000   • Grants and Corporate Contributions
 60,000  • Individual Giving Campaign
390,000 • TOTAL INCOME


2015 is our 10th anniversary season.  Help us grow the low-income share program, reach more neighborhoods, and continue teaching young people about their food, the land on which it grows, and the ideas fueling the local food movement.

What You Get

 

Other Ways You Can Help

If you can't contribute, that doesn't mean you can't help:

  • HELP US MAKE SOME NOISE - Share this campaign with folks you know, tell them why you feel our work is important, and help us spread a wider net.
  • Offer to VOLUNTEER at a Fresh Stop or our Farm for all or part of the summer. It's a few hours in the evenings, and a TON of fun - we always need the help and love welcoming fresh faces.
  • SIGN UP FOR A SHARE - our full-price single share and family share rates just cover costs, but they keep us delivering year after after. If you can't make a tax-deductible contribution, consider signing up for a regular-priced share for the 2015 season.

Thank you SO MUCH for your kind support!




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