One World Everybody Eats and its network of independent nonprofit cafes will participate in the first annual National Everybody Eats Week from August 25th – August 31st, 2019.  National Everybody Eats Week is a nationally coordinated campaign to help consumers understand the power they have to end hunger in their own community. 

Ten cities across the country have or will proclaim National Everybody Eats Week, August 25th – 31st.  Participating cities include: Boone, North Carolina; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Danville, Kentucky; Edmore, Michigan; Fort Worth, Texas; Johnson City, Tennessee; Rochelle, Illinois; Versailles, Kentucky; Wytheville, Virginia; and Xenia, Ohio.   

Mira Vista United Church of Christ and Planting Justice organizations come together to purchase vacant nursery to build a community meeting space, nonprofit cafe, and revitalized nursery.

“…it will have a “pay-what-you-can” café that will offer coffee drinks and grab-and-go food options made by local food entrepreneurs. The Good Table has been learning how to establish such a café from One World Everybody Eats, a Texas-based nonprofit dedicated to increasing food security that has built a pay-what-you-can nonprofit restaurant model.” —Deonna Anderson, Berkeleyside NOSH.

Read more at www.berkeleyside.com.

F.A.R.M. Cafe in Boone, North Carolina turns 7!

“I am amazed and humbled by the compassionate, supportive community that has allowed F.A.R.M. Cafe to be a part of the High Country. When we opened our doors in May of 2012, no one could have imagined all the stories and friendships that would emerge in this place where all are fed regardless of means”, says Renee Boughman, Chef and Executive Director of the cafe.

“Moving into our 8th year we can only say thank you for all of the volunteer hours, financial donations and emotional support you have given the cafe. You have opened the door to aid your neighbors struggling to find a place where they can be safe, enjoy a nutritious meal, and take a moment to breathe despite their circumstances. We celebrate this anniversary by sincerely thanking you, our generous community.”

Read more at www.hcpress.com.

One World Everybody Eats and its network of independent nonprofit cafes will participate in the first annual National Everybody Eats Week from August 25th – August 31st, 2019.  National Everybody Eats Week is a nationally coordinated campaign to help consumers understand the power they have to end hunger in their own community. 

One World Everybody Eats encourages all Americans to dine at a One World Everybody Eats café during National Everybody Eats Week.  The organization boasts nearly 50 cafés in its network.  You can find your local café at www.oneworldeverybodyeats.org.  If you can’t find a local café near you, consider donating online at www.oneworldeverybodyeats.org to help launch one near you.    

Taste Community Restaurant officially served its 1,000th brunch guest and is quickly becoming a favorite brunch spot in Fort Worth.  The organization launched its weekend pay-what-you-can brunch service on Sunday, April 21st.

Taste Community Restaurant’s pay-what-you-can brunch service is the first step in expanding its service hours.  The organizations efforts were initiated by seed funding from the United Way of Tarrant County’s Kernel Program.  In November 2018, Taste Project pitched for seed funding and was awarded $10,000 to expand it’s pay-what-you-can lunch program already in operation.

“We are thrilled to be able to serve and help even more people in our community,” says Jeff Williams, Taste Project Founder and Executive Director.  “A few extra hours each month may not sound like much; but, for folks in need it means greater access to healthy and nutritious food served with dignity.”

Read more at www.tasteproject.org.

Provision Community Restaurant announces the site of its pay-what-you-can restaurant scheduled to open in July, 2019!

Future cafe operator, Anna Wienke, says “[this building is] even bigger and better than what we had envisioned, as we have the opportunity to foster the growth of aspiring entrepreneurs in the food industry through our shared commercial kitchen." 

Read more at www.citypages.com.

Spark Community Cafe is featured on local NBC Channel 18 in Lexington, Kentucky.

Watch more at www.lex18.com.

Christie Melby-Gibbons’ goal in opening Tricklebee Cafe in Milwaukee was to create access to healthy foods.

To Melby-Gibbons, food is more than something to eat; it is an opportunity. She has used food to lift spirits, strengthen a community and show her neighborhood that someone cares for their well-being. "This is my real calling,” she says. “To get food out of the waste stream and into people’s bellies, especially in places where people can’t afford it... So, we did it and it’s working.”

Read more at www.shepherdexpress.com

One World Everybody Eat’s longest running cafe, SAME Cafe, is the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce’s 2019 Small Nonprofit Organization of the Year.

“Healthy food is not a luxury. Healthy food is a right, and we want to make sure that everybody understands that – and everybody has the right to access healthy food,” said Letisha Steele, Chef and Operations Manager for SAME Café.

Read more at www.denverchamber.org.

One World Everybody Eats’, Table Grace Cafe in Omaha Nebraska, has developed a musical based on the daily operation’s of its pay-what-you-can cafe through its ‘Music with A Mission’ program.

“The vision behind ‘Table Grace: The Musical’ is to get the mission of Table Grace out in the community in a new way,” she said. “It’s nourishing bodies and souls through music.”

Initial readings are Saturday April 27th, and Saturday May 4th.

Read more at www.omaha.com.