Causes: Animal Services, Animals, Civil Rights, Food, Food Programs
Mission: A vegan food justice nonprofit that promotes veganism, fights for farm workers, works on lack of access to healthy foods in communities of color, and encourages people not to buy chocolate sourced from the worst forms of child labor.
Programs: Access to healthy foods: safeway campaign: our campaign against safeway is intended to reverse the company's outrageous policy of putting restricted deeds on their former properties. The deeds block other grocery stores from opening, which limits access to fresh and healthy foods in communities of color and low-income communities. Our safeway petition has garnered more than 30,000 signatures and t volunteers mobilized protests in los angeles, vallejo, san josé, rohnert park, san francisco, seattle, baltimore, and washington, dc. Vallejo outreach: f. E. P. Recently met with vallejo mayor bob sampayan to discuss how to better provide access to healthy foods in his vibrant and diverse city. To support this effort, we completed six focus groups where we met with local residents, ate delicious vegan food, and talked about their needs for fresh and healthy foods. We are now translating and analyzing the data, which may be used to influence public health policy. Currently, the solano county health department is using our vallejo report on access to healthy foods for their healthy stores for a healthy community initiative. We also coordinated a meeting with two members of the mandela foods cooperative, vallejo's people's garden, our community organizer, and mayor sampayan about bringing worker-owned cooperatives to the community.
veganism: organized outreach in petaluma poultry slaughterhouse to remind people who is being killed behind the walls. Held signs and handed out literature. Vegan mexican food: we updated veganmexicanfood. Com just in time for its 10th birthday and mexican independence day. In addition to boasting more than 30 vegan mexican food recipes, the refreshed site includes information on ethical eating and food colonization and is fully translated into spanish (like our main website). The recipes and educational content provide a wonderful chance to explore and engage with veganism through chicanx and mexican culture. Vallejo healthy food fest: nearly 400 people attended our all-vegan vallejo healthy food fest. The event represented vallejo's rich cultural diversity via food such as vegan "chicken" adobo (a filipino favorite), beans, mexican rice, corn tortillas, and kale and cabbage greens. The times-herald news and benicia herald highlighted the event and vallejo's mayor thanked us with a certificate for our work on improving access to healthy foods in the vallejo community. Coordinates events in the local community to focus on animals who are raised and killed for food. Speaking about veganism: we connected with supporters coast to coast, tabling at the sonoma county vegfest and speaking at the san francisco vegfest, the portland vegfest, the animal law conference in portland, the farm sanctuary hoe down in new york, and the refuge conference at wesleyan university in connecticut. Lauren even traveled to melbourne, australia, to speak on f. E. P. 's holistic approach to food justice at the edgar's mission farm sanctuary evening of kindness.
farm workers advocacy: 50-mile rule campaign: f. E. P. Has been working to change california's unfair 50-mile regulation requiring farm workers and their families to move at least 50 miles away from migrant camps at the end of each growing season. This regulation repeatedly uproots farm worker children and denies their right to an education. F. E. P. Founder lauren ornelas spoke on a panel of experts regarding the 50-mile regulation and delivered a legal petition to the california department of housing and community development. Our efforts have received attention in the los angeles times, santa cruz sentinel, and california health report. School supply drive: thanks to many generous donations (including from a local assemblymember), we were able to stuff 461 backpacks full of school supplies in 2017.We then distributed those backpacks to the children of more than 300 farm workers, who were wrapped around the block ready to receive these important educational tools. We hold the annual school supply drive to show farm workers we are grateful for the work they do. This isn't charity; it's giving something back to the people who make it possible for us to put food on our tables. Wildfire relief fundraiser: after fires devastated the region, f. E. P. Organized a fundraiser for impacted farm workers in sonoma county. The farm workers, many of whom still speak their indigenous language that is not spanish (and as a result don't always get the help they need), were given supplies to get started again after they lost their homes and belongings.
additional program service accomplishments include: chocolate app: more than 10,000 people have downloaded our chocolate app in an effort to avoid purchases that contribute to the worst forms of child labor, including slavery. We also updated our coffee and wine lists to showcase companies that prioritize the ethical treatment of both animals and workers. Speaking engagements: we connected with supporters coast-to-coast, tabing at the sonoma county vegfest and speaking at the san francisco vegfest, the portland vegfest, the animal law conference in portland, the farm sanctuary hoe down in new york, and the refuge conference at wesleyan university in connecticut. Lauren even traveled to melbourne, australia, to speak on f. E. P. 's holistic approach to food justice at edgar's mission farm sanctuary's evening of kindness. Chapter efforts: our all-volunteer washington chapter organized an amazing summertime yard sale with the proceeds going to f. E. P. And to vine sanctuary in vermont. The volunteers also served vegan hot dogs and sweets to introduce non-vegans to delicious vegan foods. In addition, the chapter hosted the appetite for justice benefit dinner for f. E. P. At the northwest african american museum in seattle, wa. Recognition: f. E. P. Was nominated for favorite app (for the chocolate list) and favorite nonprofit in this year's vegnews veggie awards. In addition, the city of san josé, california's third largest city and the location of f. E. P. 's founding, awarded f. E. P. With a prestigious proclamation during a city council meeting. The proclamation recognized our efforts to promote "a more sustainable world by educating the community on issues, such as access to healthy foods for low-income families, working conditions for farm workers, and depletion of natural resources.
Mission: A vegan food justice nonprofit that promotes veganism, fights for farm workers, works on lack of access to healthy foods in communities of color, and encourages people not to buy chocolate sourced from the worst forms of child labor.
Programs: Access to healthy foods: safeway campaign: our campaign against safeway is intended to reverse the company's outrageous policy of putting restricted deeds on their former properties. The deeds block other grocery stores from opening, which limits access to fresh and healthy foods in communities of color and low-income communities. Our safeway petition has garnered more than 30,000 signatures and t volunteers mobilized protests in los angeles, vallejo, san josé, rohnert park, san francisco, seattle, baltimore, and washington, dc. Vallejo outreach: f. E. P. Recently met with vallejo mayor bob sampayan to discuss how to better provide access to healthy foods in his vibrant and diverse city. To support this effort, we completed six focus groups where we met with local residents, ate delicious vegan food, and talked about their needs for fresh and healthy foods. We are now translating and analyzing the data, which may be used to influence public health policy. Currently, the solano county health department is using our vallejo report on access to healthy foods for their healthy stores for a healthy community initiative. We also coordinated a meeting with two members of the mandela foods cooperative, vallejo's people's garden, our community organizer, and mayor sampayan about bringing worker-owned cooperatives to the community.
veganism: organized outreach in petaluma poultry slaughterhouse to remind people who is being killed behind the walls. Held signs and handed out literature. Vegan mexican food: we updated veganmexicanfood. Com just in time for its 10th birthday and mexican independence day. In addition to boasting more than 30 vegan mexican food recipes, the refreshed site includes information on ethical eating and food colonization and is fully translated into spanish (like our main website). The recipes and educational content provide a wonderful chance to explore and engage with veganism through chicanx and mexican culture. Vallejo healthy food fest: nearly 400 people attended our all-vegan vallejo healthy food fest. The event represented vallejo's rich cultural diversity via food such as vegan "chicken" adobo (a filipino favorite), beans, mexican rice, corn tortillas, and kale and cabbage greens. The times-herald news and benicia herald highlighted the event and vallejo's mayor thanked us with a certificate for our work on improving access to healthy foods in the vallejo community. Coordinates events in the local community to focus on animals who are raised and killed for food. Speaking about veganism: we connected with supporters coast to coast, tabling at the sonoma county vegfest and speaking at the san francisco vegfest, the portland vegfest, the animal law conference in portland, the farm sanctuary hoe down in new york, and the refuge conference at wesleyan university in connecticut. Lauren even traveled to melbourne, australia, to speak on f. E. P. 's holistic approach to food justice at the edgar's mission farm sanctuary evening of kindness.
farm workers advocacy: 50-mile rule campaign: f. E. P. Has been working to change california's unfair 50-mile regulation requiring farm workers and their families to move at least 50 miles away from migrant camps at the end of each growing season. This regulation repeatedly uproots farm worker children and denies their right to an education. F. E. P. Founder lauren ornelas spoke on a panel of experts regarding the 50-mile regulation and delivered a legal petition to the california department of housing and community development. Our efforts have received attention in the los angeles times, santa cruz sentinel, and california health report. School supply drive: thanks to many generous donations (including from a local assemblymember), we were able to stuff 461 backpacks full of school supplies in 2017.We then distributed those backpacks to the children of more than 300 farm workers, who were wrapped around the block ready to receive these important educational tools. We hold the annual school supply drive to show farm workers we are grateful for the work they do. This isn't charity; it's giving something back to the people who make it possible for us to put food on our tables. Wildfire relief fundraiser: after fires devastated the region, f. E. P. Organized a fundraiser for impacted farm workers in sonoma county. The farm workers, many of whom still speak their indigenous language that is not spanish (and as a result don't always get the help they need), were given supplies to get started again after they lost their homes and belongings.
additional program service accomplishments include: chocolate app: more than 10,000 people have downloaded our chocolate app in an effort to avoid purchases that contribute to the worst forms of child labor, including slavery. We also updated our coffee and wine lists to showcase companies that prioritize the ethical treatment of both animals and workers. Speaking engagements: we connected with supporters coast-to-coast, tabing at the sonoma county vegfest and speaking at the san francisco vegfest, the portland vegfest, the animal law conference in portland, the farm sanctuary hoe down in new york, and the refuge conference at wesleyan university in connecticut. Lauren even traveled to melbourne, australia, to speak on f. E. P. 's holistic approach to food justice at edgar's mission farm sanctuary's evening of kindness. Chapter efforts: our all-volunteer washington chapter organized an amazing summertime yard sale with the proceeds going to f. E. P. And to vine sanctuary in vermont. The volunteers also served vegan hot dogs and sweets to introduce non-vegans to delicious vegan foods. In addition, the chapter hosted the appetite for justice benefit dinner for f. E. P. At the northwest african american museum in seattle, wa. Recognition: f. E. P. Was nominated for favorite app (for the chocolate list) and favorite nonprofit in this year's vegnews veggie awards. In addition, the city of san josé, california's third largest city and the location of f. E. P. 's founding, awarded f. E. P. With a prestigious proclamation during a city council meeting. The proclamation recognized our efforts to promote "a more sustainable world by educating the community on issues, such as access to healthy foods for low-income families, working conditions for farm workers, and depletion of natural resources.
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