Total to Display (Food Fort) |
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| $180 |
The Seed Program
Seed The Change
Simple yet powerful community giving
This Month's Round-Up: Lincoln Food Fort
So far we've raised:
Food Fort is a non profit dedicated to serving children in under resourced neighborhoods. In addition to providing food for those children in need, their mission is to provide more than just a meal. They seek to provide respect, love, relationships, and a constant support system in their lives. Feeding, loving and growing our future.
What is the Seed Program?
One way we live out our cooperative values at Open Harvest is through robust community donations. The Seed Program is a new simple yet powerful community giving opportunity that allows customers to “round-up” their grocery bill for local organizations that share a commitment to a healthy community, sustainable food system, and strong local economy.
During a specified month, each organization will be featured and all round-up contributions during that month will be given directly to the recipient organization at the end of each month.
SEED Recipients
2021
| Month | Organization | Amount Raised |
| January | Lincoln Food Fort | |
| February | Great Plains Trail Network | |
| March | Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center | |
| April | Sunday Farmers’ Market | |
| May | Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society | |
| June | Malone Center | |
| July | Montessori School for Young Children | |
| August | We Can Do It (F St. Rec Center) | |
| September | The Bay | |
| October | Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach | |
| November | TBA | |
| December | TBA |
2020
| Month | Organization | Amount Raised |
| March | Community Crops | $1,986 |
| April | Southern Heights Food Forest | $1,205 |
| May | HarvAid / Wildlife Rescue | $713 / $655 |
| June | Lincoln Indian Center | $2,435 |
| July | ShelterMe | $1910 |
| August | Friendship Home | $2,166 |
| September | Mental Health Association | $1,557 |
| October | Voices of Hope | $1,629 |
| November | Food Bank of Lincoln | $1,858.16 |
| December | Bryan Health | $1,972.26 |
2021 SEED Recipients
Open Harvest owners were invited to select five of the ten 2021 SEED
Recipients. The remaining five organizations were selected by our staff Harvaid Committee.
Since March 2020, the SEED Program raised over $12,000+ for local non-profits.
We Can Do This
We Can Do This is a community organization whose mission is to provide weekend meal service to kids at the F Street Recreation Center. We Can Do This is fiscally supported by Mystic Rhoads Productions, an organization that works to provide positive educational opportunities, healthy lifestyles and an appreciation of the natural environment to the communities it serves.
Learn more at: We Can Do This Facebook page or mysticrhoads.org
Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach
Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach aims to defeat hunger and homelessness.
Annually Matt Talbot provides more than 100,000 meals to Lincoln’s working poor and homeless. Food pantries are also available for those who do not have enough food at home.
Matt Talbot provides beyond basic needs to embolden people to have hope.
Learn more at: mtko.org
The Bay
The Bay provides a set of empowering communities that provide tangible resources for young adults such as a space to be, immediate help, access to services, job-training and mentoring.
Simply put, young people need three things: somewhere to be, something to do, and someone to look out for them.
Learn more at: thebay.org
Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center
Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center seeks to engage people in the site’s natural and cultural resources by focusing on conservation of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem and the birds that rely on it.
The 850-acre tallgrass prairie sanctuary offers over three miles of walking trails, native prairie grasslands, wetlands and ponds, wildflowers and grasses, and beautiful scenic vistas.
Learn more at: springcreek.audubon.org
Great Plains Trails Network
The Great Plains Trails Network is a group of citizens who advocate and support a network of trails in and around Lancaster County, Nebraska, for jogging, biking, walking and horseback riding. The network seeks the acquisition, development and wide availability of trails.
Learn more at: gptn.org
Montessori School for Young Children
Montessori School for Young Children promotes and encourages the intellectual, social and physical development of children through education according to the Montessori method: a thoughtfully prepared learning environment, where a child will be eager to learn and is able to initiate the learning process.
Learn more at: montessorilincoln.org
Lincoln Food Fort
Lincoln Food Fort is a non-profit dedicated to serving children in under resourced neighborhoods by providing more than just a meal. We seek to provide respect, love, relationships, and a constant support system in their lives. Feeding, loving and growing our future.
Learn more at: lincolnfoodfort.com
Sunday Farmers Market at College View
Sunday Farmers Market at College View is committed to sustainably produced food for food security and a strong, healthy community. Providing access to high quality, fresh food produced with integrity by local family farmers and producers, bringing value to the social, environmental, and economic fabric of our community.
Learn more at: sundayfarmersmarket.org
Malone Center
Malone Center aims to create unity and prosperity throughout Lincoln while honoring our African American heritage.
Malone started as a community center in the midst of the civil rights era as a platform for creating racial and socioeconomic equality.
Learn more at: malonecenter.org
Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society
Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society recognizes that there is a strong relationship between a healthy local agriculture and a strong local food system.
Promotes agriculture and food systems that build healthy land, people, communities and quality of life, for present and future generations.
Learn more at: sustainablenebraska.org