What’s next for the bread + butter project? You tell us!

As we approach the end of February, we have about five weeks left to help raise money for our New England food bank partners. And we need to decide what we’ll do next. Those of you who have been following us since August know that we started very locally, with a single food pantry partner – Pettengill House, Inc. of Salisbury, MA. In just eight weeks time, we were able to make a big contribution to this small organization. From there, we chose to expand regionally, and established partnerships with a large food bank partner in each of the six New England states. As a reminder, they are: Connecticut Food Bank, Good Shepherd Food-Bank, Greater Boston Food Bank, New Hampshire Food Bank, Rhode Island Community Food Bank, and Vermont Foodbank. 50% of our profits from November 2009 through March 2010 will be shared equally by these partners, and we need your help to maximize the size of these contributions.

But we also need your input to help guide us going forward. When we established the bread + butter project last summer, we had a simple mission: To work together as a family to help hungry people, develop a sustainable business model, and find out what it takes to make a real difference. Seven months into it, we’ve had a lot of great experiences, good results to share, and with your help, we believe we are making a difference. But the question remains, what should we do next? Continue with a regional focus? Return to local? Target other areas? For now, we know that we want to keep our focus on helping feed US families, rather than going global and supporting international hunger organizations, but we have a lot of options. We’re open to your ideas, and we hope you’ll use the comment feature below to share your thoughts. Thanks.

-Tom, Sue, Katie + Emma

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