Beneficiaries
Proceeds from the 2010 event will support these local organizations which are dedicated to fighting hunger in Maine:
Cultivating Community
Cultivating Community uses organic and sustainable practices to grow food in the community that helps to feed the most vulnerable. The group's work serves as an engine for high-impact youth and community development programs that reconnect people to natural and sustaining systems.
East End Kids Katering (PROP)
Kids Katering helps to reduce hunger in the community by providing quality, nutritious, affordable, and accessible meals to children and seniors. The program is partially funded by EEKK's social entrepreneurial business wing, which offers full service catering for private or business functions.
Good Shepherd Food Bank
Good Shepherd Food Bank's mission is to provide food for those at risk of hunger by soliciting surplus food and distributing it to non-profit programs throughout Maine.
Preble Street Teen Center
Preble Street Teen Center is the hub of services for homeless and runaway youth, providing immediate access and an acclaimed service coordination model. The Center helps to meet immediate needs by providing warmth and safety, nutritious meals, clothing, and crisis intervention.
Global Organizations
In addition to supporting Share Our Strength's work to end childhood hunger in America, a percentage of Taste of the Nation events support advocacy and sustainable community development in Haiti, Mexico, El Salvador, and Ethiopia through ACCION International, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Bread for the World, Global Food Banking Network, Grassroots International, International Development Exchange, Los NiƱos, Oxfam America, SHARE Foundation: Building a New El Salvador Today, The Lambi Fund of Haiti, and Save the Children.
