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About Us
The Working Plate Project provides creative, affirming food education for Coloradoans on a tight budget. Through community-focused blog posts, free food access workshops and events for community members, we share real strategies for stretching grocery dollars and cooking with dignity. Rooted in lived experience, TWPP meets people where they are and help neighbors turn limited resources into plates full of possibility for the whole community.
How TWPP Funding Works
The Working Plate Project is intended to stay free for everyone who needs it. Food access shouldn’t depend on privilege or paywalls. Many of the people who use these resources are already stretching their budgets to the limit, so it’s important that TWPP remains open, inclusive, and accessible to all.
If you find value in what we do, I invite you to support The Working Plate Project in whatever way feels right for you. Your support keeps the content free for everyone in Boulder County and beyond.
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Our Structure
Where Your Support Goes
Our Commitment to Transparency and Accoutability
Looking Ahead
Workshops and Community Events
Supporting Our Work
Our Structure
We are a mission-driven, for-profit social enterprise focused on public benefit. However, TWPP will operate like a nonprofit in spirit, practicing full transparency and reinvesting every dollar back into sustaining our programs, outreach, and accessibility. Contributions are not tax-deductible, but they directly support community work.
Where Your Support Goes
Every dollar makes a difference. Here’s an idea of where funding is used:
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Program and content creation: TWPP produces free, digital resources such as a blog, recipes, SNAP guides, and deal breakdowns that help people stretch their food budgets creatively and with confidence.
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Fair, livable wages for employees: We maintain a modest, sustainability-focused budget so funds go where they matter most — community programs and equity, including the people doing the work.
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Workshops and materials: We create accessible learning experiences through in-person and virtual sessions, providing printed materials, cooking ingredients, and interactive demonstrations that make food access education tangible.
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Technology and operations: Support covers web hosting, accessibility tools, communication materials and design software that keep TWPP accessible and running smoothly.
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Community and partnerships: we collaborate with local food access organizations, host inclusive events, and participate in community tabling to strengthen local networks of care.
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Emergency reserve: a small safety net helps to keep programs running during funding gaps.
Our Commitment to Transparency and Accoutability
TWPP believes that trust is built through transparency. We will publish simple annual summaries showing where funds come from and how they’re spent. These updates will be shared publicly so that everyone—readers, supporters, and community partners—has equal access to our information.
Your privacy matters here. TWPP will never sell, share, or give away any personal information or activity data to anyone, ever.
Looking Ahead
Future funding will help expand free workshops across Boulder County and create new tools that make grocery planning easier for households with limited access to kitchen space or appliances. The broader vision of TWPP is to dismantle the capitalistic systems that surround basic needs; systems that turn food, housing, and care into commodities instead of basic human rights. By creating free, practical, and people-centered resources, TWPP challenges the idea that access should depend on income. My goal is to keep building something sustainable, community-driven, and rooted in collective care.
Workshops and Community Events
The Working Plate Project has dozens of ideas for workshops and community events! Here are just a few examples:
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Access Granted: The key to unlocking discounts beyond the grocery store by showing your EBT card.
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The Pantry Exchange: Attendees share their favorite recipes and trade unused, unexpired items from their pantry.
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Second Chance Station: Volunteers repair items such as clothing and basic electronics for attendees free of charge.
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Dorm Cooking 101: Learn how to make simple meals without having to leave your dorm room
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Eating Without Heat: Creative meal ideas for when access to heating is limited.
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Stock Options: Learn how to invest in a pantry that pays off in flavor and flexibility
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The Working Plate Live – community forum or open mic around stories of food access
Supporting Our Work
If you’d like to support The Working Plate Project, you can make a one-time gift on Ko-fi or consider a monthly contribution, found here. TWPP is not a registered nonprofit, and contributions are not tax-deductible, but every bit of support helps keep these resources free for everyone who needs them.
If you would like to offer any in-kind products or services to TWPP, please reach out to theworkingplateproject@gmail.com with the subject "In-Kind Contributions" and we will get back to you ASAP!