Farming Hope
Providing Transitional Employment and Job Skills to the Homeless
Fast Facts
Location:
San Francisco, CA
Sponsored by:
Kristi Smith Hernandez
Grant Years:
2018
Category:
Job Skills
Website:
How Farming Hope Is Making a Difference
Farming Hope empowers adults in the San Francisco Bay Area who are experiencing major barriers to employment, teaching them to grow and cook food that sustains themselves and their communities. Farming Hope’s efforts focus on the homeless who are motivated to make their way back to a more stable life.
Work of Farming Hope
- Provides paid transitional employment and a culinary job-training program for adults overcoming homelessness, incarceration or other employment barriers.
- Operates a job-training restaurant and kitchen where apprentices learn professional cooking, catering and kitchen-operation skills.
- Recovers cosmetically imperfect produce, prevents food waste, and prepares meals for food-insecure neighbors.
- Builds inclusive community gathering spaces that value belonging, dignity and mutual support through food and service.
- Partners with other organizations to deliver apprenticeship, professional and life skills training, meals programs and food-recovery operations in the Bay Area.
Initiatives Supported by Project Redwood
2018: $10,000 to fund staff and job training for a social enterprise café in San Francisco.