DONATE TO our 2025 FEEDING SENIORS PROGRAM: TAX DEDUCTIBLE UNTIL 12/31/2024

At Radical Family Farms, we integrate a cherished community initiative of Feeding Seniors in Oakland and San Francisco Chinatown into our production farm to embody our core values: Community, Social Justice and Sustainability. We have been Feeding Seniors since 2020 with free-to-them Asian produce. Starting in 2021, with the partnership of our 501c3 fiscal sponsor Possibility Labs, we opened up our work to the public by seeking financial contributions in the form of tax-deductible donations.

If you are well resourced, share similar values or have extra to give, please consider making a tax-deductible donation. We'll send you a tax receipt for your donation. Your contribution will have an immediate impact and we will be eternally grateful for your support. Donations can be made online or by check.

We have an urgent need to raise $10,000 by 12/31/2024 to keep the 2025 program alive. Our fiscal sponsorship will be phasing out in 2025 due to increased fees and minimums. With your contribution, you can help us make 2025 Feeding Seniors program a reality.

FEED 160 SeNIORS OVER 3 weeks IN OAKLAND AND SAN FRANCISCO CHINATOWN

2025 URGENT Goal: RAISE $10,000 to feed 160 Seniors over 3 weeks in September to October 2025 by 12/31/2024

ONLINE DONATIONS THROUGH OUR RAISELY SITE
https://radicalfamilyfarms.raisely.com/
You can donate online at the link above or right on this page with our embedded, secure, Raisely donation form.

CHECK DONATIONS
Make checks out to Possibility Labs
Mailing Address: Possibility Labs, c/o Jill Smith, 1410 Franklin St #135, San Francisco, CA 94109
In the Memo area, add "For Radical Family Farms" so the donation is applied to the correct fund.
Possibility Labs EIN: 85-3989363

Your donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Radical Family Farms Community Initiatives is a fiscally sponsored project of Possibility Labs a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
We'll send you a tax receipt for your donation. Please check your Junk/Spam folder if you have not received it.

QUESTIONS?
Please reach out to Leslie Wiser at 707-210-2773 or radicalfamilyfarms@gmail.com

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URGENT REQUEST: SUPPORT OUR 2025 FEEDING SENIORS PROGRAM BY 12/31/2024

Food Access AND PRESCRIPTION PRODUCE: FEED 160 SeNIORS OVER 3 weeks IN OAKLAND AND SAN FRANCISCO CHINATOWN

2025 URGENT Goal: $10,000 to feed 160 Seniors over 3 weeks in September to October 2025 by 12/31/2024

For 2025, we must raise $10,000 by 12/31/2024, when our fiscal sponsorship with Possibility Labs will phase out due to increased fees and minimums. $10,000 will allow the farm to feed 160+ seniors over 3 weeks. We will deliver in the height of our harvest season - September and October, where the farm can nourish elders with the best of both summer and fall produce. Bittermelon, yellow watermelon, celtuce, Napa cabbage, Chinese cauliflower, chinese celery, kabocha, chili peppers, Sheng gua, amaranth, gailan, broccoli, Chinese cucumbers, asian eggplants and more are abundant during this time.
In 2024 we received last minute funding from Sky High Farm in Hudson, New York. Since the funds were available at the end of the season, we deviated from a season long, weekly CSA delivery, to feed 160 seniors over 3 weeks. Lines were out the door for the free produce, and since our shares are so big, they were divided in 2, so we ended up feeding up to 275 seniors in 3 weeks in partnership with our San Francisco distribution partner, the Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC).
In 2023 we feed 20 seniors in San Francisco Chinatown who reside in SRO (single room occupancy) buildings managed by the CCDC, and 10 seniors in Oakland Chinatown who use the services of Lincoln Recreation Center. These seniors are on a fixed income, are often non-English speaking, and eldery. With the decrease in benefits of CalFresh, many of our most vulnerable seniors are having to choose between buying their medicine or food. Honoring and caring for our elders is a deeply personal and cultural value. Each full season subscription costs $845 per person, which provides 13 boxes of culturally relevant, nutrient dense, Asian-heritage produce, every-other-week, from May-October.
In 2020, when the pandemic hit and with the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes, we wrote for a grant to deliver CSA farm boxes to feed seniors in need in Oakland and San Francisco Chinatown. Sonoma County’s Ag + Open Space created a one-time Agricultural Support and Protection (ASAP) Emergency Matching Grant Program that funded our 1st year initiative. In 2021 we partnered with Oakland Chinatown’s Lincoln Recreational Center to locate and feed 10 Asian American seniors with culturally relevant, nutrient dense produce with our CSA boxes. In 2022 we partnered again with Lincoln Park Recreation Center, Family Bridges and the Vietnamese American Community Center of the East Bay (VACCEB) to feed 33 AAPI seniors and families in need.

Thank you for supporting our most important Community Initiative with a tax-deductible donation so we can continue to provide healthy and fresh produce to our seniors in need. Please read about the challenges facing our most vulnerable AAPI seniors and community surrounding food access and hunger:

MAKE TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS TO FEED SENIORS IN CHINATOWN