TOPIC: NOURISHMENT (66)

Polyface Inc

Polyface, Inc. is a family owned, multi-generational, pasture-based, beyond organic, local-market farm and informational outreach in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.

Real Food Challenge

The Real Food Challenge serves as both a campaign and a network. The campaign is to increase the procurement of real food on college and university campuses, with the national goal of 20% real food by 2020. By leveraging their purchasing power we can catalyze the transformation of the larger food system. The network offers a chance for students and their allies (those working on the campaign along with those who've yet to sign on) to make connections, learn from one another, and grow the movement.

The Weightless Project

The Weightless Project was launched to fight two parallel causes - obesity on one hand and hunger and malnutrition on the other. By converting calories burned into usable funds using cutting-edge technologies to track activity, the proceeds generated by those losing weight will be used to help those who need the extra pounds to survive. Currently the initiative is partnering with three devices – Jawbone, Fitbit and Basis, and looking to collaborate with other international health and fitness brands. Officially supported by Deepak Chopra, The Deepak Chopra Foundation and Health 2.0, this initiative is on its way to making the world a healthier place.

Garden Plan Pro

High-tech meets gardening with a new iPad app that makes it simple to design the perfect vegetable plot. Garden Plan Pro is the easy way to draw vegetable beds, add plants and create the perfect layout for any space.

Nutrino

Nutrino is the first nutritional coach that uses personal and medical profile, goals and culinary preferences to create healthy dietary plans tailored just for you. Nutrino adapts to you in real-time, continuously improving its recommendations based on your daily routine. 

#FoodShareFilter

#FoodShareFilter is the first supportive filter for Instagram created by the spanish NGO Manos Unidas that allows you to share your food, but share it for real. Because the money collected goes to the fight against hunger.

50/50

50/50 is a collaborative experiment. The platform supports dozens of digital challenges, each one created and run by passionate volunteers. As well as raising funds for famine aid, each project aims to engage a network of supporters to help spread the word. The brainchild of Good for Nothing andMade by Many, 50/50 is open to everyone. All funds go directly to UNICEF

LaLa Lunchbox

LaLa Lunchbox is a fun and easy way for kids to plan and pack lunches with their parents. It empowers your kids, teaches them to make smarter food choices and helps them learn about advance planning.
Your kids get to personalize and design their lunchboxes with fun monsters and colors, and then plan their lunches for a whole week at a time. They simply swipe their choices into their lunchbox from a large selection of fruits, vegetables, proteins, and snacks. Along the way, they learn that a balanced lunch includes items from each category. Parents can easily personalize and edit the items available to their kids.

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Nudo

Adopt one of our Italian olive trees or Darjeeling tea gardens and enjoy its delicious harvest throughout the year. From the countryside straight to your door, treat yourself to the world's finest produce.

The Edible Schoolyard Project

The mission of the Edible Schoolyard Project is to build and share an edible education curriculum for kindergarten through high school. We envision gardens and kitchens as interactive classrooms for all academic subjects, and a free, nutritious, organic lunch for every student. Integrating this curriculum into schools can transform the health and values of every child in America.

Local Food Lab

Local Food Lab is a platform for developing successful innovation and entrepreneurship in local food systems. We offer world-class entrepreneurial education, diverse resources and a robust network of experienced and highly skilled food and farm industry professionals who are inventing the future of food. Our purpose is to enable food and farm entrepreneurs to imagine and grow a new food system, one that is healthy, just and sustainable.

ONE

ONE is a grassroots advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa, by raising public awareness and pressuring political leaders to support smart and effective policies and programs that are saving lives, helping to put kids in school and improving futures. Cofounded by Bono and other campaigners, ONE is nonpartisan and works closely with African activists and policy makers.

Barnraiser

Barnraiser is a crowd-funding community that allows a simple way for Americans to take charge of their food destiny. From healthy and artisanal foods to community kitchens to educational and organic farms, Barnraiser is a place to meet the people that are making a difference, share their inspirational stories, and fund their successes.

Meal Sharing

Explore meals by city, and check out meals in your own town or when traveling. You can share meals with hosts in over 450 cities worldwide! 

Oxfam

Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations working together in 90 countries and with partners and allies around the world to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice.