 ALL IN Eats YouTube Channel
We’re excited to share that we now have our own ALL IN Eats Playlist on the Alameda County YouTube channel. You can check out our videos, including previous Working Group meetings, here.
ALL IN Eats Summer Interns
We’re pleased to welcome our two summer interns who are working with us at the Board of Supervisor Wilma Chan’s Office on ALL IN Eats and Recipes4Health (formerly known as Food as Medicine). Check out our website to learn more about them and what they’re up to this summer!
 Just Fare is Cooking Up Good!
Just Fare is an Emeryville social mission business that makes great food for all people to support a better food system. Through our Workplace, Delivery, Events, Design & Consulting and Community Kitchen arms, we work to build a just world where food is a force for social change.
Since May 2020, our charitable Community Kitchen arm has donated 278,000 delicious, dignified and responsible meals and counting to Bay Area communities experiencing food insecurity through a network of 15 community-based organization (CBO) partners. In 2021 as we ramp up Workplace, Delivery and Events operations, we’ve also launched our Community Impact Program that commits 1% of revenue across our business to support more donated meals through our Community Kitchen, with additional opportunities available for our clients and customers to generate community impact.
In March 2020, Just Fare had to shutter our Workplace catering operation at the onset of the pandemic when offices across the area closed. Just two months later, we self-funded and launched Community Kitchen to serve our neighbors in need and began producing and donating 1,800 meals per week and developing relationships with community-based organizations that could distribute our meals to the communities they serve, including Queer Arts Center, OUSD, East Oakland Collective, NIN and YMCA of the East Bay. With intervening support from Eat.Learn.Play, OUSD and the Oakland Public Education Fund, by October 2020 we secured funding from Alameda County Social Services and ramped up production to 6,500 meals per week and are still going strong today.
Driven by Food, People and Community, in 2020-2021 we aim to
- Donate 388,950 meals
- Spend $1.1 million with East Bay businesses
- Invest $436,750 in local communities by compensating CBO partners that distribute Community Kitchen meals
- Sustain at least 17 jobs that pay a living wage and full benefits for our employees
- Resume operations for Workplace and Events that, along with our Delivery-based restaurant and Design & Consulting services, will generate revenue that funds the continued operation of our Community Kitchen.
Please visit our website, justfare.co, to learn more!
New Partnership with East Bay Regional Park District for Ardenwood Farm
We are celebrating the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD), which recently formed a new partnership with our partners at DSAL for the operations of the Ardenwood Historic Farm in Fremont! This demonstrates the critical role of public institutional partners in the investment into the All In Eats Circular Food Economy as this piece of land will facilitate the growth of significantly more produce to go into the aggregate that serves hundreds of patients a week in the Recipe4Health model and many thousand of other vulnerable county residents. When partners large and small become participatory in the AIE Circular Food Economy, we leverage each others strengths and assets to accomplish important milestones for our county that help us achieve our Vision 2026 goals. Thank you to the EBRPD Board of Directors and staff for your support in this work!
ALL IN Alameda County’s Recipe4Health Receives NACo Award
We are excited to share that ALL IN Alameda County’s Recipe4Health (formerly known as Food as Medicine) has received the 2021 National Association of Counties (NACo) Achievement Award for Health!
Recipe4Health (R4H) is a program of ALL IN Alameda County, an innovative anti-poverty initiative founded by Supervisor Wilma Chan (District 3). R4H is an integrated healthcare model that combines healthy food prescriptions with group behavioral supports to prevent, treat, and reverse chronic diseases. R4H uses a racial equity lens to transform our health systems by addressing upstream social determinants of health to improve health outcomes.
Congratulations to the R4H team and their community partners on receiving the 2021 NACo Achievement Award!
 ALL IN Eats Goes Global: UN Food Systems Game Changers Lab
ALL IN Eats recently submitted a proposal sharing our vision for a Circular and Sovereign Food Economy and were selected out of over 500 submissions to participate in a global cohort spanning five continents and 16 different countries all working at the intersection of grass root innovation and policy making! Over the next 12 weeks, our challenge is to co-create with our global partners a transformative food systems plan that we can pitch to philanthropy, business, government and the UN Food Summit in September 2021. We are inspired by the new thoughts and perspectives our global partners bring and look forward to expanding our network and sharing the transformative solution accelerators we come up with!
ALL IN Eats Budget Ask Passed!
On Friday, June 26, the Board of Supervisors approved our $6.8M budget ask for fiscal year 2021-22. $4.6M will be used for our farming operation and $2.2M to support the expansion of regional food hubs across the county.
 FoodShift JEDI Training July 26
Food Shift will be offering a virtual Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) training session that will be open to community members on Monday, July 26 from 4 to 6pm. Please email info@foodshift.net (subject line: JEDI) or click here if you are interested in learning more!
 Fresh Approach is Hiring
Fresh Approach is hiring for their open East Bay Food Access Program Specialist position.
The role is primarily responsible for supporting in-field operations for Fresh Approach’s food access programs at sites throughout the East Bay, with a focus on Richmond and East Contra Costa County. For details, click here. To be considered for this position, please submit a cover letter and resume to jobs@freshapproach.org by July 11th.
Working Group Meeting and Notes 6/24
Every month, ALL IN Eats hosts a monthly meeting to create a safe space for people to collaborate on their work, share ideas, and find their space within the Circular Food Economy. We engage on topics ranging from filling service gaps, inclusivity of new faces, and most importantly, how we can learn from each other. You can watch the meeting recording here or read the meeting minutes here. Our next meeting is 7/22/21.
ALL IN Eats Working Group Meetings are open to the public. Check out the new Events page to find out when our next meeting is and get in touch with info@allineats.com to partner with us.
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