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OUR MISSION & CORE VALUES
Our mission is to provide healthy, prepared meals to those who need them. We believe healthy people make healthy communities.
Family Table Collaborative increases nutritional security on Cape Cod through the preparation and distribution of prepared, nutritious meals and education; promotes eating and cooking as critical life skills; and focuses on increasing nutritional literacy. We take in 150+ cases of food per week, mostly produce. Our army of volunteers makes it happen; they take in the food, decide what can be used in the meals, determine what we can rescue but aren’t going to use, and ensure the remainder feeds local farm animals and/or becomes compost, reducing waste and increasing sustainability. We are the only local food program addressing the entire cycle of food.
With a team of 500+ volunteers, collaborations with local schools, culinary programs, businesses, and nonprofits, we’ve distributed 200K+ nutritious meals and rescued and put back over 1,255K lbs of fresh produce. Meals go out through senior centers/councils on aging, low-income housing, veterans’ housing, the shelter system, and public distributions. We also have Community Refrigerators (Nourish Hubs) and several other meal programs.
Answers to yesterday’s problems are not solving today’s challenges. It’s time to innovate and elevate the conversation from food insecurity to addressing nutritional security. The model built at FTC is replicable, which is critical to ensuring sustainable change.
A Self-Sustaining Nonprofit
A nonprofit that isn’t continually engaging in fundraising activities may seem like an enigma, but our vision is exactly that.
Every dollar of profit from the use of and/or purchases made at our new site will go to running, sustaining, and growing the Family Table Collaborative.
By addressing access, distribution and education, we can solve the food security challenges we face in our community.
Our Vision
Our initial community response addressed critical needs during the pandemic, but it is clear that the issues surrounding nutritional security on Cape Cod and the Islands are a full-time, year-round crisis.
With the purchase of 1338 Route 28 in Yarmouth (formerly the Riverway Lobster House), we will be able to effectively collaborate with local organizations and agencies that work in the food security space to amplify what they can provide. We project our current output of meals to increase three-fold by 2024.