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Solutions for a broken food system: answers that create community development, individual sovereignty, and environmental sustainability.

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Thank you for coming to the 2023 speakers forum

Thank you for attending this year’s Speaker Forum featuring Ashley C. Ford and John Green and standing up against hunger and book banning. Both are fights to ensure youth receive the nutrition they need, both physically and mentally.

Your ticket included a donation to support our work:

Serving 3,500 scratch-made meals to students each week
Investing in youth with opportunities and skills that lead to thriving-wage jobs
Disrupting status-quo, low-quality school food

Our solutions

Learn more about The Patachou Foundation’s innovative programs:

Food Fellowship: Providing Opportunity Through Food

The Food Fellowship is a paid workforce development program for high school students centered around careers in the food system. Students gain hands-on experience training with experts in urban agriculture, culinary arts, coffee, and the restaurant and hospitality industry.

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Pataschool: School meals are hunger-relief

The Patachou Foundation believes that solving childhood hunger starts in the school cafeteria. PataSchool leverages our 10 years of experience and culinary professionalism to activate school cafeterias to fight hunger, create positive, measurable outcomes, and place hunger solutions into communities.

The PataSchool model:

Restores working kitchens in schools
Helps hire and train culinary staff at school partners
Provides free meals to 100% of the student body

Currently, PataSchool provides 270,000 meals to 750 students at our school partners, Circle City Prep & Emma Donnan, per school year. With continued investment and work, PataSchool can continue to provide access to high-quality meals to students around Indianapolis.

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