Two Bay State groups dedicated to improving lives through food are teaming up to create a new nonprofit that aims to bring more fresh, local food to school cafeterias.
Project Bread, an anti-hunger organization, will bring Massachusetts Farm to School, a grass-roots organization that connects local farmers with school cafeterias, under its organizational umbrella.
"We, as well as Project Bread, are really excited about things where we can work together," said Kelly Erwin, executive director of Mass. Farm to School. "It's great to give it more oomph and more stability."
Project Bread will help Mass. Farm to School with human resources and financial oversight, aspects of a nonprofit that had been missing because of Farm to School's small size.
"This allows us to professionalize the organization," which will be called the Mass. Farm to School Project LLC, Erwin said. And, she said, it will allow them to continue their mission without worrying about the effort and time needed to set up a nonprofit administration.
"It does allow Mass. Farm to keep their brand and their independence," Project Bread executive director Ellen Parker said. "It's just a really simple thing. When kids get to know their farmers, they start to have a different view of their food."
Mass. Farm to School is in 200 school districts, with programs such as Local Lunch Thursdays, which features menus crafted from local food in Boston schools.
Project Bread and Mass. Farm's specialties complement each other, Parker and Erwin said.
"We bring that economic development, business-based perspective, they bring that food-justice, anti-hunger perspective," Erwin said.
Mass. Farm will help Project Bread with its overall goal, Parker said.
"For us, the right way is to be always investing in local communities and leave something there when we leave," including an appreciation of local food, she said.
"What will change is for us to be more sensitive to the needs that they see," Parker said. "They're very in touch with the Western Massachusetts agricultural economy."
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