WellSky Foundation makes $200K donation to fight food insecurity
By HME News Staff
Updated 9:15 AM CST, Tue February 20, 2024
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – The WellSky Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to removing socioeconomic barriers to health and improving the quality of life for vulnerable populations, today announced a donation of $200,000 to Pete’s Garden. Founded in 2020, the organization recovers wholesome surplus prepared and perishable food from local businesses, repackages the food into family-sized meal portions, and distributes the free take-home meals to food-insecure families through various social service organizations. With the donation from the WellSky Foundation, Pete's Garden will be able to expand its Kids Feeding Kids program, a curriculum aiming to provide a real-world learning module to educate students on the causes of food insecurity while developing their culinary skills. “This grant will support scaling up our Kids Feeding Kids program, which recently launched a successful pilot program with a gift from the 15 and Mahomies Foundation,” said Tamara Weber, founder and executive director of Pete’s Garden. “By the end of the WellSky Foundation’s two-year grant period, we expect over 100 teachers to be trained across Kansas and Missouri, extending the program's reach and impact to thousands of high school students who will plan and prepare tens of thousands of meals for families in their communities.”
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