Join me in the 2025 version
of the Feeding Families Project!

Feeding Families Project is an evolving engagement with food, hunger, support, kindness and so much more. The idea - to help some families thru the winter months - caught me in 2020 when it became clear the Covid19 pandemic wasn’t shifting in any appreciable way and people were suffering with food insecurity. It’s 2025, things have shifted - ALOT. Unfortunately that shift hasn’t significantly included those who live at the edge of poverty. Programs have been cut, access is actually more challenging, utilities and rent have skyrocketed but disability & low level employment wages and opportunity have not. The regional, national, & international news takes my breath away and daily - major conflicts are everywhere, attitudes of entitlement are abundant & nasty!  It’s so easy to look elsewhere and forget those in this/my RI community who barely get by.  I want to remember them and help some of them…real people helping real people get by everyday. 

NOW in 2025: Where I am able, I offer connection to greater support for families. A desire to revisit the early success that brought more security with monthly dollars is fueling a revamped approach that can have multiple components. It’s a little audacious and slow in coming forward.

In December 2024 we had a successful campaign to bring gifts and food to 6 families for the Holidays

We currently sponsor 1 Family with supplemental Food resources + mental support in a cancer journey every month

We also support another Family with monthly Utility Payments

Patrons from Wild Harmony Farm generously donated locally grown meat which we shared among the families just this month

It takes real effort to support one another, to not judge the recipient, to not judge ourselves, to show up, to share, to feel!  It takes softening our hearts and feeling the pain of what we see to open the gates of compassion & act - here live the hearts true colors. Together so much love and care makes a big difference one person, one family at a time.  Big organizations do some really great work (so support them!) YET some percentage of those dollars always goes to administering their initiatives and many real people unintentionally fall through the cracks. 

One of my wishes in this endeavor is to deepen connection on all levels of the journey, to recognize the suffering of food insecurity, to awaken our collective compassion & compassionate action. Interested? Please help! Contact me.

TO DONATE: Venmo Jennifer-Thomas-192

HOW CAN I HELP ??

  • SPONSOR A Family Your organization, You, or any of your peeps can sponsor a family.  The following  list are a number of ways that could happen.

    • Food Insecurity: $500 monthly, $2000 4 month season. You might gather a group of friends or join together as a community to dedicate your collective dollars$ to 1 family.  So far we have made a direct connection between sponsor & family via a cash app or by check if a mailing address is secure and also with me as the intermediary. It doesn’t have to work this way - creative thinking is awesome.

    • Another way is to have $$$ turned into grocery gift cards which i would distribute to said family monthly.   

  • Utility and/or Rent Support: commit to paying a monthly utility bill or contributing to rental costs for a family. These families have amazing integrity - when $$$ arrive dedicated to something specific they have immediately used it that way and offered the receipts. It touches my heart. It also makes me aware these folks live under a cloud of distrust by the world that they will do what they say.

  • DONATE $$$ a set or varying amount$ monthly or make a One Time donation - if you commit to a monthly amount let me know your plan then i can plan. 😀 

  • OFFER WORK for any family members, simply reach out and we can chat about what you have and what may be helpful. I will create a doc of that as time allows

  • SUGGEST PARTNERSHIPS etc : for food purchasing power, for larger scale donations

  • VOLUNTEER to get the word out, connect us to resources, help make more happen - there’s a wild need!

“Courage doesnt always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow’.”

~Mary Anne Radmacher