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Advancing community health with nutrition incentives and produce prescriptions

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Nationwide

Access to healthy food is well documented to reduce people's risk of chronic health conditions and contribute to better health and well-being. While the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims to alleviate food insecurity, the primary focus of the Double Up Food Bucks nutrition incentive program has always been ensuring that children and families not only have access to enough food, but the vital nutrients that are the foundation of a healthy, active life and healthy communities. 

Double Up Food Bucks was launched at five Detroit-area farmers markets in 2009 and has since become a model for nutrition incentive programs across the US. Nutrition incentive programs like Double Up Food Bucks are designed to improve overall individual and community health by incentivizing the purchase and consumption of fruits and vegetables by consumers participating in the SNAP program. Similarly, produce prescriptions are a nutrition incentive that increases household food security while reducing healthcare usage and associated costs. “Rather than stigmatize or limit what food people can access, nutrition incentive programs help people choose the healthy foods they want to eat, while also stimulating the local economy,” says Holly Parker, Chief Strategy and Program Officer at Fair Food Network. 

To ensure that nutrition incentives are available across the US, Fair Food Network supports produce prescription and nutrition incentive projects as a partner Nutrition Incentive Hub alongside University of California San Francisco and led by Center for Nutrition & Health Impact. The partnership supports training, technical assistance, reporting, and evaluation to strengthen programs all across the country.

In addition to providing technical assistance, Fair Food Network aims to amplify a unified voice in support of nutrition incentive programs and a strong SNAP program. As part of these efforts, the organization actively advocates for the continuation of federal funding for produce prescription and nutrition incentive programs like Double Up Food Bucks. In the past year, Fair Food Network coordinated advocacy efforts supporting the advancement of nutrition incentive programs, working with legislators and their staffs to educate them on the importance of nutrition incentives in providing families nutrient-dense fruits and vegetables.  

One notable aspect of practitioners that implement nutrition incentive programs is their ability to innovate and adapt programming to local needs. In our national policy and technical assistance efforts, we’ve had the privilege to work with, support, and learn from organizations all across the country. “Nutrition incentive programs have successfully adapted to serve the unique needs of their communities and can vary a great deal regionally and culturally,” added Parker. Fair Food Network has adapted technical assistance and capacity building offerings through the Nutrition Incentive Hub to be responsive to these varying needs. 

In remote locations such as Bethel, Alaska, for instance, the Bethel Community Services Foundation (BCSF) is leveraging a capacity building grant from the Nutrition Incentive Hub to begin testing shipping materials used to send produce to small villages in Alaska. BCSF serves the largely Yup’ik community of Bethel and the surrounding subarctic region, dotted with remote settlements not easily accessible except by plane. With just over 6,000 inhabitants, Bethel is the largest population center in western Alaska. The Community Center is responsible for, among many other things, running the produce prescription program that serves the area. Their goal is to improve the quality and increase the quantity of fresh produce shipped to participants who have limited fresh options in their local stores.  

“Produce prescriptions allow health care providers to prescribe fresh fruits and vegetables to patients, just like they’d prescribe medication,” says Parker. To be effective in addressing diet-related conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and obesity, participants need consistent access to the healthy foods the program provides. The ability for BCSF to customize its program to reach Alaska’s far-flung rural communities is an advantage of the flexible nature of nutrition incentive programs and the capacity building grants that make local innovations possible. And those advantages ripple throughout the nutrition incentive field when programs test innovations that can be scaled to support community resilience elsewhere. “Innovations like BCSF’s program help them reach particularly vulnerable populations while serving as models for what programs in remote areas can do,” said Parker. 

Fair Food Network’s own Double Up Michigan team aims to help families bring home healthy fruits and vegetables while supporting Michigan farmers, in this case by working with grocers and food distribution networks to create more connections between what’s being grown locally and what’s available on store shelves. “Independent stores want to offer more fresh, local options, but they often don’t have the infrastructure, sourcing connections, or volume needed to access Michigan-grown produce consistently,” says Charles Walker, retail specialist. “They need support to bridge that gap—so they can be part of the solution in bringing healthy food closer to home.” Double Up Michigan aims to ensure the nearly 30 food retail locations in the city buy 20% or more locally grown produce during peak growing season in Michigan as a key requirement of being a part of the program. This helps build the market for Michigan farmers by driving demand for locally grown fruits and vegetables as part of the program model. Double Up Food Bucks in Michigan not only helps people using SNAP benefits but also supports farmer viability and keeps dollars circulating in local economies. 

“Nutrition incentive programs, including produce prescriptions, have proven to be very flexible in meeting local needs,” says Fair Food Network’s Parker. “That’s one of the reasons they’re so effective, and the main reason we’re seeing these programs gain traction all across the country.” 

The popularity of nutrition incentive programs like Double Up does not, however, guarantee their future success. More work is needed to ensure the impact of these programs continues. “Nutrition incentive and produce prescription programs have become part of the fabric of their communities, and these programs are absolutely dependent on federal funding,” says Alex Canepa, Policy Director at Fair Food Network. It will be essential in the coming year to work with the USDA and policymakers to ensure that nutrition incentives — supported by Republicans, Democrats, farmers, and families — are faithfully implemented in communities across the country. “What we know, and what participants in nutrition incentive programs know,” says Canepa, “is that there’s power in choosing the foods your family eats.” 

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Strengthening Community Connections

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Michigan

Since its launch over a decade ago in Flint, the Double Up Food Bucks program has been so popular that the city has become a centerpiece for program innovations. In 2014, in response to the Water Crisis, Fair Food Network expanded the foods eligible for earning Double Up in Flint, helping families bring home even more healthy food. Flint hosted our Cashier Engagement Pilot and introduced innovations to the point-of-sale system that are now used to seamlessly process Double Up transactions in locations across Michigan.

But despite Double Up’s historic impact in the city and its consistent presence as a community resource for more than a decade, Double Up usage in Flint — unlike in every other community where the program is available in Michigan — has declined in recent years. That means that at a time when Fair Food Network was making a concerted effort to increase program usage and reach more participants, Flint participants were using Double Up less.

In 2023, we launched a new community engagement strategy focused on gaining insight into this anomaly and seeking to learn more about how people were using Double Up in Flint. What we discovered from our conversations provided a lesson in the necessity of establishing and maintaining trust with program participants and making program adjustments informed by the unique needs of each community where we work. Leveraging our deep connection to the city of Flint, we spoke with local retailers, farmers, families, and evolve Double Up to meet Flint shoppers where they’re at.

Our Double Up team hosted a series of in-person events in 2023 to raise awareness, increase our presence in the community, and rebuild trust in the program. In addition, we expanded the visibility of the program by showing up more frequently in more places, including participating in promotions hosted by Women, Infants, & Children (WIC) and partnerships with Hurley Medical Center's Food FARMacy, Flint Fresh Mobile Market, and the Crim Fitness Foundation. Program marketing materials better reflected the unique experience of Flint Double Up participants, with video and photography highlighting local shoppers, imagery, and stories; a radio ad featuring a local mother and son; and a “How Do You Double Up?” video sharing the unique ways Flint shoppers can use the program.

Feedback from shoppers and program staff also helped us to better reach Flint residents who use SNAP. To ensure shoppers had a positive experience with the program, we intensified our Double Up site visits and ran more cashier engagement events. Relaunching Double Up at a critical location where the program had recently been discontinued proved to be a boon to the surrounding neighborhood. And we put more targeted advertising in places frequented by SNAP shoppers, like buses and bus terminals. “A lot of shoppers rely on the bus system to get to and from Double Up locations,” said Program Ambassador Aaron Neeley. “The main bus terminal is right across from the Flint Farmers Market. So, the bus ads and radio ads were very effective and reached a lot of Double Up customers.”

In addition to ramping up outreach activities, we evolved the program to meet Flint participants’ specific needs, relying on feedback from farmers, retailers, and shoppers to guide how Double Up works in the city. Again and again, we heard from program participants that the $10/day earning limit — temporarily reduced from $20/day in response to overwhelming demand during the pandemic — was forcing Flint families to make some difficult choices. While our team was in town to attend Rep. Dan Kildee’s press conference on the farm bill, we observed one family returning fruit to the shelf so they could stay within their Double Up budget. Said one Flint shopper: “I rely on Double Up Food Bucks. The limit change really hurt me.”

Flint families spoke and we listened: In fall of 2023, upon receiving an essential infusion of funding for Double Up from both state and federal sources, Fair Food Network raised the daily earning limit to its previous maximum of $20. The return to the familiar daily earning limit, said Associate Director of Double Up Food Bucks Michigan, Cassidy Strome, was a significant factor in turning around the yearslong decline in Double Up usage in Flint, contributing to a 49 percent increase in program usage since September 2023.

In 2024, we continue to work to keep Flint program usage high. Lessons learned over the past three years in Flint have reinforced the importance of showing up in person more often; strengthening our connections and building new ones; working alongside community partners to turn feedback into action; and raisings the visibility of a program that will continue to play an outsized role in the lives of Flint families. To Flint Farmers Market Manager, Karianne Martus, it’s hard to overstate the impact that Double Up Food Bucks has had — and will continue to have — in Flint: “I truly cannot imagine our market or our community without it.”

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Connecting Farmers and Communities

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Michigan

With strawberries ubiquitous on supermarket shelves even in January, we tend to think of warm-weather states providing America’s fruit and vegetable bounty. A little-known fact is that Michigan, even with its northerly latitude and long winters, has the second most diverse agricultural output in the United States, offering more than 300 different commodities from more than 50,000 farms dotting the landscape from Detroit to the Upper Peninsula.

Our Fair Food Fund bolsters local food systems by supporting Michigan farmers in getting their produce to market, creating networks and partnerships that strengthen the needed infrastructure connecting communities to farmers and the abundance grown all around them. Fair Food Fund’s financing and technical assistance allowed two such enterprises, Great Lakes Farm to Freezer and Lakeshore Depot, the opportunity to bring more locally grown food to the communities where they live and beyond. 

Great Lakes Farm to Freezer is a West Michigan processor distributing frozen produce exclusively sourced from Michigan farms to institutions, businesses, and families. Great Lakes Farm to Freezer’s commitment to supporting local agriculture includes offering local growers two and three times what other processors pay. A Fair Food Fund loan enabled the company to equip and outfit a new facility in Caledonia, Mich. that will support increased capacity for in-house production and enhance Great Lakes Farm to Freezer’s potential for expansion throughout the Great Lakes region. 

Farther north, in the largely rural Upper Peninsula community of Marquette, Mich., Lakeshore Depot serves as a “farm stop” (a hybrid grocery store/farmers market) that exclusively features local and regional foods and seasonal, fresh produce. Lakeshore Depot currently sources from 48 local farmers — who receive 75% of the sale of their produce — and an additional 38 local food vendors. Fair Food Fund’s microloan in 2023 helped to prepare Lakeshore Depot for future financing that will support their long-term growth plan, including hiring a full-time manager and increasing product selection. 

Even as these businesses broaden their offerings and expand their reach, they remain committed to their communities. Said Lakeshore Depot founder and owner, Mike Hainstock: “I wanted the store to have an impact felt throughout our local community, one that our community as a whole is excited about and carries real and positive change moving into the future.” 

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Reducing Food Waste for a Greater Purpose

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Michigan

Americans throw away more food than any other country, with nearly 92 billion pounds of food — or more than one-third of the U.S. food supply — rotting in landfills annually. This represents not only the loss of nutritious food that could have helped to feed families, but has environmental consequences in the wasted land, water, labor, and energy used to produce it. And as that waste decomposes, it produces harmful greenhouse gases. All told, it is estimated that the production of food that is eventually left to decompose in a landfill creates the equivalent greenhouse emissions of 37 million cars. 

Through the work of our Fair Food Fund, we recognize the opportunity to increase the social and environmental impact of our work by supporting waste reduction businesses whose sustainable practices support resilient agriculture by diverting and upcycling food waste.  

Located outside of Grand Rapids, Mich., Wormies is a vermicomposting (worm compost) business that helps local residents, restaurants and food product makers reduce their waste by upcycling food scraps into premium compost for sale to local producers and farmers. “Worms’ life purpose is to break down organic matter and make an all-natural fertilizer for plants,” says Wormies founder, Luis Chen. “Worms are turning waste into a resource of the highest value.” 

Our Fair Food Fund provided Wormies with a line of credit to meet the match requirement on a grant from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. The grant has allowed Wormies to expand its processing capacity from 60 to 200 cubic yards of food waste per month and increase its daily clientele from 610 to 2,000 households and businesses. “Composting prevents landfills from polluting the land and the waterways and the air we breathe,” says Chen. “Our community has a great opportunity to significantly reduce landfill contamination.”

We aim to make more investments in businesses like Wormies that are generating win-wins: advancing positive change in the food system and providing continuous benefits to their community and beyond.  

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Continuing to Meet Community Needs

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Michigan

With the cost of many grocery items hovering at historic highs, more and more Americans simply don’t have enough to eat. Without assistance, they don’t know where their next meal is coming from. The need for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) has never been greater, with more than 40 million Americans relying on the program to put food on the table. And yet, even with SNAP, healthy and nutritious food is often out of reach for families with low household incomes.

Some of the most vulnerable consumers are forced to make daily decisions between buying healthy and affordable food. For Michiganders, that’s where programs like Double Up Food Bucks can help. Participants in SNAP are automatically eligible to use the Double Up program at one of its 234 participating farmers market and grocery store locations. Double Up incentivizes the purchase of healthy food by matching, dollar for dollar, SNAP purchases of fresh fruits and vegetables, up to $20 per day.  As one Michigan shopper put it, Double Up is the difference between eating fruits and vegetables and going without. “I couldn’t afford [fresh fruits and vegetables] without the program,” she said. “I wouldn’t be able to try to help my grandmother...and maintain her where we’re at. It’s just me trying to hold things together as much as possible,” she said. “Double Up Food Bucks has helped.”   

For many Michiganders, the program is essential. And it’s not only consumers who benefit. All Double Up purchases at farmers markets support local agriculture. And during peak growing season, participating grocery stores stock more locally grown fruits and vegetables in their produce sections. Said one Michigan farmer: “It’s a program that supports small-scale Michigan vegetable growers while also increasing access to fresh, healthy foods for low-income folks — a win-win.”  

As farmers markets and Double Up grocers experience the benefits of increased purchases of local produce, the economic benefits ripple outward into communities, making the program a triple win. “We’re able to get assistance and then we’re putting it right back into our community and back to the farmers near our home, and so they’re able to get assistance,” said one SNAP shopper. “It makes for a more thriving market, a more thriving community, socially and economically.”  

“Trying to eat healthy, local foods costs hundreds of dollars a month no matter where I shop,” added another. “Not having to worry about this takes so much of the burden off of my plate because otherwise, I would be spending about [as] much as my rent on food, and after that cost I wouldn't normally have much money left over.”  

The Double Up program has weathered especially challenging times recently, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, even while helping to mitigate some of the effects of the crisis and take on persistent high inflation that has disproportionately hit food prices. Yet food insecurity predates the coronavirus and inflation, and presents a growing problem in the U.S. Double Up remains an essential community resource no matter what’s happening in the world around us. “We definitely saw a spike in usage during the pandemic — and a lot of new folks,” said Cassidy Strome, Associate Director of Double Up Food Bucks Michigan at Fair Food Network. “And still, even post-pandemic, we’re seeing elevated participation in the Double Up program.”  

“People really appreciate — and rely on — Double Up Food Bucks,” she added.  

Fair Food Network’s Double Up Food Bucks is a nutrition incentive program that aims to increase fruit and vegetable purchasing among people who use SNAP as part of their monthly food budget. The program is funded by the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP), a grant program administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) with funds appropriated by the 2018 Farm Bill. The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) is firmly committed to creating marketing opportunities for Michigan fruit and vegetable growers and provides some of the matching funding for Double Up in Michigan.   

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2024

Fair Food Network

IMPACT REPORT

A letter from our CEO

Fair Food Network believes food has the power to change the future. The work we do every day as a national nonprofit and investor strengthens the food system by putting food at the heart of local economies. By investing in food and farming in ways that keep resources flowing locally, we can help communities build health, wealth, and the resilience needed to confront the future — and all its uncertainties – with dignity and hope. 

Despite the challenges our communities face, we continue to see what’s possible when we come together to create solutions that help everyone win. Food is a powerful tool — not only for immediate impact but also for long-term systems change that keeps communities strong, from the ground up.  

Healthy people, thriving economies, and resilient local food and agriculture are the foundation of our impact and vision for the future. 

Over the past year, we have made significant strides in advancing these priorities, reaching families, farmers, and food businesses from coast to coast. We continue expanding our Double Up Food Bucks program, bringing healthy food to more people in more places in our home state of Michigan. To promote community-owned grocery stores, we’ve paired impact investing and innovative retail models to bring fresh food options where they are needed most — all while supporting local growers. At the national level, we advocated for and provided technical assistance to programs across the US that are helping to increase food security while driving local economic growth.  

These are just some of the investments that Fair Food Network made in our food system in 2024, creating real opportunities for communities to connect and thrive — whether in rural America, suburban neighborhoods, or urban centers. We invite you to read on and explore the impact of our work and the positive ripple effects reaching communities across the country.  

Thank you for being part of this journey. Together, we are proving that food is a force for good.  

Warm regards,

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Kate Krauss

CEO at Fair Food Network

Furthering Our Impact: Healthy People, Thriving Economies, Resilient Communities

Real change is happening where food, health, and local economies intersect — and we’re proud to be part of it. This year’s report shares stories about our work on the ground, alongside farmers, food businesses, and community leaders driving progress. Together, we’re expanding healthy food access and building resilient food systems. When those who grow, sell, and share our food thrive, we all thrive. 

EXPLORE OUR HIGHLIGHTS

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Our Impact by the Numbers

Total hours of technical assistance provided to food businesses and organizations in 2024

$

Total dollars invested into communities by Fair Food Network

We know that farmers and local food businesses are engines for positive change, so we support and invest in their success. Our work focuses on shifting how essential resources flow through the food economy, building equity in communities across the country.

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At the Marguerite Casey Foundation, we believe that it’s not enough for communities to be merely represented in our economy and democracy – they must be powerful enough to shape them. By investing in the mission and work of Fair Food Network, we support systems change and the effective flow and leveraging of power and resources to support the health, wealth, and resilience of community-based food systems and economies."

Daniel Gould, Marguerite Casey Foundation

By the Numbers: Fruit and Vegetable Incentives Nationwide

Organizations supported through our Nutrition Incentive Hub technical assistance and innovation work.

Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program grantees in 2024—up from just 23 in 2019 when the Nutrition Incentive Hub was launched to strengthen these programs, expand their reach, and maximize their impact.

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By The Numbers: Double Up Michigan

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15 YEARS OF IMPACT

$M+

Total produce bought through Double Up & SNAP benefits

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Estimated pounds of produce bought with Double Up & SNAP benefits

$M

USDA awards Fair Food Network has received to expand Double Up in Michigan and support its replication across the country since 2015

2024 IMPACT NUMBERS

$M

Total produce bought through Double Up & SNAP benefits

Double Up sites, including 115 grocery stores and 122 farmers markets

Estimated SNAP households reached 

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of Michigan's population lives in a county with a Double Up site

Estimated Michigan farmers benefited

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Amount of produce purchased by independent grocers

I have trouble having enough for other things but not produce. I can afford to eat healthy foods – produce – mostly because of the Double Up program. Without it, it would be hard to get adequate nutrition.”

Double Up Food Bucks participant, Wayne County, Michigan

Fair Food Fund Financial Overview

Financing Committed

(through Dec. 31, 2024)

$

Financing Outstanding

 

$

Investment Income

 

$

Total Investments (Since Inception)

 

Loss Rate (as of Dec. 31, 2024): The annualized loss rate since the Fund’s inception (2012) is .73%, or 9.2% cumulatively. This includes all realized write-offs on an investment capital pool of $8.4 million.   

Type of Business

Type of Structure

Fair Food Network
Consolidated Financials

Open or CloseStatement of Financial Position

Assets

Cash

$2,908,315

Accounts & Grants Receivable

$5,370,679

Investments

$10,337,093

Other Assets

$54,753

Total Assets

$18,670,840

Liabilities and Net Assets Expenses

Accounts Payable

$910,017

Loans Payable

$3,958,682

Unrestricted net Assets

$6,864,804

Temporarily Restricted Net Assets

$6,947,337

Total Liabilities and Net Assets

$18,680,840

Open or CloseStatement of Activities

Revenue

Government Grant Income

$9,701,606

Non-Government Grant Income

$3,348,750

Investment Income

$788,376

Other Income

$287,264

Total Income

$14,125,996

Expenses

Program Operating Expenses

$5,704,854

Technical Assistance Expenses

$350,348

Grants to Others

$7,304,990

Investment Expenses

$184,602

Other Expense

$540,674

Total Expenses

$14,085,468

Net Income

$40,528

Uproot Market is a way for us to weave together a lot of what we’ve been doing over the past 10 years or so. As a not-for-profit and a co-op, the market is owned by the community, so our focus is on the well-being of the community."

Jeremy Andrews, Founder and Director, Sprout Urban Farms and Uproot Market & Eatery

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Our Supporters

Our enduring gratitude for our supporters who help make this impact possible. With your partnership, we’re growing a future where everyone has access to healthy food, economic opportunity, and a resilient food and agriculture system. 

OUR BOARD

Gary Appel

Kiff Hamp

Benita Melton

Kwaku Osei

John Stewart

Dan Warmels, CPA

W. DeWayne Wells

Sarah L. Wixson

EXECUTIVE TEAM

Kate Krauss, CEO 

Holly A. Parker, Chief Strategy and Program Officer 

Cassandra Fletcher-Martin, Vice President of Finance 

Kellie Boyd, Vice President of People & Culture 

INVESTMENT COMMITTEE

Chris Bently, Impact Fund Manager, Serious Change Investments & Sustain VC  

Cassandra Fletcher-Martin, Vice President of Finance, Fair Food Network 

Michael Rozyne, Founder & Evangelist, Red Tomato  

Daniel Tellalian, Founder & CEO, Angel City Advisors 

Dan Warmels, CPA, Shareholder, Clark Shaefer Hackett 

INSTITUTIONAL FUNDERS

$500,000 and above

Clif Family Foundation 
Marguerite Casey Foundation 
Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development (MDARD) 
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation 
Reinvestment Fund - Healthy Food Finance Initiative 
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 
W.K. Kellogg Foundation 
You Have Our Trust Fund of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

$250,000 to $499,999

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation 
Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation 
New York State Health Foundation 

$100,000 to $249,999

Anonymous 
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan-New Economy Initiative 
Ford Philanthropy 
Michigan Health Endowment Fund 
Oakland County Health & Human Services 
Surdna Foundation 
Swift Foundation 
The Indigo Revocable Trust

$25,000 to $99,999

Community Foundation of Greater Flint 
Dalio Philanthropies 
Mighty Arrow Family Foundation 
Oppenheim Family Charitable Fund 
Ruth Mott Foundation Donor Advised Fund of the Community Foundation of Greater Flint 
United Way for Southeastern Michigan

Up to $24,999

Americana Foundation 
Anonymous 
Domino’s Pizza 
Food and Nutrition Resources Foundation 
India Foundation 
Windward Fund

Thank you to our Donor Advised & Investment Fund Platform Partners 

CapShift 
Chordata 
Natural Investments, LLC

INDIVIDUAL DONORS

$5,000 and above

Anonymous 
Robert Dannin and Jolie Stahl 
David Fukuzawa and Toni Kovach 
Hamp Family Fund
Christopher F. Hamp and Dr. Nicole P. Hamp
Oran Hesterman and Lucinda Kurtz 
Diana and Christopher Walsh

$1000 to $4999

Gary and Mimi Appel 
Carl Davis 
Kenneth Fisher 
Paul and Judy Freedman 
Randy and Patty Horton 
Kate Krauss 
Gary McRay 
Jay Rosen 
John Stewart and Ramon Torres 
Dan and Bonnie Warmels 
Brian Weisman and Kimberly Burton 
Peter Welles

$500 to $999

Anonymous 
Dean Cady 
Eliza Cohen 
Naomi Harrison 
Mark Haubert 
Greg and Barbara Houghtaling 
William MacLeod 
Peter and Deb Nathan 
W. DeWayne Wells 
Matt and Sarah Wixson

$100 to $499

Anonymous 
Mr. and Mrs. Baisden 
Kellie Boyd 
Michael Clark 
Brenda David 
Timothy Donovan 
Eugene and Elaine Driker 
James Ellis 
Todd and Judith Endelman 
Cassandra Fletcher-Martin 
Kat Forsythe 
Noah Fulmer 
Tony and Judy Grego 
David and Gretchen Gruner 
James Ella James 
Brian Jones

Janet Katz 
Thomas Messengale 
Andi Nank 
Gerald Oade 
Kwaku Osei 
Phillip and Sally Parker 
Lauren Ratz 
Bonnie Reece 
Victoria Rose 
Alessandro Sacilotto 
Lisa Sebesta 
Madeline Smith 
Sarah Spratt 
Tyler Vens 
Micah Warschausky

Up to $99

Rosanna B. 
Madeleine Bazinski 
Timothy Bogar 
Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly 
Allison Buck 
Neikelyn Burgos 
Lanzhao Cheng 
Barbara Clawson 
Elizabeth Cohen 
Steven Coron 
Mary Jo Eyster 
GJ Frye 
Deborah Gale 
Randy and Andrea Gerber 
Emerson Green 
Laura Grego 
Jamie Hein 
Joyce M. Holliman 
Grace Jasina 
Sara Johnson 
Laura Kail 
Miles Keller 
Brian Kim 
Alistair Kiyingi 
Kelsie McVayre

Kayla Moran 
Dara Moses 
Joel Moyer 
Lauren Owens 
Jayelin Parker 
Raghavsrinivas Ramkumar 
Kelly Regan 
Theresa Rian 
Timothy Richards 
Michael Rizzo 
Alon Samuel 
Alice San 
Mike Sarowski 
Justin Schaaf 
Elaine Semanik 
Krysta Stone 
Michelle Stone 
Grace Su 
Tiffany Taylor 
Karen Uffelman 
Katy White 
Dylan Wood 
Caleb Yacks 
Megan Yarrington 
Suzanne Zelnik Geldys 

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