Host a One Pot Supper To End Food Insecurity

On Sunday, October 25, households across the greater Washington, D.C. area will host private suppers with friends, family, community members and colleagues to spark a conversation about the region’s hunger issue. The second annual collective gathering, called One Pot Suppers, is an awareness and fundraising event coordinated by Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Martha’s Table in support of its Healthy Eating initiative.

On any given day in the District, 1 in 8 families and, as a result, 1 in 3 children are food-insecure – lacking reliable access to healthful, sufficient food. The One Pot Suppers event is a unique way to elevate this issue by providing a platform for community members to drive meaningful conversations about hunger in our community among friends, family and colleagues, and raise funds to directly support three of Martha’s Table’s innovative Healthy Eating programs:

• Martha’s Markets and Joyful Food Markets (executed in partnership with Capital Area Food Bank), which increase access to healthy food by offering free, “pop-up” grocery stores for children, families and individuals in Washington, D.C.;
• McKenna’s Wagon, a mobile food truck that feeds the District’s homeless and most vulnerable residents; and
• The partnership between Martha’s Table’s Healthy Start and Healthy Eating initiative, which ensures that the students who attend Martha’s Table’s early childhood education and out of school time programs receive healthy and nutritional meals to support their development.

Martha’s Table will provide each host with a toolkit that contains all the information and materials needed to create a successful One Pot Suppers event. Following One Pot Suppers, hosts will deliver the funds they collected – along with photos and recipes for use in a One Pot Suppers cookbook – to Martha’s Table.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER VISIT:

www.marthastable.org/one-pot-suppers