APPETITE FOR CHANGE, INC.

Holistic Vision | Our programs seek to improve the long-term holistic health of individuals and the community. This isn't a band-aid; we're healing our community and its members by reconnecting with vital food traditions, providing employment, supporting entrepreneurs, and facilitating important dialogue about social change. Appetite For Change strives for food justice, racial and economic equity through organizing efforts and food-based policy, systems and environmental change. AFC works in North Minneapolis neighborhoods that are most impacted by the disparities that our current food system perpetuates. We build collective power by increasing food access in the African American community and we work to build a food environment where any person can access the financial, social and health benefits from participating in the local food economy. Appetite For Change activates leaders within the North Minneapolis community through its job training and business incubation programs. Investing in tomorrow's community leaders is in an investment in our neighborhood and in our organization. Providing economic opportunities is essential to AFC's mission and its vision for the future of North Minneapolis. AFC's theory of change is based on our triple bottom line model and value proposition: food-based social enterprises will increase community food access, build health and wealth, create jobs, and motivate the next generation of social change leaders in North Minneapolis. Each of our social enterprises, programs and initiatives is specifically designed to build racial, economic and health equity for people of color in North Minneapolis.

Appetite For Change sets itself apart in the following three areas:
Community Led | AFC is authentically community based, with over 90% of our organization identifying as African American. We pride ourselves on our mantra of “foodship" which means a) community ownership, b) youth leadership and c) rethinking our relationship with food. We inspire others in the fields of social enterprise, food justice, hunger and youth development to be more intentionally grassroots.

Triple Bottom Line | AFC approaches social entrepreneurship with the following 3 priorities:
1) Socially Rooted: Our products and services all benefit the community. They are food-based tools that build equity and improve access to real food, self-determination, and strong relationships for Northsiders.
2) Socially Sourced: Our programs depend on Northside resources. We grow our own food and buy from local growers, increasing income for residents. We hire Northside staff, providing training and employment to improve our community.
3) Socially Cycled: The income generated from our social enterprise is invested back into organization; increasing food access and creating jobs in the community.

Appetite For Change's Executive Leadership Team includes Princess Titus, Latasha Powell, Darryl Lindsay, Lachelle Cunningham and Michelle Horovitz. The majority of AFC leaders are North Minneapolis residents, African American community members and have strong community ties. We are uniquely positioned to address the need for job training, employment and building social capital. AFC's youth leaders are also members of the African American community here, and so is the vast majority of AFC's staff and contractors. AFC has the capacity to improve North Minneapolis food equity not only due to the people on our team, but because of our experience with community-led programming that increases health, wealth and social change. Our programs and structure set us up for success, and provide human capital and resources necessary to achieve our goals.

In 2016, Appetite For Change:
Fed over 1,500 people at Community Cooks workshops
Engaged 48 youth in training and opportunities
Grew more than 9,000lbs of produce
Supported 34 small food businesses
Trained and employed 117 people across all social enterprise programs
From 2016 to 2017 Appetite For Change has increased its budget by about 30% and added 4 additional staff persons in the areas of development, communications, and programming. In early 2017 AFC launched the Northside Food Business Incubator in partnership with the Northside Economic Opportunity Network (NEON). Our pilot cohort of participating North Minneapolis food businesses includes five food trucks. We continue to focus our efforts on serving the African American community in North Minneapolis.

With the addition of a dedicated development and communications staff person in August 2016 and a new online donation processing platform, AFC is increasing its individual donor cultivation efforts. In this short time we have seen an increase in individual donations of almost 50%. We met and exceeded an aggressive goal for the 2016 Give to the Max Day, with a significant number of first time donors. As donor relationships are built and strengthened, we anticipate even greater levels of engagement and support in the year to come.

In December 2016, AFC's music video “Grow Food" went viral. The song and music video were created as a capstone summer project by youth participating in our Youth Training & Opportunity Program. Garnering more than nine million online views and capturing the attention of news outlets, celebrities, chefs and good food enthusiasts across the country, the success of “Grow Food" has contributed to increased donations, grant awards and media coverage.Appetite For Change seeks to transform the Northside food environment with community-led solutions. We envision a multi-faceted expansion wherein AFC will develop: 1) multiple physical spaces for cooking, eating and community problem solving; 2) additional commercial kitchens where food entrepreneurs can incubate and operate; 3) food retail and restaurant options providing job training and career pathways; 4) a permanent food aggregation space with a year-round public market for Northside businesses and farmers, community space and a small scale grocer; and 5) statewide work in the Minnesota Food Charter Network led by the Northside Fresh Coalition.

AFC has taken concrete steps to achieve these goals. We're actively exploring the purchase and basement build-out of our current building to expand programming and maximize impact. We've partnered with the West Broadway Coalition on a feasibility study and business plan for a public market on the 1300 block of West Broadway. We're working with the Northside Economic Opportunity Network to use untapped commercial kitchens (ie. churches) for startup food businesses to incubate and generate revenue for the host organizations.