Emergency Food Response
Feeding Our Communities
Living our Values
Emergency Food Response efforts at Pearlstone:
- provide nourishing meals for food insecure communities across Baltimore
- Activate our Culinary Staff and Farmers
- Engage community volunteers
- support a range of partner nonprofit organizations
As of February 2021, we have provided 50,000 meals to our community
Our Partners include:
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public
– Cornel West
MARCH 2020:
Baltimore City Public School students lose access to meals for a week. Pearlstone partners with the Baltimore City Office of the Mayor to provide 2,000 meals in 2 days
MAY 2020:
Associated Baltimore City Partnership Commission grant supports launch of Pearlstone EFR efforts, enabling partnership with Promise Heights in June & July 2020
JUNE 2020:
Partnership with Baltimore County Office of Workforce & Economic Development – average 400 lbs. of freshly harvested Certified Organic produce delivered weekly to Student Support Network distribution hub in Owings Mills
Many thanks to the Charles & Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, the Jim Joseph Foundation, the Associated Baltimore City Partnership Commission, and all those whose support has enabled us to do this work.
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Our values help us strive toward our goal of Living Judaism, the immersive experiential practice of applying Jewish wisdom to our lives and our world every day.
As people, plants and animals thrive all around us, we know we are on the right path. Join us!
