OUR PROGRAMS
Improving community health by addressing food insecurity, social isolation, and chronic disease
FEAST Core Nutrition Programs
FEAST's programs combine food access, nutrition education, and peer support in an integrated model designed to prevent and reduce chronic disease. Each program is cohort-based, community-led, and built around the belief that lasting health change requires addressing root causes together.
Wellness Program
FEAST's 16-week Wellness Program serves food insecure adults managing or at risk of diet-related chronic conditions. Participants gain practical nutrition and cooking skills, weekly access to fresh food through grocery gift cards and produce, and a peer support circle that addresses the emotional and social dimensions of health. The program is delivered by a trained Health Educator from within the community.
Family Feeding
FEAST's 8-week Family Feeding Program serves food-insecure caregivers of children ages 0-5. The program builds healthy food habits at the family level, combining nutrition education, cooking skills, grocery support, and a sharing circle for caregivers. By reaching families during a critical developmental window, FEAST creates lasting, intergenerational impact, reducing the risk of children developing diet-related chronic disease.
Maternal Nutrition
Launching in 2026, FEAST's Maternal Nutrition Program is designed to support women during pregnancy. The program promotes maternal wellbeing, healthy family habits, and the social networks that research identifies as critical to healthy child development. It follows the same integrated model as FEAST's core programs: food access, nutrition education, and peer support, tailored to the specific needs of this life stage.
Every FEAST program is built on three pillars:
Nutrition Education: practical, culturally relevant skills including cooking demonstrations, nutrition knowledge, and budget-friendly shopping.
Food Access: weekly grocery gift cards to local markets and fresh produce through FEAST's weekly distribution, removing financial barriers to healthy eating.
Community Support: weekly sharing circles facilitated by a trained Health Educator, providing structured peer support that addresses the emotional and social roots of health behavior.
FOOD ACCESS & DISTRIBUTION
At FEAST, we believe access to fresh, nutritious food is the foundation for health. Without it, education alone is not enough. As a wrap-around service to our cohort programs, FEAST offers a weekly food distribution of rescued produce, sourced through partnerships with Seeds of Hope and Food Forward and made available free of charge to all community members in need.
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COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS
FEAST provides various workshops throughout the year open to program graduates and community members to support ongoing learning and skills development in their journey towards health. Activities may include Zumba classes, nutrition education, cooking demonstrations, meditation and/or mindfulness, urban agriculture and agroecology, economic and/or legal resources and other topics promoting the usage of social service resources available in the community.
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HEALTH EDUCATOR TRAINING
FEAST's Health Educator Training model is how we scale our impact. By training individuals from within communities to deliver our programs, we build a community health workforce rooted in lived experience and cultural knowledge, and create a pathway for FEAST's model to reach more people in more places. Through this model, we also build capacity at partner organizations - we train their staff, and license our curriculum allowing our partners to bring the FEAST model to the communities they serve. Through a 3-day training, individuals become certified as FEAST Health Educators, and are equipped to facilitate our Wellness Program. Through a curriculum licensing model, Health Educators and organizations gain access to our full 16-week curriculum and teaching materials, and all of the support they need to successfully run their own FEAST groups.
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WHAT OUR PARTICIPANTS SAY
“I feel supported knowing there are other people in our community that support and encourage us to make healthy changes to our eating habits”
- Alma, FEAST graduate
“I am so grateful to FEAST for providing support through the group check-ins, access to fruit and vegetables, and for helping me create a set of healthy goals. Through this program, I changed my life for the better, forever.”
- Judith, FEAST graduate and group leader
These programs run because of people like you.
Every cohort, every cooking class, every sharing circle depends on consistent funding. Community Table is FEAST's monthly giving program, and it is the most direct way donors can support the work you just read about. Members provide the unrestricted, recurring support that lets FEAST plan programs, pay Health Educators, and reach more people every year. Starting at $15 a month.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT
Through food, education, and community, together we create the conditions for lasting health