Five Percent Giving
In 2016 we decided to dedicate 5% of the cafe's sales of our products (bread, bagels, pretzels & granola) to a different cause or organization chosen by our worker-owners every month. Our goal is to both financially support and draw attention to work we believe in. After a pause caused by Covid-19 pandemic, we’re contributing on a monthly basis again as of 2022. We welcome suggestions for future contributions! If you'd like to suggest one, please email us. Here's where we've donated in the past:
2016: Homeless Alliance of WNY
2017: EMILY's List, WEDI, Hot Bread Kitchen, Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, Family Promise of WNY, No Labels Clothing Co-op, Clean Air Coalition of WNY, Fruit Belt Community First Alliance, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo Community Cooperative Fund, The Foundry, Innocence Project
2018: Homeboy Industries, Higher Heights, Everytown, Barrel + Brine Indiegogo Campaign, NuDay Syria - Babies and Milk Project, LGBT Books to Prisoners, Summer Meals NY, West Side Community Services, Dan Tower Farm & PUSH Buffalo, African Heritage Food Co-op, Grassroots Gardens WNY, Native Offerings Farm Rebuild
2019: Cookies for a Cause IV benefiting Matt Urban Human Services, Black Youth Project 100, Black Mamas Matter, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Appolition bail fund, National Network of Abortion Funds, Buffalo Niagara LGBTQ History Project, Vive Shelter, Moms Demand Action, Amazon Frontlines, Justice for Migrant Families WNY, North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NāTIFS), Fire Relief Fund for First Nations
2020: Massachusetts Ave Project, Black Lives Matter fundraiser
2021: GLYS WNY, LaMovement Fitness, Atlanta Solidarity Fund, DOFL/Evergreen Health
2022: Campaign for Southern Equality, Help Aid + Resettle Displaced Black Foreigners in the Ukraine, Last Prisoner Project, Prisoners Lit Project, Burning Books, Black Love Resists in the Rust, Anyone's Cafe & Bakery, Mental Health Advocates of WNY, Dining Out for Life, West Side Bazaar Fire Aid, NĀTIFS
2023: Blizzard Aid, REBUILD: A Help Me Find a Therapist Program, Buffalo Go Green, Transgender Law Center, Upstate NY Black & Latino Pride, Colored Girls Bike Too, The Tool Library, The International Institute of Buffalo, WNY - Dining Out For Life, Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF), UAINE Fall 2023 Fundraiser, WNY Overdose Prevention Services