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November 20, 2025

Critical Fundraising Campaign to Address Budget Gap

Critical Fundraising Campaign to Address Budget Gap

Join us in collective action to meet our budget gap as we build healthy relationships, resilient community, and food access in critical times!

What’s Happening
For over 24 years, GRuB has empowered tens of thousands of community members to grow healthy food and increase wellbeing. With the federal government’s recent elimination of SNAP-Ed, along with changes in Youth Program funding, GRuB is facing a significant new budget gap of $300,000. This comes at a time when so many members of our community are extra vulnerable, whether because of their gender, immigration status, recent loss of a job, mental health stress, or reduced access to social services related to changes in federal policy and state budget. Barriers to accessing fresh and healthy food will likely continue to increase in the months and years ahead. Our work is more critical now than ever before.

Why Support Us?
Our programs are about far more than building gardens or training youth to work on our farm. Growing food together is just the beginning of the deep and meaningful impacts that ripple out from our work. Our programs build relationships, confidence, and community. Participants don’t just gain access to fresh food or work experience—they gain skills, knowledge, and a sense of agency over their lives. An abundant yield from the farm and gardens may be the most visible result, but the true harvest is a healthier, more connected, more resilient community. As a 2025 Youth Program Participant has shared: “I think if we had a lot more places like these, we would have more self-sustaining communities, go to stores less often, and put less money and time into food because everyone deserves food.”

Will You Support GRuB?
Here are some ways you can help sustain and strengthen our work:

Together, we can ensure the GRuB programs continue to respond to community need, and sow the seeds of a more equitable and connected future. Please consider donating to our campaign to support our work during these critical times.

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Critical Fundraising Campaign to Address Budget Gap