Our Initiatives
Food Waste in St. Louis
Right now we are actively building partnerships to help measure our food waste baseline in St. Louis, Missouri. Wasted food is responsible for 8% of greenhouse gas emissions globally, which occurs from food production to methane emissions in landfills, where food waste is more prevalent than any other material. Food waste affects all of us. It’s an economic, social, and environmental issue. In a country where 40% of food is wasted and 1 in 8 people face food insecurity, the inefficiencies and potential for improvement are obvious.
Sometimes we quietly gift. With initiatives, we take a more active approach to give lift.
The Women’s Bakery
In 2014, we met what was then The Rwanda Women’s Bakery. After a ‘failed’ pilot project that was successful in so many ways—namely, providing economic empowerment for women—The Blackbird Foundation partnered with The Women’s Bakery to provide investment and intellectual capital. In 2015, we made a 3-year pledge to help make success a reality. It worked. Today, The Women's Bakery employs over 50 women who are earning quadruple their initial income and who can now access healthcare for themselves and their families. That’s bread power.