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Donate to Your Store of the Queen City.
Neighbors Feeding Neighbors: Grow Community Food Power Today

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Invest in the power of communities to  help friends, families and neighbors give each other access to affordable and free fresh, healthy foods.

 

A recurring gift of just $12 a month is enough help provide a week of free daily meals, fruits and vegetables for a neighbor.

Mission & Background:

Your Store of the Queen City is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that empowers communities to build neighborhood-based entities (like Meiser's Fresh Grocery & Deli in Lower Price Hill) that expand fresh food access and create community-based jobs by supporting the development and networking of resident-centered, culturally and economically inclusive enterprises in food desert areas of Cincinnati, OH.

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TOGETHER WE ARE GROWING THE FOOD REVOLUTION:
Your Store of the Queen City has the honor of sharing its innovative community-based strategies with the following:

  • Greater Cincinnati Regional Food Policy Council equity advisor role 2023

  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement Forum presenter 2023

  • Ohio Food Policy Network presenter 2023

  • Ohio Community Development Corporation annual conference presenter 2022

  • Children's Hospital Systems to Achieve Food Equity learning network participant & grantee 2021-2023

  • City of Cincinnati Neighborhood Health Committee presenter 2023

  • Cincinnati Neighborhood Summit by Invest in Neighborhoods presenter 2023

Why Give

Your gift helps neighborhoods like Lower Price Hill close the meal gap and recover from food apartheid, ending food desert status so families can drastically change their long term health outcomes through access to affordable fresh, healthy foods.

 

Solutions like this not only increase access to foods on a daily basis, they are reducing transportation costs to convenience and grocery stores by nearly $4,000 a month in small communities.

Why Us

Your Store of the Queen City is community-based: helping communities create their own food solutions that are designed and run by neighbors, for neighbors, just like Meiser's Fresh Grocery & Deli. 

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We invest in our community, dishing up food career and business development opportunities right alongside emergency food resources & programs, connection to local produce & food products, including affordable and free options made daily in Meiser's own fresh deli.

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It is building a systems based solution to lack of community control over food access. We combat not only the problem of food inequity, but the systems which create it. Join our fight for racial and class equity.

Why Now

After cuts to food benefit programs like SNAP, the meal gap for vulnerable families has grown exponentially.

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Free food programs like Meiser's Green Giveaways (available 6 days a week) and our weekly Cooking Club have seen a growth in free food distribution from 62,100 meals worth of servings distributed in 2023 up to 89,251 meals worth of free food in 2024 so far. That is an exponential jump from 10,064 meals served in 2022.

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To continue meeting  the growing needs, we need you to help keep our free fridges and shelves stocked with food so families can feed themselves with dignity as Meiser's and the work of Your Store of the Queen City bothh continue to expand for the better.

Give with confidence.
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Investments by these groups, foundations and corporate partners nourish the ideals of a reality based in sharing our strengths for continuous quality improvement and human dignity.

Have you thought about becoming a recurring donor?
It’s easy, and can be cheaper than a monthly coffee date.

Plus you don’t even have to talk to anyone, unless you sign up today and tell a friend!

 

Every little bit can help a neighbor in need.

 

You can also help out by donating gently used cookbooks or hosting a food drive!

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