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The Stone Soup Collaborative (TSSC) is a Washington registered non-profit. Our mission is to support the homeless and nutritionally compromised community while advocating sustainable food practices; eradicating hunger on the local community level and modeling this globally.
There are dozens of versions of the timeless story of Stone Soup, a story about the power of one and the power of community. One version is about an elderly woman who finds her way to a small village during the cold winter months of a depression. She is homeless and hungry so she begins knocking on the doors of the villagers homes asking for something to eat. Everyone turns her away because they “only have enough food to feed their own families”.
After unsuccessfully knocking on several doors, the elderly woman goes to the center of town and there, she starts a fire. She places a pot full water and rocks she has gathered onto the fire and begins to heat it up, stirring it as the steam rolls off the pot.
Soon, the villagers begin to walk by asking her, "what are you cooking?". The woman replies, "I am cooking Stone Soup. What would really make this soup delicious is some onion". One of the villagers replies, "We have some onion and runs to their home to retrieve it, then places their onion into the Stone Soup pot.
Not long after another villager walks by and asks, "What are you cooking?". The woman replies, "I am cooking Stone Soup but would really make this soup even better is some carrot". The villager replies, "We have some carrot and runs to their home to retrieve it, then places their carrot into the Stone Soup pot.
Eventually, everyone in the village that had previously turned the elderly woman away at their door had contributed something to the woman’s Stone Soup and where they had initially only had enough food to feed their own families, they had now collectively contributed enough smaller portions of their own food to collaboratively feed the entire village, including the elderly woman.
Nils McKenney, a Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts graduate and Lifestyle Business Consultant, along with his wife, Rose McKenney, a Family Support Specialist and social services Advocate for the Native American community, are Co-Founders of The Stone Soup Collaborative. Their family is not unfamiliar to the innate challenges associated with homelessness and hunger. It is from having experienced both first hand that they made the decision to start feeding people hot Stone Soup in the winter months almost a decade ago.
Every year people from all walks of life find themselves nutritionally compromised and in many cases, homeless. The winter months and holidays can add even more stress to someone's already stressful situation. When people are in crisis it is not easy to manage everything on their own. Even the smallest acts of kindness can warm an otherwise, broken heart, wounded spirit and empty stomach.
Each year TSSC gathers financial resources from people just like you (the villagers) and hits the streets to serve of up some love to anyone and everyone in need of some (the elderly woman).
TSSC is a "Full Circle" organization. We believe that part of the process of eradicating hunger on the community level and modeling this globally is a sustainable food system. A sustainable food system can only "sustain" itself if the people in the community play an active role in the economics of the system.
Our objective is to collaborate with our financial supporters (You) by collecting your financial contributions and using these financial resources to purchase food products from local sustainable farms, companies and organizations (Producers). TSSC (Provider) then produces high quality, nutritious Stone Soup to be served to the nutritionally compromised and insecure population. By following this method we are collaborating with the entire community in a "Full Circle" operation that supports the eradication of hunger, as well as sustainable food practices, on a local community level and modeling this on a global community level.
As we have collaborated with others over the years, TSSC has realized the need to expand our services to also provide items such us blankets, coats, personal hygiene items, gifts and whatever else we can get in our hands and distribute.
TSSC is currently focused primarily on providing our services in Tacoma Washington during the winter holiday months. Our goal is to become the central operations "hub" (Headquarters) that provides the necessary resources for helping communities throughout the state, country and globe establish Stone Soup facilities in their communities, providing on going support, resources and education.
In order to continue spreading the love, we need your financial support. 100% of your tax deductible contribution will go toward bringing smiles to peoples face and peace to their spirit.
"We are making a difference in peoples lives and it is becoming a movement. This was our hope. It is never about ego for us. It is always about being the change we want to see in the world and simply loving one another without any agenda other than to love. It is about being good stewards of what we have been given". - Nils McKenney, Co-Founder and Executive Chef, The Stone Soup Collaborative
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