The Stone Soup Collaborative
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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, though, 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, Social Entrepreneur and Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts graduate, 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 (TSSC). 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 the homeless, nutritionally compromised and food insecure population "Stone Soup".
Every year people from all walks of life find themselves nutritionally compromised and in many cases, homeless. Environmental elements 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.
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 - the Villagers)) by collecting your financial contributions and using these financial resources to purchase food products from local sustainable farms, companies and organizations (the Producers) whenever possible. TSSC (the Provider) then produces high quality, nutritious "Stone Soup" meals 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.
TSSC is currently focused primarily on providing our services in Pierce, King and Thurston County, WA. 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 services in their communities, providing on going support, resources and education.
This is an "all emcompassing" fundraiser that will be broken done into indivual units where funds are needed as work in phases to roll out our model and infrastructure.
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.
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Please help The Stone Soup Collaborative (TSSC), a Washington Registered Non-Profit, purchase needed containers to deliver nutritious food and drink to the food insecure population in our community. TSSC's mission is to "support the homeless and ...
Finished November 8, 2023
The Stone Soup Collaborative is a WA registered non-profit social enterprise. Our mission is to support the hungry while advocating local, organic, sustainable food practices; eradicating hunger on the local community level and modeling this globally.
Finished November 8, 2023
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