Throughout the month of June, Soulgood partners with Dallas organizations to work together to bring over 600 hot plant-based meals to minority communities.
Due to the pandemic, Dallas-based vegan food truck Soulgood decided to close its doors in March to focus on serving their local community.
“I wanted to evaluate what was next and what could I do”, Chef and Founder Cynthia Nevels shares. Social Venture Partners Dallas contacted Nevels in this time to use the Soulgood truck to team up with Feed the Front Line as they were pivoting from serving the front line healthcare responders to feeding the local minority community.
Nevels connected her relationship with the Dallas ISD to the initiative with Feed the Front Line to do more than just serve the children of the district, but their whole families as well. Federal funds only allow for food to only be distributed to the kids within the school district, which is often not enough for the rest of the family that are often in need, especially after many have lost their jobs due to COVID-19.
Through Soulgood’s partnership with Feed the Front Line, the initiative aims to help these families with hot meals.
“Things are hard for all of us and instead of thinking about myself I wanted to use my food truck to serve healthy food to others to make an impact in some small way so a child doesn’t go hungry in my neighborhood,” Cynthia Nevels, Soulgood’s founder and head chef, said in a statement.
Soulgood also has served COVID-19 disaster relief efforts in Fort Worth, Texas where public benefit company served 200 free meals. [Photo: Soulgood]
The group plans to bring more than 600 plant-based meals prepared by Nevels to minority communities, while also collaborating with the Dallas Independent School District, according to the team.
Feed the Front Line, which has sister organizations across the nation, works to support frontline workers and food-insecure groups with meals from local restaurants. The nonprofit has delivered 48,411 meals to Texas communities affected by COVID-19 and has raised $661,915 to support DFW and Houston restaurants so far, according to its website.
“If I can use my food truck to do something-go into the community and actually stop talking and do something-because people are hurting no matter what, then I’ll do that any day”, shares Nevels.
Soulgood’s food truck will be onsite to distribute family-size meals at South Oak Cliff High School on June 11, 2020 and at Cedar Crest Church of Christ on June 18 and June 25 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Chef Cynthia is looking to continue the meal service throughout July and August, as she looks for further funding. Contact [email protected] for further involvement.
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