Community

Chef Spike, his family and The Good Stuff team are lucky to work with several local organizations to donate cooking skill classes, auction our farm table for parties, participate in inspirational talks, cooking demonstrations and gift certificates for raffles. After two years in business we’ve decided to concentrate our efforts on the five groups below as our main philanthropic focus. We encourage you to get involved to strengthen your community with organizations that are close to your heart.

Children’s Inn at National Insititute of Health
www.childrensinn.org

The Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health is a residential "place like home" for sick children and their families. Children come from across the country and around the world to stay together with their families in The Inn’s healing environment while receiving groundbreaking medical treatments at the NIH, the world’s leading biomedical research center. While the NIH takes care of the child’s medical needs, The Inn tends to the child’s heart, soul and spirit.

DC Central Kitchen
www.dccentralkitchen.org

DC Central Kitchen recovers unused food, prepares and delivers meals to partner social service agencies, trains and employs homeless men and women for the food service industry, and intellectually engages volunteers.

Horton’s Kids
www.hortonskids.org

Horton’s Kids is a nonprofit that provides comprehensive services to the children of Washington, D.C.’s Ward 8, improving the quality of their daily lives, and nurturing their desire and ability to succeed.

KIPP Academy
www.kipp.org

KIPP is a national network of free, open-enrollment, college-preparatory public schools dedicated to preparing students in underserved communities for success in college and in life.

Plant a Billion Trees
http://www.plantabillion.org/

We plant a tree a day. One dollar. One Tree. One Plant. This project involves planting and restoring thousands of trees within Brazil’s Caraíva River Basin and along the Frades River.

Plant A Billion Trees is projected to remove 12 tons of carbon dioxide per 2.4 acres, per year. If the project reaches its full 2,400-acre goal, it could remove up to 360,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over its 30-year lifespan according to Gilberto Tiepolo, Forest Carbon Coordinator for The Nature Conservancy in the Atlantic Forest and

Below is a list of some of the organizations we’ve been proud to work with in the past. To the many wonderful people we’ve encountered along the way - thank you for allowing us to help!

Alzheimer’s Association, www.alz.org
Arena Stage
Browne Academy in Alexandria, VA, www.browneacademy.org
Camp Glyndon at Lions Camp Merrick, www.lionscampmerrick.org
Common Threads, www.commonthreads.org
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, www.cff.org
Food & Friends, www.foodandfriends.org
Foxwoods Food & Wine Festival, www.foxwoodsfoodandwine.com
Freedom Now, www.freedom-now.org
Georgetown University Law School, www.law.georgetown.edu
Montessori School of Manhattan, www.montessorimanhattan.com
Make a Wish Foundation, www.wish.org
New York Food & Wine Festival, www.nycwineandfoodfestival.com
Peace Corps Volunteers of Washington, DC, www.peacecorps.gov
Pressley Ridge, www.pressleyridge.org
Prevent Cancer Foundation, www.preventcancer.org
Share Our Strength’s Taste of The Nation, www.strength.org
Sidwell Friends School, www.sidwell.edu
Sister Cities International, www.sister-cities.org
St. Jude’s Children Hospital, www.stjude.org/
Synagogue at 6th & I, www.sixthandi.org
The Harris School at the Univeristy of Chicago, http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu
The James Beard Foundation, www.jamesbeard.org
The Smithsonian Associates, www.smithsonianassociates.org
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, www.woollymammoth.net
Zenith Gallery, www.zenithgallery.com