May 2025 Funding | $450,000

We’re pleased to announce another month of funding, totaling $450,000 and touching the lives of 5,140 people! From Texas to Nigeria, both PEAS and ColdHubs are making healthy food access more accessible. Read more about how each organization is using their funding to better the lives of Texans and Nigerians.

PEAS | Texas

Partners for Education, Agriculture and Sustainability (PEAS), has been a partner to the Foundation since 2015. They will receive a 1-year, $100,000 grant to support 8 of their core staff members in engaging 4,500 students at 28 school sites across the Austin, TX metro area in garden education. PEAS also operates in a high-need area: the schools they serve have an average of 69% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, notably above the national average. PEAS will also use their grant to develop supplemental revenue streams, including caregiver cooking classes, PEAS farm field trips, professional development services, workshops and presentations, consultation, summer camps, and curriculum.

ColdHubs | Nigeria

ColdHubs, a new partner of the Foundation, will receive a $350,000, 3-year, zero percent interest loan to maintain and grow their network of solar-powered cold rooms and ice points that will serve small-scale, rural markets, while providing post-harvest management trainings to smallholder farmers. Food spoilage is a widespread challenge for Nigerian farmers— over 90 million smallholder farmers report lost wages due to lack of cold storage at key points along the food supply chain. ColdHubs will use their funds to implement three new cold hubs and three ice points, impacting an estimated 640 smallholder farmers and market retailers. This is projected to increase their annual revenues by 55-65%.