Help Micro-Greens EAT TO TEACH

PINE Benefit Corporation
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about my venture

Micro-Greens is a project of DC-based "chef-preneur" Alli Sosna. Alli has cooked in some of the DC-area's highest regarded restaurants and competed on Food Network's CHOPPED. She is currently partnering with a number of national groups to promote healthy food in schools, including the Partnership for a Healthier America, and has been to the White House twice for conversations around food access and health.  

Through Micro-Greens, Chef Alli will teach kids (and their families!) how to cook and love delicious, healthy foods - all while staying in the bounds of the SNAP (formerly known as Food Stamps) budget.

The money we raise will help us:

Buy aprons

Buy toques

Support food costs and menu planning costs

Pay for training the Fellows who run the program

Pay salary for two part-time workers in the program

Purchase basic equipment needs (bowls, spoons, spatulas, knives, cutting boards)

Heavy-duty kitchen equipment such as mixers

Teach 20 kids and and their families how to cook healthy on a food stamp budget

For more information on Micro-Greens and Chef Alli, please visit www.chefallisosna.com/micro-greens

And be sure to check out our thank you rewards on the right-hand side of this page! Thanks!

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    $4,346.50

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    $5,653.50

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  • elevator pitch

    Micro-Greens is a program designed to teach kids to cook and love healthy food on a SNAP budget. We hope to teach 20 kids at first, then expand!

  • backer rewards

  • Tshirt Shout Out

    Your name on the t shirt the kids get when they participate in our program

    2 backers

    $10.00+ pledge

  • Micro-Greens Tshirt

    An American-made Tshirt with our logo!

    8 backers

    $35.00+ pledge

  • Radio Show Shout Out

    Chef Alli will recognize you on her radio show!

    11 backers

    $100.00+ pledge

  • Wall of Friends

    Chef Alli will recognize you on her radio show AND you'll get to be recognized on the "wall of friends" when Micro-Greens opens in a new space, part of a future project

    1 backers

    $500.00+ pledge

  • All of the above and VIP Party

    All of the above AND receive an invitation to a special investor-only party in late October, 2012

    1 backers

    $1,000.00+ pledge
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about entrepreneur

Allison Sosna

Chef, Founder / PINE Benefit Corporation

Chef Alli Sosna began her culinary career in 2005 after she volunteered in the kitchen on a whim at Chef Geoff’s restaurant by American University, where she was doing her undergrad work. She received culinary training at L’Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Md, and from there, spent four years in some of D.C.’s highest-regarded kitchens. She spent time at Hook under award-winning chef Barton Seaver and The Inn at Little Washington, a Relais & Chateau property, and finally landed at Dean and Deluca, where she cooked for large-scale catering projects and retail operations. After leaving Dean and Deluca, she became executive chef of contract foods with Fresh Start Catering and D.C. Central Kitchen. The social enterprise arm of DCCK, Fresh Start Catering is staffed by graduates of its culinary job training program and partners with dozens of farms in the D.C. area. Its school contracts grew from one to eight during her tenure, and Alli spearheaded this growth and realized her long-term vision was to expand access to healthy food to every child in D.C.