The Fish Foundation funds efforts to make healthy, organic food available to lower-income consumers at reasonable prices. If we can make organic food as cost-efficient and convenient as fast food, we can go a long way in increasing the vitality of an underserved lower-income population.  In the long run, increased organic food consumption among the poor can lead to healthier communities – and in turn, a healthier community puts less strain on an overtaxed health care system.  Simply put, eat better, and live better.

Lower-income households can also greatly benefit from programs that teach subsistence farming, which can greatly decrease dependence on government food distribution.  At the foundation, we take the idea of “teaching someone to fish” literally. We partner with organizations that teach communities how to use the land around them to grow food.  The ability to grow one’s own food is the most basic form of self-empowerment. And in turn, by increasing local food production, we can revitalize farming communities that have been devastated by the corporate monopoly on food production.