Gaining Ground Competitors

Solid Ground combines direct services with advocacy to meet basic needs, nurture success, and spread change. We believe communities are stronger when we support stability and break down the barriers to overcoming poverty. Through 20+ programs, people gain stability and build skills that equip them to move forward in their lives. We work toward ending racism and other oppressions embedded in our institutions, policies, and culture that hold people back from succeeding. By amplifying the voices of people experiencing poverty throughout the political process, we further social justice and support our entire community in reaching its fullest potential. Each year more than 65,000 King County residents engage with Solid Ground to address their urgent food, housing & transportation needs, while changing the institutional practices & policies that perpetuate poverty.

Green City Force (GCF) is an AmeriCorps program that engages young adults from low-income communities across NYC in national service related to the environment. Our holistic workforce and youth development model prepares these young leaders for sustainable careers while building a greener city. Since GCF's founding in 2009, we have engaged more than 1,000 young adults in our signature Service Corps program, constructed 6 urban farms in NYC public housing developments, and educated tens of thousands of New Yorkers on issues related to food, waste, water and energy.

Food Rescue US is committed to reducing food waste and food insecurity in America by directly transferring fresh, usable food that would have otherwise been thrown away from grocers, restaurants and other food industry sources to food-insecure families throughout the U.S. Food Rescue US is the simple solution to ending local hunger. We are a technology based, volunteer-driven, direct-transfer platform that is simple, sustainable, and replicable. Volunteer food rescuers across the country deliver fresh food from businesses that have too much to people who have too little. Food Rescue US is the only organization in food rescue operating with our unique model.