Dion Dawson

It's quite simple, just serving people and delivering quality food, produce.

When this all started, I was working overnights at Amazon.

I knew absolutely nothing.

I didn't know any statistics.

I'd never done nonprofit management or grant writing, none of it.

That blind ignorance will get you way further when you just don't know what you're up against.

On Juneteenth in 2020, a Gen Z-er came up to me that I had grown up with and said, hey, what are you doing for Juneteenth?

And I had no idea.

You know, I just, I tried to kind of play along, but he said, no, what are you doing?

And I just said, I'm going to feed a hundred families.

I didn't think about it.

I don't know where it came from.

And from there, it was two GoFundMe campaigns later and buying 800 pounds of food and bagging chicken leg quarters at four in the morning.

What started as someone challenging me to do something for the community for Juneteenth turned into a day and an event that made me feel like I had never felt before.

and wanting to change that feeling of not having to convince myself that I wasn't the problem or not having to convince myself that something was good, but just feeling good.

From there, it was on.

48 employees, about 15 vehicles.

We're opening up a 20,000 square foot location later this year.

We've grown in an environment where growth has been difficult.

The average Black-led nonprofit never makes it to a million in revenue.