Our Passion | Hungry Brick

Our Passion

Why are we helping the community?
Our tagline, 'feeding the hungry one brick at time', represents our passion to promote a remarkable dining experience while providing those less fortunate with a healthy lifestyle. Our beneficiaries include Gleaners Food Bank, Young Survival Coalition, and Food Rescue. We take pride being personally involved with these charities and it's our pleasure to see those in need benefit from our efforts through The Hungry Brick.

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Who are we supporting?

Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Inc., a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit, was founded in a 3-1/2 car garage in 1980 by a group of people concerned about the growing problem of hunger in Indianapolis. Early in 1981, Gleaners received a grant from the Lilly Endowment to network with Indiana communities that wanted to develop food banks. Today, nine food banks operate to provide food to charities that feed the hungry. As Gleaners enters its 29th year, the food bank has distributed more than 230 million pounds of food and critical grocery products to 400 Hunger Relief Charities that serve the people in need of emergency food assistance. http://www.gleaners.org/ Get your brick and support Gleaners!	At Second Helpings, we fight hunger and empower people. We rescue prepared and perishable food, re-prepare it into nutritious meals, and distribute those meals to over 50 social services organizations that feed hungry people. We also use rescued food to train disadvantaged adults for careers in the culinary field, helping to eliminate hunger at its source. Since 1998, we have collected eleven million pounds of food and provided nearly 4.5 million meals to recipient agencies. More than 350 adults have graduated from our Culinary Job Training Program.http://www.secondhelpings.org/ Get your brick and support Second Helpings!
Young Survival Coalition is a growing international group of thousands of survivors and supporters. Embracing the motto, "Action, Advocacy, Awareness," members attend conferences; lobby federal and state legislators; speak at universities, colleges, and health fairs; and run an annual awareness campaign targeted at the medical community - encouraging doctors and researchers to focus more resources on this underserved segment of the population. The YSC also strives to educate and support young women living with a diagnosis of breast cancer. http://www.youngsurvival.org/indianapolis Get your brick and support YSC!	Food Rescue picked up their first end of the day doughnations to deliver to those in need at a Noblesville IN Panera Bread in November of 2007. Since that day, we have founded our own not for profit foundation called Food Rescue, and we have scheduled over three million dollars in food rescues around the country annually, with over 1000 volunteers serving once a month, and 44 chapter presidents all working to try to put an end to the 27% of our food that goes to waste in America. http://www.foodrescue.net/ Get your brick and support Food Rescue!
Autism Speaks was founded in February 2005 by Bob and Suzanne Wright, grandparents of a child with autism. Since then, Autism Speaks has grown into the nation's largest autism science and advocacy organization, dedicated to funding research into the causes, prevention, treatments and a cure for autism; increasing awareness of autism spectrum disorders; and advocating for the needs of individuals with autism and their families. We are proud of what we've been able to accomplish and look forward to continued successes in the years ahead. http://www.autismspeaks.org/ Get your brick and support Autism Speaks!