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Help Our Families Thrive

We're expanding in 2022: more students, more families, more cities, more food

$97,230 raised

$45,000 goal

We are no longer accepting donations on this campaign, but there are other ways for you to support us today!
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18 Reasons not only survived this pandemic, we thrived, and you supported us at every step

18 Reasons is a nonprofit cooking school on a mission to empower our community with the confidence and creativity to buy, cook, and eat good food every day. We teach and empower families to choose foods that maximize dollars and increase nutrition and we are expanding our programs into new cities and communities in 2022. We need your help today to reach more families tomorrow.


18 Reasons Community Programs

We deliver three programs in low-income communities to combat food insecurity. All are offered free of charge:

  • Cooking Matters: Provides healthy groceries, along with cooking classes and nutrition lessons to kids, families, and adults in San Francisco, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties.
  • Planned & Prepped: Helps Cooking Matters graduates further refine their meal planning and cooking skills
  • Nourishing Pregnancy (NEW!): Supports Black and Latinx birthing parents in San Francisco for 6 months with weekly groceries, online cooking classes, and peer support sessions

With your help, we can continue to reach the communities we serve, increase food distribution, and expand with new classes in more cities.

Donate now, and help our families thrive



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Want to Make a Bigger Impact?

Make it a monthly gift! Join The Tablesetters, our community of monthly donors, to make a lasting investment in 18 Reasons' mission. When you become a Tablesetter, you not only help our families and participants, you also help 18 Reasons have some predictability when it comes to what funds we will have available each month to enable us to provide much-needed services.

Your secure, automatic monthly gift will help us provide healthy food and cooking classes for families in need all year round! Monthly donations help stretch the benefit of your gift: for you, for us, and the students in our Community Programs.