2025-05-14T15:37:36-07:00 2024-12-31 204994635 Iryna AC 1000 Broadway Ste 200-C Oakland CA 94607 990 2024-01-01 261743952 Food Empowerment Project FOOD 7077798004 PO Box 13425 San Luis Obispo CA 94306 Mara Muoz Contreras Treasurer 2025-05-14 true true Kostyantyn Oreshkov EA P00923916 5104679506 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Lauren Ornelas PO Box 13425 San Luis Obispo CA 94306 562243 false X www.foodispower.org X 2007 CA Food Empowerment Project seeks to create a more just and sustainable world by recognizing the power of one's food choices. 3 3 7 40 0 621229 538509 0 1391 1435 199 -8190 622819 531754 0 0 595214 512741 0 44252 183892 187100 779106 699841 -156287 -168087 1209424 1017492 82138 58293 1127286 959199 X Food Empowerment Project seeks to create a more just and sustainable world by recognizing the power of one's food choices. false false 303079 VeganismWe began 2024 with our "Why Compassion?" project, a series of videos in which vegans of various ages and backgrounds share why compassion for animals is their principal motivation for going and staying vegan. We conducted our second-annual Youth ScholarshipContest, for creative youths aged 11 to 24 who have a passion for compassion to win $300 to $500 by using their writing or illustrating talent to advocate for ethical veganism and help create a kinder world. Fox 56 News did a segment on it.F. E. P. organized a free webinar, "Embodiment of Injustice: The Dairy Industry, which provided an eye-opening look at injustices that are embedded in the dairy industry. The event featured guest speakersincluding a dairy workerand videos, through which attendees gained a deeper understanding of their food choices and how they can stand up against the dairy industry. A post-event survey showed that people loved the webinar. One attendee wrote: An incredibly eye-opening and compassionate seminar, providing different but important perspectives about the dairy industry and its cultural impact on vulnerable communities. Other responses included: Motivating and validating, Revolutionary, and Very informative and full of resources that we can share with others. In fact, 100 percent of attendeeswho werent all vegansaid the seminar made them interested in learning more about veganism.We asked our California supporters to call out the greenwashing being carried out by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), one of the biggest utility companies in the state. PG&E wants its own customers to fund the cost overruns on construction of biodigesters in Merced County, a project that has exceeded its budget by more than $8 million. F. E. P. submitted comments to PG&E with the assistance of a climate scientist; we asked people to leave a public comment and inform the company that not only should these costs be covered by the developers and not community members, but this project will intensify the suffering of cows already exploited in the dairy industry.We launched our latest culinary website, VeganSoulFood.org, which targets a large audience with a wide range of recipes from throughout the African diaspora. It includes more than 25 vegan recipes celebrating rich flavors and showing people they dont have to sacrifice their favorite foods to go and stay vegan. F. E. P. was able to produce videos to attract appropriate vegan recipes. When launched the site has received more than 1,566 pageviews in two months, and notable media coverage.We put up an anti-dairy billboard near the University of California, Los Angeles, directing people to our website GotColonization.com, where they can learn about the industrys impact on animals, human health, workers, and the environment. Vegan Chinese Food was beautifully printed as a 48 full-color recipe guide.Eating Vegan in College page, created as ideal not only for vegan students who want to stay vegan, but for those who go vegan in college, as well as students who want to go vegan once they leave home for college but arent sure how. It helps them navigate everything from accessibility challenges to cooking in dorm rooms.We created a Vegan Holiday Recipes page that was promoted for both vegans and nonvegans to share. We also developed a Vegan Hacks page for vegans and the veg-curious, which explains how to transform whole-foods ingredients into meat and dairy alternatives.We created YouTube video ads highlighting two of our resources: the Vegan Mexican Food (VMF) and Vegan Filipino Food (VFF) websites and their accompanying recipes guides. These eye-catching ads got excellent engagement, with VMF receiving more than 30,000 views and 14,000 clicks to the website and VFF getting more than 2,000 views and 1,100 clicks. In other words, about half of the people who saw the ads demonstrated interest in them.Team members at F.E.P. did various speaking and tabling events in California, Kentucky, and North Carolina and England as well as various podcasts and interviews.We added more than 10 recipes to our main recipe page.We also created two new issue web pages:Climate Crisis resource, which serves as both an introduction to this subject and a call to action. It emphasizes why the impact of animal consumption needs to be part of the climate conversation and why going vegan is a step forward in the fight for climate justice.Focusing on the troubling popularity of commercial octopus farming. The Ethical and Environmental Impacts of Octopus Farming takes a deep dive into the reasons octopus farming is a terrible idea, especially concerns about animal cruelty. The page ends with recommendations that people can take to help stop this trend.Our views for our main site, FoodIsPower.org, for 2024 was 2,924,535, our GotColonization.com website received 61,368 views, and all of our vegan cultural food sites combined received 347,271.We mailed 600 pieces of our anti-dairy booklet and around 750 of our cultural recipe guides. 91879 Farm Worker RightsWe worked on various pieces of legislation regarding housing and education for farm workers and their children.We conducted our annual school supply drive and donated more than 200 backpacks to the children of farm workers living along the Central Coast of California. These farm workers primarily pick strawberries. We also connected with Jos Moreno Hernndez, a former farm worker who is now an engineer and a retired NASA astronaut, who kindly sent in an encouraging quote to be included in each backpack 55964 Access to Healthy FoodWe continued to expose the Safeway/Albertsons policy that impacts the health of communities. 27110 Chocolate We continued to update our Chocolate List, to which 100 companies were added in 2024, and the app was downloaded 18,000 times. 27110 478032 true true false true false false false false false false true false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false true 8 0 true 7 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 3 3 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false CA CO FL GA NJ NY OR WA X X Good Steward Fin Comp 3363473851 2779 S Church Street Burlington NC 27215 X Lauren Ornelas Senior Prog Dir 40.00 0.00 X X 104346 0 3483 Elise Ferguson President 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Sharanya Krishna Prasad Secretary 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Mara Muoz Contreras Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Jessian Choi Board Member 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 104346 3483 1 false false false 0 538509 3320 538509 0 1435 1435 0 0 20557 29881 -9324 -9324 -9324 0 0 0 1142 608 534 534 Rebates And Redemptions 600 600 600 531754 -6755 0 0 0 0 107829 83028 17253 7548 0 347948 246737 85977 15234 0 19581 14048 4734 799 37383 27583 7934 1866 0 5355 5355 48239 48239 0 0 0 55961 43524 3611 8826 21237 21237 29602 23664 1741 4197 8178 3376 172 4630 0 0 3227 3211 16 0 0 1 1 0 2153 1998 90 65 4953 2448 2329 176 Charitable giving 7178 7178 Dues and other charges 1016 105 911 0 699841 478032 177557 44252 175636 61479 928182 929578 50000 0 0 0 0 0 2886 2279 7384 6380 7585 3033 6705 4552 0 0 0 0 38631 13224 1209424 1017492 41875 43437 40263 14856 82138 58293 X 1093650 922503 33636 36696 1127286 959199 1209424 1017492 -168087 X false false false X 583513 1000631 662598 621229 538509 3406480 0 0 583513 1000631 662598 621229 538509 3406480 828973 2577507 352 547 742 1391 1435 4467 0 963 2179 396 199 534 4271 3415218 0.75470 0.79120 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED false false 16336 1766 18102 459930 478032 95606 23902 false 91877 103774 96997 95606 388254 582381 855 7435 18102 26392 22969 25944 24249 23902 97064 145596 855 7435 16336 24626 7585 3033 4552 4552 Operating lease liabilities 13224 Security deposit 1632 14856 Mark Hawthorne Family member 17869 Independent contractor false Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The entire team will review and the board will also review as well. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The Board is thoroughly vetted through an interview process. We have an attorney who attends our board meetings. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a Board reviews salaries annually and recommends adjustments based on the organization's financial health. We look up rates based on job titles and rates based on where we are based. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Available upon request. Form 990, Part VII, Line 1 - Compensation of Officers, Directors, etc. Lauren Ornelas, who served as President and a member of the Board of Directors, resigned from the Board in May 2024 as part of a broader organizational restructuring.