The idea behind Breadcoin's "food token" is simple — anyone can fund coins for people who are hungry. Purchased coins (currently valued at $2.50) are distributed to nonprofits for their hungry or food-insecure clients; individuals and families use them to purchase food at participating restaurants or stores of their choice. Circulating Breadcoin ensures that school children, caregivers, people in reentry programs, and others can eat food made with love by their neighbors. Additionally, Breadcoin's Flash Tables program invites all passersby to dine together, feeding some 100 people within a few hours. To date, Breadcoin has offered individual community members a new way to invest in 25 local nonprofits and 60+ local entrepreneurs. It has provided over $150,000 in revenue to food businesses in underserved areas (coins are redeemed at full value) and 16,000 meals to food-insecure neighbors — with dignity and without stigma.
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