Marianna Cacciatore
Executive Director |
Brandy Sacks
Administrator/Office Manager |
For twenty years, Bread for the Journey’s model of grassroots micro-granting has helped to make communities more just, vital, and whole. In 1988, we began our first Bread for the Journey chapter over a spaghetti dinner in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Today, Bread for the Journey’s 20 volunteer chapters – like brilliant points of light – are bringing healing and transformation to communities across North America through Neighborhood Philanthropy.
Bread for the Journey’s 20 volunteer chapters are:
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Sustaining cultural diversity |
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Promoting ecological conservation |
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Improving the lives of women and children |
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Developing the leadership of youth through the arts and civic engagement |
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Creating simple systems to meet basic needs of the most vulnerable in their communities |
Bread for the Journey chapters have microgranted over three million dollars, every cent going to community-based projects built on the vision and assets of diverse communities to meet their own needs.
Bread for the Journey chapters raise money in their own communities. Then, they give micro-grants to ordinary people – with extraordinary spirits – who have an idea to make their community a better place. These small grants, given to the right person at the right time, make a big impact in local communities.
At Bread for the Journey, every gift counts. BFJ makes it easy, fun, and nourishing for everyone to participate in philanthropy and to make change in their community.
Bread for the Journey‘s central office in Mill Valley, CA provides chapters with the training, tools, and templates they need to efficiently form and operate a small non-profit in their community. By providing its expertise, BFJ makes it easy for chapters to focus on what’s most important – grassroots micro-granting to help people start valuable new projects quickly and easily.
By keeping things simple, we accomplish more with less. We welcome you to join us.
Contributions made to Bread for the Journey's central headquarters in Mill Valley, CA are used to form new chapters, help each chapter flourish, and foster a leading voice for neighborhood philanthropy. Financial contributions made to individual chapters support their local work.
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