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Preparing meals for Everyone Eats Vermont Everyone Eats! has served more than 1,024,000 meals to residents impacted by COVID-19. The program helped save an estimated 500 restaurant jobs and provided consistent business to some 200 eateries when that industry was dealt a severe pandemic blow. The meals from chicken-and-leek pie with salad to chicken sausage with couscous and green beans even include local ingredients. Yet before the state legislature established the program in August 2020 with $5 million in CARES Act relief funds, a grassroots movement sprang up across the state to feed people in need. These early efforts swift business pivots that involved a collaboration of restaurants and nonprofits included ShiftMeals in Burlington, organized by the Skinny Pancake; a partnership in Vergennes among the city s Boys & Girls Club, Bar Antidote and Three Squares Café; and a southern Vermont initiative, Nourishing Artists, co
Thom Fleury For nearly eight years, Thom Fleury has operated a small weekend food pantry in Burlington s New North End. He started it in March 2013 when he realized that kids at C.P. Smith Elementary School, where Fleury then served as principal, could use some food on the weekends. On the first day, just three people showed up in the basement of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge on North Avenue. The enterprise has grown exponentially over the years, fueled by the need resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. Pantry usage exploded, with as many as 123 people visiting on a single day last spring.