WHAT WE COUNT
ONE DEFINITION PER NUMBER · SO EVERY READER READS IT THE SAME WAY
MEAL SERVED
One free plate, bag breakfast, or leftover portion handed to one person at one event. Our headline number. 1 meal = 1 count, logged per event by the team on site.
PRODUCE PICKUP
One person taking fresh produce or a grocery bag/box home. When groceries go out in boxes without bags, the team logs a best-count of people served and notes it.
WELLNESS SESSION
One facilitated wellness moment (mindfulness, movement, health programming) delivered at an event. Counted per session, not per participant.
SERVICE TOUCH
Meals + produce pickups + wellness sessions. The one roll-up of everything we handed to or did for a neighbor. Always at least as large as meals, because it contains them.
PEOPLE AT GATHERINGS
Estimated headcount at events, where logged. This is people in the room, not services delivered; it is never added into service touches.
EVENT
One dated occasion we hosted, co-hosted, or served at: a community meal, resident hour, giveaway, or community-hosted night. The unit every other number rolls up from.
COMMUNITY BUILT
A PLACE TO GATHER — NOT JUST A MEAL SERVED
WHY WE COUNT · OUR THEORY OF CHANGE
EVERY NUMBER ABOVE LADDERS TO ONE OF FOUR PATHWAYS
1 · BELONGING + REDUCED ISOLATION
If residents keep showing up to welcoming, culturally rooted meals and gatherings, they build relationships and trust, and isolation drops. Measured by: events, repeat attendance, people at gatherings.
2 · RESOURCE ACCESS, WARM HANDOFFS
Trusted gatherings become the front door to partner resources: services people actually use, not flyers. Measured by: partner events, unique partners, referrals as they formalize.
3 · CIVIC VOICE + COMMUNITY POWER
Food draws the room; the room builds knowledge, confidence, and advocacy on the issues residents name. Measured by: convenings hosted and actions taken (early stage).
4 · FOOD SECURITY + STABILITY
Consistent free meals and produce reduce immediate food insecurity and anchor stabilizing routines. Measured by: meals served, produce pickups, service touches.
WEEKLY SERVICE TOUCHES
BAR = ONE WEEK (MON–SUN)
EVENTS BY TYPE
ZEROS = NO STANDALONE EVENT OF THAT TYPE
RECENT EVENTS
MOST RECENT FIRST · 35 EVENTS
| DATE | EVENT | TYPE | LOCATION | PARTNER(S) | MEALS | TOUCHES |
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PARTNERS
FIRST APPEARANCE COUNTED ONCE
GAPS & COVERAGE
OPERATOR NOTES ON WHAT THE NUMBERS MEAN
TOUCHES RECOUNTED 8/10/2026
The touches figure previously published (949) came from a per-event column that stopped being filled in late June, so it undercounted. Touches are now computed directly from the event log as meals + produce + wellness, on every load. The definition and the math cannot drift apart again.
GROCERIES · HOW WE COUNT BAGS
Grocery giveaways started July with WOLF. When food went out in bulk boxes without bags, the team logs a best-count of people served (e.g., 8/7: 30 bags logged). A scale for pounds-of-food tracking is on the wish list.
WELLNESS · WHY THE NUMBER IS SMALL
1 logged session so far (mindfulness at the 4/24 A Taste of West partner event). Wellness programming is early; American Heart Association nutrition classes are in conversation and would grow this line.
PARTNERS CARRY REAL WEIGHT
Chef Rashad / Saint's Smokehouse has donated meals across multiple events; WOLF now anchors grocery giveaways; EBALDC and Monique support resident hours. Worth a standing thank-you cadence and a scaling conversation.