WHAT IS THE SPREADIN’ HONEY PROJECT?
The California Honeydrops partner with local nonprofits based in each city on our tour to raise awareness and funds for organizations doing great work! Our partners range from art-based programs to youth centers to social justice initiatives and everything in between. Help us make the program a success by:
- Buying some Honeydrop merchandise, a percentage of proceeds will go directly to our partner for that show
- Donating directly to the organization at their table
- Staying in touch with them after the party’s over!
Thank you for Spreadin’ The Honey and making this world a little sweeter for everyone out there. Lots of love! — The Drops
Know a local organization we should partner with? Please submit HERE.
Learn more about some of our amazing partners:
The Innocence Project
New Orleans, LA
IPNO frees innocent people sentenced to life in prison and those serving unjust sentences. They recognize the root causes of wrongful convictions and unjust sentences as systemic racism and inequities. They work to expose and address these root causes by sharing their clients’ stories in court, the legislature, the community, and the media. They support their clients in living well and fully in the world after their release.
Jefferson Street Sound Museum
Nashville, TN
JSSM was established to preserve the music & entertainment history of Jefferson Street and collaborate with public schools, other non-profit services, and community organizations in Nashville (including Greater Nashville and surrounding areas) to provide arts and music programs and networking opportunities. Their programs and services target individuals interested and/or gifted in the areas of music with the influence of historic artifacts, sounds, and other learning instruments, and those interested in the preservation of a key industry in Nashville’s history.
Free99Fridge
Atlanta, GA
An Atlanta-based grassroots organization committed to fighting for food justice & addressing the needs of their neighbors through mutual aid. They provide high-quality produce and non-perishable food at no cost to anyone who wants or needs it via their community fridge network. Their community fridges are stocked and maintained by volunteers, growers, and local businesses who see value in supporting their community.
The Afiya Center
Dallas, TX
TAC was established in response to the increasing disparities between HIV incidences worldwide and the extraordinary prevalence of HIV among Black womxn and girls in Texas. TAC is unique in that it is the only Reproductive Justice (RJ) organization in North Texas founded and directed by Black womxn. They are transforming the lives, health, and overall well-being of Black womxn and girls by providing refuge, education, and resources; they act to ignite the communal voices of Black womxn resulting in their full achievement of reproductive freedom.
Denver Urban Gardens
Denver, CO
DUG is the largest network of food-producing gardens in the country, comprising 189 school and community gardens across metro Denver. Their mission is to preserve and expand urban green spaces while sharing knowledge and resources to grow food in the community. They preserve and maintain 32 acres of green space across metro Denver, providing access for 17,000 gardeners to grow their own healthy food. DUG is about so much more than gardens, though— their work champions the power of organic plants, supports the people who grow them, and strengthens the communities they nourish.
Fund Texas Choice
Texas
Fund Texas Choice helps Texans equitably access abortion through safe, confidential, and comprehensive travel services and practical support. FTC envisions a society in which abortion is embraced as healthcare and a human right. As a human right, abortion is equitably accessible across political, economic, and social systems so that people have autonomous bodies and futures supported by powerful and vibrant communities.
Youth Rebuilding New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
The mission of YRNO is to educate, employ and empower local youth through the betterment of the New Orleans Community, YRNO was founded by students in 2005 in response to Hurricane Katrina, to fill the need for volunteer opportunities for young people, and has grown into a one-of-a-kind nonprofit organization. YRNO hires and trains local youth to address blight in their neighborhoods. They are prideful in teaching life skills that are not taught in schools. They teach construction skills including green infrastructure and Stormwater management, life skills including public speaking, mental and sexual health, and financial literacy to develop youth leaders.
The Roots of Music
New Orleans, LA
The Roots of Music empowers the youth of New Orleans through music education, academic support, and mentorship while preserving and promoting the unique musical and cultural heritage of their city. Their program provides music history and theory as well as instrumental instruction and ensemble performance preparation. They serve kids ages 9-14 from low-income households and provide their students with hot meals and round-trip transportation to reduce common barriers to participation.
Giving Kitchen
Atlanta, GA
Giving Kitchen’s mission is to provide emergency assistance to food service workers through financial support (covering the cost of rent and utilities paid directly to the service provider[s]) and a network of community resources (related to mental health & substance misuse, physical health and wellness, employment, housing & utilities, and family & social services).
Another Gulf Is Possible
Worldwide
Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative is a women-of-color led, grassroots collaborative of ten members from Brownsville, TX to Pensacola, FL. Their collaborative centers cultural organizing, arts-based healing, direct action, advocacy, transformative justice, education, and locally-led capacity-building training as their core areas of work. They also explicitly center the leadership of brown women with anti-racist, decolonized, and abolitionist frames and lenses for the work they undertake together.
United Houma Nation
Houma, LA
The UHN is a state recognized tribe of approximately 17,000 tribal members residing within a six-parish (county) service area encompassing 4,570 square miles along the southeastern coast of Louisiana. Although by land and road, these communities are distant, they were historically very close by water. However, boat travel is no longer a viable option due to the effects of coastal erosion, which has left these waterways either nonexistent or impassable and in many cases completely open water that requires larger vessels for safe travel. The Tribe today is presented with the unique challenges of preserving and maintaining their culture and way of life when the land is disappearing from underneath their feet. The UHN is committed and dedicated to doing exactly that.
National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Pasadena, CA / Washington, D.C.
NDLON improves the lives of day laborers, migrants, and low-wage workers. They build leadership and power among those facing injustice to challenge inequality and expand labor, and civil and political rights for all.
Alameda County Community Food Bank
Oakland, CA
For over 35 years, Alameda County Food Bank has stood by its unwavering belief that food is a basic human right. They distribute millions of healthy meals annually and are at the forefront of new approaches to ending hunger and poverty.
Food Bank of Contra Costa & Solano
Concord and Fairfield, CA
An astounding 1 in 6 residents turn to the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano for emergency and supplemental food. Many of their neighbors cannot make ends meet and the Food Bank helps them cover one of life’s basic needs—nutritious food. They strive to serve all people experiencing hunger or food insecurity in Solano and Contra Costa counties and commit to never turning anyone away.
HeadCount
Nationwide
HeadCount is a non-partisan organization that uses the power of music to register voters and promote participation in democracy. They reach young people and music fans where they already are – at concerts and online – to inform and empower. They stage nonpartisan voter registration drives at more than 1,000 live events each year and collaborate with cultural leaders to promote civic engagement on a national scale.
Color of Change
Nationwide
The nation’s largest online racial justice organization. Color of Change leads campaigns that build real power for Black communities. They challenge injustice, hold corporate and political leaders accountable, commission game-changing research on systems of inequality, and advance solutions for racial justice that can transform our world.
UndocuFund
Northern California
The UndocuFund for Disaster Relief in Sonoma County was founded in October 2017, in response to the Tubbs wildfire. It was launched by a coalition of immigrant service providers and advocates to provide direct assistance to undocumented victims of the Northern California fires. The fund ceased operations on December 31, 2018; it was re-activated on October 26, 2019, in response to the Kincade Fire. They are now activating the fund again in March of 2020; the fund seeks to support undocumented children, families, and communities in Sonoma County affected by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.
Innocence Project
Nationwide
The Innocence Project works to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone. Founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, the organization is now an independent nonprofit. Their work is guided by science and grounded in anti-racism.
Meals on Wheels
Nationwide
Meals on Wheels America is the leadership organization supporting the more than 5,000 community-based programs across the country that are dedicated to addressing senior isolation and hunger. This network serves virtually every community in America and, along with more than two million staff and volunteers, delivers nutritious meals, friendly visits, and safety checks that enable America’s seniors to live nourished lives with independence and dignity. By providing funding, leadership, education, research, and advocacy support, Meals on Wheels empowers its local member programs to strengthen their communities, one senior at a time.
Project Open Hand
San Francisco and Oakland, CA
Project Open Hand’s mission is to improve health outcomes and quality of life by providing nutritious meals to the sick and vulnerable, caring for and educating our community. Every day, they prepare 2,500 nutritious meals and provide 200 bags of healthy groceries to help sustain their clients as they battle serious illnesses, isolation, or the health challenges of aging.
Second Harvest Food Bank
New Orleans, LA
Second Harvest Food Bank leads the fight against hunger in South Louisiana by providing food access, advocacy, education, and disaster response. They provide food and support to 700+ community partners and programs across 23 parishes. Their staff and volunteers distribute the equivalent of more than 32 million meals to 210,000+ people a year. Through their food distribution programs, community kitchen meal service, nutrition education, and public benefits assistance, they are helping to create pathways out of poverty. Every year, Second Harvest secures millions of pounds of food that otherwise would have gone to waste. Their work helps ensure that these meals make it to the dinner tables of thousands of families struggling with hunger in South Louisiana.
Feeding America
Nationwide
Feeding America is the largest hunger-relief organization in the United States. 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries and meal programs strong across America. Their mission is to advance change in America by ensuring equitable access to nutritious food for all in partnership with food banks, policymakers, supporters, and the communities we serve.
Covenant House California
California
Covenant House believes that no young person deserves to be homeless; that every young person in California deserves shelter, food, clothing, education… and most importantly, to be loved. They recognize the fundamental worth of every human being and create a safe setting where all youth – regardless of life experience or identity – are served without judgment. They immediately meet the basic needs of youth experiencing homelessness through a nourishing meal, a shower, clean clothes, medical attention, and a safe place to sleep.
No Kid Hungry
Nationwide
No Kid Hungry, launched in 2010, is working to make sure kids are able to get the food they need, every day all across the country. They distribute grants to schools, food banks, and community groups across the nation to help them get what they need to feed kids, from meal carts to refrigerators to delivery trucks. They are advocates for children – working with elected officials and government agencies to strengthen and improve access to the nutrition programs that help feed hungry kids. They help educators and lawmakers across the country with the guidance and funding they need to make breakfast in school a regular part of the day for students and free healthy meals during the summer.
SF-Marin Food Bank
San Francisco and Marin, CA
SF-Marin Food Bank addresses hunger head-on – from their food pantry network and home-delivered groceries to CalFresh (food stamp) enrollment. Every week, over 53,000 households count on them for food assistance. 60% of what they distribute to them is fresh fruit and vegetables.
Conscious Alliance
Broomfield, CO
Conscious Alliance feeds families in communities that need it most. Their network of creative people — artists, musicians, food makers, and fans — use their time and talents to make that happen. Their alliance empowers young people to make a tangible difference in the lives of people in underserved communities.
Wilderness Youth Project
Santa Barbara, CA
Wilderness Youth Project connects kids to nature in small groups guided by inspired, skilled, and committed mentors and volunteers. Mentors meet youth during the school day, after school, and summer for programs in different ecosystems throughout their area. WYP to make nature available for all children, from preschool through high school. They make scholarships and subsidized community programs available because cost should not be a barrier to experiencing nature. At the heart of WYP is a belief that connection to the land is a birthright that belongs to all people from the beginning of time.
Causa Justa :: Just Cause
Oakland and San Francisco, CA
CJJC builds grassroots power and leadership to create strong, equitable communities. Born through mergers between Black organizations and Latino organizations, they build bridges of solidarity between working-class communities. Through rights-based services, policy campaigns, civic engagement, and direct action, they improve conditions in their neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area and contribute to building the larger multi-racial, multi-generational movement needed for fundamental change.
Bread & Roses Presents
Corte Madera, CA
Bread & Roses is dedicated to uplifting the human spirit by presenting free, live performing arts performances to people who live in institutions or are otherwise isolated from society. Their performances: enrich the soul and promote wellness through the healing power of the performing arts; create a sense of community for our professional performers, in a non-commercial setting in which they can donate their talents to inspire and be inspired; provide an opportunity for non-performing volunteers to contribute a variety of skills and resources that support our humanitarian services and increase the impact of donor contributions.
Carecen SF
San Francisco, CA
Carecen SF empowers and responds to the needs, rights and aspirations of Latino, immigrant, and under-resourced families in the San Francisco Bay Area — building leadership to pursue self-determination and justice. Their programs serve people from the entire Bay Area. The social services side of their programs serves primarily extremely low-income San Francisco residents from Districts 6, 9, 10, and 11. Their commitment to culturally rooted, responsive, and accessible programs has proven effective. Reducing barriers to economic, social, cultural, and civic integration for immigrant and disconnected families in the SF/Bay Area.
The Night Ministry
Chicago, IL
The Night Ministry compassionately provides housing, health care, outreach, spiritual care, and social services to adults and youth who struggle with homelessness, poverty, and loneliness. They accept individuals as they are and offer support as they seek to improve their lives.
Every Meal
Roseville, MN
During the spring of 2010, the school administration at Sheridan Elementary in Northeast Minneapolis discovered students hoarding food from the cafeteria on Fridays. Every Meal (formally The Sheridan Story) has a mission to fight child hunger. They focus on filling the food gaps children face on weekends, extended breaks, and summer when they’re not able to access school meal programs. Through their multiple food gap programs, they provide children and families experiencing food insecurity with access to good food at more than 500 locations in Minnesota.
826Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
826michigan is helping students in Southeast Michigan write better futures, one story at a time. Since 2005 they’ve been inspiring school-aged students to write confidently and skillfully with the help of adult volunteers in their communities. Thousands of students in 826michigan’s free programs have enriched the literary landscape with their powerful voices, boundless creativity, and infectious enthusiasm.
Starfire
Cincinnati, OH
Starfire is a visionary organization working to build better lives for people with disabilities. Since 1993, Starfire has worked to create a more inclusive Cincinnati. Starfire is focused on decreasing the social isolation felt by people with disabilities. The data is clear; people with disabilities grow increasingly lonely and isolated as adults. Working with one person at a time, Starfire connects people to relationships and uncovers a person’s talents and passions – so they can thrive in their communities alongside their neighbors.
Close the Workhouse
St. Louis, MO
The Close the Workhouse campaign aims to attack mass incarceration, without legitimizing or justifying the continued caging of people as punishment. They call for the closure of the Medium Security Institute, better known in St. Louis as the Workhouse, an end to wealth-based pretrial detention, and the reinvestment of the money used to cage poor people and Black people into rebuilding the most impacted neighborhoods in this region. The campaign is a collaboration of the individuals subjected to incarceration at the Workhouse and lawyers and activists engaged on the issue. The campaign’s primary organizational partners work in collaboration every day in St. Louis to get people free: Action St. Louis and ArchCity Defenders.
Casa Marianella
Austin, TX
Casa Marianella is the only homeless shelter in Austin dedicated solely to immigrants. 65% of their shelter residents, including children, are asylum seekers, many coming to them from immigration detention. In 29 years, their population has evolved from survivors of the Salvadoran war to asylum-seeking refugees and other immigrants from over 40 countries. Casa Marianella welcomes displaced immigrants and promotes self-sufficiency by providing shelter and support services. Their shelters are home-like facilities designed to meet emergency or transitional needs so vulnerable and injured people can resolve their immediate crisis, get stabilized, and once again become independent, which then opens up space for new residents.
Girls Write Nashville
Nashville, TN
Girls Write Nashville empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship, and creative community building for teen artists. They are an educational program aligned with the standards of Creative Youth Development (CYD) and Culturally Responsive Education (CRE). In a GWN Writers Guild, participants learn to write and record original music in a supportive community of peers led by a trauma-informed teaching artist over the course of a 20-week semester. Nashville’s only music program founded specifically on the value of inclusion, they actively solve for accessibility barriers believing that when they do, their student community will accurately reflect Nashville’s true diversity and work to create a safe and inclusive path to cultural participation within their city’s music scene.
Jalloh’s Upright Services
Greensboro, NC
JUS-NC offers immigration legal services as Dept. Of Justice Accredited Recognized Legal Representatives, along with Transition, Cultural, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion programs in-house, and has partnered with multiple organizations to serve as a one-stop-shop offering a wide range of programs and services that cover areas such as employment, education, housing, tax preparation, civic engagement, mentorships and many more. They offer many services, from advisory, consultation, and legal services, just to name a few. JUS-NC facilitates a healthy, vibrant, and better integration and settlement process of our immigrant community within the State of North Carolina by offering these services.
Mann Center for The Performing Arts
Philadelphia, PA
The Mann Center’s mission is to give every young person the opportunity to be inspired by the sights, sounds, and rhythms of the performing arts through the magic and richness of live performances. They offer year-round, after-school programming that offers access and opportunity to elementary through high school students; Structured and sustainable programs focused on fostering hard and soft employment skills through exposure, training, and apprenticeship experiences; And with arts & culture at its core, Creative Placemaking initiatives leverage the Mann’s physical space to support their neighbors, strengthening their surrounding community.
Migrant Justice
Burlington, VT
The Migrant Justice mission is to build the voice, capacity, and power of the farmworker community and engage community partners to organize for economic justice and human rights. They gather the farmworker community to discuss and analyze shared problems and to envision collective solutions. Through this ongoing investment in leadership development, members deepen their skills in community education and organizing for long-term systemic change. From this basis their members have defined community problems as a denial of rights and dignity and have prioritized building a movement to secure these fundamental human rights to 1) Dignified Work and Quality Housing; 2) Freedom of Movement and Access to Transportation; 3) Freedom from discrimination; 4) Access to Health Care
Farm to Table Kids
Cumberland Center, ME
The Farm to Table Kids’ mission and goal is to empower children with an appreciation for local agriculture so they may find what lights their heart in Nature: as farmers, chefs, artisans, consumers, and community members. Through organic gardening, farm-to-table cooking, and nature crafting lessons online and at their organic farm campus, summer camp, harvest kitchen, and CSAs – kiddos learn through their farm operation built for kids by kids.
Pemi Youth Center
Plymouth, NH
The Pemi Youth Center was founded in 1999 and serves as an empowerment program for youth ages 10-17 at no cost to families during after-school hours and school vacations. They believe that every single person has unlimited potential to have a positive impact, and they are stronger when they work collaboratively in the community. They meet every youth where they are to support, encourage and empower them to have the confidence to live their dreams and to practice love and compassion in efforts to make the world a better place.
Easthampton Community Center
Easthampton, MA
It is the mission of the ECC to provide services and assistance to residents of the greater Easthampton area and has proudly served the needs of families in their area for over 40 years! The Center provides a Food Pantry, Community Care Kitchen, and a Clothing Closet, along with meeting space for community groups, and holiday or celebratory gatherings. The building is open seven days each week with many classes and meetings ongoing.
Bailey’s Café
Brooklyn, NY
Bailey’s Café is a space of community healing and belonging — a secular church, a home, a kitchen table. Bailey’s welcomes all with an open heart, compassion, and love, generating a culture of belongingness, non-judgment, acceptance, community, and space to be your full self. This is Bailey’s unique value. They create an environment for youth to come together and grow through creativity, imagination, and communion; elders and youth come together to communicate, share and learn; the “rough around the edges” be welcomed in a nonjudgmental space; deep personal connections; exposure to new things such as radical self-wellness, different forms of arts; continuation of culture in the neighborhood; investigation and challenging of gentrification.
Southwest Community Garden
Washington D.C.
The SW Community Garden opened on July 31st, 2013 with the help of Fiskars, The Home Depot, and the DC Department of Parks and Recreation. The garden is the culmination of a year-long effort by a group of green-thumbed SW residents that found a common interest and worked to bring it to fruition. The Garden’s communal plots are used to grow seasonal fruits and vegetables that will be consumed by Southwest DC residents. Growing one’s own produce can save households large sums of money on their grocery bills, gives residents more control over where their food comes from, and greater oversight of how it is grown and harvested. The garden has adopted organic and sustainable gardening practices that preserve the soil, environment, and surrounding wildlife for future generations.
Spy Hop
Salt Lake City, UT
Spy Hop is a digital media arts center offering in-school, after-school, summer camps, youth-in-care, and satellite programming for students ages 9-19 of all skill levels and aspirations in film, music, audio, and design. They meet young people where they are in their lives and invite them to tell their stories through the media arts. Their model combines youth development, arts education, and career preparation to empower young people to gain the skills they need to be successful.
Soft Landing Missoula
Missoula, MT
Soft Landing provides a long welcome for refugee and immigrant families who arrive in Missoula eager to build a new life and put down roots of their own. They strive to work with new neighbors to tap into all the resources and wonderful opportunities that their community has to offer so that we all can thrive. They believe in the power of shared human experience, the celebration of milestones big and small, and the building of cultural bridges through common languages such as food, soccer, and music. Their work is grounded in four main pillars: the Community Center, Youth Program, United We Eat, and Community Outreach and Education.
Rain City Rock Camp
Seattle, WA
Rain City Rock Camp is the only nonprofit in the Seattle area that combines music education, gender-responsive programming, and a commitment to positive social change. Their programs address holistic aspects of positive development—like building self-esteem and encouraging self-expression—while offering strengths-based, collaborative music learning. Participants in their programs receive instrument instruction from local musicians and write, rehearse, and perform original songs with the support of mentors. They examine the music industry through a social justice lens, discuss the media’s impact on self-image, learn how to set boundaries, explore basic self-defense tactics, and practice body positivity, teamwork, and problem-solving.
Dollar For
Nationwide
Dollar For is a national nonprofit that crushes medical bills by empowering patients and advocating on their behalf. They educate patients about the charity care programs (offered by nonprofit hospitals and required by the Affordable Care Act), help patients navigate the application process, and call out hospitals that don’t follow regulations. They have already crushed over $19 million in medical bills. Their work is entirely funded through philanthropic grants and donations. Their services are completely free – no strings attached.
“I have been working for non-profit organizations for more than 12 years, I have conducted different outreach and fundraising events, but this one was the first being present during a live concert and was amazed about the attention people will put in our material. Instead, I received an amazing response and interest from a public that was not familiar with the work we do for immigrant Latin American families.”
— Carecen
