At SAME Café, everyone participates in exchange for their meal!
So All May Eat / SAME Cafés operate with a Participation Model where guests volunteer time, donate money, or give produce in exchange for a healthy, locally sourced, made from scratch meal. The Participation Model is unique in that every guest can give from their abundance of time, money, or produce to participate in the mission of SAME Cafés: to create community through healthy food access. In this way, everyone can give back to their community through meaningful participation!
So All May Eat / SAME Cafés create community through healthy food access.
The Library Partnership Model
Proven through our partnership with the Toledo Lucas County Public Library (TLCPL) and 17 years of experience at SAME Café Denver, So All May Eat (SAME) has created the SAME / Library Partnership Model that converts downtown Library Cafés to SAME Café. We started with SAME Café Toledo, which opened doors in 2022 and have been serving hundreds of meals per week since.
SAME Café Denver
SAME Café Denver has been fostering community on East Colfax since 2006
SAME Café Toledo
SAME Café Toledo has been operating within the Main Library since 2022
SAME Café 101
Learn more about SAME Café’s unique Participation Model and values
SAME’s core value of “Leadership Through Service” expresses itself in many ways, including how SAME thinks about leadership. So All May Eat is the root organization that supports the local Cafés. Leaders are promoted to deeper positions where they support those who are creating community in the local Cafés.
“Connected people do good for themselves and the world. Isolated people damage themselves and the world.” - Brad Reubendale, CEO
