No Kid Hungry

So, you know, education always remains a safe place for corporations to put their money because w- you know, it's kind of common knowledge that public education's underfunded just about everywhere in the country.

And so they look for those issues that are really safe and that have really safe spokespeople or faces that aren't gonna be targets, right? Nobody's gonna come after the kid with cancer or the, the kid who's a kindergartner who's hungry because he didn't have any food over the weekend and he needs a free breakfast from the school or from No Kid Hungry on Monday morning, right? Which is something that's really important and great work that No Kid Hungry does.

Just as an aside.

[laughs] I do think it's very interesting to see some of these trends happen, and we kind of touched on this earlier.

Tropical Smoothie and Purpose.

We are working with our friends at No Kid Hungry.

You are the co-chair of the Dine Advisory Board.

Tropical Smoothie's been one of the brands that has been all in on No Kid Hungry.

So when Tropical Smoothie and your work is supporting No Kid Hungry, what does that actually look like? Is it funding? Is it promotions? Is it employee engagement? How is Tropical Smoothies involved in engagement with No

Kid Hungry? That's a good question, Jimmy.

Am I right?

So you connected this.

Show me how we get to the moon without a computer any more powerful than a calculator, you know? Do some of that.

I mean, there are one or two nonprofits doing that, you know, Billy Shore and, and No Kid Hungry.

There, there are one or two nonprofits that I know of that are doing that.

And look, there aren't a lot of for-profits that are doing it.

Well, they're doing things to dissolve the focus on overhead.

You know, the Ford Foundation and MacArthur and the Open Society all doubled their overhead ratios.

Charity Navigator and Better Business Bureau issued a joint press release saying, "Don't ask about overhead, ask about impact." But the risk thing, uh, you know, Social Current and No Kid Hungry and The Audacious Project, you know, those are the only places I know of that are big where it's actually happening.

So you feel like really still when it comes to the social impact sector, innovation is still not being pushed as this is a big part of what you do.

And what we do is we raise money from jewelers and on occasion consumers.

And then we give it to our nine nonprofit partners who include organizations like Make-A-Wish, St. Jude, Ticket to Dream, No Kid Hungry.

So really a diverse group of kids we're helping out there.

That's fantastic.

Right.

So JFC is working with local foster care organizations through Ticket to Dream.

We're working with local food banks through No Kid Hungry.

We're really able to identify those places, too.

So so I decide, you know, as soon as I saw they were an option to run for them, I was like, that's a no brainer.

The the no kid hungry.

So I actually did a few fundraisers for them as a comedian.

We did the Treasure Coast Food Bank and I did a fundraiser for them here in Orlando.