Support Kindness Café's transition to a non-profit and more!
Food Waste Management Workshop, St. Clair College
About Kindness Café
Kindness Café is an organization aimed to solve both the food waste and food insecurity problems in Windsor, Ontario. Kindness Café collects and enhances surplus food from Windsor markets and restaurants and provides it back to the community, who can purchase a meal using the Pay-As-You-Feel concept. Simply pay as you like, or enjoy your meal for free! Then, we compost and donate our own surplus to local livestock to continue the food cycle. Ultimately, Kindness Cafe is a movement aimed to achieve zero food waste in Windsor, Ontario, and one day across the whole world!
Why Crowd Fund?
We're super excited for our transition into Phase Two of business operations!
In Phase One, we used to operate as a social enterprise. Now we're shifting to a non-profit model to achieve charitable status! This means that all future donations will be tax-deductible - helping you help us.
In Phase One, we used to operate our pop-ups only in locations that provided us space because we did not have any of our own. We also sometimes couldn't accept food donations from the community because we didn't have a place to store them. But now, thanks to our partnership with Cook-Up we will have accessible kitchen and storage space, as well as a friendly restaurant space. We will also be able to accept food donations at any time!
In Phase One, our team consisted only of the Founder, but as tasks are adding up, our team is growing! In Phase Two, we are adding a new directorship position to oversee business operations and to soon add new members to the Kindness Café family!
Your generous donation will generate several new, helpful changes that will help us feed our community the way we do it best.
A detailed list of all of our expenses will be viewable below.
Our Story:
Ola Ahmed, Founder of Kindness Café
My name is Ola Ahmed and I am an international student, moving from Egypt to Canada for my graduate degree. Back home, my mother cooked frequently for friends and family. Sadly, we always threw out the remaining food after only one day of eating it. However, when I used to walk the streets of Cairo with my friends, I always used to see people eating out of the garbage. Even as a child, this didn’t sit well with me.
After moving to Canada, I worked as a barista at a franchised coffee shop. On the first night of work, my supervisor instructed me to dump all the remaining food from the day into the garbage, including food that was still in its wrapping paper! The coffee shop was located in a lower-income area of Windsor, so there were usually a couple people waiting at the dumpster for me to drop the food in it. It broke my heart to see the same food problem in a country of such wealth and opportunity.
I then realized that food waste is not just a local problem, but world-wide problem. Since then, I promised myself to find a way to rescue fresh, surplus food from local businesses, and to redistribute meals to those who agree that we can do much better to uphold food security. My aim wasn’t just to start a business, but to start a conscious movement where people would be aware and limit their own food waste.
… and thus Kindness Cafe was born!
Where does my contribution go?
Kindness Café is dedicated to complete transparency with regards to all of our funding. See below for the breakdown on how your donation will help our Phase Two operations:
Federal Incorporation Fees:
Filling Fee $200
NUANS Name Search $56.50*
Lawyer’s Fee $339
Shareholder’s Agreement Fee $565**
Total Fed. Inc. Fees: $1160.50
Food Handling License Fees:
License Fee $440
Annual Renewal (2021): $341
Total Food Handling License Fees: $781
Cook-up Partnership Fees (3 months): $750***
GoFundMe Transaction Fees (approx 50 donors): $100
Total Phase Two fees: $2,791.50
Details:
*In order to incorporate our business, our lawyer needs to search for our name nation-wide, to ensure no one has used it before
**We will be adding a Directorship position to our team to provide us with the help needed to manage operations!
***Cook-up is an organization that has generously provided Kindness Café with adequate kitchen space to ensure food handling and safety measures are fulfilled, as well as weekly training/mentorship sessions for our Founder and Director. Cook-up will be providing us sessions and support starting September, 2020.
We thank you kindly for all of your generous support in bringing more kindness to our community
How else can I help Kindness Café?
- Share this link on social media so more people can donate
- Spread the word via word-of-mouth
- Reach out to us if you'd like to join our family
- Come enjoy some of our rescued food in our new location once advertised
Khadija Shamisa, enjoying Kindness Café rescued food!
Kindness Café Windsor
"Empower our community through nutrition and compassion"
Food Waste Management Workshop, St. Clair College
About Kindness Café
Kindness Café is an organization aimed to solve both the food waste and food insecurity problems in Windsor, Ontario. Kindness Café collects and enhances surplus food from Windsor markets and restaurants and provides it back to the community, who can purchase a meal using the Pay-As-You-Feel concept. Simply pay as you like, or enjoy your meal for free! Then, we compost and donate our own surplus to local livestock to continue the food cycle. Ultimately, Kindness Cafe is a movement aimed to achieve zero food waste in Windsor, Ontario, and one day across the whole world!
Why Crowd Fund?
We're super excited for our transition into Phase Two of business operations!
In Phase One, we used to operate as a social enterprise. Now we're shifting to a non-profit model to achieve charitable status! This means that all future donations will be tax-deductible - helping you help us.
In Phase One, we used to operate our pop-ups only in locations that provided us space because we did not have any of our own. We also sometimes couldn't accept food donations from the community because we didn't have a place to store them. But now, thanks to our partnership with Cook-Up we will have accessible kitchen and storage space, as well as a friendly restaurant space. We will also be able to accept food donations at any time!
In Phase One, our team consisted only of the Founder, but as tasks are adding up, our team is growing! In Phase Two, we are adding a new directorship position to oversee business operations and to soon add new members to the Kindness Café family!
Your generous donation will generate several new, helpful changes that will help us feed our community the way we do it best.
A detailed list of all of our expenses will be viewable below.
Our Story:
Ola Ahmed, Founder of Kindness Café
My name is Ola Ahmed and I am an international student, moving from Egypt to Canada for my graduate degree. Back home, my mother cooked frequently for friends and family. Sadly, we always threw out the remaining food after only one day of eating it. However, when I used to walk the streets of Cairo with my friends, I always used to see people eating out of the garbage. Even as a child, this didn’t sit well with me.
After moving to Canada, I worked as a barista at a franchised coffee shop. On the first night of work, my supervisor instructed me to dump all the remaining food from the day into the garbage, including food that was still in its wrapping paper! The coffee shop was located in a lower-income area of Windsor, so there were usually a couple people waiting at the dumpster for me to drop the food in it. It broke my heart to see the same food problem in a country of such wealth and opportunity.
I then realized that food waste is not just a local problem, but world-wide problem. Since then, I promised myself to find a way to rescue fresh, surplus food from local businesses, and to redistribute meals to those who agree that we can do much better to uphold food security. My aim wasn’t just to start a business, but to start a conscious movement where people would be aware and limit their own food waste.
… and thus Kindness Cafe was born!
Where does my contribution go?
Kindness Café is dedicated to complete transparency with regards to all of our funding. See below for the breakdown on how your donation will help our Phase Two operations:
Federal Incorporation Fees:
Filling Fee $200
NUANS Name Search $56.50*
Lawyer’s Fee $339
Shareholder’s Agreement Fee $565**
Total Fed. Inc. Fees: $1160.50
Food Handling License Fees:
License Fee $440
Annual Renewal (2021): $341
Total Food Handling License Fees: $781
Cook-up Partnership Fees (3 months): $750***
GoFundMe Transaction Fees (approx 50 donors): $100
Total Phase Two fees: $2,791.50
Details:
*In order to incorporate our business, our lawyer needs to search for our name nation-wide, to ensure no one has used it before
**We will be adding a Directorship position to our team to provide us with the help needed to manage operations!
***Cook-up is an organization that has generously provided Kindness Café with adequate kitchen space to ensure food handling and safety measures are fulfilled, as well as weekly training/mentorship sessions for our Founder and Director. Cook-up will be providing us sessions and support starting September, 2020.
We thank you kindly for all of your generous support in bringing more kindness to our community
How else can I help Kindness Café?
- Share this link on social media so more people can donate
- Spread the word via word-of-mouth
- Reach out to us if you'd like to join our family
- Come enjoy some of our rescued food in our new location once advertised
Khadija Shamisa, enjoying Kindness Café rescued food!
Kindness Café Windsor
"Empower our community through nutrition and compassion"