A passion for helping families in need.
Our goal is to feed underserved communities in our city, which is culturally known for some of the best cuisine in the world. Unfortunately, the disparity we are seeing is some of our hardest working citizens still can’t bring home enough to keep families fed. We find this to be unacceptable. One in three New Orleans families are currently facing food insecurity.
Toups’ Family Meal
Toups Family Meal is a non-profit founded by Chef Isaac and Amanda Toups, whose mission is to bridge the gap of food insecurity in New Orleans.
what we’ve done
This summer, we focused on children who rely on the free/reduced school lunches during the school year, and successfully supplemented 70,500 meals from June 6 to August 16, while they were out of classes for the summer break.
We kicked off the Fall season by delivering 600 pumpkins and 1200 pizzas on October 5th in what we hope will become our annual pumpkin drive.
what we plan to do
Looking to the future our goals are focused on lending a helping hand for the holidays. With Thanksgiving just around the corner we’re looking to deliver 1500 grocery kits — on Saturday November 23 — to assist in providing a homecooked Thanksgiving dinner. We’ll be doing the same thing to round out the year Saturday December 21 just in time for Christmas.
***Be on the lookout for updates on our new holiday initiative “Toups for Tots” as well! ***
“You can read about hardship, but when you’re standing in front of a mother saying thank you for doing this and you really understand their situation and their need, it moves you.”
“We have the infrastructure, we know how to do this. We have to do it.”
Amanda Toups
CEO,Toups Family Meal