Our mission is to provide science-based education about the impact of food choices, empowering current and future consumers and leaders to help create a healthier, more sustainable food system for all.

Our vision is one in which all societies and community members are equipped with the knowledge of how their individual food choices impact health and environmental issues worldwide, leading to improved personal and planetary health.

Source: Nonprofit submitted responses

Goal One: To expand into additional European countries and 5 countries in Latin America within the year with additional international growth planned for the following years.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Two: To expand each year into new areas of North America that were previously untouched since we can do so with digital presentations while keeping our cost per student very low.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Three: We have partnered with multiple leading health and environmental organizations to expand our digital educational offerings and our reach.

Goal Type: New program(s) based on observed changes in needs among our constituencies/communities served.

Describe an investment in leadership

We recently created a committee called the ARDI (Anti-Racist, Diversity, and Inclusion) to ensure that we maintain an active role in achieving, and strengthening, a just and equitable culture that is anti-racist, diverse, and inclusive. We recognize that this work is essential to supporting all members of our community and that it may only be accomplished by deconstructing the intersecting marginalization of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, and disability through critical and ongoing review of current and future standards, policies, and practices within our organization. This committee will organize ongoing training opportunities for our leadership team and staff. By reaffirming our just and equitable culture through the work of the ARDI Committee, ECP will be better situated to both support our current personnel, and to forge a more diverse and inclusive workplace, ensuring adequate representation for our team members and those we serve.

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Strategic Partnerships

• Thought Leadership

• Raising Awareness

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

Partnerships with like-minded organizations have brought our expanded college program as well as multiple international expansion projects into reality. We value the importance of joining forces to make bigger impacts. Our founder has been featured as a speaker at the Reducetarian Summit as well as other mission related conferences and has been a guest on multiple podcasts to get the word out about our services and resulting impact. We utilize social channels such as Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to share important organizational updates and to bring awareness to our work.

An online component of our learning program was launched as part of our COVID response. It was imperative that we continued to reach as many students as possible during each school year, even when our educators could not safely be in the classrooms. Our leadership team worked diligently and swiftly during those unprecedented times to create a virtual experience consisting of professionally narrated versions of our presentations, along with lesson plans offering activities and quizzes for teachers to utilize in their distance learning classrooms. The information shared in the virtual presentations is identical to our in-person versions but with adaptations made to the interactive components. At a time when teachers were challenged with creating online content to engage their students, our new offerings were both appreciated and well-received. Utilizing our digital programs, we were able to reach over 400,000 students in the US and Canada alone during COVID shutdowns. Over the past two years, we have learned that not only does our digital education format allow us to adapt to the ever-changing academic world consisting of home-schooling, in-class instruction and hybrid models; it also removes all geographic borders from our work that were previously in place due to lack of personnel and cost of travel to present in remote areas. On top of this, we have found that we can effectively reach more people in more areas, resulting in more positive dietary changes worldwide for a much lower cost per student! This has paved the way for our global future as an organization.