Stories and Updates
Announcing a New DC Vendor: Lula Mae’s Gardin Food Truck and Catering
Breadcoin Foundation, Ltd. welcomes a new caterer and food truck, Lula Mae's Gardin, to our growing list of vendors that people can visit or that our distribution partners can cater from. Lula Mae's Gardin has a food truck that is in Lanham, Maryland at 9800 Good...
Announcing a New DC Vendor: Family and Food over Everything Food Truck and Catering
Breadcoin Foundation, Ltd. welcomes a new caterer and food truck, available by request, to our growing list of stellar businesses accepting Breadcoins. The latest is Family and Food over Everything. Their motto is "where love and loyalty collide with great cuisine,"...
Announcing a New DC Catering Vendor: Bread par Avion
Breadcoin Foundation, Ltd. announced a new participating vendor in Washington, DC, accepting Breadcoin tokens as payment for food at their establishment. Breadcoin is excited to welcome Ledo Pizza (7435 Georgia Avenue, NW) as our newest vendor in the Brightwood...
Announcing a DC Farmers Market and Several New Vendors in It
Breadcoin Foundation, Ltd. has several new participating vendors in Washington, DC, at the popular and well-organized Park View Farmers Market. They are accepting Breadcoin tokens as payment for food at their stalls in this indoor market. RavenHook Bakehouse, already...
Pizza with a Side of Dignity with Baltimore’s 10:12 Sports
Jeff Thompson is a man with a vision, and adolescent boys are blossoming in the care of his 10:12 Sports organization. Thirty-two mentors are serving 208 adolescents, using the training and joy inherent in basketball, flag football and weight training to share life...
Announcing a New DC Vendor: Ledo Pizza (7435 Georgia Avenue, NW)
Breadcoin Foundation, Ltd. announced a new participating vendor in Washington, DC, accepting Breadcoin tokens as payment for food at their establishment. Breadcoin is excited to welcome Ledo Pizza (7435 Georgia Avenue, NW) as our newest vendor in the Brightwood...
Announcing a New DC Vendor: Farmers & Distillers
Breadcoin Foundation, Ltd. announced a new participating vendor in Washington, DC, accepting Breadcoin tokens as payment for food at their establishment. Breadcoin is excited to welcome Farmers & Distillers, part of the community-minded, farmer-owned restaurant...
Children’s National Hospital Is Now Giving and Receiving Breadcoins
Children's National Hospital is participating in a groundbreaking usage of the Breadcoin food token, a tool to feed the community. Children's, beginning today, is both a distribution partner and a Breadcoin vendor. Imagine a scenario where someone already struggling...
Announcing a New Prince George’s County, Maryland Vendor: Healthy Life Gourmet
WASHINGTON, DC – Breadcoin Foundation, Ltd. announced a new participating vendor in nearby Prince George's County, accepting Breadcoin tokens as payment for food at their establishment. Breadcoin is excited to welcome the new vendor, a caterer, Healthy Life Gourmet....
Announcing a New DC Vendor: America’s Best Wings
WASHINGTON, DC – Breadcoin Foundation, Ltd. announced a new participating vendor in Washington, D.C. accepting Breadcoin tokens as payment for food at their establishment. Breadcoin is excited to welcome the new vendor at 2863 Alabama Avenue, SE. America's Best Wings...
Announcing a New DC Vendor: GreenIsland Bakery
Breadcoin Foundation, Ltd. announced a new participating vendor in Washington, DC, accepting Breadcoin tokens as payment for food at their establishment. Breadcoin is excited to welcome GreenIsland Bakery, an Irish and European bakery that accepts Breadcoin orders by...
Announcing Two New DC Vendors: IHOP
WASHINGTON, DC – Breadcoin Foundation, Ltd. announced two new participating vendors in Washington, D.C. accepting Breadcoin tokens as payment for food at their establishment. Breadcoin is excited to welcome two family-owned IHOPS, one at 1523 Alabama Avenue, SE in...
Announcing a New Baltimore Vendor: Zella’s Pizzeria
Breadcoin Foundation, Ltd. announced a new participating vendor in Baltimore, MD, accepting Breadcoin tokens as payment for food at their establishment. Breadcoin is excited to welcome Zella's Pizzeria, the new vendor in the Hollins Market area. Named for the...
Announcing a New DC Vendor: Sandovan Restaurant
WASHINGTON, DC – Breadcoin Foundation, Ltd. announced a new participating vendor in Washington, D.C. accepting Breadcoin tokens as payment for food at their establishment. Breadcoin is excited to welcome the new vendor in the Petworth Neighborhood. We are thankful for...
Announcing a New DC Vendor: RavenHook Bakehouse
WASHINGTON, DC – Breadcoin Foundation, Ltd. announced a new participating vendor in Washington, D.C. accepting Breadcoin tokens as payment for food at their establishment. Breadcoin is excited to welcome the new vendor, currently serving Capitol Hill and the Eastern...
Announcing a New DC Vendor: J&J Mex Taqueria
WASHINGTON, DC – Breadcoin Foundation, Ltd. announced a new participating vendor in Washington, D.C. accepting Breadcoin tokens as payment for food at their establishment. Breadcoin is excited to welcome the new vendor, J&J Mex Taqueria, in the Brightwood...
Summer in the 5th District
Summer has seen much action with the always-creative and hardworking Outreach Team of the Metropolitan Police Department's 5th district. Officers Ishby, Hamilton and others are always looking for new ways to live out the "We are here to help" motto, and Breadcoin has...
We’re in Baltimore Now!
Breadcoin has moved into its second major city with our spread into Baltimore, a natural next step and easy fit in a city where so many are working together to alleviate hunger and to care for those experiencing homelessness too. Just like in DC we are not only a coin...
Fox5 DC Features Breadcoin
Did you see our team members Cary Umhau and Pastor William Spence on Fox5 DC? Here's that feature.
Langston Area Explosion
Pastor William Spence, board member, Breadcoin leader and neighborhood captain too (and those are only his Breadcoin jobs; did we mention he ably leads Harvest Life Fellowship?)... well he's been busy signing up new Breadcoin vendors. The corner of Benning Roads and...
Food and groceries distribution events
Working together with a number of partners, we are excited to be operating in an additional way during this pandemic time. Folks are driving and walking up to various locations in the city, with different church and nonprofit partners hosting the events, and leaving...
Mother’s Day Surprise
The outreach team from the 5th District of DC's Metropolitan Police Department paid surprise visits to seniors and others in their area, dispensing roses, candles, and cookies and muffins from Breadcoin vendor Mission Muffins. This Mother's Day surprise was an...
Message from the Founder
Breadcoin's founder on why Breadcoin was created for such a time as this: Scott Borger is a Ph.D. economist who in 2016 partnered with Cary Umhau to create the Breadcoin food token that is feeding the community, supporting local food vendors, and providing loans to...
Breadcoin Microloans
Investors help vendors grow their businesses with low-interest loans that are paid back in Breadcoins. A unique feature of Breadcoin is our microloan program. We match investors with needs and desires that our vendors have to grow their businesses. Vendors with whom...
More about Mama’s
We love this radio story from several years ago about our vendor Mama's Pizza Kitchen, which is still going strong (and now accepting Breadcoins). Listen in to Rebecca Sheir of WAMU. Here's a snippet: Musa and Fatima have been in business in Anacostia since 2012. Here...
Membership Model
Much of Breadcoin was obvious from the beginning: We certainly knew the "why" (people are hungry, and we all can and should meet one another's needs). We knew where we would start (where our team was, in Washington, DC). We knew that there are many good-hearted people...
Our First Loan Payoff
Breadcoin had a glorious celebration of our three-year partnership with the Central Union Mission, DC and of the payoff of our first microloan, the lease of a food trailer for their Mission Muffins enterprise. WGTS 91.9 was broadcasting live, and we love the wonderful...
Kipp DC, Partner
Breadcoin and KIPP DC, a charter school, have an exciting new partnership. Our donor-funded Breadcoins go into the hands of the counseling staff at each of the three schools that serve Pre-K to eighth grade on the KIPP DC: Webb Campus in the Ivy City neighborhood....
Announcing Two New DC Vendors
WASHINGTON, DC – A DC-based organization announced two new participating vendors in Washington, D.C. accepting breadcoin tokens as payment for food and drinks at their establishments. Breadcoin is excited to welcome the new vendors serving the Anacostia and Ivy City...
Breadcoin and Ben’s Chili Bowl Team Up
Breadcoin partnered with DC legend, Ben’s Chili Bowl during the government shutdown in January, 2019 to ensure that workers without paychecks could receive a meal. Founded in 1958, Ben’s Chili Bowl is a landmark DC restaurant...
Feeding Feds During Shutdown Initiative
Join us in making a difference! Breadcoin Foundation, a DC-based nonprofit, is providing a way for the community to feed unpaid TSA and other government employees and support staff during the shutdown. Breadcoins are a food token...
Anacostia Community Clean-up Day
Community has always been at the heart of Breadcoin’s mission. The community food tokens are designed to foster engagement, generating face-to-face connections between people of all walks of life who call the same city home. That’s why it felt natural to team up with...
Jerry Gill
Jerry Gill is not the type of man you’d expect to have served 40 years in prison. Now in his mid-60s, Jerry has large, gentle eyes, and his short hair shares the same salt-and-pepper seasoning that President Obama developed in his last years in office, nature’s badge...
Ali’s Hot Dog Stand
Can a hot dog change a city? It’s not an idea you’ll hear discussed on Capitol Hill, but a new vendor in downtown Metro Center believes it’s true. In his old life, Ali was an Arabic professor at a university here in D.C. Today, he spends his days inside a tiny metal...
Announcing Two New Vendors
WASHINGTON, DC – A DC-based organization announced two new participating vendors in Washington, D.C. accepting breadcoin tokens as payment for food and drinks at their establishments. Cary Umhau (pictured above) is enjoying a hot dog at Ali’s Hot Dog Stand. Breadcoin...
Restorative Giving
Breadcoin is an organization established to return an upside down financial system right side up through the issuance of a giving token. Breadcoin intends to fuse global finance with the character of local barter and usher in a new era of restorative giving that meets...