INDIANAPOLIS — Residents and visitors of the Garfield Park neighborhood will soon enjoy a brand new community kitchen and destination chapel/chicken coop, thanks to a recently launched crowdfunding campaign. The campaign is sponsored by the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA) and offered through the crowdfunding platform developed by Patronicity. The campaign is led by Big Car Collaborative, as a follow-up to their successful campaign from last year.
If the campaign reaches its $50,000 goal by October 19th, “Sunny Side Up: Building Community Through Food and Friendly Fowls” will receive a matching grant of $50,000 from IHCDA’s CreatINg Places program.
The funding raised during this campaign will support an expansion of the existing kitchen and serving space at Big Car’s community space, the Tube Factory. This expansion will allow Big Car to offer community meals and free public programs about food, nutrition, and urban ecology and agriculture, in conjunction with their demonstration food garden. The campaign will also support the creation of a unique space that is a combination of chapel and chicken coop. This space will allow people to gather for everything from a small wedding ceremony or meditation session, to lessons on raising urban birds.
To donate, visit Patronicity.org for the link.