Become a sponsor
Join Elite Kids Society in nourishing bodies, empowering youth, and strengthening families. Discover how your support can transform lives and create a vibrant, inclusive community in Indianapolis. Explore the Community Kitchen Campaign and help us make a difference.
Community Kitchen Campaign
The Community Kitchen Campaign exists to nourish bodies, empower youth, and strengthen families by providing equitable access to healthy meals, hands-on culinary education, and life-skills programming in underserved communities throughout Indianapolis. We envision a vibrant, inclusive community where every child is well-fed, equipped with essential life skills, and inspired to lead a healthy, empowered life—fueled by access to fresh food, transformative education, and opportunity.
Why this partnership works
1. Aligned Missions & Complementary Strengths
Elite Kids Society specializes in food access, family support, and holistic youth services (delivery, clothing, educational boxes). Tasty Teen Collective brings culinary education, youth entrepreneurship, and wellness programming. Together, they address both the root causes of food insecurity and long-term solutions through education, skills, and access.
2. Maximized Youth Impact
The collaboration allows both organizations to serve more than 10,000 youth annually, a number that neither could reach alone. Youth benefit from hands-on learning, home support, and leadership pathways, creating a full-circle impact from the kitchen to the community.
3. Shared Resources = Greater Efficiency
Joint use of the community kitchen, staff, curriculum, and delivery infrastructure reduces duplication and saves money. Budgets are merged into one powerful, streamlined $850,000 campaign—making the project more fundable and sustainable.
4. Broader Reach & Inclusivity
By combining their audiences, the partnership reaches a diverse population of youth across urban, rural, and under-resourced areas. It ensures that homebound youth, those without transportation, and youth facing food insecurity aren’t left out.
5. Leadership Collaboration with Deep Community Ties
Chef Felicia Grady and Idella Gates bring decades of combined experience in youth development, food systems, and nonprofit leadership. Their leadership ensures the partnership stays vision-driven, community-rooted, and action-focused.
Your investment
We are seeking a visionary funder to join Elite Kids Society and Tasty Teen Collective in a transformational initiative: the Community Kitchen Campaign. Your $850,000 investment will bring to life a vibrant culinary and health-focused initiative that feeds, trains, and uplifts over 10,000 underserved youth annually across Indianapolis.
This project features the build-out of a commercial kitchen space with satellite mini-kitchens, a teaching garden, outdoor picnic and indoor dining area, and year-round culinary training and nutrition education. It also supports staffing, youth programming, and delivery vehicles to ensure timely meal distribution to families in need.
We invite you to become the naming rights sponsor or lead donor for this life-changing initiative.
Sponsorship benefits
$500,000 – Visionary Partner Benefits:
Naming rights to the entire community kitchen facility, outdoor garden, and all associated culinary and wellness programs
Premier logo placement on all signage, digital platforms, uniforms, and printed materials
Recognition as the lead partner in all press releases, media appearances, and official event remarks
Custom press announcement and social media spotlight
Invitation to speak at ribbon cutting + annual events
Lifetime recognition on the Legacy Wall of Champions
Private site tour and cooking demo with youth participants
$250,000 – Community Cultivator Benefits:
Naming rights to the main commercial kitchen space
Recognition signage at the teaching garden
Prominent logo placement on program materials, website, and event signage
Recognition in all digital newsletters, blog features, and select media outreach
Invitation to VIP preview events and donor roundtables
Recognition plaque at kitchen site
$100,000 – Culinary Changemaker Benefits:
Branded Youth Culinary Workshop Series in sponsor's name
Logo on all youth curriculum materials, recipe cards, and chef aprons
Recognition at all youth-led pop-up cafés and culinary events
Social media and website spotlight with a custom video thank you from participants
Invitation to annual donor dinner
$50,000 – Empowerment Advocate Benefits:
Named scholarship fund to support workforce training and certification for youth
Recognition in all printed and digital marketing materials
Logo displayed at major community events and cooking showcases
Invitation to annual culinary graduation ceremony
Group volunteer day opportunity at the garden or kitchen
$25,000 – Neighborhood Nourisher Benefits:
Logo featured at all community events, workshops, and the program website
Mention in monthly newsletters and donor appreciation campaigns
Recognition certificate and social media spotlight
Invitation to open house and kitchen tour
$10,000 – Family Table Partner Benefits:
Name/logo displayed on a Community Donor Wall in the kitchen lobby
Recognition in newsletters and on social media
Acknowledgment at 2 major community events
Opportunity to volunteer with staff during a hands-on youth cooking day
Framed appreciation certificate and thank-you card from youth participants
$5,000 – Healthy Start Supporter Benefits:
Name listed on the program website and event materials
Social media shout-out and digital thank-you badge
Group photo with youth participants (optional for publication)
Invitation to community cooking event or garden tour
$2,500 – Kitchen Ally Benefits:
Name listed on digital donor roll and thank-you email blast
Recognition on social media shout-out
Invitation to attend a youth cooking showcase or community garden day
Special thank-you postcard designed by participating youth