How much do you know about chocolate? SourceSmart, a student-led initiative is seeking your perspective! 🍫❔️ This survey explores consumer awareness and behavior related to chocolate sourcing. Responses are anonymous and will take less than 5 mins to complete! ⏰✨ 🔗 Take the Survey: buff.ly/NqCBe8D

Big Bend National Park is being threatened by a multibillion-dollar border wall that would damage protected habitat, displace wildlife, and destroy land with deep Indigenous significance. 🔗 Stand up and fight back! Sign the petition at nobigbendwall.org/sign-the-pet...

As ICE continues to create uncertainty for our neighbors, our school supply drive is one way we show our solidarity and remind these children and families that they are not alone. 🧊❌️ We are so close to reaching our goal. Will you help us get there today? 🌱 🔗 Donate today at buff.ly/JrwLd2y

Join us in sending the happiest birthday wishes to Jordan (they/him), F.E.P.'s Web and Database Team Member! 🥳🎂 Leave a birthday message below for Jordan! 💬 🎁

Many people are taught to see mountain lions only as something to fear. But in reality, these cats shape entire food webs! ♻️✨ This Mountain Lion Day, let us remember that animals do not need to provide us with $ value, entertainment, or convenience to humans in order to deserve safety and liberty.�

Today we honor the people who have had and are currently having their homelands taken away from them through war, genocide, colonialism, racism, greed, and exploitation. May we honor this International Day of the World's Indigenous People by standing in solidarity and demanding land back.

We are so excited to share that our Youth Scholarship Contest has been extended until August 10! 🥳✨ Visit foodispower.org/youth-contest-2026 for more info. Good luck! 🎉

Many families may not feel safe going out to shop for school supplies because of increased ICE presence. Children should not have to begin the school year without what they need because their families are forced to choose between safety and basic necessities. 🧊🚫 🔗 Donate at buff.ly/XQR83pH

If you eat fresh produce, there is a farmworker to thank. 🫛🫐🍚👩‍🌾 That is why F.E.P. holds our annual School Supply Drive for the Children of Migrant and Farm workers. 📚️✏️ 🔗 Please join us in solidarity. Donate today at buff.ly/DPZDMzT

We are thrilled to celebrate Kennedy, our Youth Advocacy Team Member at Food Empowerment Project during her birth month! 🥳 ✨

F.E.P. is hiring an Operations and Organizational Care Team Member! 🥳🌱🌎✨ Here are some the deets: 🗓️ Estimated Start Date: August - September, 2026 🏷️ Job Type: Full-Time 📍 Location: Remote, U.S. ⏰️ Hours: Monday–Thursday 💸 Salary: $70,000/annual 🔗 Apply today at foodispower.org/work-with-us! ✨

Let’s restore what fear stole! Will you help us support these families? For farm workers and migrant families, the fear created by ICE kidnapping our neighbors has made back to school shopping no longer something they can count on. 🔗Stand in solidarity and donate today at buff.ly/e4lcbGy! 🥳📚✊🌎

🚨Attention youth ages 11-24! 🚨 Looking for a way to earn some extra $ for your next journey? Apply for F.E.P.'s 2026 Scholarship! ✍️🎨 Written or illustrated art accepted! 💸 🔗Apply today at foodispower.org/youth-contest-2026. 🗓️⏰The deadline to apply is July 31, 2026. Good luck! 🎉

Food Empowerment Project has created a comprehensive list of chocolate companies that do not source their cocoa from areas known for the worst forms of child labor. 📲📋️ 🔗 To learn more and make more ethical choices when purchasing chocolate, visit foodispower.org/chocolate-list.

Today is World Chocolate Day! Many of us find comfort in chocolate. However, it’s important to recognize that the production of much of our chocolate is far from comforting. 🍫⛓️‍💥 Many popular brands rely on exploitative child labor practices to keep prices low and meet global demand. 💸

Today we are wishing a warm happy birthday to Mark Hawthorne, activist, Board member for Save the Buns, and the voice behind many F.E.P. resources! 🥳🎉 We thank Mark so much for his contributions to F.E.P., and his lifelong dedication to collective liberation. 🌱🐮✊

Today, as many prepare to celebrate, our hearts are with those that view this holiday as a celebration of colonialism, a reminder of exclusion, and a day filled with triggers. If you see an animal in distress, please help them find safety. Stay safe today!

Happy Disability Pride Month! Did you know that there is a significant wage gap that disabled women face compared to non-disabled men? 💸 Let's continue to work together to create accessible and equitable workplaces, friend groups, community events, advocacy groups, and safe spaces. ♿️🤝💓

Are you passionate about Fundraising and Donor Care? Apply today! 🔗 You can view the full job description and application at buff.ly/Pd5R10d We look forward to reviewing your application and working together to build a more just, and sustainable society for all. 🐮✊🌎🌱

Below are the new June additions to our list. 🟢 Recommended Indigenous Chocolate | www.indigenouschocolate.com Khoury's | khourys.co ❌️ Cannot recommend Magic Chocolate | magicchocolate.com 🟡 Mixed Boho Chocolate Factory | bohochocolate.com Recommend all except Ghana bar

Slavery and child labor is prevalent within the chocolate industry. Our chocolate list makes it easy to look up any company to make informed purchasing choices. We reach out to each company personally to determine where their cocoa is sourced so that you can feel confident in your purchasing power!

On this date almost 60 years ago, police raided the Stonewall Inn. People were terrorized and criminalized simply for existing in a safe place for queer people. The people fought back, and as the crowd grew, it quickly became one of the greatest examples of collective liberation. ⛓️‍💥✨❤️‍🔥

Hatred doesn’t disappear, it has to be confronted, and that means confronting pain. We have so much work to do outside of Pride month to truly advance liberation. This post serves as a reminder that our solidarity should never be transactional, and it should never be tied to only a single month.

F.E.P. has launched the 2026 Annual Youth Scholarship Contest, a written and illustrated cash prize contest! ✍️🎨 🗓️⏰The deadline to apply is July 31, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. PT First place is awarded with a $500 cash prize! 💸 🔗Apply today at foodispower.org/youth-contest-2026 Good luck! 🎉

Making a Pride Pizza is a delicious way to show support, but true allyship goes beyond the kitchen. In a time when LGBTQIA+ individuals are still being targeted, misrepresented, and discriminated against, it’s important to keep fighting for justice and acceptance outside of Pride Month.

As Pride Month draws to a close, it’s important to remember that celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community isn’t just a once-a-year event. 🏳️‍🌈 Let’s keep the spirit of Pride alive every day by uplifting LGBTQIA+ voices and making sure our support is genuine, not performative.

Happy Juneteenth! As we celebrate Juneteenth, we honor the joy, pain, celebration, confusion, and courage of those who fought for Black freedom. ❤️ 💛 💚

We listened, we cooked. Introducing, Vegan Soul Food, F.E.P.'s dedicated space for all things vegan soul food and the history of vegan eating within the Black community! 🫑🌶️🍛 🔗 Vegansoulfood.org has a ton of vegan recipes available for FREE! We also just released our new printed recipe guide!

Remember the victims of Charleston: Tywanza Sanders, 26; the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, 41; the Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, 45; the Rev. DePayne Middleton-Doctor, 49; Cynthia Graham Hurd, 54; the Rev. Myra Thompson, 59; Ethel Lance, 70; the Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr., 74; and Susie Jackson, 87.

Want to learn more about the impacts of commercial fishing on our sea animal friends? Visit our FREE resource website at foodispower.org/animals-of-the-sea/