I’m working with several communities in Canada that operate food hubs/co-ops with social justice goals. In particualar - they are pursuing the idea of trying to leverage on-line marketplace sales to support food insecure individuals/communities. We are trying to do some funding proposals to enable OFN to better integrate fundraising activities by 1. having reports created that can itemize/quantify E2E fees (like ‘fundraising’ fees) - so a hub can set fundraising targets in their cycle. Then, 2. designate these accumulated funds through some kind of virtual voucher system to food insecure individuals. I understand from an email exchange with @Kirsten that this second part would require ‘wallets’ . I’d be interested in working with others to scope this kind of thing out further and kick some costs around - would help me with a fundraising target at least. Not sure who to ping here.
Another feature we are discussing is how to help producers ‘grow a row’ for a community food security food hub. So this would take us to features that help with pre-planning of supply for hubs.