2025
North Texas Giving Day
Communities Foundation of Texas’ North Texas Giving Day is an 18-hour online giving event designed to empower every person to give back to their community by supporting local nonprofits and causes they care about in one easy-to-use platform.
Living Our Mission
Taste Project exists to feed, educate, and serve our community so all may “…taste and see the Lord is good”. We believe everyone, regardless of means, should have access to nutritious food. Our vision is to see our community be the response and the solution to the challenges our community faces as it relates to hunger.
Taste Project’s flagship program is Taste Community Restaurant, which is more than your average restaurant; it’s a community place where all are welcome regardless of means. All community members are invited in to “taste and see”; people in need can meet people who want to help — all with dignity, love, and respect.
FEED
We don’t just feed our community, we provide healthy nutritious meals. Many of our guests who need our services eat either a small snack or skip a meal all together when they can’t dine at Taste. But when they dine with us, guests can choose from a menu of options and select what best fits their preferences and dietary needs.
OUR RESULTS
Texas A&M found that our guests are twice as likely to eat in alignment with their nutritionally dependent diets. By simply dining at Taste, guests consumed more vegetables, more whole fruits, less sodium, and less refined grains all of which reduce the risk of chronic diseases.
EDUCATE
We don’t just educate apprentices, we provide industry leading certifications that advance folks to a living wage quickly. We are the only paid, tuition-free, certified culinary training program in the state of Texas. Most of our apprentices complete certification in 16 weeks or less.
OUR RESULTS
We’ve graduated 77 apprentices from our Culinary Job Training Program. Our average job placement rate is over $16/hr. The American Culinary Federation as certified 94% of our culinary graduates.
SERVE
We don’t just serve our community, we build community. The more someone dines, volunteers, and participates at Taste Community Restaurant, the more we see transformational change across socio-economic levels. We believe this is because our guests begin to see themselves the way God sees them, which fuels the individual outcomes we see on a regular basis.
OUR RESULTS
Dr. Borchers from Texas Christian University is preliminarily finding the more someone participates at Taste Community Restaurant, the higher their sense of community which leads to lower stress, improved mental health, and higher rates of resiliency.