Food is Unity

Meet Our Partners

Strength Through Partnership

Building a Nourished and Empowered Community Together

Our collaborative partnerships expand our reach and maximize impact. These partners help us further our mission:

  • By fostering a health minded culinary culture that enriches our local economy through on the job training.
  • By creating employment opportunities in the hospitality industry.
  • By lending their facilities, we’re able to hold nutrition and cooking education classes to empower our community with their ability to cook at home.
  • By providing grant funding to help us provide affordable, local food to those experiencing nutrition insecurity.

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Interested in partnering with us? We’d love to hear from you. Get in contact with our team today:
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111,000 of our 198,000 residents live in a food desert. 40,000 of those identify as having little to no access to fresh food.
*Piedmont’s Community Health Needs Assessment 2019.

Our Partners

  • Truth Springs Academy
  • Mercymed of Columbus
  • Feeding the Valley Food Bank
  • Valley Healthcare
  • Open Door Community House
  • Foodcorps of Georgia
  • Wholesome Wave of Georgia
  • Fox Elementary School
  • Brewer Elementary School
  • Dimon Elementary School
  • Piedmont Hospital
  • Columbus Department of Health
  • Community Schools United/ United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley
  • Open Hand Atlanta
  • Jordan High School Georgia CTI Career and Technical Instruction (CTI) Program

Our Partner Farms

  • MercyMed of Columbus Farm 
  • Strickland’s Garden 
  • Pearson Farm 
  • Fitzgerald Fruit Farm 
  • Dickey Farm
  • Turntime Farms
  • Jenny Jack Farm
  • Dew Point Farm
  • WC Bradley Farms Omaha, GA

Jordan High School’s Career and Technical Instruction (CTI) Program

One of our most important partnerships is with Jordan High School’s Career and Technical Instruction (CTI) Program. Their students work as interns in our cafe, where they learn culinary skills, kitchen safety protocol, interpersonal skills serving customers and how our cafe serves our nonprofit mission of removing barriers to nourishing food.

This partnership connects to our pillar of creating economic opportunity in the culinary industry. We love teaching and creating a pipeline of future culinary employees in our community. Their signing ceremony, where they commit to their internship with us, is a special day for our team. Want to support our collaborative partnerships?

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What Our Partners Say

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“Open Door Community House is delighted to collaborate with The Food Mill to create new culinary job opportunities for our community, including culinary business ownership, and to dramatically impact the lives of the underserved and food insecure. Collaborations with community partners who are committed to a similar vision and mission are vital to long-term impact in the lives of families and children. The Food Mill is such a partner, enriching all of Columbus through their influence and commitment to eliminating food insecurity.”
Kim Jenkins, Executive Director, Open Door Community House
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“Piedmont Columbus Regional and The Food Mill have a unique partnership not only providing access to medical services but also fresh fruits and vegetables to some of the most impoverished populations in our community. Working simultaneously at various community locations we are making a positive impact in the lives we touch.”
Melonese Close, Manager, Community Outreach and Mobile Unit; Piedmont Columbus Regional
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“Thank you for loving my students. The Food Mill Columbus has changed my life, and I know is changing the lives of my students.”
Jill Jones, Jordan High School Faculty Career and Technical Instruction (CTI) Instructor