Community Food Access Mobile Program
Everyone deserves a seat at the TABLE. Together Accessing Better Local Eats (TABLE) is our community food access program dedicated to ensuring families stay full. We bridge the gap between food surplus and community needs by partnering with local businesses to collect and distribute food to those facing insecurity. Our team ensures equitable food access, providing meals through mobile distribution and local drop-off points.
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Postpartum Stability & the Last-Mile of Care
NEST – Newborn and Expecting Support Tribe – is a postpartum stabilization initiative designed to address a critical gap in maternal and infant health systems: the lack of accountable support during the hospital-to-home transition. Rather than operating as a standalone service, NEST functions as a last-mile implementation model that coordinates time-bound material stabilization and connection to existing care systems. Through a mobile delivery mechanism, NEST demonstrates how postpartum transitions can be organized, measurable, and adoptable by public health and Medicaid-aligned systems.
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Our Guiding Principles
- Equity in Access: Basic needs are a public responsibility, not a privilege
- Ethical Storytelling: Sharing and documenting stories responsibly
- Dignity-Centered: Systems should operate without judgment, stigma, or unnecessary friction
- Community Voice: Solutions are shaped with communities, not imposed on them
- Whole Family Stability: Public systems should support stability across caregiving, health, and daily life
Mission
IDO exists to design and test models that remove structural barriers to health, stability, and well-being by making public systems more accountable, accessible, and responsive. Through last-mile implementation in food access and maternal and child health, we translate policy intent into real-world execution while grounding system design in lived experience, ethical storytelling, and community knowledge
Vision
We envision a future where accessing support carries no stigma, community knowledge is treated as essential expertise, and public systems are designed to serve tather than exclude. In that future, lived experience informs how institutions operate, and no individual is left navigating critical transitions alone due to fragmented or unaccountable systems.
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Volunteering with IDO goes beyond making a difference—it’s about contributing your precious time and skills, empowering individuals and communities alike to help drive impactful projects. With your capacity to give, together we will tackle pressing domestic challenges, working to build greater equitable opportunities and accessibility.
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