2024 Year End: Hope & Main West End Kitchens

Dear Friends,
As we say goodbye to 2024, we invite you to join the food revolution.

Hope & Main is building Rhode Island's food future.
Since opening the Stat's first shared-use kitchens in Warren in 2014, we have removed barriers for food-preneurs from all means and backgrounds so they can pursue their dreams of business ownership. In the last decade, our innovative incubation model has launched 450 food businesses: 60% are women-owned and 40% are owned by founders of color. We are an engine of inclusive economic development. Did you know that one out of every four new consumer packaged food businesses established in Rhode Island begins at Hope & Main?! It's true!

Our mission has always been to expand the dream and close the distance between ideas and possibility.
That is why we are creating Hope & Main West End Kitchens in Providence. This next step in the journey will meet surging demand for our shared-used kitchens that has doubled since 2021 and address the urgent need to find solutions to the disruption caused by the Washington Bridge closure. A second location for Hope & Main in Providence means a more resilient RI food system, particularly for small food businesses. Our new facilities create more affordable and accessible options for production, storage and transportation for vulnerable entrepreneurs as they navigate significant logistical challenges.

You can ignite the dreams of the rising generation of RI food-preneurs.
Our applications have DOUBLED since Covid, with more than half coming from Rhode Island's urban core. We are expanding to Providence so no one is left on the back burner. You can help Hope & Main bridge the gap, accelerate the dream, and meet the moment!

From the East Bay to the West End, we are here on purpose
We chose to expand to Providence to be closer to the communities we serve, and because we know that ownership transforms lives. Together we can build the most important bridge of all... the one that leads to a more equitable and vibrant food future for Rhode Island.

As always, with gratitude