Our Progress and Current Needs

We have officially discovered why there are so many lawyers around. For at least the past several hundred years, lawyers have been crafting all the documents pertaining to anything that anybody anywhere might want to do. This is done in an effort to self perpetuate their profession endlessly. They have purposely made these forms as complicated as possible so that even educated people would walk around with stunned looks and perplexed demeanors. For the past several weeks, I have been one of those people, walking around sporting a perpetual question mark on my forehead. How am I supposed to fill out a budget for an organization that was just created? How can I file this form if that one must be filed first but the second is required to file the first? What the heck? This is obviously a grand conspiracy. But with the help of some much smarter than me college students and a very generous attorney, we have completed the majority of the documents and we are now fully incorporated with an official employer ID number. We are official, only one more giant form to go! This merits some big cheers.

So where are we now? We do not have a location yet. Since we are finally official, we can now raise the funds to purchase a location and hopefully open our doors by September 1^st. Know of a perfect location? If you have any recommendations, let us know. We also need individuals ready to help renovate a location once we find it, so keep in touch.

Starting in March, we hope to begin selling products at two of the local farmers’ markets. Just to tempt you, we are including a list of the items we plan on selling. Please spread the word and come visit us once we are there.

We do have several needs that are imminent to the success of the café. Below you will find a list of these needs. Please help us meet these in the next two weeks.

Current needs:

Tables/Chairs/Small tent for farmers’ market stand

Label Maker/Packaging for our farmers’ market products

Sam’s Club Membership

Licensed Kitchen for preparation of farmers’ market products

Funds for:

501(c)(3) status application fee

Insurance

Shirts and aprons to be worn at farmers’ market

Farmers’ Market Products:

Hummus

Tzatziki Sauce

Bleu Cheese Sauce

Pesto

Aubergine Dip

Eggplant Caponata

Banana Bread

Greek Honey Cookies

Semolina Cake

Clafouti

Spice Molasses Cookies

White Chocolate Tart

Chocolate Ganache Spread