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Our Mission

• To provide food - and hope! - to those in need.
• To promote servant-leadership as the best philosophy to guide society.

Our Promise

Every penny and every pea collected goes to the sponsored
food pantries and other programs. NO ONE makes a dime!

Foodstock Charities serves its chapter communities by serving food - and hope! - to those in need™. We believe that there is no greater need than to provide food for one's family. Our food drives and concerts benefit local food pantries, with all proceeds going to the pantries we support. No one involved in any of our projects is compensated in any form for their work.

Numerous studies have shown that reducing poverty and hunger benefit the community by reducing the need for social services and instilling a sense of pride and fulfillment in those who are served. Communities suffer less crime and other social ills, such as drug abuse, acoholism, family violence and more. In addition, studies have shown that malnutrition and hunger directly affect a child's ability to learn. Therefore, by providing food to underpriveledged familes, we offer those children a better opportunity to excel.

Foodstock Charities promotes the philosophy of servant-leadership as the best way to guide a just and caring society. We believe that by helping those with the greatest need, we strengthen our community from top to bottom. We are very proud to have as one of our national sponsors, the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership. Larry Spears, is one of the world's foremost authorities on servant-leadership, and has been a friend and mentor to Foodstock Charities founder Lane Baldwin for many years.

Foodstock Charities seeks to serve as a servant-leader in the communities we serve, demonstrating the effectiveness of servant-leadership through our programs, and by using the servant-leadership management model to guide our organization. In addition, we actively seek ways to include students in our projects. This allows us to introduce our youth to the concept of finding fulfillment through service to others and encourage them to become servant-leaders themselves.

At Foodstock Charities our goal is to serve the our chapter communities with our programs:

• Benefit concerts and food drives in support of local food pantires
• Sunday Free Dinner Series (Danville Foodstock)

Our outreach and promotional efforts are designed to raise awareness in our community, encouraging broader participation in our programs, especially in the business community.

It is important to note that our staff receives no compensation for its work. Everyone involved is a "pure volunteer." We do not do this for the money. We do it because we need to. Following the advice of Ghandi, we believe that we must create the change we wish to see in our society.

If you would like to volunteer or make a donation in support of our work, please visit our Volunteer page.

Meet our Team

Foodstock Charities and Danville Foodstock:

Lane Baldwin - Founder, Executive Director
Monty Schroeder - Director of Operations
Glenda Ford-Baldwin - Volunteer Coordinator

San Jose Foodstock:

Polo Jones, Executive Producer

Sacramento Foodstock:

Craig Murray, Executive Producer

Nashville, Foodstock:

Sean O'Bryan Smith, Executive Producer