SōL-West Foundation

SōL West Foundation is a nonprofit corporation committed to drastically improving the quality of food that is served to our children and young adults.

Our Mission:

Support leaders in food and nutrition to provide the most nutritious meals possible for those they feed. Focus on the children of our nation to help enable a lifetime of optimum health.

What We Do

The SōL West Foundation conducts and supports the education and proliferation of ancestral based, whole food nutrition and regenerative food systems, with an emphasis on benefits to children and young adults. We provide education and research, through classes, events and digital content. We offer expertise and financial support to others engaged in similar nutrition, research, food system and well-being activities. We link communities directly with their local and regional food systems.

The SōL West Foundation will work to empower and train leaders in the food community who will then go on to serve the most nutritious meals possible, for their entire lifetimes' of work. Every good meal served will improve the well being of humanity - especially our children. Each day this act will change the nutritional value of hundreds, thousands, and even millions of meals served.

Our Work

IMPROVE SCHOOL LUNCHES

Support those working to change the meals children are fed at schools to nutrient dense, locally sourced and regeneratively grown foods. Nurture healthy metabolisms in our young to reduce the rapid increase of chronic illness in the United States.

TRAIN LEADERS

Support the cost of high value training for chefs and administrators responsible for leading food service programs. Our Plate it Forward program is the most direct way to help train a new leader.

RUN STUDIES AND DATA COLLECTION

Organize projects that use medical technology to identify and raise awareness of where food served to children and young adults is delivering poor health outcomes, specifically conditions related to pre-diabetes, Type-2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.

RETAIN FOOD KNOWLEDGE

Fund the creation of training videos, guides and events that develop and strengthen nutritional intuition. We must retain the art and knowledge of cooking with real, whole, nutritious foods.

SŌListic Health

Our approach to health is based on a multifaceted approach. Abandoning processed foods and switching to an ancestral-based real foods diet is just the start of a truly healthy lifestyle. However, we recognize more is needed to create a balanced life. Our internal world must work in symbiotic relationship with our external. We call this concept SŌListic Health. Sunshine, clean water, sleep, a connection with nature, community and exercise…these are the tenets of our system.

About

Help us to Plate It Forward

The SōL West Foundation presents The Plate it Forward Initiative. This unique venture allows for your tax-deductible donations to exponentially change the way we eat…plate by plate.

Please watch the video below to see the groundbreaking work that School of Lunch is doing to create a new food culture in homes, schools and communities. Your tax-deductible donation will help to support them as they continue to work as "boots on the ground" to educate and train students, parents, teachers and administrators how our children need to be properly fed. Help them as they champion the health of our children both from the bottom up and the top down as they strive to change outdated policies that act as a disservice to our next generation. If you'd like to learn more about the work School of Lunch is doing, check out their website at schooloflunch.com.