As if we needed another reason to love food trucks, there's now an organization in New York City called Drive Change, which is taking the benefit of your corner sandwich source to the next level. Drive Change builds and operates state-of-the-art, locally sourced food trucks that hire and train formerly incarcerated youth. Their business model is set up as a social enterprise, and all sales feed back into the organization to cover re-entry costs for these young people as they transition out of jail or prison. The founder's teaching experience on Riker's Island showed her firsthand the challenges faced by New York's youth, over and over: 66% of youth offenders return to prison within a year of release.
The impact? They pledge to lower the recidivism rate for young people in their program who are treated as adults in the criminal justice system from 70% to 20%.
View their video and help their current fundraising campaign below.
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