The Hopemakers

The Hopemakers

Our first Community Project! [Impact Report 1]

Each month we support an everyday hero building a better future, and our first one is finally here... Meet Roopa and her supper club, where food is rescued from the landfill, and no one eats alone.

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Jacob Simon
Oct 30, 2025
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Roopa Venkatraman fell in love with vegetables so much as a child that she would pick them off of her pizza and just eat those.

And now, she wants to improve the world by helping no one eat alone again.

Roopa is our very first featured Hopemaker, and I spent the day with her rescuing food and turning it into an amazing dinner for her plant-based, action-focused supper club called Amrūt.

As a reminder, paid supporter contributions to The Hopemakers are invested into projects from everyday heroes improving their communities. That means this video, report, and impact, is only possible because of YOU!

Thank you for being here, making the world a little brighter with me. Enjoy our pilot episode and recap of this first project…

Community Project no. 1 Impact Report

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