Cooking up some dual power in the kitchen
We have been busy feeding the streets!
MAO has been working in collaboration with the Omaha DSA, Supper Share, Saving Grace, and the City of Omaha to launch a pilot program of two new community fridges installed in local Omaha Community Centers. We sourced the fridges, got them delivered and installed. DSA has volunteers running point for maintenance, upkeep and monitoring of the fridges. Supper Share, Saving Grace, and MAO have committed to keeping them stocked until the community jumps in, and it becomes fully sustainable. According to a 2025 study by Berkely University, Omaha is the 47th most racially segregated city in the country. (Source:Most to Least Segregated Cities | Othering & Belonging Institute) So it was decided to start with the two polarities of Omaha redlining; North and South Omaha.
First one we installed on Saturday, August 8th at:
Adam’s Park Community Center
3230 John A Creighton Blvd
Omaha, NE, 68111
Then on the same day, in the rain, we delivered the second fridge to:
Subby Anzaldo’s Community Center
1515 South 24th Street
Omaha, NE, 68108
If we can prove that these are needed, useful, and well maintained, we will be able to expand into more community centers throughout the Omaha area!
So please interact with these 2 new community fridge/freezers in any way that you are able to!
Here’s how:
Leave food
Take Food
Spread the Word!
We are also hoping this will be proof of concept for the stubborn board at Carter Lake Community Center that pulled the plug on the very first one, right after it was started. Maybe they can have a change of heart after seeing the good it will do for the community.
Speaking of which! Shortly after the installs, on the morning of August 11th, we got a line on 4,500 organic, free-range, pasture-raised eggs. We immediately mobilized and proceeded to distribute them to every community fridge in the area. We also delivered 15 dozen directly to Syrian/Palestinian refugees, 30 dozen to a jobsite of tree workers, 30 dozen to our comrades at “Feed the People,” and dropped off a 1000x eggs to the Carter Lake trailer park. We also made deliveries to individual families, daycares, and homebound folks who needed just 6 or 7 dozen.
The following pictures are from just a few of the community fridges we stocked. For a complete list of all the community fridges we know of visit our resources page.
The Hope Center for Kids Community Fridge
2200 N. 20th Street
Omaha, NE, 68110
(On the Northside of the building)
City Sprouts Community Fridge
4002 Seward Street
Omaha, NE, 68111
If you’d like to join the struggle against false scarcity under Capitalism, please drop in anytime at our weekly MACE meetings. The details for each “Mutual Aid Community Exchange” are always posted on thecommunity calendar.
Why should perfectly good food be routinely destroyed, when it should be feeding people?
The scarcity is built into our entire economic system. It causes so much unnecessary suffering and waste.
The US wastes nearly 60 million tons — 120 billion pounds — of food every year!
That is 40% of the entire US food supply! (Source: Food Waste in America in 2026: Statistics & Facts - RTS - Recycle Track Systems)
We are expanding our abilities to redirect quality food from the waste stream i
One of our MACE members initiated a gigantic and spontaneous food distribution in their apartment building, by taking on a delivery of 7,000# of fresh produce, frozen meat, stacked on about 18 pallets. The MACE team mobilized and we got it distributed into at least 250 households within hours. We are deeply grateful to the unnamed non-profit that trusted us to handle it while they were going through an agency-wide restructuring.
The best picture we have mid-way through the frenzy of setting it up for a wide array of local street kitchens, social workers, and individual families to pick it up.
Many of these ended up being a source of material stability for an immigrant family.
Can’t go into much further detail than that.
We’re scrappy. We make it happen.
