First Course & Stonewall Farm
In keeping with our commitment to community organizations, The True Nut Company has partnered with two local groups to meet growing demand.
First Course, a program that prepares people with physical and emotional challenges to take on jobs in the food industry, handles the production of our Maple-Roasted Almonds.
Where it all began. Stonewall Farm, is a nonprofit working farm and educational center with a mission to connect people to the land and to the role of local agriculture in their lives. True Nut Founder, Steve Ryder serves on the Board of the farm and while volunteering at the farm's Sap Gathering contest, he was inspired to make maple roasted almonds as a fundraiser for this annual event. When he got home he started to work on the idea with wife Lucy and daughter Lauren and soon they perfected the recipe and the rest, as they say, is history.
There are philanthropic opportunities at these agencies. Anyone interested in assisting with their efforts or contributing financially to the important work being accomplished by First Course is encouraged to contact them by clicking on their names above.
Epilogos
As a squirrel, Trueman knows a lot about building homes in out-of-the-way places. So it’s no surprise one of his favorite charities does just that for the poor of El Salvador. Every year, Trueman and his friends travel there on behalf of the non-profit charity,
Epilogos, whose mission is to aid in health, education, housing, employment, access to clean water, energy, and public sanitation. Epilogos is supported entirely by donations from many organizations, including Habitat for Humanity, Engineers Without Borders, Rotary Clubs, universities and church organizations throughout the world.
So far, Trueman and his friends at Epilogos have built over 130 homes for poor working families, and scores of communities now have clean water to drink and access to medical care as a result of their efforts. Charity is important to Trueman. That’s why 10% of all profits from the sale of True Nut products go directly to charities. The way Trueman sees it, “it’s ok if you don’t find all the nuts you’ve buried, because the ones you leave will grow into trees that others can enjoy.” Who would have thought that such a little squirrel could have such a big heart.
Tufts Engineers Without Borders
Being raised in the mountains of New Hampshire with its crystal clear lakes and rivers, Trueman knows a thing or two about clean water. That’s why, once a year he meets up with his student friends from
Engineers Without Borders to help build clean drinking water systems. The Tufts students have done projects in places like El Salvador, Ecuador and Haiti where entire villages lack clean water. From rainwater collection projects to well and filtration systems, Trueman and his friends have helped bring clean drinking water to some pretty remote places and made a lot of friends along the way.
The way Trueman sees it, there’s nothing better than a nice drink of cool, clean water after dining on a few delicious nuts, so he wants to make sure as many of his friends as possible have the ability to do just that. It’s also why he insists that 10% of all True Nut profits go toward charities both in his own neck of the woods as well as abroad.
Monadnock Developmental Services
Thanks to your purchases, Trueman is keeping very busy roasting and packing his almonds. So busy in fact, that he can’t do it alone (after all, he is only one squirrel!) That’s why he gets a hand roasting and packing his almonds from his friends at
Monadnock Developmental Services. MDS is a non-profit agency that helps individuals with developmental disabilities live, work and thrive as productive citizens in their communities by providing training, transportation and a safe, supervised environment in which to work.
The folks at MDS have been helping Trueman from the beginning and he really appreciates their hard work and dedication. So much so that Trueman makes sure that 10% of all of the profits from the sale of True Nut products go directly to non-profit organizations like MDS. The way Trueman sees it, the more help he gets, the more he can help others. It’s a win-win arrangement with no shortage of warm and fuzzies—sounds kinda like Trueman himself.
