$9,240 raised by 39 donors
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In April 2024, Purple Tree Cafe opened its first brick-and-mortar cafe at the UC Davis MIND Institute, located at the UC Davis Medical Center near downtown Sacramento. Purple Tree @ the MIND enables us to keep growing our mission by employing even more people with disabilities on a consistent, flexible, part-time, weekly basis to make and sell our handcrafted vegan baked goods, drinks, and lunch items. Click on the "New Location!" tab to read more about this important milestone in Purple Tree's history!
Purple Tree Cafe is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit headquartered in Davis, CA that provides meaningful, community-based employment to people with disabilities and promotes an inclusive community of people with and without disabilities through food, art, and music. We fulfill this mission by directly employing people with disabilities to bake, package, and sell our products at competitive wages. We also sponsor monthly live music events featuring performers with and without disabilities in downtown Davis.
Purple Tree presently offers vegan and wheat-free baked goods, teas, and other beverages at the Davis Farmers Market and other public and private events. We often serve from our signature bicycle-driven coffee cart, an icon in our bike-friendly city. We currently have 19 part-time employees, the vast majority of which are people with disabilities.
Purple Tree Café creates meaningful, community-based employment for people with disabilities and bring people with and without disabilities together through food, art, and music.
Purple Tree Cafe partnered with UC Davis to open our first brick-and-mortar cafe inside the UCD MIND Institute’s building in Sacramento in 2024 and needs your continued support!
UCD’s MIND Institute is “an interdisciplinary, collaborative research, clinical, and educational center committed to deepening our scientific understanding of the challenges associated with autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions.” They serve people with disabilities on a daily basis in their on-site clinic and are part of the larger UCD Medical Center campus in Oak Park, which will be the new home of Aggie Square. We cannot think of a better location or sponsor given the people Purple Tree serves.
Purple Tree honors and believes in the strength of inclusion, equity, and bringing people with different experiences and abilities together. We are proud to work in the community to foster unity, celebrate diversity, and seek to help people who have been historically excluded to find empowerment and equity.
Organization name
Purple Tree Cafe
other names
Our House Cafe (legal name)
2011
Tax id (EIN)
45-4564716
Mission Category
Human Services
Operating Budget
$100,001-$250,000
Organization Need
Funding: Program, Funding: Unrestricted, Board Members
Demographics Served
Individuals with disabilities
Local Counties Served
Sacramento, Yolo
Address
140 B Street Suite 5-233Davis, CA, US
Yolo County, CA, US
Sacramento, CA, US
Sacramento County, CA, US