The Monadnock Restaurant Project
Campaign Introduction:
Let’s give our local restaurant economy a “shot in the arm” this winter and spring. Support our homegrown stimulus project!
$30,142
Funds Raised
$30,142
Funds Raised
$30,000
Funding Goal
$30,000
Funding Goal
Apr 2021
Ended
Apr 2021
EndedOr purchase a reward below if available!
Location:
-
Keene, NH
$30,142
Funds Raised
$30,142
Funds Raised
$30,000
Funding Goal
$30,000
Funding Goal
Apr 2021
Ended
Apr 2021
EndedOr purchase a reward below if available!
Campaign Location:
-
Keene, NH
Campaign Story
"It could be a really rough few months for our fellow restauranteurs and if we don't do something soon, we could lose some of the businesses on the edge," said Luca Paris, owner of Luca's Mediterranean Café. "We can’t wait for someone else to help us. Eat, drink and build community! Let's do this as a community—quickly and safely."
In response to Luca's call, The Local Crowd Monadnock, Culinary Journeys, and Food Connects will partner to launch the Monadnock Restaurant Project, a homegrown stimulus effort.
We will purchase gift cards from locally owned restaurants and strategically disperse them to community members who will spend these cards quickly, providing an immediate shot in the arm to Keene's local economy this winter. Learn more about our project.
Our goal is to inspire an infusion of energy and funds into the restaurant community -- unlike anything ever seen.
Culinary Journeys will fund Phase 1 of our project. We invite you to fund future rounds.
Eat, Drink & Build Community
According to the Monadnock Indie Impact Study, locally owned retailers return 62.4% of their revenue to the local economy, while national chain retailers return just 13.6% of revenue—meaning that locally owned businesses return over 4x more money to the local economy compared to chain retailers. We hope this immediate stimulus can be replicated in other parts of the region.
Please join us in building our own homegrown stimulus -- contribute to our effort today!
Campaign Contributions
| Name | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Anonymous | Keene, NH | April 07, 2021 |
| Carolyn Noah | Swanzey, NH | April 01, 2021 |
| Eleanor Briggs | Hancock , NH | April 01, 2021 |
| , | April 01, 2021 | |
| , | March 31, 2021 | |
| Amy McIntyre | Keene, NH | March 31, 2021 |
| Nancy Vincent | Keene, NH | March 31, 2021 |
| , | March 31, 2021 | |
| Jennifer Wu | Peterborough, NH | March 31, 2021 |
| Jennifer Wu | Peterborough, NH | March 31, 2021 |
| , | March 31, 2021 | |
| , | March 31, 2021 | |
| , | March 31, 2021 | |
| Michael Conway | Keene, NH | March 31, 2021 |
| George Tremblay | Troy, NH | March 31, 2021 |
| , | March 31, 2021 | |
| , | March 31, 2021 | |
| Kristen Petricola | Keene, NH | March 30, 2021 |
| Kristen Petricola | Keene, NH | March 30, 2021 |
| , | March 30, 2021 | |
| , | March 30, 2021 | |
| Anonymous | Chesterfield, NH | March 30, 2021 |
| , | March 30, 2021 | |
| , | March 29, 2021 | |
| , | March 29, 2021 | |
| Sandy Hamm | Keene, NH | March 29, 2021 |
| Liza Constable | Nelson, NH | March 29, 2021 |
| , | March 29, 2021 | |
| Lynda Sillner | Keene, NH | March 29, 2021 |
| , | March 29, 2021 | |
| MICHELLE CARRINGTON | MERRIMACK, NH | March 29, 2021 |
| Fred Black | Fitzwilliam, NH | March 29, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Alstead, NH | March 29, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Alstead, NH | March 29, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Keene, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Lizabeth Buoro | Westmoreland, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Debra Herget | KEENE, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Michael Tanguay | Southport, CT | March 28, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Antrim, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Mark Danahy | Alstead, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Alexis Chesney | Keene, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Swanzey, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Keene, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Amy Kraemer | Keene, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Peterborough, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Carol Renzelman | Alstead, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Diane Riley | Keene, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Diane Riley | Keene, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Carol Renzelman | Alstead, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Lempster, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Heidi Tompkins | NELSON, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Keene, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Yvette Yeager | Keene, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Yvette Yeager | Keene, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Marcia Kayser | Keene, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Joan Watson | Westmoreland , NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Marcia Kayser | Keene, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Marcia Kayser | Keene, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Peg Smeltz | Keene, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Keene , NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Anonymous | KEENE, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Anna Goettle | FITZWILLIAM, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Anna Goettle | FITZWILLIAM, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Jamie Young | Peterborough, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Jamie Young | Peterborough, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Jolynn Whitten | Keene , NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Antrim, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Sue Walthour | Keene, NH | March 28, 2021 |
| Jennifer Wu | Peterborough, NH | March 20, 2021 |
| Laura Andrews | Keene, NH | March 18, 2021 |
| Lisa Sieverts | Harrisville, NH | March 07, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Keene, NH | March 05, 2021 |
| Julie Dickson | Keene, NH | March 05, 2021 |
| Ashley Denning | Keene, NH | March 05, 2021 |
| Jillian Bishop | Walpole, NH | March 01, 2021 |
| , | March 01, 2021 | |
| Nancy Vincent | Keene, NH | February 28, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Hancock, NH | February 28, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Shrewsbury, MA | February 28, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Chesterfield, NH | February 27, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Los Angeles , CA | February 27, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Marlborough, NH | February 27, 2021 |
| craig stockwell | Keene, NH | February 26, 2021 |
| Donna Hanscom | Swanzey, NH | February 26, 2021 |
| Joan Luz | Keene , NH | February 26, 2021 |
| Jennifer Soares | Valhalla, NY | February 26, 2021 |
| Kathryne Wichland | Keene, NH | February 25, 2021 |
| REBECCAH COLBURN | Keene, NH | February 25, 2021 |
| Laura Carbonneau | Brattleboro, VT | February 25, 2021 |
| Jeffrey Lapid | Swanzey , NH | February 25, 2021 |
| Eleanor Briggs | Hancock, NH | February 25, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Keene, NH | February 25, 2021 |
| Anonymous | KEENE, NH, NH | February 25, 2021 |
| Lynda Sillner | Keene, NH | February 25, 2021 |
| Charles Richmond | Stoddard, NH | February 24, 2021 |
| Robert Shalit | Keene, NH | February 24, 2021 |
| Richard Roth | Keene, NH | February 24, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Harrisville, NH | February 24, 2021 |
| Cecily Bastedo | Dublin, NH | February 24, 2021 |
| George Tremblay | Troy, NH | February 24, 2021 |
| Brett Thelen | Harrisville, NH | February 24, 2021 |
| Heidi Stanclift | Keene, NH | February 21, 2021 |
| Judy Rogers | Keene, NH | February 21, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Keene, NH | February 20, 2021 |
| Jennifer Risley | Keene, NH | February 20, 2021 |
| Gill Truslow | Keene, NH | February 20, 2021 |
| Mari Brunner | Keene, NH | February 20, 2021 |
| Justin Somma | Keene, NH | February 19, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Keene, NH | February 19, 2021 |
| Katie Schwerin | Gilsum, NH | February 18, 2021 |
| Kathleen Burke | keene, NH | February 18, 2021 |
| Blake Amacker | Nashua, NH | February 18, 2021 |
| Carl Querfurth | Jaffrey, NH | February 18, 2021 |
| Julie White | Keene, NH | February 14, 2021 |
| Meena Neva | Keene, NH | February 14, 2021 |
| Georgia Cassimatis | Gilsum, NH | February 13, 2021 |
| Patricia Kasal | Winchester, NH | February 12, 2021 |
| Amy McIntyre | Keene, NH | February 09, 2021 |
| Patti Powers | Winchester , NH | February 09, 2021 |
| Joan Watson | Westmoreland , NH | February 06, 2021 |
| Nancy Vincent | Keene, NH | February 06, 2021 |
| Sue Kowalczyk | Swanzey, NH | February 05, 2021 |
| Rick Swanson | Wilton, NH | February 05, 2021 |
| Jason Wilder | Troy, NH | February 05, 2021 |
| Donna Calabro | Keene , NH | February 04, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Los Angeles, CA | February 04, 2021 |
| Tad Schrantz | Keene, NH | February 04, 2021 |
| Mark Rebillard | Keene, NH | February 04, 2021 |
| Jan Cohen | Keene, NH | February 04, 2021 |
| Susan Newcomer | Spofford, NH | February 02, 2021 |
| Cheryl Moschan | Harrisville, NH | February 02, 2021 |
| Terrance Williams | Keene, NH | February 02, 2021 |
| Julie and Gregg Tewksbury | Keene, NH | February 01, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Keene, NH | February 01, 2021 |
| Kristen Petricola | Keene, NH | January 31, 2021 |
| D Meadows | Keene , NH | January 31, 2021 |
| Mark Bodin | Keene, NH | January 30, 2021 |
| Anonymous | Keene, NH | January 26, 2021 |
| Keene , NH | January 12, 2021 |
Campaign Updates
-
09-02-2021
Week One Update - 61% Raised
Thank you again for supporting our Monadnock Restaurant Project crowdfunding campaign.We’re excited to share that we’ve reached 61% of our goal after one week!For the first phase of our project, we gave C&S Wholesale Grocers, Nanotech and Savings Bank of Walpole gift cards to share with their staff. They’re now spending those gift cards above & beyond what the card is worth. We can’t wait to hear about the impacts from our participating restaurants and food businesses.Here are two ways to enter for a chance to win gift cards from us:WKBK and The Keene Sentinel are giving away Monadnock Restaurant Project gift cards throughout February. Enter today at wkbkradio.com/buylocal and sentinelsource.com/tasty_trivia.In case you missed it:WMUR gave us a wonderful shout-out last week. You can view the segment here.Please help us spread the word:We’d love for you to share this post on social media to help us spread the word.We support the Monadnock Restaurant Project because we want to see our vibrant and diverse restaurant scene flourish. The mix of COVID-19 and the slow winter months is hard for our local restaurants. This project is a call to action to stimulate the local restaurant economy and a way to pay-it-forward in our community. Support this project today! https://tlcmonadnock.com/stimulus#monadnockrestaurantproject #localstimulus #payitfowardAgain, thank you for supporting our homegrown stimulus project – eat, drink & build community! -
20-02-2021
Mid-Campaign Update: So Close to $20K
To help spread the word to more people, we recently launched the Snacktime Selfie Contest. We hope you’ll join in on the fun:Snap a photo of your break, lunch, dinner, or anything in between that you purchased from a local restaurant, upload it to Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter with the #MonadnockRestaurantProject AND #SnacktimeSelfie hashtags. FIVE lucky winners will receive a $100 gift card to the restaurant of their choice! Entries are due by 2/28 at 11:59 pm. Eat local today and you could win big in March! See all the details.Also, don’t forget about other ways to win a gift card with us:While called a “gift,” we want these cards to serve as a call to action. We urge community members to spend at least twice the amount of what their gift card is worth, doubling the project’s impact by infusing more funds into these cash-strapped businesses. The more we spend locally, the more dollars we reinvest in our local economy.Thank you again for joining this movement!
-
28-02-2021
Latest Goal Surpasses: Over 75% of our goal raised
Last week, we had a fantastic flurry of support thanks to a front-page article published in the Monadnock Shopper News. Thanks to all of you, we’re now 77% of our goal.This next push will be challenging, so we’re looking for someone to present a matching challenge to our community (like business “A” will match all contributions, dollar for dollar, for the next 24 hours). If you have any ideas for businesses or individuals willing and able to support a matching challenge, please let us know.Our next mini-goal: Reaching 90% raised by March 5. Please help us meet our latest goal by talking up our campaign with your friends and family.Again, THANK YOU for your support!From our Community Heroes:
-
11-04-2021
We Did IT! Thank you for your support!
We have wonderful news to share! We successfully completed our crowdfunding campaign for the Monadnock Restaurant Project. We raised $30,121 from 132 donors. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!While our campaign ended, our work continues:-
All 600 gift cards for Phase 2 of our work were delivered to our business partners: American House, Cheshire Medical Center, Home Healthcare, Hospice & Community Services, Monadnock Shopper News, and The Peak. Now our partners are working hard to get these gift cards in the hands of staff and community members.
-
We’re collecting the impacts of our work by reaching out to Phase 1 restaurants and business partners. Do you have a story/quote to share the reflects the impact of this project on you and our community? Please let us know!
-
To encourage participation in A Taste of Keene Food Festival on June 5, we’re providing local restaurants with a stipend to ensure that they can cover the costs associated with providing delicious offerings during the event.
Some special thank yous:-
Matching Challenges – Thank you to 17ROX and Savings Bank of Walpole for providing matching challenges to inspire more people to give to our crowdfunding campaign.
-
Sponsored Rewards – We thank Alexis Chesney, Laura Carbonneau, and Monadnock Food Co-op for offering sponsored rewards during our campaign.
-
Homegrown Heroes – These businesses and individuals donated $500 or more to our campaign: Eleanor Briggs, Electronic Imaging Materials, Inc., Patricia Kasal, The Keene Sentinel, Julie & Greg Tewksbury, Northeast Mountain Footwear/Fred’s Shoes, Saving Bank of Walpole, Culinary Journeys, and 17ROX (plus other who chose to remain anonymous)
-
Community Heroes – THANK YOU to our 132 supporters. You’re all heroes to us!
Yours locally,Luca Paris, Jen Risley, Laura Carbonneau, and Monica MarshallPS: Our Snacktime Selfie Contest continues! Help spread the word and get a change to WIN. (Thanks to Elm City Brewing for this image.)
-
Campaign Discussion
Rewards
$10
Monadnock Food Co-op Gift Card
Enjoy a $10 gift card to the Monandock Food Co-op, a community-owned grocery store in Keene.
0 backers
30 rewards left
$10
Food Connects Swag Bag
Includes 1 reusable organic cotton tote bag, 2 bumper stickers, and 2 50-sheet sticky notes made with recycled paper.
0 backers
5 rewards left
$17
Preventing Lyme & Other Tick- Born Disease
A book by Alexis Chesney, ND, a naturopathic physician and acupuncturist specializing in the treatment of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. Her book includes how to control ticks in the home landscape, prevent infection using herbal protocols, and treat tick bites with natural remedies.
0 backers
2 rewards left
$50
Cooking Class for Kids
One 1-hour cooking class with Laura Carbonneau. Your kiddo(s) will love this cooking class as they get a private lesson in cooking and make a tasty meal. Meal customized for your dietary needs and preferences! Depending on when you schedule this class, it can be virtual or in-person.
0 backers
1 rewards left
$100
Cooking Class With Laura
One 2-hour cooking class with Laura Carbonneau. Make a three-course meal (appetizer, dinner, and dessert) for you and your sweetheart. Meal customized for your dietary needs and preferences! Depending on when you schedule this class, it can be virtual or in-person.
0 backers
1 rewards left
Reviews
There are no comments yet.