Projects & Investments
Common Good Fridges
Common Good Fridges are people-powered and community centered projects where a fridge is set up in a public location and volunteers from the community work together to keep it stocked and cleaned.
Common Good supports communities in setting up and maintaining free community fridges through our Food Fund. The fridge provides community members with 24/7 access to fresh food. The concept is simple: Leave what you can, take what you need.
No questions asked, no ID required.
What We Do
Donate to the Food Fund
Your donation helps keep community fridges stocked with fresh, nutritious food for those who need it most. Every contribution makes a real impact.
Volunteer in Your Community
Join local volunteers to help clean, organize, and maintain community fridges so they stay safe, welcoming, and accessible to everyone.
Start a Community Fridge
Interested in setting up a fridge in your neighborhood? Email us at fridge@commongood.earth for step-by-step guidance, helpful tips, and ongoing support.
Training & Partner Support
Common Good provides training and hands-on technical support for individuals and organizations launching and operating Community Fridge programs. Our training prepares partners to build reliable, community-centered food access systems that are safe, sustainable, and locally led.
Training areas include site planning and readiness, community partnerships, volunteer coordination, food safety practices, operations workflows, sustainability planning, and ongoing program improvements. We work closely with partners to adapt best practices to local conditions and support long-term success beyond launch.
Our goal is not simply to install fridges, but to help partners build strong, resilient food access networks rooted in community ownership.
Mini-Grant Support for Common Good Fridges
- Mini-grant capability – Common Good offers limited mini-grants to Common Good Fridges partners to support start-up costs, matching fund requirements, or urgent funding gaps that would otherwise delay implementation.
- Mini-grants may be used for equipment, supplies, outreach, site readiness, or other essential project needs. These funds are designed to be catalytic, helping partners move quickly from planning to action, stabilize operations, or unlock larger funding opportunities.
- Funding is subject to availability, readiness, and alignment with project goals.
Past Project Investments
Investments, Grants, and Loans
22 projects, $30,000 total funding
Just Roots
Monthly food clinic
Greenfield Community Acupuncture
Acupuncture treatments for early opioid recovery
Community Action
Developing leadership in Hunger Task Force
Seeds of Solidarity
“Craft Your Own Life” youth internships
The Literacy Project
High School Equivalency Test (HiSET)/GED scholarships
Musica Franklin
Monthly musical community meal
FCCPR
Municipal socialism and leadership conference
Pleasant Street Community Garden
Co-operative gardening and tool-sharing
NELCWIT
Support for those impacted by domestic and/or sexual violence
FCSWMD
District-wide composting program
Root Yoga Studio
Yoga-based mentorship for girls
Compost Co-op
Worker-owned cooperative empowering former prison-inmates
Nutwood Farm
Sustainable agriculture
Eggtooth Productions
Art Garden
Intergenerational art-making as public service
Compost Co-op
Worker-owned cooperative empowering former prison-inmates
Stone Soup Café
Co-op Power
Wendell Energy Committee
Edible permaculture garden commons
Just Roots
Ashfield Lake House
Rooftop solar
Shea Theater
Performing arts center revitalization
