Story illustration: kitchen origins, live pilot as a gateway of light, coordination as a veil over two foundations. Not a product screen. See How It Works for the stack.
The Journey
How we got here.
“Great technology should serve those who care for our most vulnerable—we have the skills to make that happen.”
— The founding volunteers
April 2025
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The Beginning
Shaina Slavin saw her parents’ community kitchen juggling donations, volunteers, and meals with tools that were never meant for that pace. She built a focused prototype for their workflows—enough to prove the idea, not yet enough to carry every organization alone.
August 2025
02
The Collaboration
Volunteer engineers joined to shape something durable: a modular layer that sits on Salesforce and NetSuite instead of replacing them. The work looks like disciplined reviews, shared ownership, and build time most NGOs could not fund as a traditional vendor engagement.
November 2025
03
The Vision
Harish Palagummi widened the lens from a single site to a product other NGOs could adopt: same enterprise platforms underneath, clearer screens for coordinators and volunteers on top. The build stays modular—so each organization keeps its stack while Civium handles the day-to-day interface work.
Now
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Building toward launch
We are still volunteer-led, still anchored to Our Big Kitchen as the operating pilot, and still targeting February 2026. The roadmap is simple: ship what survives real shifts, document what breaks, repeat.
