“If we get another restaurant to jump in, we could add another 25 or 30 kids.”
The Third Meal
“I’ve worked in the tech world [in Denver] for over twenty years,” explains Roske. He also has a history in the nonprofit sector, previously serving the city’s homeless population. With his connections and experience, along with his day job at computer technology corporation Oracle, Roske was eager to create a platform that made feeding children as easy as pushing a button.
While the platform was in development through 2021, Johnson’s network further expanded the Third Meal team. On his video blog, he interviewed BJ Foster, a homeless advocate for Trainer Middle School in Reno, Nevada. “I thought, there’s our connection. We got a school down,” says Roske. Even before the platform had launched, Foster agreed to support it.The Third Meal
“When I first went to Oracle's general manager of construction and engineering, who is very passionate about doing good in the world, he said, ‘I don’t know if we could offer to build a platform. But if you get registered as a 501c3, I could help you internally, because once you’re a nonprofit, you could register inside the company for matching donations,'" Roske explains.
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