Old George PBC, Inc. A Delaware Public Benefit Corporation, Operating or supported by the...

Embrace a Neighbor Market (Consumer & Institutional Food Delivery)

Alliance GAC (Global Agricultural Cooperative) • Alliance Distribution & Logistics Alliance Mobile Kitchen • Alliance Media • Alliance Emergency Management

Old George Organics • Alliance Pallet Works

Embrace a Neighbor Foundation (A DE Private Foundation)

PLEDGE TO END HUNGER

BY 2025

Eliminate All Food Deserts in America

Pave the Road out of Poverty for Millions of Americans.

Adopt the Community, Embrace a Neighbor.

Old George PBC, Inc.

8712 Lindholm Drive, Suite 300 * Huntersville, NC 28078

OldGeorgePBC.com • EmbraceaNeighborMarket.com

Our Mission Old George PBC, Inc., a Public Benefit Corporation, operating the ‘Embrace a Neighbor Program’, designed to achieve a multi-faceted mission with the following purposes: Our primary charitable mission is 1) to END Hunger by 2025 & perma-nently Eliminate All of the Food Deserts in America, in every community, through financial and food product support to the local food banks and other local feeding agencies funded by the sales from Embrace a Neighbor Market Mobile Gro-cery, delivering consumer and institutional foods, providing full-service retail and wholesale grocery to every community, concentrating on providing access, convenience, value pricing and healthy life style self-reliance education. 2) Disaster Emergency Management providing Rescue, Response, Recovery and Reclamation for large scale disasters. Our re-sponse provides instant access to affected areas. Rescue equipment for location and retrieval of human life, supplies for food, water, personal and medical care. Satellite communications and charging stations. Drone fleet with HD mapping and IR to search and map in total darkness. Our mission is to reduce recovery time and expense by half. With imple-mentation of our Primary mission, our secondary mission is to 3) Pave the Road out of Poverty with continuous funding for the ’Say Yes to Know’ and ’Employment is Empowerment’ scholarship programs providing an educational, skills de-velopment and experience pathway to enhanced earning opportunities, a pathway out of Poverty for millions of Ameri-cans, annually, and support for ‘One Child, ONE Future’ (breaking the cycle of intergenerational Poverty) in every com-munity, nationally. Additional support is provided for 4) support for Summer Feeding Programs for youth during the sum-mer break from school, and 5) operation of the Alliance Global Agricultural Cooperative, 6) all while providing one-time or continuous financial support for other local community and national needs as identified and aligned with our mission.

America now has 50 Million adults without the skills and education for today’s service oriented jobs. The time for aware-ness and understanding of Poverty is over. We as a community can put an absolute END to Hunger by 2025, Eliminate ALL Food Deserts in America, Respond and Recover from disasters 50% faster and educate and provide skills training for thousands in our community for today’s jobs without ever taking a penny out of anyone’s pocket, year after year. The Embrace a Neighbor Program, with your help begins the process of healing our community. Feeding the body, mind and spirit of all. Simply Adopt the Community- ‘Embrace a Neighbor’.

Natural and organic foods eliminate GMOs and harmful chemicals. Processed foods contain known carcinogens, hor-mone disruptors, neurotoxins, developmental or reproductive toxins and pesticides also contain honey bee toxins. Think about it, every synthetic or patented item that is used in food preparation is a foreign substance to the immune system. Excreting these toxins requires the body to synthesize and metabolize large quantities of hormones, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, leaving your body to function at less than optimum levels. Your hierarchy for purchasing foods should start with Fresh, then Frozen (minimally processed) and packaged or canned. You are what you eat!

Healing requires removing existing or ongoing exposure to toxins of various sorts and providing the body healing sub-stances to the body to allow the recovery to normal function. Eating healthy can cost more but when compared to the long-term cost of an unhealthy diet, the savings are significant. The Embrace a Neighbor Market features 130,000 items of which 65,000 are natural and organic products. Our goal is the highest quality products at the best possible price, for everyone.

Embrace a Neighbor Market & Embrace a Neighbor Foundation

Food is 10% of nation’s GDP or $1.4 Trillion per year. Approximately 51% is consumed at home and 49% is consumed away from home. The Alliance GAC is a global food service and agricultural production, management & buying coopera-tive, offering consumer and institutional food delivery and durable goods from local businesses. You simply do what you do each week, purchase food to feed your family, eat at Embrace a Neighbor Market affiliated restaurants, get better quality foods and Embrace a Neighbor Market Members save up to 40% and more on their food costs and durable goods, enjoy the convenience and savings of mobile neighborhood delivery and up to 60 cents of every dollar in profit is put back into our community.

Join the Embrace a Neighbor Foundation and we can provide Millions of Dollars in funding, in each of our Communities, without a single donation, year after year! The Embrace a Neighbor Foundation enables families, changes lives, chang-es outcomes and changes communities wholly. Together the Embrace a Neighbor Market, Alliance Emergency Man-agement with the Alliance Mobile Kitchen funds programs to put an END to Hunger by 2025, Eliminate ALL Food De-serts in America and our education programs Pave the Road out of Poverty for millions. With just ten to fifteen percent of the population participating nationwide we can feed ALL 42.1 million at risk of Hunger daily and also provide support to the other causes we care about, all while being self serving and selfless. Every $150 spent by members feeds 63 more meals for those in need and provides additional support to the community.

Think about it. It is just this simple. We each purchase food to feed ourselves and our families every week. Imagine taking the profits from something you already do, do frequently and return those dollars back into the communities in which we live. Simply Shop, Save and Support!

Alliance GAC (A Global Agricultural Cooperative)

Old George PBC would like to welcome you to the Alliance GAC (Global Agricultural Cooperative). Many of you may already be a member of a buying club such as Sam’s Club or Costco. The Alliance Global Agricultural Cooperative is

different. We are not a bulk or specialty warehouse but a consortium of products, services, brands, Market Growers, Market Farms, Market Community Gardens, Market Producers, manufacturers, processors, distributors, retailers and you the public.

The value proposition is in the fact that our relationships enable us to own most or our products from seed and feed to table. We call this ‘Till to Table.’ This allows us the opportunity to control the costs of producing livestock, poultry, sea-food, produce, and package goods to ensure the best pricing for you. We connect the producer with the end user direct-ly. The Market introduces and features products and services from local small businesses, providing additional savings.

The Cooperative is divided into three divisions: marketing, supply and service (sales, transportation, processing and stor-age). These services provided ensure exclusive and direct relationships that support and assist our local farmers. Over the years large corporations have abandoned the local farmer in lieu of large farms making it nearly impossible for the local farmer to compete. The Alliance GAC changes that by collectively associating the local farms nationally, into a Na-tional Cooperative Network of locally produced product, increasing their buying power (supply and service), and giving them a guaranteed local, regional and national outlet for 100% of their products (marketing) and program management.

Your membership enables you with great savings up to 40% and more, enables ongoing community support, farm assis-tance, and a sense of family for us all. By streamlining a permanent supply and distribution chain, products can be pro-duced and provided at substantially less costs, saving everyone time and money, while improving profits.

Farmers may join the cooperative at no cost and purchase subsidized feed, seed and supplies at or near cost. Alliance farmers also have access to services, reports and support as a group. Organic producers have a shorter time direct marketing channel. You the consumer have better quality product at a lower price point, the farmers save on production and centralized purchasing, storage, processing and distribution, and the community gets much needed ongoing sup-port. The Alliance GAC pays an average of 10% more to our farmers.

The Cooperative plans to plant or manage 5 million acres of crops in the USA and an additional 5 million acres world-wide by 2025. Fifty percent of the USA operations are to be certified as natural and organic which takes 3 years. Ten percent of the yield of the Alliance Farms, Alliance Growers, Alliance Aeroponic Vertical Gardens and Alliance Communi-ty Gardens are to be provided as fresh, frozen or packaged product for direct disbursement to food banks and soup kitchens nationally, for those most in need.

With the Embrace a Neighbor Market everyone has access to better quality foods, better nutrition without spending high grocery store prices, delivered right to your neighborhood. Low-income participants on food stamps, the elderly and chil-dren now have access better nutrition and savings to stretch their buying power. As a Cooperative, we the people can take control of our communities, save money for us all and support the causes we care about, making this world a better place for us and our children, while stabilizing food production, distribution and pricing, worldwide.

Alliance Aeroponic Vertical Gardens The Alliance GAC is pleased to announce the development of the Alliance Aeroponic Vertical Gardens. The patent pending design features ’truly organic’ vegetables for the consumer and institutional food service in the community. This technology with additional R&D may be the process by which we feed the population of the future. Imagine eating vine ripened vegetables that have never touched soil. Some of the benefits of the design are:

• 98% less water use. 15,000 sf of vertical gardens is equal to 30 acres. 90% less space with 240% greater produc-tion!

• 35% faster growth cycle, 15% up to 28% increased plant size, picked at peak, fully ripened stage.

• Grow year round. 7-11 harvest per year versus 1-3 with traditional farming.

• Provides a near sterile, disease free, low maintenance system optimized for maximum yield per unit grown. The Vertical Gardens require no sunlight, are not susceptible to drought, floods, hail damage, pests or other catastrophic crop loss.

• The Alliance plans to build one or more Aeroponic Vertical Gardens for every participating community nationwide. • The Vertical Garden project is working with the United Nations and stakeholders worldwide to bring this technology

to countries around the world to reduce world hunger while providing the food necessary to feed the growing popula-tion.

• The AAVG works closely with 7 of the nations top Horticulture programs at our NC R&D facility. The 5 critical components needed to END Hunger & Food Deserts.

Access. First everyone must have access to healthy, nutritious foods at a price they can afford. The challenges are proximity or transportation to a store that carries the items. The Embrace a Neighbor Market delivers directly to the neighborhood & institutions. The Market Concierge Service provides personal neighborhood ordering convenience for the elderly and those receiving SNAP benefits.

Convenience. Second, the entire population must be served as conveniently as possible. The Embrace a Neighbor Market provides public transportation options to all, establishes permanent mobile market locations, by county subdivi-sion, for neighborhood pick-up and provides neighborhood farmers markets in select areas on weekends. In select are-

Paving the Road out of Poverty Begins with your Street.

as the Embrace a Neighbor Market offers ‘home delivery’. Now take the time you spend shopping and spend it with your family.

Value. Access and convenience are great, but at what price? The Embrace a Neighbor Market pricing is designed to save everyone money and extend the buying power of their food budget whether they employ a thrifty, low-cost, moder-ate or liberal plan. For those on a budget or receiving Food Stamps the Embrace a Neighbor Market increases your available spend by up to 30% per month, enabling all to purchase more nutritious and better quality foods for the same budget.

Education. Most importantly many people do not know how to prepare certain types of foods. That is why the Embrace a Neighbor Market is instituting an online education tool to educate the public on the purchase, preparation and serving of various culinary options tied to the weekly offering of foods, according to budget. Each menu is chosen and certified by top nutritional and dietary experts and Celebrity Chefs. Diet, activity, nutrition, and current health and wellness edu-cation is the theme.

Community. Hunger, Food Deserts, Unemployment, Under Employment are all part of poverty. Paving the Road out of Poverty requires a job that pays a self-sufficient wage to support the individual or family. A Job requires education, skills and experience. The Embrace a Neighbor Foundation attacks the problem from both ends. Assistance for those in need all while providing funding to remove the barriers to personal growth starting with a GED. 12 Departments (Embrace a Neighbor Market)

Participation

Embrace a Neighbor Members. Membership (FREE) gives the member access to special member pricing on weekly packages. Over time the Embrace a Neighbor Market offers more than 130,000 items for purchase, with savings up to 40% and more on select items weekly. Market VIP Membership will be available in the Spring of 2021 with savings of 40% up to 80% on featured durable goods and products and services from participating local, regional, national and online retailers.

Community Value Program

Every member purchasing food from the Embrace a Neighbor Market may purchase general merchandise, health & beauty, personal care, household products, pet food and supplies and more at steep discounts.

Embrace a Neighbor Market & Neighborhood Mobile Delivery Drive-thru

The Embrace a Neighbor Market establishes fixed weekly location mobile delivery points and provides neighborhood in-home delivery in select communities based on participation and location of community Food Deserts. Most locations are accessible by public transportation, where available. Within 6 months of beginning operations in every community the Market establishes one or more permanent fixed location stores offering daily shopping and custom order pick-up 7 days per week. Based on participation the Market opens additional fixed or mobile delivery locations based on participation and demand.

Alliance Media

Alliance Media soon begins delivering weekly coupons and advertising circulars in your neighborhood. Each week fea-tures the next Embrace a Neighbor Market offering and savings from local businesses in your neighborhood.

Alliance Distribution & Logistics

Old George PBC, Inc. is beginning construction on the first of our major regional distribution centers. Each distribution

point is a full-service facility encompassing 1.2 to 1.5 million square feet of processing, storage and distribution. The

Market is capable of distributing more than 130,000 items bringing access, convenience, value, education and communi-

ty support with the very best grocery products and services available, to every community, regardless of size, in the na-

tion.

Food is a necessity of life. Let’s make quality of life a result of food consumption. You simply feed yourself and your

family and together WE feed the body, mind and spirit of our community. Now you are aware and understand. Join the

Embrace a Neighbor Program and be part of something that is truly community. Adopt the Community, Embrace a

Neighbor. Your choice is to be Self-Serving and Selfless or just Plain Selfish.

As American’s, together, this is what we can do, we need to do and that which we must do.

• Butcher Shop • Dairy • Frozen Foods • General Merchandise

• Bakery • Till to Table Produce • Household • Pet Shop

• Mother & Baby • Chef’s Pantry • Breakfast & Snacks • Health & Beauty

Mission & Priority

Poverty is a complex, multidimensional problem. The affects of the deprivation of basic needs and the effects on an indi-

vidual and their extended circle, vary as much as the circumstances that lead the individual into Poverty. Poverty is ei-

ther short term or long term (chronic). Far too many of our youth suffer inter-generational poverty (born into…), others

find themselves in short term poverty (usually less than 90 days) through life events or life course. Prevention requires

attention in four areas of one’s life, Education, Employment, Health and their Environment.

The deprivations of Poverty are hunger, homelessness, food deserts, lack of education, current employment level, men-

tal, physical and emotional health and the environment (home, social circle, personal perspective and perceptions and

influencers) that are our persona.

Paving the Road out of Poverty is easier than connecting the side roads intersecting the main road. Our mission is to

end the most critical effects while reversing the factors that affect Poverty.

Priority

01. End Hunger by 2025. The program shall pursue the ability to feed every person in each community at risk of Hun-

ger, DAILY. Financial and food product support is provided to the local Food Bank and other local feeding agencies

(Meals on Wheels) and their affiliates.

02. Disaster Emergency Management. Providing Emergency Rescue, Response, Recovery and Reclamation for large

scale disasters. The goal is to reduce recovery time by 50% in affected communities. Restoring communities to pre-

disaster status enables people, businesses and the local economy to rebound faster. The Alliance Emergency Man-

agement recovery reclaims and repurposes up to 68% of the debris into usable materials.

03. Eliminate ALL Food Deserts in America. The Embrace a Neighbor Market Mobile Delivery Network automatically

eliminates every Food Desert in the Community with deployment.

04. Pave the Road out of Poverty for Millions of Americans. This where we attack the causes of Poverty.

31. Employment is Empowerment Scholarships. Provide FREE GED testing and certificate based education

programs for today’s jobs, to place an individual on the pathway out of Poverty.

32. Say Yes to Know Scholarships. Assistance to obtain an Associated Degree for jobs needed in the local

economy. These two programs are administered by the local Community College Foundations and Em-

brace a Neighbor Foundation.

33. Financial support for Safe Housing (Women’s Shelter) and Emergency Housing (those effected by a disas-

ter).

34. Homelessness. There are two critical areas of homelessness that we consider ‘no-fault’ homelessness.

School children and foster care/adoption. Currently we have an opioid crisis nationwide. Thousands of chil-

dren have been removed from their families or abandoned. Our One Child, ONE Future initiative is de-

signed to provide these children's needs to enable them to lead healthy, productive lives as adults. The

Foundation works with the United Way, Children’s Home Society, the Department of Social Services and the

court system to provide for and make sure these children have a future.

Thanks to the United Way of Northern New Jersey for initiating the ALICE® Project. ALICE stands for Asset Limited,

Income Constrained, Employed. The project identifies a truer picture of Poverty. Not just low-income, but those that

continue to struggle month to month, to supply to basic needs, based on the cost of living in a community.

The shock of this project brings to light that while 15% to 17% of the population is identified as living in Poverty, more

than 42% of the nation’s families struggle monthly just to maintain a household with basic needs. Truly living paycheck

to paycheck and one depravity away from hardship. You meet ALICE everyday. It is time to be the change you wish to

see. We are each One of ONE in the community.

Let’s Adopt the Community and ‘Embrace a Neighbor’

Resources

Poverty

ALICE® Project. Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. You meet ALICE everyday,

click here to learn more…

Self-Sufficiency Standard. Developed by Center for Women’s Welfare at the University of

Washington. The Self-Sufficiency Standard determines the amount of income required for

working families to meet basic needs at a minimally adequate level, taking into account family

composition, ages of children and geographic differences in costs.

Hunger

Feeding America– Hunger in America

In short supply

Elderly and Social Security

Social Security

Social Security is Running out

Homelessness

State of Homelessness in America

America’s Homelessness Crisis

Food Deserts

Food Deserts vs. Inequality

Land Use

Land use in America