Press kit
The facts about Pay It Forward, story angles, logos and a person to contact: everything a journalist needs about our community meal program.
The Pay It Forward team
Writing about Pay It Forward, or want to talk to a restaurant partner or a community partner? Email us, or use the contact form with "Press" chosen.
Stories we can help with
Each one is checkable on this site, and we can put you in touch with the people in it.
Neighbors buy a stranger's lunch, and the local restaurant gets paid for it
Donors fund meals ahead of time. A neighbor who needs one reserves it free and picks it up at a local restaurant partner, which is reimbursed for every meal it serves. Nobody shows ID or proves need.
A coffee shop's pay-it-forward board, grown into a program
The idea started with the pay-it-forward board at Beanchain Coffee in Mesa, Arizona. Pay It Forward, a program of the Foundation for Innovation in Society, is taking it to restaurants across the greater Phoenix area, and it's built to work anywhere in the US.
Restaurant meals for people without a phone
Shelters and outreach teams reserve a meal for someone in front of them and print a slip with the meal code, or set up a tablet in their lobby where people reserve one themselves, without an account.
Fast facts
- Name
- Pay It Forward
- Also known as
- PIF Board
- What it is
- A community-funded meal program
- Run by
- Foundation for Innovation in Society, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 33-2320329)
- Where
- Starting in the greater Phoenix area, where it began in Mesa; built to work anywhere in the US
- For neighbors
- Free. No ID, no paperwork and no questions about need
- For restaurants
- Free to join, and reimbursed for every meal served
- Website
- pifboard.com
- hello@pifboard.com
About us, in one paragraph
Pay It Forward is a community-funded meal program of the Foundation for Innovation in Society, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Donors fund meals ahead of time, and neighbors who need one reserve it free, with no ID or paperwork, and pick it up at a local restaurant partner, which is reimbursed for every meal it serves. Shelters and outreach teams reserve meals for people without a phone. Pay It Forward is starting in the greater Phoenix area and is built to work anywhere in the US. More at pifboard.com.
How it started: the pay-it-forward board at Beanchain Coffee in Mesa, Arizona. More on About and in the FAQ.
Logos
Use them as they are. Every file, the colors, the typefaces and what you may do with them are in the brand guide.
Mark and name
The mark with "Pay It Forward" under it. The everyday version for posters, flyers, articles and partner materials.
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The mark
Two hands in a circle, blue and green. Use it alone where the name is already nearby, or where there's only room for a square.
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