Fundraising Campaign
In celebration of our 5th anniversary, Hungry Zine is launching our first fundraising campaign to power our community & publishing activities for 2026-2027.
You, our community, are the soil that has supported us to grow and flourish. We’ve been publishing Hungry for 5 years and it’s time to tend to and enrich the soil! It’s also time to seed new ideas and new directions.
With your support, we will be able to grow our community & publishing activities for 2026-2027. Your donations will be used for: 1) publishing future issues, 2) growing and supporting our team’s capacity, 3) offering more community programming.
Join us for our campaign launch event!
In partnership with Zenari’s Little Italy, Hungry Zine invites you to Seeds and Soil, our first community fundraiser event. Join us on Wednesday April 22 from 6-8pm at Zocalo (10826 95 ST Edmonton, AB) for food, connection and gardening inspiration! Beat the April greys in the gorgeous Zocalo greenhouse!
The Program:
- Food and conversation: enjoy a light picnic-box style dinner prepared by chef Chef Filliep Lament.
- A short talk on gardening tips by Clara Qualizza – Owner and Chief Soil Tender of Meadow & Thicket Farm Flowers. Clara grows unique and exquisite cut flowers for blossom lovers on her small farm near Wildwood, Alberta. meadowandthicket.ca.
- Garden design doodling session: We’ll provide you with some materials to do some dreaming and designing of your gardens. You’ll have a chance to share gardening knowledge with your fellow community members, and we’ll crowd-source and compile your tips to build a community pamphlet (that will be shared with you later).
- Silent auction and other fundraising activities!
Notes on Ticket Price
Tickets are $45 and include a picnic box dinner and a non-alocholic beverage. Coffee, tea, and alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase from the in-store cafe run by Zenari’s Little Italy.
Half of the ticket price will cover event and food costs, and the remainder of proceeds will go to our fundraising campaign.
You will have an option to make an additional donation to Hungry Zine when you pay. There will also be a prompt to make an optional contribution to the online fundraising platform we are using – Zeffy – to cover their administrative fees. These are both optional, please do not feel pressured to give more than the ticket price, unless you would like to!
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You can also make a contribution to our fundraising campaign here:
*Please note: we are not a registered charity, we are a non-profit, but we are not a registered charity, so we cannot issue charitable tax receipts.
How your support will help!
- $15 will cover our postage for 5 zines.
- $50-$100 will sponsor one of our contributing writers or artists.
- $100-$500 will sponsor our cover art, allow us to pay an illustrator.
- $500-$1,500 will sponsor our editorial team fees for one issue (including editor, copy editor, and designer fees).
- $1,500-$4000 will sponsor our printing with Yolkless Press.
For a donation of $50 or more we will add your name to our website.
For any donations of $100 or more, made by June 30, 2026, we will list your name in Issue 09 as a “Hungry Friend”.