Case Name :      The Backyard Harvest: Outgrowing Hunger One Community at a Time

Authors :           John J. Lawrence, Michele O’Neill, Heidi Connole

Source :             North American Case Research Association (NACRA)

Case ID :            NA0070

Discipline :        Social Enterprise

Case Length :    13 pages

Solution sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

This case describes a small nonprofit organization called The Backyard Harvest (BYH). The focus of BYH was to collect excess produce from individuals and small farmers and make the produce available to local food banks. Amy Grey had started BYH as a program of a local environmental nonprofit but had recently created a separate and independent BYH organization. Because of recent national press on the organization, Amy had received several requests for help from a handful of people around the country interested in setting up their own version of BYH. Amy’s dilemma was how to continue to serve the needs of her local community and help other people around the country set up equivalent organizations. Amy wondered if she should take BYH national, and if so, when and how to do it.