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Eat well, do good: Bread for the People makes giving back delicious

Libbey Goldberg (left) and Sarah Stevens have been baking and delivering bread around Austin, Texas in exchange for donations to support groups affected by COVID-19. As of early June, their project, Bread for the People, has raised more than $6,600.

Sarah Stevens woke up in late March nervous, but ready. The coronavirus was spreading, and her community in Austin, Texas, was preparing to shelter in place. Already her two children were home from school and she and her partner were trying to juggle child care with their work as personal chefs. But Sarah had an idea she couldn’t kick: Bread. Beautiful, hand-crafted, aromatic sourdough bread that didn’t just stare people in the face on Instagram, but awaited them on their front porch and comforted their families. 

“I’m a person who can spend years toying with an idea and let the moment pass by,” she says. This was the first time in her life she knew she had to take action, she says, sitting two rooms over from 12

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