Since September, video marketing platform Epoxy has released a series of videos called Creator Spotlight, which features various YouTube creators from all walks of life. For its most recent Spotlight, the video marketing company went charitable, just in time for Thanksgiving. Epoxy interviewed Big Frame co-founder and Head of AwesomenessTV’s Awestruck network Sarah Penna, who’s working with the food education non-profit Groceryships to raise money for needy Los Angeles families.
The first few minutes of Epoxy’s Creator Spotlight covers Penna’s history with online video and her video-making endeavors with her husband and fellow YouTuber MysteryGuitarMan. The former Big Frame CCO and mother of baby Jonah believes YouTube creators have a responsibility to use their channels for good, “whether that’s making somebody smile or that’s a cause you’re passionate about.” Penna then says Groceryships, a cause she’s passionate about, is working to end the problem of food deserts, which are areas where there’s limited or no access to healthy, affordable food options.
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“People that live ten miles away from me don’t have access to the same food,” Penna explained. “Their life expectancy is ten years lower. And so Sam [Polk, Groceryships’ founder] has created these groups where they meet for six months, once a week, and they’re all moms living in south central [LA]. They have a nutritionist there to teach them about how to eat healthy.”
As part of its overall goals, Groceryships wants to turn its plain meeting space into its local Los Angeles headquarters to educate even more needy families on how to eat healthy based on available resources. If funded, Groceryships’ site would turn into a destination for education resources, program meetings, offices, and more. Penna says the goal is to raise $10,000 to renovate the space and make it “feel like a safe place that these moms can come to and meet.”
If you’d like to help Groceryships with its Los Angeles building cause, you can visit the campaign’s official donation page. And be sure to check out more of Epoxy’s Creator Spotlight series on the brand’s YouTube channel.
