ABSTRACT
CREATIVE  PROJECT:  The  Pay-­‐What-­‐You-­‐Can  Community  Café:  A  model  for  fighting  food   insecurity  within  a  community  and  how  it  can  be  applied  to  Muncie,  Indiana
STUDENT:  Jessica  R.  Pflaumer
DEGREE:  Master  of  Urban  and  Regional  Planning
COLLEGE:  Architecture  and  Planning
DATE:  May,  2015
PAGES:   94
This  project  examines  the  pay-­‐what-­‐you-­‐can  community  café  model  pioneered  in
2003  by  the  non-­‐profit  organization  One  World  Everybody  Eats  and  how  the  community   café  concept  can  be  used  to  fight  food  insecurity  within  the  community  the  café  is   located  in,  and  applied  to  Muncie,  Indiana.    The  PWYC  community  café  is  an  integral   part  of  local  food  systems  and  the  fight  against  social  injustice.    Muncie,  with  multiple   organizations  working  to  make  the  city  more  equitable  and  socially  just,  is  a  community   that  is  poised  and  ready  to  take  on  a  PWYC  community  café  model.