Beans Cafe

Let your garden grow! 🥬

Last day of school at Pacific Northern Academy included a ribbon cutting for the PNA Community Garden - 3rd and 4th grade students making a big impact by providing produce to Beans Cafe
Definitely worth celebrating 🍰

These partnerships help us provide over 500,000 meals to adults, children and families each year. Thank you Pacific Northern Academy

What does a second chance look like in Anchorage?

For many participants in our Streets to Success program, it looks like a job offer. A stable address. The confidence to walk into a room and say: "I'm ready."

Streets to Success connects individuals experiencing homelessness with employment readiness training, job placement support, and the community they need to move forward — with dignity.

This work is made possible by people like you — donors, volunteers, and partners who believe that everyone deserves a path forward.

Thank you for helping us walk alongside them. 💙

Join our Streets to Success participants tomorrow at the South Anchorage South Anchorage Farmers' Market from 9 am - 4 pm Crew Bakery 🍞🍪

From the oven to opportunity. 🍞

Motley Crew Bakery isn't just about great bread, it's about building futures. Through our social enterprise bakery, individuals facing barriers to employment gain real-world skills, professional experience, and a paycheck.
Every loaf baked is a step toward stability. Every shift worked is a résumé being built.

That's the Bean's Cafe model: meet people where they are, and walk with them toward where they want to go.

🏆 Nominations are now open for Best of Alaska — and we'd love your vote! Show Motley Crew Bakery some love and nominate them at the link below - go to the Food and Drink Group, Bakery category, and write in Motley Crew Bakery.
Every nomination helps shine a light on the incredible work happening right here in Anchorage. Nominations can be made until May 10th, only two more days!!
👉 www.adnbestofalaska.com/vote #/gallery/?group=539418

Every Saturday in May, find us at the South Anchorage Farmer's Market in the parking lot at the Kelly Creek Ice Center (formerly O'Malley Sports Center). Come grab a loaf and cast your vote! 🛒

May is here, and we're starting it the only way we know how: with gratitude. 💛

To every volunteer who shows up. Every donor who gives. Every partner who believes in this community — thank you.

Bean's Cafe has been serving Anchorage since 1979. That's almost 50 years of meals, of hope, of people choosing to show up for their neighbors. None of it would be possible without the extraordinary people who make up this community.

You are the reason we get to do this work. Thank you for being part of the Bean's family. 🙏

Find us, Motley Crew Bakery, at the South Anchorage Farmers' Market on Saturday.