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WHITE PONY EXPRESS



Sponsor: Emily Karakashian

Website: whiteponyexpress.org

Contact WPE through project sponsor: emilytheok@gmail.com

Project Background: EFA Partners with Thurgood Marshall College Fund to Advance Editorial Careers for HBCU Students.

Mission: To help eliminate hunger and poverty by delivering the abundance all around us to those in need – with love.

Impact Model:



CONTEXT

Rising food and housing costs, pressure on household budgets, and reductions in food assistance are making fresh, healthy food harder for many families to afford. 1 in 4 Americans are skipping meals or relying on food donations. Balance this troubling statistic with the fact Americans throw away nearly 40% of our food supply — perfectly good food that could eliminate hunger entirely.

TARGET

Hungry and marginalized members of our community, including the unhoused, low and no income families, students, the aging, people with disabilities, kids in the foster system, and other vulnerable groups.


RESPONSE

White Pony Express (WPE) rescues and delivers the equivalent of over 13,000 nutritious meals each and every day. Through the organization’s food recovery efforts, 31,000 tons of CO2 emissions were prevented from entering the air we breathe. WPE also distributed over 2 million items of clothing and survival essentials to an extensive network of nonprofit partners.



OUTCOMES

HBCU students are supported in their pursuit of careers in publishing and related fields; they are well prepared for those careers; they exit college with no debt. HBCUs are supported by the funds provided, and TMCF (Thurgood Marshall College Fund)—the program’s administrator—is supported in its work. The EFA gains new members and benefits from their knowledge.


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VISION

“White Pony Express is built on the understanding that, in this beautiful world we share, love knows all, does all, and is the most powerful force in the universe.”

— Dr. Carol Weyland Conner, WPE Founder

Current Status and Project Goals:  As of September 2026, the EFA has awarded fourteen $5,000 scholarships, three per year for the past four years and two during the inaugural year. We hope to increase the number of scholarships to six per year. We’re asking for help in identifying an entity or individual whose mission aligns with that of the EFA scholarship program and who might contribute to the program in a substantial way.

Skills and Assistance Needed:

  • Click here to volunteer

  • Click here to support financially
  • Compose letters to potential corporate sponsors
  • Compose letters to in-kind retail clothing stores. We need to build relationships with stores, boutiques, and retailers to create a pipeline of donations from their returns, overstock, out-of season clothing, etc.
  • Help with our implementation of Salesforce (software) for scheduling, tracking, and communicating with volunteers. We need classmates who have experience with Salesforce NPSP (NonProfit Success Pack) Volunteer application integration.
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