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The mission of Arkansas Interfaith Power and Light is to educate and energize faith communities to care for God’s creation and work toward feeding neighbors. AIPL works in the space where environmental justice meets food justice. We work in communities where food insecurity levels are among the greatest nationwide.
Purpose
Purpose
Arkansas Interfaith Power and Light supports sustainable urban food forests focused on soil health and water conservation. AIPL redistributed surplus perishable foods to shelters, pantries, and community centers. Food waste beyond human consumption goes to local compost system, where it becomes rich nutritious soil that returns to community gardens and orchards.
PLEASE DONATE: You may help AIPL serve our neighbors in need by sending a donation to Ark. IPL at 600 Pleasant Valley Dr., Little Rock, AR 72227. Your donation will go toward feeding our neighbors in sustailable ways that support people and the planet.
Ark. IPL shares fresh food with neighbors in need.
Sharing Food
Sharing Food
Our part-time staff, interns, volunteers, and partners share donated perishable foods with neighbors in need at food pantries, shelters, community centers, free no-cost markets. They rapidly transport foods in their own vehicles, using safe time-and-temperature protocols; this effort eliminates the need for food storage, warehouses, or delivery trucks. AIPL does not even have an office and keeps overhead expenses extremely low. Our work is in the community.
Over its 15-year history, AIPL has earned recognition awards from Arkansas Wildlife Federation, Arkansas Sierra Club, and Climate Reality. In January 2026, AIPL earned the prestigious "Restoring Creation" award from Presbyterians for Earth Care. AIPL’s Executive Director was named Arkansas Peace Advocate in 2024 for her work in community food forests.
Report from 3-Year Grant
Report from 3-Year Grant
Over three years (2023-2026), 46,713 people participated in 245 training events and community garden days.
We installed 22 chicken coops, exceeding our goal of 18. We installed nine greenhouses, 14 irrigation systems, and 14 vertical farming structures. We also repaired nine greenhouses and installed three high tunnels as shared growing spaces to extend the growing season for our network of growers.
We delivered 16,312 pounds of surplus fresh produce to food pantries, shelters, community centers, clinics, schools, and other community locations. This total does not include produce gleaned by friends and neighbors who visited our gardens and picked fresh food we shared.
We diverted 45,020 pounds of organic matter from landfills—more than double our goal of 21,600 pounds. This material included yard waste and perishable food no longer suitable for human consumption. Some was used to feed chickens and hogs, while most went into compost systems and returned to local growers as nutrient-rich soil.
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