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Hero · Page header

Compact header for interior pages: title left, intro and actions right. No photo needed.

Help

Questions, answered.

Everything neighbors ask us most, from your first visit to volunteering. Can't find it? Call (555) 014-2290 or stop by the front desk.

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Hero · Photo wash

A photo washed into the page color behind centered copy. Calm, and works with almost any photo.

Neighbors feeding neighbors since 2009

Everyone deserves a seat at the table.

Common Table runs a free grocery pantry, weekly community meals, and a two-acre garden on the Northside. Come hungry, come to help, or just come say hello.

Open Tue–Sat, 9–4 · 418 Alder Street · No paperwork for your first visit

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Hero · Split with chip

Copy beside a framed photo. The action note floats over the photo as a proof chip.

Free groceries, no questions

Good food, shared with dignity.

Shop our pantry like a neighborhood market. Pick what your family actually eats, from fresh produce to bread baked that morning.

12,480 meals shared in August

Two volunteers packing boxes of vegetables

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Hero · Statement

Type-only hero with a hairline row of highlights (fuse a minimal card grid under it).

2026 annual report

Nobody on the Northside should eat alone.

Pantry

Fresh groceries five days a week, shopped like a market.

Community meals

Thursday dinners for 200, cooked by volunteers.

Garden

Two acres and 86 plots, planted by the block.

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Hero · Immersive

Full-bleed photo or video with copy anchored bottom-left.

Our story

A neighborhood that shows up.

What started as one church kitchen on Alder Street now feeds 3,000 families a year.

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Hero · Portrait

For people-led sites: authors, speakers, founders, attorneys.

Dr. Ruth Alvarez · Founder and author

Hospitality is a practice, not an event.

Ruth helps churches, schools, and city leaders build tables where nobody is a guest. Her new book, The Long Table, is out this fall.

As heard on Northside Public Radio, The Civic Table, and Faith & City

Portrait of Ruth Alvarez

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Hero · With stat bar

Split hero with a dark stat bar fused underneath (stats section with Connect to previous).

Neighbors feeding neighbors

A full table, every week.

Free groceries, hot dinners, and a garden run by the people who use them. Fifteen years on Alder Street and counting.

Volunteers standing together outside the building
148k
Meals shared

in 2025

3,012
Families

up 22% from 2024

340
Volunteers

21,600 hours given

94¢
Per dollar

goes straight to food

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Hero · Program index

Hero copy beside a panel listing every program (fuse a minimal card grid).

Programs

Six ways we show up for the Northside.

Every program is free, open to anyone, and run by neighbors. Pick one to see times, locations, and how to join in.

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Hero · With doors

Photo hero with audience doors overlapping its bottom edge (fuse a card grid).

Common Table Northside

Pull up a chair. There's room.

Free food, good company, and a way for everyone to help. Start with the door that fits you.

Learning library

Watch, listen, and cook along.

Free videos, recipes, and guides from our kitchen and garden. New episodes every other Thursday.

New episode · One pot, forty servings: Denise's harvest stew

Volunteers cooking together

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Hero · Organic

Leaf-shaped photo mask with a round sticker (the action note).

Resources

Everything we know, free to borrow.

Guides, checklists, and recipes from fifteen years of running a neighborhood pantry. Use them, remix them, pass them on.

Free for everyone

Volunteers cooking together

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Hero · Marquee

An oversized headline across the full width with a thin band of values drifting slowly underneath (it stops for reduced motion). Use for bold brand or campaign openers. Needs a short headline (2–5 words) and a bulleted list of 4–8 short values in the body; a paragraph above the list stays as the intro.

Common Table · Northside

Feed the whole block.

Groceries, dinners, and a garden. All free, all run by neighbors.

  • Free groceries
  • Thursday dinners
  • Two-acre garden
  • No paperwork
  • Open Tue–Sat
  • Everyone eats

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Hero · Duotone photo

A background photo recolored in two brand tones, with copy on top. Use when you have a busy or off-brand photo that should still feel on-brand. Needs a background image (no overlay needed); keep the body to one or two sentences.

Saturday market

Fresh from the block, free to the block.

Every Saturday the pantry spills into the parking lot: local produce, bread from Juniper & Co., and a table of neighbors ready to help you carry it home.

Saturdays, 9 a.m.–noon · 418 Alder Street

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Hero · Bento

The hero copy sits in a big tile inside a mosaic of photo and color tiles. Use for home pages that show many programs at a glance. Fuse a card grid (Cards style) with exactly 5 cards: cards 1, 3, and 5 with an image and a short title (shown as a caption), cards 2 and 4 without an image, with the card theme set to accent and dark, a short title (a number works), and a one-line body.

Common Table Northside

One kitchen, a whole neighborhood.

A free pantry, a Thursday dinner, a garden, and a crew of 340 neighbors who make it all run.

148k

meals shared in 2025

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Hero · Event ticket

Event copy beside a ticket stub with a big date. Use for conferences, galas, open houses, and registration pages. Fuse a stats section with 2–3 items: item 1 is the date (value like "Oct 18", label the weekday, detail the times), the rest are place or price (value, label, detail). Put the register button first and the price or policy in the action note.

Harvest Supper · 16th year

Dinner for 400 under the string lights.

Our biggest night of the year: a long-table supper in the garden, cooked by neighbors. Every seat pays for 30 meals at the pantry.

$45 a seat · Kids eat free · Rain or shine

Oct 18
Saturday

Doors 5 p.m. · Dinner at 6

Alder Street garden
Where

418 Alder Street, behind the pantry

$45
Per seat

Tables of 8 for $340

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Hero · Video poster

Centered headline over a large framed 16:9 poster, with the first action as a play button on the poster. Use when a film or talk is the main thing on the page. Needs a 16:9 poster image, a first action linking to the video (icon "play"), and optionally a second action and a note below.

Our story · A 3-minute film

Fifteen years of Thursday dinners.

Meet the cooks, the regulars, and the kids who grew up at the long table.

Captions in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese

Neighbors passing plates at a Thursday dinner

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Hero · Brief

A quiet, text-only opener: small label in the margin, a strong left rule, a serious headline, and a long intro set in two columns. Use for law firms, consultancies, reports, and letters. Needs 2–3 paragraphs of body; the first paragraph becomes the lead. Link-style actions fit best; the action note reads as fine print.

Letter from the board · 2025

A plain account of a good year.

We served 3,012 families last year, 22 percent more than the year before, and we did it on a budget that grew by only 9 percent.

Most of the difference came from people. Volunteers gave 21,600 hours, local grocers donated 180 tons of food, and the garden fed more households than it ever has. Our costs per meal went down for the third year running.

This report shows where every dollar went, what we got wrong, and what we plan to change in 2026. We hope you read it the way we wrote it: as neighbors, owing each other a straight answer.

Financial statements audited by Hollis & Park LLP. Common Table is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

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Hero · Crowd

A centered hero above a stacked row of overlapping faces and one line of social proof. Use for volunteer, membership, and community sign-ups. Fuse a card grid (Avatar circle style) with 4–6 people cards (image plus name as the title; names are read by screen readers but not shown), an optional last card with no image whose title is a count like "+335", and a one-line intro.

Volunteer

Join the neighbors who show up.

Pack groceries, cook Thursday dinner, drive a route, or teach kids to garden. Pick a two-hour shift that fits your week.

340 volunteers gave 21,600 hours last year.

Marisol Vega

Marisol Vega

Dev Patel

Dev Patel

Ana Okafor

Ana Okafor

Tom Brennan

Tom Brennan

Ruth Alvarez

Ruth Alvarez

+335

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Hero · Angled photo

Copy beside a photo that runs to the page edge and the full section height, cut on a diagonal with an accent stripe along the cut. Use for energetic program or campaign pages. Needs a landscape or square image; the media side sets which edge the photo bleeds to.

Saturday Seedlings

Kids grow it. Kids cook it. Kids eat it.

Every Saturday from April to October, kids ages 5 to 12 plant, harvest, and cook a meal from our garden, then share it with their families.

Free · Ages 5–12 · Snacks included

Kids planting seedlings in the Alder Street garden

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Hero · Plaque

A full-bleed photo with the copy on a solid plaque in the section color, set in the lower left like a cornerstone. Use for rooted, story-led home pages: missions, churches, and long-standing charities. Needs a background image (people or a building), a headline under ~10 words, one or two sentences of body, and 1–2 actions; the eyebrow reads well as a founding line ("Serving the city since 1923").

Serving the Northside since 2009

A seat at the table for every neighbor.

Hot meals, a free grocery pantry, and a friendly face at the door, five days a week.

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Hero · Bubble

Copy beside a photo in a soft, rounded blob with playful floating circles, and the action note as a friendly tag. Use for kids, camps, family programs, and anything that should feel warm and welcoming. Needs a square or 4:3 photo, a short headline, one or two sentences of body, and an action note of 2–5 words (ages, dates, or "Free for families").

Seedlings summer camp

Dig in, make friends, grow something.

Five sunny weeks of garden games, crafts, and lunch from our kitchen, for kids 5 to 12.

Free for Northside families

Kids laughing in a circle on the grass with a camp counselor

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Hero · Window

A centered headline over a large photo or screenshot framed like an app window, with a soft glow behind it. Use for software, services, and product launches. Needs a 16:9 image (a screenshot or a device photo), a headline under ~10 words, one sentence of body, and 1–2 actions; the action note reads as small print under the buttons ("Free for 30 days · No card needed").

Tablekit · Pantry software

Run your pantry like Common Table does.

Check-in, inventory, and volunteer shifts in one calm dashboard, built on a Northside pantry floor.

Free for pantries under 500 families

A laptop and phone showing a dashboard on a desk at dusk

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Hero · Portico

A wide photo framed in a hairline mat above a centered statement: an ornamented eyebrow, a formal headline, and a short intro. Use for seminaries, schools, foundations, and institutions with a place worth showing. Needs a wide 21:9 or 16:9 photo of a building or campus, a headline under ~12 words, one or two sentences of body, and 1–2 actions; the action note reads as a small-caps line under the buttons.

The Common Table Institute

Training the people who feed their neighbors.

A year-long fellowship for pantry and meal-program leaders, taught on the Northside since 2016.

Applications close March 1

A stone college building with a tower seen across a tree-lined lawn

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Hero · Stage

A tall, full-bleed night photo with a huge glowing headline at the bottom and the eyebrow as a live chip with a pulsing dot. Use for youth nights, concerts, worship gatherings, and events. Needs a background image (a crowd, stage, or city at night), a short headline (2–6 words), one sentence of body, and 1–2 actions; put the date or time in the eyebrow.

Fridays · 7 pm

Friday night at the table.

Live music, free food, and the loudest crew on the Northside. Grades 6–12.

Free · Every Friday

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Hero · Masthead

A magazine front page: the eyebrow sits between rules like a dateline, a large headline, a lede with a drop cap, and a wide photo underneath. Use for editorial, literary, and story-led home pages. Needs a 21:9 or 16:9 image and 1–2 short paragraphs; with two, the copy reads left-aligned and the first paragraph gets a drop cap. The action note reads as the photo's caption.

Common Table · Northside · Since 2009

The long table, and the neighbors who set it.

Every Thursday, sixty people sit down to dinner on Alder Street. Some came to eat, some came to cook, and by dessert nobody can tell which is which. This is how a neighborhood feeds itself.

Thursday dinner at 418 Alder Street, photographed in October.

Neighbors passing bowls down a long dinner table in warm evening light

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Hero · Poster

A loud, poster-style opener: a very large headline beside a photo set on a solid color block, with the action note as a round sticker on the photo. Use for energetic campaign, youth, and event home pages. Needs a short headline (3–7 words), one or two sentences of body, and a square or 4:3 image; keep the action note to 2–4 words.

Common Table Youth Crew

Paint the block. Feed the block.

Teens run the Saturday market, paint the murals, and cook for 200. Join the loudest crew on the Northside.

Ages 13–18 · Free

Teens and volunteers laughing while painting a bright mural

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Hero · Photo fade

A wide photo on the right that fades softly into the page, with the copy on the left: eyebrow with a short rule, a big headline, body, actions, and the action note. Use for product, agency, and organization home pages. Needs a background image (people or work in context; the left third fades away) and layout content-left (content-right mirrors it). On phones the photo sits above the copy. Fuse a stats section with the Stat bar · Floating preset to add the stat bar across its bottom edge.

Neighbor-run since 2009

Good food, shared well, every week.

Groceries, hot meals, and a garden, run by the people who use them. Strategy, volunteers, and data pulling in one direction: more neighbors fed.

Open Tue–Sat · 418 Alder Street · No paperwork for your first visit

15 yrs
On Alder Street

Founded 2009, neighbor-run

148k
Meals shared last year

Pantry and Thursday dinners

340
Volunteers

21,600 hours given in 2025

94¢
Of every dollar

Goes straight to food

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Hero · Mosaic

Copy on the left; on the right a slightly tilted grid of square tiles: grayscale portraits plus up to two colored stat tiles. Use for About and Team pages, or any opener that should show the people. Recipe: a fiveq.hero (layout content-left, dark theme reads best) with eyebrow, headline, one sentence of body, and 1–2 actions, then fuse a card grid (connectToPrevious: true, Cards style) with `columns` 4 or 5 and exactly three rows of cards (12 or 15). Portrait cards: an image (square crop works best) and the person's name as the title (read by screen readers, not shown). Stat cards: no image, a short title (a number like "15" or "2004") and a one-line body ("people, one mission"); a stat card takes the button color, or the accent with the card theme set to accent. Use at most two stat cards. On phones the mosaic becomes a tidy five-across strip (the first ten tiles) under the copy.

Our story · Since 2009

Neighbors feeding neighbors, every week.

Common Table is a free pantry, a Thursday dinner, and a garden, run by 340 volunteers and a staff of four.

Marisol Vega

Marisol Vega

Dev Patel

Dev Patel

Ana Okafor

Ana Okafor

June Harlow

June Harlow

Tom Brennan

Tom Brennan

340

neighbors, one table

Ruth Alvarez

Ruth Alvarez

Dana Whitaker

Dana Whitaker

Walter Hughes

Walter Hughes

Priya Nair

Priya Nair

2009

founded in a church basement

The welcome team

The welcome team

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Hero · Collage

Copy on the left; on the right a large product image with a second image (a dashboard or screenshot) overlapping its lower left and a round photo chip at its lower right. Use for Services, product, and platform pages. Recipe: a fiveq.split (mediaSide right) with eyebrow, headline, one or two sentences of body, 1–2 actions, and the main image as media (a 3:2 or 16:9 screenshot or device photo), then fuse a card grid (connectToPrevious: true, Cards style, columns 2) with exactly two image-only cards: card 1 the overlapping image (landscape), card 2 the round chip (a photo of people; a square crop). Leave the cards' titles, bodies, and actions empty; the images' alt text is what screen readers read. On phones the pictures stack under the copy: the main image, then the two smaller ones side by side.

Programs & services

One kitchen. Six ways to help.

Groceries, dinners, a garden, rides, classes, and a phone line, built to work together for every family on the Northside.

A laptop and phone showing the pantry's weekly dashboard
Three volunteers planning the week's deliveries around a laptop
Volunteers smiling as they sort fresh produce into crates