Two Degrees Food

Two Degrees is a one-for-one food company that produces vegan snack bars. For every food bar the company sells, it donates a meal to a hungry child in need. Two Degrees Food has provided meals to children in areas including the United States, Kenya, India, Malawi, Somalia, Colombia, and Myanmar.

Overview
Will Hauser and Lauren Walters founded Two Degrees Food in 2010 and launched early 2011. Hauser is a Harvard graduate and worked with Goldman Sachs prior to starting the company. Lauren Walters is an entrepreneur, investor and advisor to various non-profits. The company’s board of directors also includes Keith Monda, the former President of Coach Inc.

Hauser and Walters picked the name Two Degrees to emphasize the idea that only two degrees of separation exist between consumers to a hungry child. In 2011, Two Degrees Food was recognized as a runner up in the Katerva Awards for Food Security.

Two Degrees Food’s board of advisors includes physicians Steve Collins and Judith Palfrey, the Boston Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The company is based in San Francisco, California, and has a staff of about 10 people.

Product and mission
Two Degrees Food produces a line of all-natural, gluten-free, vegan and GMO-free nutrition bars in several flavors, including Apple Pecan, Cherry Almond, Chocolate Banana, and Chocolate Peanut. The recipes were developed by Barr Hogen, the former creative chef at Odwalla.

The company distributes bars to health food, specialty, grocery, college and food service channels across the United States, including more than 1000 locations including Whole Foods, stores, Barnes & Noble College bookstores, coffee shops, and corporations. The meals are locally sourced, and the company partners with global nonprofits and NGOs in order to fulfill this mission. Their partners include Feeding America, Partners in Health, World Food Program USA,  Akshaya Patra and others.