The first step
Alexis founded Project Feed the Homies to meet immediate needs with dignity and consistency.
Alexis’s story
This work is personal.
Project Feed the Homies began with lived experience, a refusal to judge people in survival mode, and a belief that nobody should feel invisible during the hardest chapter of their life.
Alexis N. Robinson · FounderBefore the nonprofit
I was not studying the system from the outside. I was trying to survive it.
When Alexis experienced eviction, she did what people are told to do: look for emergency assistance before the situation became permanent.
The help advertised on paper did not match what was available in real life. Some programs had no funds. Others had long waitlists or requirements that could not be met before the deadline. The process from falling behind to losing her home took about a month.
That short window changed everything. Alexis understood how quickly an ordinary person could become unhoused, and how easily the public could mistake a crisis for a character flaw.
“I call them my homies because they are people like me going through a storm. A storm is not somebody’s whole identity.”
From experience to action
What started in 2010 kept growing.
The impact
Thousands of plates, plus clothing, toiletries, haircuts, conversation, and care.
The bigger vision
Direct service connected to mental health, housing stability, advocacy, and long-term community support.
Still building
Education gave language to what lived experience had already taught her.
Alexis earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and is continuing graduate social-work education at the University of Kentucky, with doctoral study ahead.
Her academic work focuses on poverty, housing insecurity, food insecurity, mental health, social policy, and the gap between resources that technically exist and assistance people can actually access before it is too late.
The degrees are not a replacement for the story. They are tools for expanding the work.
Why the logo looks like us
Colorful because community includes everybody.
The colors represent people across race, creed, religion, background, and circumstance. Nobody has to look the same, believe the same, or arrive the same way to deserve care.
The scale represents balance in the world, the belief that people deserve fairness, and Alexis herself. She is a Libra, and balance is not just a design choice. It is part of how she understands justice, relationships, and community.
Help write what comes next
This story is still moving.
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