Pay-What-You-Can

Stone Soup is "pay-what-you-can" because we are committed to breaking down social barriers like class, race, ability, and age, to create a beloved community and build solidarity. We want to create a space where everyone feels welcome, regardless of their ability to pay. Our Pay-What-You-Can model relies on connection, relationship-building, and trust to succeed! It invites us all to participate at any level in which we can.

In 2025, folks from UMass's Building Solidarity Economies group studied Stone Soup Café and the different ways in which our volunteers and leaders envision the pay-what-you-can model and its relationship with mutual aid.

Read the report!

 

PAY - WHAT - YOU - CAN