Catering with a Cause for Sonoma County
Catering with a Cause by Sonoma Family Meal delivers thoughtfully prepared, globally-inspired, and locally sourced meals that elevate your event and support our mission, helping your gathering make a meaningful difference in the community.
What’s better than providing meals that delight your guests?
Meals that taste delicious, reflect your values, AND support a great cause!
That’s why Sonoma Family Meal provides Sonoma County catering that exceeds your expectations while supporting our mission to strengthen our local food ecosystem and nourish our community through food security meals and tuition-free culinary job training.With every event catered, you’re not only treating your guests to seasonally and globally-inspired, farm-to-table menus, you’re also helping fund our nonprofit programs that provide meals to families in need today while creating opportunity for tomorrow.
Providing Private, Corporate, and Nonprofit Catering
From intimate staff lunches to large nonprofit galas, our Catering with a Cause service makes your event both delicious and meaningful.
Private Catering
Our private catering brings seasonal, locally sourced dishes to intimate gatherings and milestone celebrations alike. Menus are crafted by our culinary team, including trainees from our tuition-free Culinary Job Training Program, so your event directly supports workforce development and food-security efforts.
Corporate Catering
Whether it’s a quarterly meeting, team retreat, or holiday party, our Sonoma County corporate catering service ensures your employees and clients enjoy flavorful, unique dishes that give back.
Nonprofit Events
As one of the preferred Sonoma caterers that local organizations trust, we offer discounted nonprofit pricing, unique globally inspired menus, and a mission aligned service. That’s just another way that choosing our catering for your event uplifts the entire community.
Menu Flexibility
Globally inspired cuisine, family-style or buffet service, our large menu and variety of packages offer something to suit everyone’s needs. We’re also happy to accommodate dietary preferences such as vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, and allergy-conscious meals. Plus, we cultivate each menu to highlight the seasonal bounty of Sonoma County farmers and producers.
A Service That Serves
Since 2023, we’ve partnered with respected local organizations, businesses, and funders who share our values of centering community and collaboration with other mission-aligned organizations.
As part of our Employment Social Enterprise model, Catering with a Cause also creates meaningful, real-world work experience for our Culinary Job Training students and alumni. Every event becomes a hands-on learning and earning opportunity.
Through our catering program, students gain:
Paid experience in both back and front of house work
A supported transition into the workforce, applying classroom skills in real environments
Expanded job opportunities—many students are hired directly onto our catering teams!
Let’s Book a Discovery Call!
Please submit your inquiry at least 2 WEEKS IN ADVANCE of your event to set up a discovery call.
Note order minimums: $1,200 for full service, $1,000 min for deliveries, $500 min for pick-ups.
Nonprofits get 10% off!
Who We’ve Worked With:
NAACP Sonoma County -
VIDAS -
West County Health Center -
Landmark Vineyards -
Sebastopol Center for the Arts -
On the Margins -
Petaluma City Schools -
VOICES -
Becoming Independent -
Haas Foundation -
Sonoma Land Trust -
Blue Zones Project Petaluma -
Bowman Cellars -
Rotary of Santa Rosa -
SoCo Dept of Emergency Management -
Integrative Healers Action Network -
NAACP Sonoma County - VIDAS - West County Health Center - Landmark Vineyards - Sebastopol Center for the Arts - On the Margins - Petaluma City Schools - VOICES - Becoming Independent - Haas Foundation - Sonoma Land Trust - Blue Zones Project Petaluma - Bowman Cellars - Rotary of Santa Rosa - SoCo Dept of Emergency Management - Integrative Healers Action Network -
“Working with Sonoma Family Meal was a fantastic experience from start to finish. The communication and customer service were outstanding—quick, clear, and incredibly helpful.
The food was absolutely delicious and made with high-quality ingredients. Knowing that SFM is a nonprofit made it even more meaningful for us as a fellow CBO.
We felt great supporting an organization doing such important work in our community and would love to partner with them again.”
“Everything from start to finish was so smooth with Sonoma Family Meal: The online menu, transparent pricing, easily hopping on a phone call to discuss details, getting an email with a quote soon after our phone call, accurate drop off time... everything!”
“I would highly recommend Sonoma Family Meals. Extremely professional, delivered everything we asked for an went above and beyond our expectations. The food was delicious and well presented.”
“Sonoma Family Meal provided the catering for my event at Bowman Cellars. They came up with an incredible spring menu of small bites; lobster tostadas, mini quiches, spring salad, crab cakes, crudité, fresh biscuits, French toast bites with rum sauce, and more!
Everything was delicious and my guests were raving! I wouldn’t hesitate to use them at another event.”
“1000% recommend; I loved working with the team to decide on the menu, the attention to detail and commitment to catering to all our dietary restrictions.
The chef de cuisine who delivered our apps was extremely friendly and gave us more insight to SFM and the dishes that were being plated as well as their experience as a chef.
All around, very personable experience. I look forward to working with the SFM team again in the near future. ”
Frequently Asked Questions
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We serve nonprofit galas, corporate events, team meetings/retreats, and private personal gatherings and celebrations. Whether you need a casual buffet or a plated dinner, we’ll create a culinary experience that wows.
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We are one of the most affordable caterers in Sonoma County for nonprofits. Our globally-inspired menus feature culturally relevant and inclusive options. And most importantly, your guests will appreciate knowing their meal directly funds another nonprofit providing food security and culinary job training in Sonoma County.
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Not only do we offer competitive pricing and a globally-inspired menu, unlike traditional Sonoma County catering companies, all proceeds from our catering service are reinvested into our mission: training future chefs and nourishing food-insecure families, providing your company another way to invest in the community.