Five Keys Home Free

I scream, you scream, we’re all screaming with joy (and ice cream) for our first-ever woman vice-president Kamala Harris. The Madam Vice President (MVP) ice cre...am, a salty and sweet vanilla and pecan Praline flavor was created just for this magical moment by the Bay area’s Smitten Ice Cream, ranked the #1 best ice cream in the state, by MSN. Smitten’s founder and CEO Robyn Sue Fisher says her team wanted to celebrate this momentous occasion. It just felt so important that we recognize this historical moment by doing something to celebrate Kamala and this big day for all girls and women. We’re a Bay area company founded by a woman and we designed this campaign with its beautiful artwork done by a San Francisco designer. (Sheila Von Driska) At the same time, we wanted to give back to help benefit women who need a voice. This brings everything full circle. The exciting scoop: A portion of the proceeds from the ice cream sales are being donated to Five Keys/Home Free, a transitional housing program for criminalized survivors of domestic violence who were serving life or life without parole for killing their abusive husbands. The women were unjustly serving anywhere between 15 to 40 years in prison for either defending themselves against their abuser or were at the scene of the crime under the coercion of their abusive spouse or boyfriend. At its transition home on Treasure Island, Home Free provides trauma-informed survivor empowerment programs to help the women transition to the 21st Century. Programs include financial and technology literacy, job and computer training classes. Learn more: https://www.fivekeyshomefree.org/. FIRST IN PLAYBOOK HOW COOL IS THAT? Another perk of being the first female vice president in U.S. history: a new ice cream flavor, created specifically in Harris’ honor. Women-founded, beloved Bay Area-based Smitten Ice Cream has whipped it up just in time for the Inauguration. MVP as in Madam Vice President is a combination of malted salted vanilla ice cream laced with chewy pecan pralines, all served up in a container graced with Harris’ likeness and designed by a local artist, Smitten founder Robyn Sue Fisher told POLITICO. Fisher noted Bay Area native Harris loves ice cream. And for fellow ice cream lovers who need another excuse: A portion of MVP pint sales will be donated to Five Keys Home Free, a California-based transitional housing program for criminalized survivors of domestic violence.

Thank you, Smitten Ice Cream. A portion of proceeds will be generously donated to Five Keys Home Free!!! Order your pints today, please!

As seen in the SF Chronicle today! https://www.sfchronicle.com//Domestic-abuse-survivors-leav

Heartfelt thanks to @chef_traci & @BiRiteSF for providing an amazing thanksgiving dinner for survivors of domestic violence who were wrongfully in prison for decades @fivekeys @fionama #fivekeyshomefree @sunnyschwartz @BiRiteSF @chef_traci

HOME SWEET HOME FREE! Thank you to everyone who made this possible!