Mashed Potatoes.org is a grass roots community project founded by Fremont artist and entrepreneur, Matt Jones. The project is designed to deliver large quantities of potatoes and easy-to-store food items to local food banks and Northwest Harvest.

Why the name “Mashed Potatoes”? Because Jones believes that mashed potatoes are the king of comfort food or as he puts it, “the top of the food chain of cool”. Jones began delivering large quantities of potatoes to food banks several years ago around the holidays. He felt that no one should go without mashed potatoes, particularly during the holiday season. Mashed Potatoes is experiencing explosive growth and to-date has delivered over 400,000 lbs of potatoes to Northwest Harvest.

The community projects created by Mashed Potatoes are quickly gaining recognition through their monthly "Passion for Mashin" first Friday gallery parties at Gasworks Gallery in the big blue JONES building, in Wallingford.