Medal Menu/For Communities
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For parishes, schools, neighborhoods, ministries, and friend groups: a wall every member contributes to, organized into the sections you choose, with the admin tools you need to run it. Includes everything in personal Medal Menu — for you, the organizer.
Wherever a small group of people already feeds each other — Lenten suppers, meal trains, block potlucks, PTA fundraisers — there's a recipe wall waiting to happen.
Lenten suppers, funeral receptions, the Wednesday casserole rotation. Coordinators run it; parishioners post.
Potluck nights, dorm cookbooks, teacher appreciation week, allergy-aware classroom snacks. One board per occasion.
Block parties, new-baby meal trains, "who's bringing what" for the Friday grill-out. Claims so nobody doubles up.
Office Friday lunches, supper clubs, alumni cookbooks, food co-op recipe libraries. Keeps the recipes off the chat thread.
Name it, write the description, choose a few sections. "Lenten Suppers." "PTA Potluck." "Friday Grill-out." Up in two minutes.
Email invites, shareable join link, or open registration with approval. Up to 250 members on Community, 3,000 on Organization.
Anyone can post a recipe. Reactions, comments, claims, sections — the engagement loops keep the wall alive without you babysitting it.
Pin keepers. Archive seasonal boards. Hand off organizer rights when your term is up. The board outlasts whoever's running it this year.
Three columns of recipes, posted by your members, sorted by sections you choose. Live activity, threaded comments, search across years.
The boring-but-critical stuff: who can do what, what to pin, when to archive, who takes over when the term ends.
Invite by email, shareable join link, or open with approval. Promote co-organizers, transfer ownership, or remove inactive members in two clicks.
Pin the keepers, archive seasonal boards, hide off-topic posts, and audit member activity. Quiet by default — only loud when you need it.
Send a parishioner a link without forcing them to sign up. Guest visits are metered (500/mo Community, 6,000/mo Organization) so anonymous traffic stays cost-bounded.
Organize the wall the way your group thinks: courses, dietary needs, occasions. Reorder, rename, archive — recipes follow the section, not the other way around.
The volunteer who runs the parish board this year hands it off cleanly to next year's. Boards outlast organizers; no exports, no backups, no panic.
On the Organization plan, a real person at hello@medalmenu.com you can email when something needs to work for Sunday. Same-day response, weekdays.
What we hear from parish coordinators, PTA chairs, and friend-group organizers running active boards.
The same recipes that used to live in a chat thread show up three times more often when there's a board to put them on. Permanence is motivating.
Organizers report spending about ten minutes a week on the board after the first month. Members do the posting; the wall keeps itself.
The recipe Anne sent that one Lent? Still on the board. Searchable. Pinnable. Not buried under fourteen months of photos and "thanks!"
Both include the full personal Medal Menu experience for the organizer (no separate subscription needed).
Transfer ownership in two clicks. The board, members, and recipes stay; the new organizer takes over without a single export or backup. We built this for parishes precisely because turnover is the norm.
No, not to read. We give every Community plan 500 guest visits a month — anyone with the link can browse. They only need an account to post or react. This keeps the friction low for casual readers.
Yes — up to 10 on Community, unlimited on Organization. Most groups end up with one for the standing rotation (Lenten suppers, PTA potlucks) and a second for occasional events.
14 days on Community, no credit card. We figure two weeks is enough to spin up a board, invite members, and see real activity. If it doesn't catch on, you walk away.
Email us. We'll quote a custom plan with per-member overage pricing rather than push you off a published tier. Large parishes, school districts, and regional ministries are exactly who we built Custom for.
Our parish trades recipes the way other places trade gossip. Medal Menu turned that side-hallway exchange into a board everyone can finally find — and the Lenten supper rotation hasn't been the same since. The handoff to next year's coordinator took five minutes.— Pat D., parish meal-train coordinator, 1,200 families
Free for 14 days, no credit card. Most communities have an active board within the first week.