{"id":37398,"date":"2023-02-09T14:39:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T22:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=37398"},"modified":"2025-05-18T10:39:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T17:39:02","slug":"chocolates-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/east-bay-chocolate\/chocolates-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolates For Change \u2013 closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4396 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/72LocalChocolatier.png\" alt=\"Local Chocolatier\" width=\"72\" height=\"68\" \/>Living the dream, grade school edition<\/h2>\n<p>UPDATE February 2025: CFC has closed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chocolates For Change<\/strong> was started in 2022 in Moraga by 9-year-old Kalyana Troian and her mom. While a lot of people dream about becoming a chocolatier and opening their own business someday, Kalyana is wasting no time: According to their website she enrolled in Ecole Chocolat\u2019s Professional Chocolatier program and started Chocolates For Change in the same year.\u00a0In addition to being a very young chocolatier, Kalyana also donates a portion of her profits to different non-profits.<\/p>\n<p>She and her mom make truffles in a variety of flavors and sell them at local popups. They don\u2019t have an online store, but you can contact them through the website to place an order for local delivery. Orders are fulfilled once a month.<\/p>\n<h3>CBTB mentions<\/h3>\n<p>Nothing yet! Check back later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definitely no slacker, this young chocolatier donates profits to worthwhile causes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-tourpage.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,145,146],"tags":[1506,17,1473,1468],"class_list":["post-37398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-bay-chocolate","category-chocolatier-2","category-listingssfba","tag-chocolates-for-change","tag-chocolatier","tag-closed","tag-listing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45445,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37398\/revisions\/45445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}