Doing good and eating well, Bay Area Community Services will celebrate its harvest of cash and a charitable commitment to sustainable food next week.

BACS invites the community to commemorate the final phase of its summer-long “Seed to Harvest” fundraising effort, which has raised nearly $100,000. The proceeds will go toward a green cause — funding the nonprofit organization’s switch to sustainable, farm-to-table practices for its Meals on Wheels program.

The Seed to Harvest grand finale will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday at the East Bay Community Foundation Conference Center at the Frank Ogawa Plaza.

The Seeds to Harvest funds will expand the program’s downtown Oakland kitchen facility, which prepares as many as 1,100 meals a day for individual and congregate deliveries to downtown Oakland, Broadway Terrace, Montclair, Rockridge, Piedmont and Alameda. The money will also fund the installation of a freezing unit.

These improvements will increase the number of shifts at the facility, which currently closes at 2 p.m.

BACS sees the farm-to-table model as “a local solution to a local problem,” according to Randy Street, director of development and communications for the organization. It means the organization’s Meals on Wheels program will be among the first in the nation to join the burgeoning slow food movement.

“The fact that we are so close to reaching our $100,000 goal shows that the sustainable food movement has reached critical mass,” said BACS Executive Director Kent Ellsworth.

Slow food activist Raj Patel contracted with BACS to devise a cutting-edge sustainable method for Meals on Wheels.

The farm-to-table methodology jibes nicely with BACS’s recently established Culinary Social Enterprise program, a 12-week culinary training session for low-income, homeless and disabled people.

The East Bay Community Foundation Conference Center is at 365 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Oakland. For more information, visit www.bayareacs.org.