Cooking Her Way to a Positive Path Ministries, One of Our Partner in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana
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FB35683-2 (201901DJNL1021) NEWSLETTER BACK FB35683-2 (201901DJNL1021) NEWSLETTER COVER Winter Help provide more food to more families in 2019 2019 If anyone wants an accurate bills. Parents who work multiple part- picture of how difficult it can be to time jobs to pay the rent. And kids who News and information for friends of Freestore Foodbank make ends meet on a fixed income, go home after school and don’t have just ask Clyde. consistent access to food. 2018 ANNUAL REPORT EDITION “It’s a balancing act,” he says. It’s all too common, and that’s why “Like walking across a tightrope your continued support is so important over Niagara Falls.” in 2019. A gift today to Freestore Foodbank would help provide more The retired senior visits Action meals across the 20 counties we serve Cooking her way to a positive path Ministries, one of our partner in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Cassidy is a recent graduate of our Cincinnati agencies, every month. Clyde is COOKS! program. The single mom shared her story diabetic but he cannot afford the food Last year, we provided over 27 million he needs to stay healthy after paying meals thanks to your generosity and about her background and how she’s hoping to build for all his bills and medications. partnership. While we are reaching more a better future for her family. hungry neighbors than ever, there are Thousands of neighbors in our It’s a balancing act. The Cincinnati still many more who cannot put food on community are just like Clyde. Seniors COOKS! program has For my kids, their tables without your help. “Like walking across who skip meals to pay their medical been amazing. It’s been “I want to be a tightrope over everything I could Please give online at freestorefoodbank.org or by sending your gift in with everything that Niagara Falls. ever want and need the enclosed reply slip to ensure we can reach as many families as possible from something. My I didn’t have in 2019. Thank you! — CLYDE, FOOD RECIPIENT” motivation is my kids. and flip that I want to make my kids into a positive proud and show them ICING ON THE CAKE I can do something. story. —CASSIDY Are you at least 70 ½? ” I came from a really broken background. I didn’t If so, you can make tax-free gifts directly from your IRA. Your have any role models growing up and I had to fend Cassidy, a single mom (center), recently graduated from the Cincinnati gift to Freestore Foodbank will never count as income, and for myself. For my kids, I want to be everything that COOKS! program. She is now working with a catering company. always bring food, connection and hope to families in need. I didn’t have and flip that into a positive story. I want them to say, “My mom did that.” Now that’s icing on the cake! I have a job now where I’m working with a chef in PARTNERS IN Learning lessons beyond the kitchen his personal catering company. For more information about gifts from your IRA, contact HOPE Mindy Hammer at [email protected] Finding Cincinnati COOKS! gave me the support I want to tell the donors thank you. Everything that TOMORROW’S HARVEST SOCIETY or 513-482-7099 or visit Freestore Foodbank’s website: and drive that I lacked in my life. I’m a very you guys do makes this possible. We wouldn’t be www.freestorefoodbank.org/take-action/make-donation/make-gift-stock independent person, but here I’ve had to learn how able to do this program on our own, and there’s no to depend on the other people in the program—it’s other program out there like Cincinnati COOKS! Stay connected to the work you support! Visit us at freestorefoodbank.org a lot of teamwork and team building. I also learned Our Cincinnati COOKS! program had 150 how to cut up a whole chicken, something I never graduates in 2018, thanks to the generosity of thought I’d be able to do. Yes, I want to help provide more DONATE NOW friends like you. To support this program and Your online gift is put healthy meals to local families in 2019. to work quickly. I plan to keep going and do the Second Course provide more nutritious meals to families in need, Enclosed is my tax-deductible gift of: Please visit our website: program, which focuses on fine dining and catering. please visit freestorefoodbank.org □ $250 □ $100 □ $50 □ $25 □ Other $________ freestorefoodbank.org m I commit to a monthly gift of $_________. My first gift is enclosed. m I would like more information on including Freestore Foodbank in my will, Please charge my gift on my credit card: □ VISA □ MC □ AMEX □ DISC trust, retirement account or life insurance policy. Inside NAME CARD NUMBER EXP. DATE NADINE MESSAGE FROM YOU CAN HELP ADDRESS NAME ON ACCOUNT SECURITY # You’ve helped me Board Chair provide more stretch my budget Marsha Croxton food to more CITY STATE ZIP SIGNATURE TELEPHONE NUMBER for my family families in 2019 EMAIL 1/19 DJNL 49_35683-1021 Please make your gift payable to: Freestore Foodbank Your gift is tax deductible as allowed by law. 2 4 8 1141 Central Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45202 | 513.482.FOOD We will send a receipt for your records. Your gift changes lives! WINTER 2019 8 FB35683-2 (201901DJNL1021) NEWSLETTER INSIDE PAGE 2 FB35683-2 (201901DJNL1021) NEWSLETTER INSIDE PAGE 3 You’ve helped me stretch my budget for my family Nadine retired from her job at “When I get my canned goods from Wal-Mart, ready to enjoy the next here, I know I can make a hearty pot of 1 in 7 chapter of life with her husband. soup,” she says. “It shows my two neighbors in our tristate granddaughters how to be creative with Sadly, just four short months later, area is at risk of hunger. what you have in your pantry.” Nadine’s husband passed away. She (Source: Feeding America Map the Meal Gap 2016) OUR MISSION started volunteering at Brighton Center, a Your support makes our To provide food and partner agency of Freestore Foodbank. community stronger services, create stability She liked getting out of the house and and further self-reliance Coming to Brighton Center has helped talking with the people she helped. for people in crisis. Nadine provide healthier food for her Eventually, Nadine family and stretch her budget OUR VISION would need help with further into the month. She To be a leader of a food herself. Two of her I’m grateful for appreciates seeing how the More and more seniors are community mobilized teenage granddaughters “everything that food makes a difference to end hunger and raising their grandkids, just came to live with her. from two sides: volunteer address its causes. like Nadine. Stretching a fixed One had a baby, so anybody and recipient. Nadine was trying to $1 COULD HELP income to support multiple family “Volunteering is my way freestorefoodbank.org stretch her fixed income donates to us. members has become incredibly of giving back to people F across two grandchildren PROVIDE 3 MEALS difficult and stressful. You can —NADINE ” who gave to me,” she says. and a great-grandchild. help put even more healthy food “I’m grateful for everything that I on the tables of families, their Nadine says making ends meet each anybody donates to us because it S children and seniors by visiting month is a challenge, but she’s learned brings people in the community OVER 80,000 CHILDREN IN OUR TRISTATE AREA MAY NOT KNOW freestorefoodbank.org how to use every ingredient she receives. closer together.” C 94%of cash and in-kind donations go directly to WHERE THEY WILL FIND THEIR NEXT MEAL. A programs and services (Source: Feeding America Map the Meal Gap 2016) L TOGETHER WE CAN SOLVE HUNGER Clinton Donor Spotlight Highland Pike HELP US SERVE THE Hamilton Clermont Scioto Dearborn Adams Compassion through Action Y 450 Kenton Brown OVER 270,000 Boone Campbell PEOPLE IN OUR REGION Ohio COMMUNITY Bracken PROVIDED E Switzerland Mason John Isidor and Sandy Kaltman “Frank Gerson, founder of Freestore WHO ARE AT RISK OF Pendleton Gallatin have been exceptionally generous Foodbank, was a friend so I’ve known Grant 27.3 MILLION A HUNGER. MEALS ACROSS 3 STATES in their longtime support of Freestore Foodbank since its inception,” PARTNERS Owen AND 20 COUNTIES. Freestore Foodbank and, through said John. “As the mission expanded R ANNUALLY 6.6 MILLION LBS. their support, have provided food, beyond food delivery to job training and OVER PROVIDED IN PRODUCE connection and hope to thousands giving people second chances to rebuild John Isidor and Sandy Kaltman are generous 11,800 OVER of our neighbors. their lives, both Sandy and I came to the longtime donors of Freestore Foodbank. 88,000 realization of how valuable and critical 2 SERVICE Je & Darlene Anderson “My parents survived a VOLUNTEERS HOURS Family Building the organization’s work is.” “You have to feed hungry people,” 1141 Central Parkway concentration camp where they 0 Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 added Sandy. “We use our giving to faced extreme hunger,” said Sandy. John and Sandy’s philanthropy is (513) 482-4500 actively show and extend compassion to “We have the blessing of being able essential to ensuring Freestore 1 Customer Connection Center those who need it.” 112 East Liberty Street to make donations to address this Foodbank has the resources to fulfill its 8 Cincinnati, OH 45202 most basic need.” mission.