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Annual Report 2013 Food For Free Annual Report 2013 From the Executive Director Food For Free Dear friends and supporters, After completing my first full calendar year here at Food For Free, all I can say is thank you! In 2013, your continued commitment and support allowed us to meet our goals, successfully distributing 1,030,000 pounds of food through Bridging the Gap our Produce Rescue and Distribution Program. And here’s the Between Waste and Want best part: nearly 70% of that was fresh produce! Thanks to your volunteer help, your financial support, and your willingness to come to our events and help build our community, over 85 BOARD OF DIRECTORS programs reaching over 25,000 individuals were able to receive Peggy Kutcher fresh fruits and vegetables throughout the entire year. This was President possible only because you make our mission a priority and provide us the support we need to make it happen. John Musser Vice President In addition, we were able to increase the number of individuals we serve directly through our Dana Philbrook Home Delivery Program by over 50%, thanks to a partnership with Boston Organics. Once a Treasurer month, they send a van and a driver—at no cost to Food For Free—to help us deliver boxes of groceries to over 30 low-income Cambridge residents who live alone and can’t access food Joanna Vanden Clerk pantries due to age or disability. This brings the total number of clients reached through Home Delivery to 95. Erik Brown Anne Cushman As well as program success, we have also done some work in-house. In last year’s annual Maggie McNally report I mentioned that we had kicked off a strategic planning process in which we reached Kirsten Sims out to many of you and to other stakeholders in our community to assess what we do right, and where we need to improve. We are grateful for the honest feedback we received and moved by how much of it was so positive. You told us that we do what we do well and that we need STAFF to keep doing it! And we will. Executive Director Through this process, we also realized that we have outgrown some of our internal, paper- Sasha Purpura based systems and that, if we wish to continue to develop our programs to better serve our Development Director clients—which we do—we need to invest in our operational systems. So, in 2013 we rolled out Michelle Holcomb a system which improves the way we track our food deliveries. Instead of the paper records on Produce Rescue which we previously relied, our drivers now use tablet computers and a Salesforce.com database Dennis McCarthy to record the food they rescue and deliver in real time. This newer system is more efficient and Dan Friedman more accurate than our old system, and allows us not only to review operations’ data daily, but Christian Oviedo to begin to identify trends which will help us better serve our clients going forward. Adam Collins And one final development worth mentioning… The Ride for Food! Last year was our first Julio Francisco year participating in Three Square’s New England Ride for Food. September saw over 20 Home Delivery committed Food For Free supporters jumping on their bikes and riding 12, 25, or 50 miles to Simon Walsh raise funds for our programs. And they did! In our first year, we raised over $15,000! If you’re interested, help make this year even more successful. We would love to have you join our Field of Greens team. Check out foodforfree.org/get-your-ride-on. Jordan McCarron 2013 was a wonderful year in terms of growing our support and increasing our impact. We Administration hope to continue this trend in 2014. Thank you for enabling this wonderful organization to Veronica Barron exist and to have the impact we’re having. Thank you for making access to healthy food and the limiting of food waste a priority! Food For Free Annual Report 2013 1 2014 Dates to Remember Wednesdays, May through October September 21 VOLUNTEER SHIFTS AT FIELD OF GREENS THREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND RIDE FOR FOOD Shifts are 8:00 a.m.-12 noon, in Lincoln. Tune up your bike and enjoy a beautiful fall day (we hope!) Sign up at foodforfree.org/volunteer while supporting Food For Free. foodforfree.org/get-your-ride-on July 15 FLATBREAD CO. BENEFIT DINNER 5pm to Close October 22 Join Food For Free at Flatbread Co. for pizza, bowling (if you want) MUSIC FOR FOOD CONCERT 7pm and a chance to support our Produce Rescue program. New England Conservatory, 290 Huntington Ave, Boston flatbreadcompany.com or foodforfree.org/events musicforfoodboston.org August 29 October 24 6 to10pm TICKETS GO ON SALE FOR THE PARTY UNDER THE HARVEST MOON PARTY UNDER THE HARVEST MOON foodforfree.org/events Everyone’s favorite fall event! Live music, great food, beer and wine, an auction—what more could you want? Oh! And a chance to support the Produce Rescue program! foodforfree.org/events Produce Rescue and Distribution Each morning, our drivers visit grocery stores and other food vendors to collect donations of fresh foods that might otherwise go to waste. Several days a week, their route includes the wholesalers of the New England Produce Center. In addition to fresh produce, we collect fresh and frozen meats, prepared foods, baked goods, and dairy products. This salvaged food is transported immediately to the food programs we serve, usually going home with a family or being served at a meal program within 24 hours of collection. May through November, we work with ten farmers’ markets, rescuing food from more than 40 farms and retailers. We also work closely with Boston Area Gleaners, distributing much of the produce that they glean from local farms. We supplement this rescued food with fruit and vegetables purchased wholesale. Much of the funding for our food purchases come from the City of Cambridge City Food Fund. This program provided 1,030,000 pounds of food to 87 emergency food programs in 2013. The Transportation Partnership Through this program, Food For Free picks up food orders from the Greater Boston Food Bank and delivers them to 12 food programs that do not have their own transportation. The Transportation Partnership delivered 860,000 pounds of food in 2013. Home Delivery Home Delivery serves low-income Cambridge seniors and people with disabilities, bringing packages of food right to their doorsteps each month. Home Delivery expanded dramatically in 2013 and now serves 90+ clients each month. Field of Greens Hosted by Lindentree Farm, Field of Greens uses organic methods and volunteer labor to grow vegetables Food For Free Programs Free For Food for distribution to pantries, meal programs, and shelters. In 2013, Field of Greens staff and volunteers planted, cultivated, and harvested over one dozen varieties of organically grown vegetables. 2 Food For Free Annual Report 2013 Regular Delivery Sites Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee Daycare Centro Presente: Pintamos Nuestro Mundo Youth Program Pantries Community Art Center Boston Medical Center: Elders Living at Home Program Fletcher Maynard Afterschool Program Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee Food Pantry Frisoli Youth Center Cambridge Senior Center Food Pantry Gately Youth Center Cambridgeport Baptist Church Food Pantry Healy School East End House Food Pantry King Afterschool Program Elizabeth Peabody House Food Pantry King Preschool Grant Manor Apartments Food Pantry King Open School Extended Day Program Haven from Hunger Food Pantry & Meal Program Morse Afterschool Program Margaret Fuller House Food Pantry Morse Preschool Massachusetts Avenue Baptist Church: Epic Food Pantry Peabody Afterschool Program Pentecostal Tabernacle Food Pantry Peabody Preschool Project Soup: Home Delivery Program Prospect Hill Academy Charter School Rosie’s Place Groceries Real Kids Real Food St. James’ Episcopal Church: Helping Hand Food Pantry Tobin Montessori School/Vassal Lane Upper School St. Luke’s-San Lucas Food Pantry Weekend Backpack Program St. Paul’s African Methodist Episcopal Church Food Pantry West Cambridge Youth Center Transition House Food Pantry Willis D. Moore Youth Center Watertown Food Pantry YouthBuild Just-a-Start Zinberg Clinic Pantry I (Cambridge Hospital) Zinberg Clinic Pantry II (Somerville Hospital) Drop-in Centers & Other Programs Meal Programs Cambridge Cares about AIDS: Needle Exchange Program Cambridge Cares about AIDS: Peer Support Program Campus Kitchens Project at UMASS Boston On The Rise First Parish Church Tuesday Meals Resources for Human Development: Outside the Lines Food Not Bombs The Ruby Rogers Advocacy and Drop-In Center Haley House Community Tables The Women’s Center Harvard Square Meals Hearty Meals for All Seasonal Delivery Sites Massachusetts Avenue Baptist Church: Meal Program Boston Medical Center: Preventive Food Pantry MIT Feed the Hungry Project 2013 Recipient Agencies Breakthrough-Cambridge Pilgrim Church: Loaves and Fishes Cambridge Camping St. Peter’s Episcopal Church: Common Cares Haley House Food Pantry Union Baptist: Project Uplift Harvard Square Homeless Shelter Shelters, SROs, & Special Needs Residences Phillips Brooks House Association: CASPAR: Albany Street Shelter Refugee Youth Summer Enrichment Program CASPAR: Highland Residence CASPAR: New Day Occasional Delivery Sites CASPAR: Summit Residence Child Care Resource Center CASPAR: Womanplace Church of God Valley of Blessing Catholic Charities: St. Patrick’s Shelter Hildebrand Family Self-Help Center Commonwealth Land Trust: 523 Massachusetts Avenue Salvation Army Commonwealth Land Trust: Bowdoin Manor Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Meals on Wheels First Church Shelter Wellmet Project Heading Home: Cambridge Shelter Pine Street Inn Transportation Partnership Delivery Sites Somerville Transition Shelter Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee Food Pantry Victory Programs: Ruah House Cambridge Senior Center Food Pantry Victory Programs: Robert McBride House Cambridgeport Baptist Church Food Pantry YMCA Central Square East End House Food Pantry YWCA Central Square Immaculate Conception Parish Food Pantry Youth Programs Loaves and Fishes Meal Program Margaret Fuller House Food Pantry Area 4 Youth Center Massachusetts Avenue Baptist Church Epic Food Pantry Cambridge Cares about AIDS: Youth On Fire Massachusetts Avenue Baptist Church Meal Program Cambridge Community Center: St.
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