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 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 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 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 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. James Episcopal Church Helping Hand Food Pantry Camp Cowemoki and After-School Program St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church Food Pantry Zinberg Clinic Food Pantry Food For Free Annual Report 2013 3 Profiles of Recipient Agencies Watertown Food Pantry

Watertown Food Pantry distributes staples like Cambridge Weekend Backpack Program bread, peanut butter, tuna, fresh fruit, vegetables, and With Food for Free's weekly donation of over 300 pieces of frozen chickens to over 250 families in Watertown. These are fresh fruit, 150 Cambridge public school children have access to young working families with children, disabled individuals and delicious and nutritious fresh fruit every weekend. To be able many seniors on fixed incomes. to pack weekend food bags that contain fresh food—and in particular fresh fruit—is at the heart of this program. Families With SNAP food stamp benefits cut and food and utility costs are really having to watch every penny they spend on food these continuing to rise, these families need us more than ever. Food for days and the first things to go are the expensive items like fresh Free fills a weekly need by delivering cases of fruits and vegetables fruit, vegetables, and milk. As a result, these items may not be that we would otherwise have to purchase. Our bills are going up available at home, so it's important for us to provide them. too and we are totally supported by grants and small donations. Food For Free supplements our supplies and our budget in this Food for Free has been able to rapidly expand with us and because way. Dennis and Adam of Food for Free are there every week and of their flexibility and their commitment to this program we have make a HUGE difference. been able to deliver on our promise to send home fresh fruit each and every weekend this school year.

Story of a Home Delivery Client Johnice: Being forced into retirement, after an accident in 1999, with a SUV while riding my bicycle: crushing my right elbow. As many WWII babies, I did not adequately plan my retirement, living on SSI is not easy for anyone with no other resources. Grocery prices are out of reach for many items I require to ward off dietary deficits.

After acceptance into the Food for Free program, I enjoy more varieties of produce, which was financially out of reach. I need not skip payment on my utility bills to buy food. I would not be able to maintain a healthy diet, pay bills on time, or even on a regular basis. I enjoy the pleasant staff who deliver food boxes. This service means that I need not invest in cab fare home from a walk-in food bank, as I can no longer lift or carry more than 5 pounds.

4 Food For Free Annual Report 2013 2013 Food Donors Farms & Farmers Wholesalers Market Vendors Boston Tomato & Packaging Gregg Dziama, Inc. Atlas Farm J. Bonafede Co. Battle Road Farm J. Maheras Co. Big Sky Bakery Peter Condakes Blue Heron Organic Farm Yell-O-Glow Bananas Breadsong Corner Bakery Peter Condakes Company Brox Farm Eaton & Eustis Co. Clear Flour Bread Danish Pastry House Dancing Tomato Farm Retailers Dick’s Market Garden Boston Organics Drumlin Farm CostCo Enterprise Farm • Waltham The Farm School Great Harvest Bakery Farmer Al Harvest Co-Op Market Fertile Crescent • Cambridge The Food Project Shaws Full Bloom Market Garden Sidney Street Gaining Ground Trader Joes Gore Place • Fresh Pond Grateful Farm • Memorial Drive Hamilton Orchards Whole Foods Hansen’s Farm • Prospect Street Hearth Wood Fired Bread • River Street Heaven’s Harvest CSA • Fresh Pond Hi-Rise Bread Company • Somerville Hmong Farms at Flats Mentor Farm When Pigs Fly Bakery Hutchins Farm Wine and Cheese Cask Iggy’s Bread Keown Orchard Kimball Fruit Farm Other Sources Land’s Sake Farm Boston Area Gleaners Lanni Orchards The Greater Boston Food Bank Lindentree Farm Nat’l Association of Letter Carriers Parker Farm The Volpe Center Plato's Harvest Organic Farm Red Fire Farm CSA River Rock Farm Siena Farm Signal Rock Farm Silverbrook Farm Smolak Farm Stone Soup CSA The Farm School Verrill Farm Waltham Fields Community Farm Weir River Farm Food For Free Annual Report 2013 5 Business Donors 1369 Coffeehouse, 42° North Restaurant, AAA Southern New England, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Advanced Lighting and Production Services, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, American Repertory Theater, Amgen, Apollinaire Theatre Company, Arden Court, ArtsEmerson, Ball Square Fine Wine, Boston Organics, Boston Red Sox, Cabot Cheese, Cafe Escadrille, Cambridge Brewing Co., Cambridge Common Restaurant, Cambridge Naturals, Cambridge Savings Bank, Cambridge Trust Company, Carol Faulkner Yoga, Celebrity Series of Boston, Central Bottle, Central Square Theater, Charles R Myer & Partners Ltd, Chelsea Schmidt Yoga, Christopher’s Restaurant and Bar, Cisco Brewers, Citizens Bank, City Girl Cafe, Community Builder’s Cooperative, Community Cooks, Company One, Cuisine En Locale, Dellaria Salon, Didriks, Downtown Wine & Spirits, East Cambridge Savings Bank, Edible Arrangements, Effie’s Homemade, Emma’s Pizza, Estate of T. Lux Feininger, Flatbread Co. Somerville, Formaggio Kitchen, Friends Meeting Cambridge, Garden at the Cellar, Gellar’s Snackbar, Inc., Giulia Restaurant, GM Wine Gallery, Good News Garage, Gordon’s Fine Wines & Liquors, Gravestar, , Harvard University Employees Credit Union, Harvard/MIT Coop, Harvest Co-Op Market- Cambridge, Henrietta’s Table, Hillel Foundation of Cambridge, Hong Kong Restaurant, Huntington Theatre Co., Improv Asylum, ImprovBoston, Inman Square Business Association, Inman Square Hardware, Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation, Irving House, Jean Brooks Landscaping, Joie de Vivre, Kitchen Intuition, Kush Kone Ice Cream, Laugh Boston, Marriott Boston Cambridge, Marshland Restaurant, Mayflower Poultry, Mei Mei Street Kitchen, MEM Tea Imports, Microsoft, Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association, MIT, MIT Federal Credit Union, Mount Auburn Hospital, New England Revolution, New Prospect Foundation, Nubar, Ohlin’s Bakery, Oppenheim Charitable Foundation, Pacific Street Café, Paint Corner Art Bar, Peabody Essex Museum, Pemberton Farms, Peterson’s Party Rental, Picante Mexican Grille II Inc, Picco Restaurant, Plimoth Plantation, Pompeo & Sons Insurance Agency Inc., Prellwitz/Chilinski Associates, Inc., Puppet Showplace Theatre, Puritan & Co., Q’s Nuts, Redbones, Redbones BBQ, Rendezvous in Central Square, Ribelle, Royal East, Russell House Tavern, Safar Coiffure, Salon Acote, SavMor, Sea Cliff Lobster, Season to Taste Catering, Shear Madness, Sherman Cafe & Market, SkyWalk Observatory, Speakeasy Stage Company, Spindrift, Stone Hearth Pizza, Stoneham Theatre, Tables of Content, Tatte, Tavern in the Square, Ten Thousand Villages, The Abbey, The Asgard Irish Pub & Restaurant, The Beech Tree Inn, The Breakfast Club, The Comedy Studio, The Fireplace, The Freedom Trail Foundation, The Institue of Contemporary Art/Boston, The Lyric Stage Company of Boston, The Odd Wine Company, Three Sons Auto Body, Tranquility Labs LLC, Trephin Salon, Trinity Property Management, University Wine, UpStairs on the Square, Veggie Galaxy, W.T. Phelan, Waltham Fields Community Farm, West Side Lounge, Westport Rivers Vineyard & Winery, Wheelock Family Theatre, Whole Foods Market, Yardi Systems Inc., and Za.

Event Partners These very generous businesses and organizations have held events to benefit Food For Free 1369 Coffee House, Cambridge Brewing Co., Music for Food, Ripples of Hope, Didriks, Rendezvous in Central Square, Flatbread Co., The Comedy Studio, and Three Squares New England. Family Foundations and Donor Advised Funds Cinnabelle and Benjamin Esterman Foundation, John Hamilton Fund, Morton and Dinah Danseyar Family Foundation, Perls Foundation, Philip S. Harper Foundation, The Boston Foundation, Robert Strange Family Fund, The Charles and Sara Goldberg Charitable Trust, The Richard and Natalie Jacoff Foundation, and The Sommer Family Foundation. Grants - including Corporate, Foundation, Government, and other Grantors Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund of the Cambridge Community Foundation, Bank of America Foundation, Bushrod H. Campbell & Adah F. Hall Charity Fund, Cabot Family Charitable Trust, Cambridge Community Development Block Grants Program, Cambridge Community Foundation, Cambridge Licensee Advisory Board, Cambridge Savings Bank, Citizens Bank Foundation, Draper Laboratory, Inc., Emergency Food and Shelter Program, Feinstein Foundation, Frederick E. Weber Charities Corp., Liberty Mutual Foundation, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Project Bread—The Walk for Hunger, Share Our Strength Foundation, Tufts Health Plan Foundation, and Wellesley Congregational Church. Workplace Giving and Corporate Matching Programs Google, IBM, Harvard University, and MIT.

6 Food For Free Annual Report 2013 Party Under the Harvest Moon Sponsors

Harvest Sponsors:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University

Communications Sponsors:

Charles R. Myer & Partners. Ltd.

INSURANCE

Since 1898 Neighborhood Sponsors: Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Cambridge Trust Company, Classic Graphx, Harvard University Employees Credit Union, Harvard/MIT Coop, Irving House, Jean Brooks Landscaping Microsoft, Prellwitz/Chilinski Associates Supporting Sponsors: Boston Organics, Mayflower Poultry, Mount Auburn Hospital

Individual Volunteers Carole Ahmed, Jodi Auerbach, Sebastian Banker, Adam Baratz, Veronica Barron, Tom Bengera, Donna Bibber, Laura Brewer, Anna Bromberg, Steven Brown, Jee-Eun Burke, Elena Butler, Evrim Camuz, Jan Canavan, Rosa Carson, Sarah Castaneda, Laura Cere, Chris Chambers, Luke Chang, Jianing Chen, Maggie Cohen, Olivia Conetta, Esther Cosio, Julie Croston, Dan Crupi, Louis D’Angio, Theo Davis, Carolyn Duffy, Raiden Duffy, Sandra Fairbank, Eddie Fitch, Jessica Forton, Michael Galasso, Yash Gandhi, Shannon Garber, Sam Garzon, Becca Goldstein, Lara Goodrich Ezor, Kathe Gregory, Heather Herbst, Alyson Intihar, Katie Jenks, Katie Jenks, Rayna Jhaveri, Rayna Jhaveri, Rayna Jhaveri, Emily Kambic, Leigh Kenney, Annie Marie Kiel, Andrea Kippolito, Leslie Kogan LaRocca, Ellen Kokinda, Dimitri Kountourogianni, Andrea Kreisel, Garrett Lam, Jason Lee, Alejandro Leon, Monica Leon, Greg Leon, David Leslie, Tony Leva, Kathy Li, Ilana Liebert, Laura Liu, Alec Macaulay, Alanna Mallon, Kelly Malony, Trish Mara, Steve Martin, Andrea Maxwell, Caroline McGlynn, Catherine Melina, Hana Merckle, Patrick Mertens, Ed Mertens, Rhonda Michels, Moritz Micke, Janet Murray, Roxie Myhrum, Judy Nathans, Rosalie Norris, Kara Oberg, Pat O’Brien, Neil Perry, Alex Pong, Natasha Press, Eric Prileson, Jessie Raymond, Mariana Reis-Pinto, Blake Roberts, Melinda Rossi, Dean Santamaria-Capetanelis, Dan Schoonover, Alexis Servis, Brad Sheehan, Katherine Sigel, Kendra Sims, Janine Sirignano, Linda Song, Joe Stein, Rob Steinberg, Molly Steinfeld, Laura Stilwell, Alexis Teixeira, Anna Tsykalova, Joanna Vanden, Pam Vhlakas, Sarah Villard, Christine Vivero, Max Wall, Helen Walters, Mike Walz, Melinda Wang, Jack Wicker, Debbi Willoughby, Lelah Willoughby, Zachary Wong, Liz Woolery, Kelly Worrall, Winnie Wu, Aria Wuertz, and Wafaa, Julie, and Katherine, whose last names we do not know. Volunteer Groups 1369 Coffee House, Boston Cares TeamWorks, Boston University First Year Student Outreach Project, Boston Volunteers, Cambridge Savings Bank Street Team, Classic Graphx, Karem Shalom, and Spark.

Food For Free Annual Report 2013 7 ALL FOODS DISTRIBUTED (in pounds) 2013 Income Contracts & Grants $153,083 Greater Boston Individual and Business Donations 191,376 Food Bank Events and appeals 183,096 197,431 In-kind donations 38 Purchased Produce Investment income 157 Rescued Food 112,050 Net Assets Released from Restrictions 0 720,421 TOTAL INCOME 527,750

2013 Expenses Salaries 272,126 TYPES OF FOOD DISTRIBUTED (in pounds) Payroll taxes 24,075 Fringe benefits 39,949 Total compensation and benefits 336,150 Rent 4,800 Dairy Other Depreciation 36,638 10,684 180,237 Total occupancy costs 41,438

Food for Free Finances Free for Food Transportation, travel and meals 34,234 Bakery Food purchases 20,273 116,041 Insurance 16,857 Produce 722,939 Total program expenses 71,364 Administrative and office 4,840 Consulting fees 12,178 Special event costs 10,991 Bank and credit card fees 3,340 Telephone and communications 4,982 SOURCES OF RESCUED FOOD (in pounds) Printing, postage and publications 13,885 Boston Area Gleaners Accounting and bookkeeping 16,888 31,409 Miscellaneous 2,520 Boston Organics Total other expenses 69,624 53,353 TOTAL EXPENSES $518,576

Farms Trader Joes 105,000 219,150

Other 135,535 Whole Foods 177,553

8 Food For Free Annual Report 2013 Individual Donors We are deeply grateful to all who support our work. Gerald Abelow, James Ackerman, Joel and Rachel Adler, Libby Adler, Carole Ahmed, Jaime Alberts, Robert Alberty, Andrea Alexander, Isabella Allen, Kenneth Allen, Robert Allen and Shirley Hui, Carol Lynn Alpert, Mark and Emily Alston-Follansbee, Beth Altman and Steve Perlmutter, David Altshuler, Tina Alu, Helen Amos and Christoph Keller, Mary Anderson, Elaine Angelone, Gregory Armistead, Barbara Arone, Maria Ascher, Jeffrey Ashe, Jenny Azzara and Jake Murray, Laura Babbitt, Sarah Babetski, Morton and Rae Backer, Becci Backman and Steve Cotton, Margaret Badenhausen and Thomas Kelly, Margaret Bailey, Jean and H.C. Bailly, Margaret Bajer, Joan Balaban and Jonathan Landman, Timothy Bancroft and Julie Baer, Susan Banker, Adam Baratz, Joel and Betsy Bard, Betty and Arthur Bardige, Demetra Barlas, Sophie Barratt, Joyce and Paul Barringer, David Barry, Margaret Barusch and Gregory Price, Timothy Bass and Stephanie Tournas, Patsy Baudoin, Paul Bay and Gretta Anderson, Ilana Bebchick, Patricia and Herbert Becher, Leslie Belkner, Jamie Bemis, Kathryn and Lee Benjamin, Marilyn Bentov, Pam and Alan Berger, Carlotte and Samuel Berk, David Berman, Francine Bernitz, Penny Beuning, Donna Bibber, Robert Binstock and Maria Maciak, Catherine Bird and Jonathan Delgado, Laura Bjorklund, Suzanna Black, Laura Blacklow and Peter Fougere, Peter and Sallye Bleiberg, Jacob and Nancy Bloom, Gerald and Karin Blum, Lawrence Blum, Liz Blumenthal, Ulrike Boehmer, Adrienne Bolger, Kenyon Bolton, Michael and Darleen Bonislawski, Damon Bosetti, Athanasios and Carol Boulukos, Elaine Brath, Laura Brewer and Neil Gershenfeld, Keith Brion, Steven and Linda Brion- Meisels, Lisbeth Britz, Katherine Brobeck, Ellen Brodsky and Ted Rybeck, Miriam Bronstein, Erik Brown, Janice Brown, Karen Brown and Mike Plum, Peggy Brown and Tom Boggs, William Brownsberger, Alice Bruce, Lisa Brukilacchio, Leslie Brunetta and Peter Loftus, Rachel Burckardt, Doris Burford and Donna Casali, Katharine Fox Burnett, Deanne Burns, Elena Butler, James Butler, Ruth Butler, Dakota Butterfield and Christian Cartter, Kate Byrne and Bill Cavellini, Tim and Sara Cabot, Sophie Cahen, Daniel Calano and Kate Thompson, James Campen and Phyllis Ewen, Elizabeth Caney, Vincent Cannato, Leon and Jayne Cantor, Robert Carey, Paige Cargioli, Benjamin Carlson and Arusha Hollister, Ira Carp, Jean Carr, John and Helaine Carroll, Christopher Chamberland, Lawrence and Kathleen Cheng, Ariane Cherbuliez and Steven Orzack, Amy Chiodo, David Chiriboga and Anne Murray-Chiriboga, Nancy Chodorow, Devereux Clarke, John and Ann Cobb, Reed Cochran, Frieda and Joseph Cohen, Martha Cohen, Deborah Colburn, Thomas Coleman, Edie Coletti, Shannon Coletti, Ann Collette, Aram Comjean, Guy Compagnone and Meredith Mucci, Loring and Louise Conant, Elizabeth Conley, Vin Connelly and Hope Ricciotti, Clarence and Frances Cooper, Nina Coslov and Howie Rice, Irene Costello, Peter Crames, Audrey and Charlie Crissman, Julie Croston, Susan and Ned Culver, Jon and Lenore Cummings, Kathleen Curran-Cheng, Lauren Curry and Robert O’Shea, Anne Cushman, Constance and Henry Cutter, Henry and Judith Cutting, Nancy Brigham Cyr and Edward Cyr, Belden and Pamela Daniels, Jessica Daniels and Paul Blackborow, Susan Darnton, Maria DaSilva, Margery Davies and Arthur MacEwan, Ray Davies and Susan Griffith, Susan Davies and Richard Talkov, George Davis, Susan and William J. DeAngelis, Lois DeGregorio, Erika DelCioppo, Eric Derman, Elaine DeRosa and Bonnie Johnston, Sarah and Christopher Dewart, Charlotte and Stephen Diamond, Trevor Dickie, Estelle Disch, Linda Dittmar, David Dobrin, Astrid and Doug Dodds, Hilary Donaldson, Ginna Donovan, Elsa Dorfman and Harvey Silverglate, John Doucet, Jackie Douglas, Andrea Douglass, Susan and Philip Dowds, Richard Downey, Deborah Dreyfus, Walter and Kathleen Ducharme, Janice Duenas, DeAnne Dupont, Alicia Dwyer and Demetrios Karis, Paula Ebbitt, Jennifer Eckert, Frederic Eckhard, Stefan and Ruth Economou, David Edwards, Henry Ehrlich, Mary Eich and Randy Albelda, Caite Eilenberg, Caren Eliezer, Katherine Ellin and Gilead Tadmor, Judith Elsten, Brenda and Monroe Engel, Ezra Englebardt, Ellen Epstein and Ian Brownell, Myra Hope and Molly Eskridge, Robin Esterberg and Stephen Hersey, Kimberly Etingoff, Alice Evans, Lynn Evans, Robert Everts and Debra Biba, Jonathan Ewing, Lara Ezor, Sandra Fairbank, Susan Falkoff, Richard Fanning, Jody Fanto, Jean Farrington, Harriet Feinberg, Nathan Felde, Harriet Fell, Robert and Lynn Ferguson, William Fielder, Burton Fine and Susan Miron, Steven Fish, Dennis Flaherty, Susan Fleischmann, Donna Foley, J. Malcolm and Ariadne Forbes, Laurie Forcier and Mark Paskowsky, Jessica and Kenneth Forton, Asa and Susan Foster, Meri Fox, Deborah Frank, Kate Frank, Evelyn Frankford, Richard Freierman and Lynn Gervens, Susan Freireich, Karen Freund, Mary and Matthew Friedman, Sarah Froio, Helen Frumen, Chantal Fujiwara and Pirooz Vakili, Pamela Fuller, Francis and Maria Fung, Michael Galasso, Deborah Galef, Stephen Gallant, Nancy Gallucio, Yash Gandhi, Paula Garbarino, Michael Garcia, Marilyn Garlington, Sarah Gates, Nancy Gaudet, Lisa and Jeff Gaulin, Jeffrey Gelfand, Dan and Barbara Gerber, Jewel Gilbert and Cheryl Giles, Michael Gilles, Arthur Gilman, Michael Gilmore, Leonard Glantz, David Glass, Susan Glassman, Shaun Glaze, Barbara Glickler, Martha Gold, Richard Goldberg and Nancy Seymour, Kimberly and Richard Goldstein, Mitchell Goldstein, Dorothy and Donald Gonson, Stephen and Teri Goodwin, Dan Gore, Mary Ann Gore and Robert Friede, Nelson Gore, Carol Goss, Muriel Gould, Lisa Goyette, Paul Gregoire, Kathe Gregory, Garth and Lindsay Greimann, Andrew Griffin, Richard Griffin and Susan Keane, Mimi Grosser, Tina Grotzer, Dorise Gruber, David Grucza, Benjamin Gunther, Edythe Haber, George and Siobhan Haldeman, Charles and MaryAnn Hales, Alice Hall, Barbara Halporn, Elizabeth Halstead, Roy and Sylvia Hammer, Jean Hammond and Michael Krasner, John and Nancy Hammond, Suzanne and Easley Hamner, Anneliese and Patrick Hanan, Edward and Margaret Handy, Sharon Hanen, Christine and Dick Hannon, Fay and Dave Hannon, Marcia Hannon, Judith Harbaugh, Jason Harburger, Michelle Hardenbrook, Brad Harkavy, Charlotte Harrison, Richard and Angelica Harter, Alan Harwood and Margot Welch, Sibyl Harwood, Ronald Hasseltine, Jonathan Hecht and Lora Sabin, Paul Heintz,

Food For Free Annual Report 2013 9 Ulrike Henderson, Jonathan Henke and Rachel Mosher, Jim Henle, James Henry, David Herder, Julia Herskowitz, Ruth Hill, Karen Hilliard, Mary Hilty, John Hixson and Janet Hobbs, Kashif Hoda, Marc Hoffman and Jane Stolzman, Michelle Holcomb and Sebastian Banker, John and Hilary Hopkins, Jean and Benjamin Horne, Gail Horowitz and Susan Brand, Ani Hovsepian, Donna Howe, Elaine Hsieh and James Keller, Doria Hughes, Keith and Catherine Hughes, Robert and Nancy Hurlbut, Roger Hurwitz and Karen Propp, Harry Irwin and Pam Haltom, Linda Jackson-Furtado, Nancy Jacobson, Dilesh Jadhan, Stephen Janiak, Andrew Janjigian, Mark Jaquith, Martha Jenkins, Rui Jiang, Shirley Jobe, Maria and Greg Jobin-Leed, Nils Johnson, Donna Johnston, Ann Jones, Caroline Jones and Peter Galison, Louis Kampf, Meredith and David Kantor, Jennifer Kapuscik and Barbara Siegel, David Karp, Peggy Karpinski, Kevin Keane, Jim and Elaine Kearns, Sara Keddy, Herbert and Rose Kelman, Jennifer Kennedy and Justin Mills, Leigh Kenney and John Gouzoules, Michael and Sara Kenney, Lori Kenschaft and Randy Smith, George and Mary Louise Kent, Victoria Kent, Alice and David Kidder, Sheila and William King, Cheryl Klausner, Karen Klein, Season Korchin, Elise Koretz, Diana Korzenik, Katharine and Richard Kosinski, Claire Kozower, Gisela Krause, Sandra Kriensky, Pamela Krueger, Catherine Krupnick, Karl Kulling, Peggy Kutcher, Terry Kwan, Sandra Lagrega, Steven Landau and Claudia Majetich, Carole Landisman, David and Elizabeth Landman, Susan Lapierre, Brian Larson, Alan Lebowitz and Nan Levinson, Diane Leclair, Brian Leclerc, Sandra Lee, Judith Leff, Thomas and Barbara Leggat, Tom Lehrer, Rena Leib, Manuel and M. Charlene Leitao, Alex Lemski, Mary M. Leno, Monica and Alejandro Leon, Ellen Leopold, Ilene Lerner, Anna Leslie, David Leslie and Clare Walker Leslie, Eric Leslie and Jenny Chiang, Stuart and Sally Lesser, Diane Levin and Gary Goldstein, Jason Levin, Persis and David Levy, Richard and Mary Jane Lewontin, Anna Leyfell, Laurel and David Lhowe, Irmhild Liang, Sharon Lim, Richard Lincoln, Lowell Lindgren, Michael Lindgren, Pamela and Edward Lingel, Lynda Linton, Arthur Lipkin and Robert Ellsworth, Nancy Lippincott, Adam and Ashley Lorenz, Rob and Gwyn Loud, Mrs. Charles Lyman, Margaret Lynch and Jan Puibello, George Mabry, Joan MacIsaac, Robert Mack, Scott MacLachlan and Alison Malcolm, Richard and Wanda Macnair, Rebecca and Jason Macy-Moore, Sofia Magkiriadou, Monique and Ray Magliozzi, Ian Magnussen, David Maher, Casey Maloney and Alex Gontar, Richard Mandel and Judy Motzkin, Cynthia Manson, Steve Marcus, Edward and Joan Mark, Sarah Mars, Jessica and Joachim Martin, Thomas and Jane Martin, Heather Marx, Catherine Mason, Jean and Edward Mason, Emily Mathis, Pamela Matz and Norman Rubin, Karen McCormack, Carole McCullough, Lisa McDonnell, Hilary McGhee, Caroline McGlynn, Cathleen McGrail, Jaime Mchunu, Laurie McKeown and Catherine Lindsey, Priscilla McMillan, Laura McMurray, Dennis McNally and Susana Millman, Maggie McNally and Alex Krutsky, Kathy McNeill, Althea and Robert Meade, Catherine Melina, Rachel Mello, Heli and Michael Meltsner, Daniel Meltzer and Ellen Semonoff, Ralph and Sylvia Memolo, Nancy Menzin, Elizabeth Merrill and Benjamin Mardell, Patrick Mertens and Connie Karpinski, Stacia and Michael Mesleh, George and Jane Metzger, Myra Mevey, Alan Meyers, Peter Meyersohn and Annette Needle, Rosalind Michahelles, Kadimah and Mark Michelson, Ellen and Jonathan Miller, James and Deborah Miller, Jonny Miller, Lindsay Miller and Peter Ambler, Michelle and Eric Miller, Steven Miller and Sally Benbasset, Stephen Minicucci, Martha Minow and Joe Singer, Mary Miratrix, Wolfram Moebius, Amber Moore, James Moore, Ellen Moot, Harold Moren and Sally Beecher, Francoise Moros, Doreen Morris, Alice Morrish, Kristin Mortimer, Eva Moseley, Olivia Moseley, Katherine Moss and George Keleher, Kim Motylewski, Cornelius and Elizabeth Moynihan, Elaine Murphy, James Murphy, Rowan Murphy and Andus Baker, Janet and Jeff Murray, Debbie Musnikow, Amber Musser, John Musser, Roxanna Myhrum, Judith Nathans, Ada Navarro, Bettina Neuefeind, Rachel Neuwirth, Deirdre Neylon, Irene Nichols, Corey Niswender, Barbara Norfleet, Karen Norton, Elisa Novitski, Geoffrey and Clare Nunes, Philip O’Neil, Suzanne Ogden, Eric Olick and Monica Llana- Olick, Morgan Ong, Irwin Oppenhein and Bernice Buresh, Kenneth Osgood, Martha and David Osler, David Pap, Arthur Pardee, Patricia Parker, Sue Passacantilli, Wayne and Kim Patenaude, Lucy Patton, Christine Paulino, Laura Pawle, Doug Payne and Mary Rita Weschler, Jeffrey Pearlin, Theodore Peck, Joanne Peckarsky, Angela Pendleton and Frank Mazer, David Perloff and Maria Barbarino, Katherine Perls and Lennart Braberg, Mallory Pernell, Doane Perry and Karen Carmean, Evelyn Persoff, Amanda Peters, Penny and Jim Peters, Jeffrey and Patricia Petrucelly, Dana and Linda Philbrook, Joan Pic, Willow Piersol, James Pinney, Hillary Pizer, Jonathan and Andrea Plate, Lauren Plate, Silke Plesch, Oakes Plimpton and Patricia Magee, Emily and Gregory Pollock, Jennifer Polshek, Charles Popper, Christopher Porter, Rosemary Porter, Alan Post, Steven and Megan Postal, Timothy Potsaid, Praveen Prasanna, Suzanne and John Pratt, Xavid Pretzer, Judith Price, Eric Prileson, Christopher Pullman, Sasha and David Purpura, Cindy Quense and Tim Hughes, Courtney and Donovan Quinn, Dana Quinn, Erica Raab, Carol Rainwater, Margaret Ramsey and John McCluskey, Paul and Pamela Raskin, Robert Reardon, Rishi Reddi, Christopher Reed, Jane Reed, Kathleen Reine, Hank Reisen, Jerald and Sara Reisman, Phil and Bev Reitz, Suzanne Renna, Audrey Resutek, Marla Rhodes, Laura Rice and Lee Haack, Jane and Robert Richards, Margaret Richardson, Paul Richardson, Dorinda and Chris Rife, Jennifer Riley and Karl Klapper, Laura Roberts and Edward Belove, Abby Rockefeller

10 Food For Free Annual Report 2013 and Lee Halprin, Laura Rogers and Jeffrey Saltzman, Mitchell and Carol Rose, Mindy Roseman, Judith Rosen and Charles Dresner, Wendy Rosen and Ellen Sippel, Lawrence Rosenberg, Alice Rothchild and Daniel Klein, Amy Rothstein, Susan and Geoffrey Rowley, Isabelle Roy, Beth Rubenstein, Melissa Rubinsky, Amy Rugel and Peter Norris, Mary Russell, Susan Russell, Eileen Sabatalo, Connie Saems, Jane Sammarco, Virginia Sammett, William Samuelson, David Sandberg and Dina Mardell, Kathy Sant, Ted Saunders, Dennis Scannell and Jane Kamensky, Jay Scheide, Susan Schenkel and Alvin Helfeld, F.M. and Barbara Scherer, Robert Schiffman and Marilee Allen, Keren Schlomy, Ben Schlosser and Sophie McDonald-Coames, James Schmidt and Pam Vlahakis, Anita and Daniel Schoen, Robert and Sylvia Scholnick, Melvin Schorin, Drew Schuster, Whitney and Andrew Schutzbank, I.Z. Schwaab, Jeffrey Schwotzer, Christopher Scott, Regina Scotti, David Sears and Janet Stein, Lisa Sebesta, Marina Seevak, Samuel Seidel, Dana Semmel, Jayashree and Pralay Senchaudhuri, Carol Sepkosi, Mary Ann Serra, Steven Shapin, Eileen Shapiro and Reuben Eaves, Ronnie Sherwood and Robyn Ferrero, Gail Shulman, Susan and Stanley Shuman, Anne Shumway, Mark Sideris, Judith Siemen, Karl Sims, Janine Sirignano, Stephen Skuce, Saul Slapikoff, Randolph Slaughter, Seymour and Zoya Slive, Alexander Smith, Frank and Alice Smith, Jeanne Smith, Jefferson Smith, Kimberly Smith and Adam Kahn, Rhonda Smith, Helen Snively, Cynthia Snow and Irving Kurki, Abigail Snyder, Betty Snyder and Sarah Smith, Alexa Soegaard, Maxwell and Joanne Solet, Stuart and Judith Solomon, Keith Soucy and Mona Vachon, Stephen Spang, Dee Spears and Peter Kardon, Julia Spiegelman and Erina Spiegelman, John St. George, Matthew and Betsey St. Onge, Susan Standiford, Ashara Stansfield, Martha Stearns, Barbara and Tobias Stein, Judith Stein, Robert and Beatrice Steinberg, Robert Steinberg, Sherry Steiner, Victoria Steinitz and Elliot Mishler, Kapi Sterling and Ben Reeve, Mark Stern and Lynn Barker, Rosann and Randall Stern, Brooke Stevens and Thomas McCorkle, Lois Stiles Edgerly, Holly Stoehr, Martha Stone, Caterina Strambio, Rena Strand, Lise and Miles Striar, Lucy and Daniel Stroock, Anne Stuart, Nadine and John Suhrbier, Nancy Sullivan, Judy Summersby, Bruce Sylvester, Ann Szczepanski, Barbara Taggart, D.J. Taitelbaum and Amy Moses, Carole and R. Gordon Talley, Saul Tannenbaum, Martha Taub, Beth Taylor and Tim Barclay, Christopher and Alexis Teixeira, Kevin Tierney and Kimberly Knickle-Tierney, Ted and Mary Tierney, Steven Tobias, Mary Todd, Heli Tomford, Timothy Toomey, Greg Torski, Michelle Torski, Remy Trahant, Shane Treadway, Thomas Treat, Ivy Turner, Susan Turner, Lawrence Tuttle and Patricia Martin, Amanda Tweed, Benjamin Umiker, E. Kelly Umstott, Minka vanBeuzekom, Joanna Vanden, Marsha Vannicelli, Erik Varga, James and Jennifer Vath, Dunia Velez, Linda Vena, Tabitha Vevers, Francois Vigier, Magdalene Voelmle, Kristen vonHoffman, Alice Wadden, Alexa Wagner, Robert and Linda Wagner, Richard Wallace, Marcia Walsh and Eric Block, Tim and Nancy Walsh, Andrew and Chiyung Wang, Anne Warner, Lyle Warner, Rebecca Warner and Steven Asher, Becki Warshaw, Robert Weber, Michael and Jennifer Weiner, Susan Weir, Richard Weissbourd and E. Avery Rimer, Michael Wessels and Patricia Maher, Marjorie Westerman, Barrie Wheeler, Susan and Peter White, David Whitlock, Barbara and John Wicker, Pam Wickham, Josh Wiesner, Lisa Wiesner, Brandon Williams, Cana and Nathan Williams, Cynthia Williams, Jane Williams, Anne Willieme, Lelah and Mike Willoughby, Meredith Willoughby and Derek Pizzuto, Loren Wilson, Jeanne Winner, Alexis and Lawrence Wintersteen, Alice and Robert Wolf, Michael and Wendy Wolfberg, Barbara Wolff, Lisa and Wing Wong, Ping Wong, Amy Woods, Carolyn Woollen-Tucker, Kelly Worrall, Henry and Sheli Wortis, Susan Woskie, Timothy Wright, Aria Wuertz, G. Elizabeth Wylde, Evelyn Wyman, Milton Yanofsky, Milton Yarberry, Nancy and Michael Young, Madelyn Yucht, Kristin Zajac, Susan and James Zall, Alan Zaslavsky and Noel Jette, Geraldine Zetzel, Corwin and Lily Zigler, Janet Zimmern, Dorothy Zinberg, Margaret Zirker and Scott Warmkessel, Mark Zoltko, Gerald Zuriff, Catherine Zusy and Samuel Kendall, Lisa Zwirn and Mark Granoff.

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Food For Free Annual Report 2013 11 Staff Bios Jordan McCarron started at Field of Greens in 2010, becoming Farm Manager in 2011. When he’s not out playing in the fields, Jordan can be found working helps to run Food For Free’s Veronica Barron for the Town of Lexington as the Conservation events, including the Party Under the Harvest Stewardship Program Coordinator and exploring the Moon, and helps Food For Free stay in touch with trails of Lincoln with his dog Winnie. This May, Jordan supporters (like you!) by creating postcards, received a masters degree in Environmental Studies emails, and social media posts. When not at Food from Antioch University New England. For Free, Veronica is a performer of theater and music, an urban fruit harvester with the League of Urban Canners, and Dennis McCarthy is a life-long Cambridge resident. a cooking (and eating) enthusiast. He has 30-plus years in social services and a degree in Human Services. He has worked eleven delightful years Adam Collins has been in the food industry for at Food For Free, performing multiple tasks with more than 25 years. Since joining Food For Free, he enjoyment and gratification. He is active in his local Boy has come to love getting to know the people who Scouts troupe, helping with their fundraising, among benefit from the food he rescues. Adam always other projects. wakes up on the right side of the bed and loves to get out of town whenever he can. Christian Oviedo has worked with Food For Free over 15 years. As the owner of a barbershop, he works In addition to his positions with Food for Free, way too much, but still manages to make the Matt Crawford works with Boston Area occasional baseball game and to visit the Dominican Gleaners, rescuing surplus farm crops for people in Republic every year. Just last year, he became a U.S. need. Matt enjoys cooking, eating, collecting and citizen. He has a son who plays baseball and a daughter listening to vinyl records, and being outside who plays basketball. whenever he can. In helping her husband start his farm, Sasha Family is important to Julio Francisco. He has Purpura fell in love with all things local food— 15 brothers and sisters! An altar boy in his youth, harvesting, preparing, cooking, eating…ok, not Julio has lived in both the Dominican Republic and weeding. Aside from walking and photography, Puerto Rico. When not at work, Julio likes to relax by Sasha’s favorite pastime is catching a ride in a tractor watching TV or going to the park. bucket or on the electric pallet jack at Food For Free.

Dan Friedman has worked at Food For Free for Food For Free’s bookkeeper, Rhonda Smith, has nine years and volunteered on the truck prior to been working for Food for Free since 2005 and is coming on board as staff. He studied music at the heartened to see its expansion. She is, otherwise, a full University of Michigan and plays and teaches time artist with a studio in the South End as well as a saxophone. He enjoys jogging and taking his one- gardener of flowers and vegetables. year old daughter to the park.

Michelle Holcomb has been involved with Simon Walsh, well loved by our Home Delivery food and hunger issues for nearly two decades. clients, makes his way down from Vermont to When not at Food For Free, she’s cooking, riding her Cambridge at least once a month—usually to support bike, doing yoga, or coddling her schnauzer. But Home Delivery, sometimes to fill in for a Produce never more than two at a time. Rescue driver and occasionally to offer his carpentry skills to the office. Simon is adjunct faculty at Greenfield Community College.

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