BUILDING A BETTER FOOD FUTURE 2018 Annual Report OUR MISSION 2018 was a transformative year for The Beecher’s Foundation. 2018 YEAR Thank you for being a part of it! The Beecher’s Foundation is on a mission to build a IN REVIEw we tripled our program offerings, 2019 promises to be another momentous better food future for all. extended our reach, became a public year, with continued program expansion, Kurt Beecher Dammeier, Founder charity, and established an Advisory Board. new challenges to tackle and puzzles to Sara Morris, President through direct programming Our expanded scope of work has taken solve, and more partnerships to forge. for children, teens, and adults, we us into 4th grade classrooms, corporate Thank you for walking alongside us in educate and inspire people to eat board rooms, and everywhere in between. our quest to change our food supply for real food and vote with every food No matter where we are, we find a shared good — for better, forever, and for all! dollar. Our goal is to change our passion for improving our food landscape. food supply for good — for better, forever, and for all. OUR VALUES

The American diet is killing us slowly, and health outcomes WHY WE are perniciously inequitable across income levels:

DO WHAT • Diet-related disease is now the number • King County has some of the worst one cause of death in America, killing health disparities in the U.S., where IMPACT WE DO more people than even tobacco. 40% of adults and 20% of kids are overweight or obese and life expectancy Driving for results. • Nearly 60% of the calories that can vary dramatically by zip code. Americans eat each day come from No excuses. “ultra-processed” foods. • Only one in ten adults get the recommended daily serving of fruits • Only about 2% of U.S. farmland is used and vegetables. to grow fruits and vegetables. 1 OUR VALUES

Our Pure Food Kids Workshop is a no-cost, commercial-free, Impatience FOR learning standards-aligned food education class for 4th and In a hurry to make 5th grade students. 2 YOUTH change, dangit. the 2.5-hour program is available in through marketing messages, and cook and New York states to public, from scratch. (That’s where the magic private, charter, and home schools, and happens!) equips students to become “food detec- tives” with the tools to make healthy This year, 24,669 students became Food choices for life. Detectives, for a cumulative total of 136,670 since 2006. On average, after one Students learn to read labels, understand year, 36% of students report having made how ingredient lists are ordered, see lasting changes to the foods they eat. We are excited to announce FOR a new teen program pilot. TEENS our teen workshop is a no-charge, commercial-free, health education course for high school students in Puget Sound.

In two engaging, 90-minute lessons, students bring an equity and justice lens to our food system, explore the influence teens have to make positive changes, and cook delicious recipes right in class. OUR VALUES

CANDOR Speaking directly; The Sound Food Uprising Workshop for adults is the anchor of FOR our 10-year campaign to change the way Puget Sound eats. listening intently.

ADULTS this unique, hands-on workshop is the workshop, 84% of participants say they designed to inspire change through intend to look at the nutrition label when learning, cooking, and sharing meals as buying foods and 83% intend to make a team. Participants explore the origins different purchasing decisions based on of our food system, the power of the nutrition label and ingredient list reading. consumer, and the lasting changes that 3 come when we cook from scratch. After 90 days, more than 70% report that they have made material changes in The workshop, delivered on site, has now the way they shop for food and have reached 1,655 in workplaces and community decreased the amount of processed centers across Puget Sound. Directly after food they eat. community spotlight OUR VALUES Pierce County Pilot In 2018, we launched a partnership at Tyee Park Elementary and Lakeview at once; to measure the impact on with Pierce County Executive Bruce Hope Academy, all freshman and eating behaviors; and to create a model Dammeier, the City of Lakewood, DECA students at Clover Park High of success to expand and replicate. the Clover Park School District and School, and their parents, teachers Lakewood Boys & Girls Club to and school staff. Lakewood has welcomed us with implement a targeted, “2Gen” initiative open arms and we are humbled to in Lakewood, WA. Over five months, The goal was to create a nutrition zone be working towards positive change our programming was provided at no within this community; to immerse alongside so many others in this cost to all 4th and 5th grade students multiple generations in food education wonderful community.

Justice 4Food education for all. corporate partner spotlight QUALITY FOOD CENTERS The cooking time and curriculum were

QFC partnered with The Beecher’s educational, highly engaging, and enjoyable for Foundation to host our class at their our team. One of the most consistent comments Bellevue, WA, corporate headquarters. “from our team was how realistic the cooking The workshop was attended by regional managers and staff. lessons were for everyday life (and delicious).

Erin Hooper community partner spotlight drug gm merchandiser, quality food centers ” Woodland Park Zoo We worked with ’s Woodland Park Zoo to present our Sound Food Uprising Workshop to their team. The workshop was offered to all employees, from zookeepers to administrative staff, and was hosted on-site at the zoo’s campus.

We were thrilled at the OUR VALUES ease of working with your team and our “employees thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to prepare a meal together. I would feel confident recommend- ing other companies Pioneering provide this on-site Forging new experience.

paths, unbound Michelle Basilio information technology/ by convention. people & culture specialist, 5 woodland” park zoo I love having the Beecher’s program FINANCIALS visit my fifth grade “classroom every year. 2018 revenue: $1,949,723 Afterwards, I challenge sugar my students to go mountain home and make the major chili with a parent and gifts send in their picture. earned The Beecher’s lesson revenue makes it much easier to talk about nutrition and making better food choices for all of us to be our best selves in school.

Monica W. Chun 2018 expenditures: $1,781,037 5th grade teacher enatai elementary school” program delivery public engagement training, supplies + other

2018 Unaudited Financials BUILDING ON SUCCESS

AFTER AN ADULT WORKSHOP… % CHANGED THE WAY 76 THEY SHOP FOR FOODS % feel more positive about working 86 for their company

AFTER A SCHOOL WORKSHOP… % GAIN IN MAKING 40 SUGAR CALCULATIONS % GAIN IN UNDERSTANDING INGREDIENT LIST 61 ORGANIZATION

2019 will bring the second year of our 10-year campaign to 2019: shift Puget Sounds’ food supply — forever, for better, and for What’s all. Looking ahead, we are excited to: Next GROW CONTRIBUTE Replicate and expand our Pierce County Build more connections in the food work and expand our youth programming change community, collaborate, and serve into Snohomish and Pierce Counties. as a thought partner and champion of the movement. LEARN Develop our teen program and increase the reach of our adult program. for being a partner and a supporter. STAFF  THANK YOU Together, we can build a better food future for all! Sara Morris, President Jason Keen, Director of Development Sara Billups, Director PARTNERS DONORS of Communications Kelly Lake, and Public Affairs Director of Programs school district partners corporate partners community partners Anonymous Family Foundation Shawna Brennan, Jonathan Saturay, Auburn School District Absher Construction Boys & Girls Clubs Atlantic Media Program Logistics Bellevue School District Company of Bellevue Auburn VW Coordinator Operations Director Bellingham School District Aduro Boys & Girls Clubs of Bamford Foundation Bethel School District Auburn VW King County Bill & Emily Heston Catherine Gerlach, Lauren Weber, Clover Park School District Brooks Sports Boys & Girls Clubs of Brandy & Pete Nordstrom Director of Business Director of Operations Edmonds School District Charlie’s Produce South Puget Sound, Carla Fowler Development Enumclaw School District Common Threads Farm Lakewood Branch CB’s Nuts Everett School District Cone & Steiner El Centro de la Raza Christa Cliver Federal Way School District Costco Communities in Schools City of Lakewood, WA ADVISORY BOARD Highline School District Expedia Food Lifeline Clete Casper Issaquah School District Firefly Kitchens Food Policy Action Costco Kurt Beecher Leesa Manion Kent School District Fred Hutchinson Cancer Food Tank Dallas Otter Dammeier (Chair) King County Lake Stevens School District Research Center Northwest Harvest Dillion Family Foundation Sugar Mountain Prosecuting Lake Washington Frontier Co-Op Snohomish County Dimmer Family Foundation Attorney’s Office School District Grand Central Bakery Coalition Gary Young Garnet Anderson, Ph.D Mercer Island School District Kids Co. U-Power Family Foundation Fred Hutchinson Suzy Monford Monroe School District Odessa Brown Clinic University District Grand Central Bakery Cancer Research QFC Mt. Baker School District Premera Food Bank Jeff & Julie Schoenfield Center Mt. Vernon School District Investco Urban League of Joan Hogan Brandy Nordstrom Mukilteo School District Merlino Foods Metropolitan Seattle Justin Tobin Lisa Brummel President, SMooCH NYC School Districts 1, 2, 3, Microsoft Woodland Park Zoo Kurt Beecher Dammeier Microsoft (retired) Guild 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 18, 21, Overlake Medical Center Mark Torrance Foundation 22, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32 Point Ruston, LLC institutional and Mike and Laura Paulus Andrew Cole Laura Paulus Northshore School District QFC government partners MultiCare Swedish Medical Exponential Health Orting School District Norcliffe Foundation Center Puyallup School District SAP/Concur City of Lakewood, WA PCC Community Markets Tricia Raikes Renton School District King County CTE Point Ruston, LLC Jacques Colon Raikes Foundation Riverview School District Sellen Construction Pierce County Raikes Foundation Tacoma-Pierce County Seattle School District Smith & Greene Tacoma-Pierce County Sugar Mountain Health Department Jeff Schoenfeld Shoreline School District Swedish Health Department Swedish Medical Center J-Max Real Estate Snoqualmie School District Sugar Mountain Tacoma Rainiers Ben Danielson Stanwood-Camano Tovolo Thomsen Foundation Seattle Children’s Paul Shoemaker School District Urban Influence The Thread Fund Hospital Paul Shoemaker, Inc. Tacoma School District Wells Fargo Whole Foods Market Tahoma School District Whole Foods Market Felecia Job Tukwila School District Microsoft (retired) WEST COAST EAST COAST The Beecher’s Foundation The Beecher’s Foundation 1725 Westlake Avenue North, Suite 150 41 Madison Avenue, Floor 31, Suite 3134 Seattle, WA 98121 email [email protected] web beechersfoundation.org New York, NY 10010