Feeding by Greening our Country: Reducing our Poverty Footprint by reducing our Carbon Footprint

March 25th 2009 National Resource Conservation Challenge Training Workshop Hyatt Regency Crystal City, VA To End Poverty and Green the World, We need to Act One action begins that path One action by you. Vayikra 19-9-10

You shall not pick your vineyards bare or gather the fallen fruit of your vineyards; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger, I am the lord your G-d

“One man gathers what another man spills” ‘St Stephen’, The Grateful Dead Why We Need Your Help Our World Needs Healing

The U.S. Conference of Mayors and Sodexho completed the December 2007 Survey on Hunger and Homelessness in America. The conclusions stated: 2007 Survey - 7 percent increase in request of food from food emergency centers - 23 percent unable to be given food - 52 percent of cities turned away people due to lack of resources - 37 percent of adults requesting food were employed - 100 percent of the cities surveyed shared that families and individuals relied on emergency food assistance for long periods of time

2008-9 Outlook - 72 percent of cities surveyed expect requests for emergency food assistance to increase in 2008-9 - 95 percent of cities surveyed expect requests by families and children to increase -37 Millions Americans have daily food insufficiencies -Unemployment currently at 7.2 % , Could go to 10% Our Mission

Rock and Wrap It Up! is a national anti-poverty think tank. Using greening tactics, we recover food and other assets, which are given to agencies fighting hunger and poverty, increasing their operating budgets. This allows the agencies to invest more resources in services such as, tutors for students, social workers, job placement counselors, mental health counselors and green collar job training to attack the root causes of poverty.

We have helped feed over a hundred million who hunger in the United States of America. About Rock and Wrap It Up!

Founded in 1990. National 1994 Staff of 6, Annual budget is 450k 5,000 unpaid volunteers, 501 C (3) charity Recovering food and assets in 500+ cities 5 Opportunities to Reduce our “Poverty Footprint” Music -Since 1994, we have partnered with over 150 bands that tour and include a stipulation in their contract requiring that food that is prepared but not served not go into landfill. We develop close relationships with bands who work with advocacy and school programs. Schools -Since 1997, over 300 schools nation-wide have started Rock and Wrap it Up! School Programs to empower students to recover food and other assets from their schools for distribution in the local community. Snack Wrap! encourages younger students to share unopened snacks with children in latchkey programs. High School and College students recover food that is prepared but not sold in their schools and share them with agencies in their community who fight poverty. Sports -Since 2003, 28 sports franchises in the NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL and AFL have partnered with Rock and Wrap It Up! to participate in Sports Wrap! Food that is prepared but not sold from home games concessions is recovered to feed the indigent.. Advocacy -In November 2007, after researching, writing and introducing the Federal Food Recovery Act to exponentially increase excess food into the national pipeline, the Federal Food Recovery Act of 2008, passed unanimously in the House and Senate. The Act encourages federal buildings to donate food from their restaurants, cafeterias and from outside rentals to feed our nation’s hungry. We now want all Governors to do the same in their states. Have databases to offer agencies for Green Collar Job Training opportunities. Greening -Hotel chains, i.e. Grand Hyatt, (NYC ,San Antonio) Langham (Pasadena) allow for the recovery of tissue boxes, toilet paper rolls, shampoos when re-stocking rooms and hard assets when re-doing rooms. We are looking into airports as a resource to recover collected unopened items for agencies that fight poverty. Our College Wrap! asset recovery program recovers assets from graduates and shares them with the local poverty- fighting agencies Advocacy Tactics for Today and Tomorrow The Federal Food Donation Act of 2008 National Governors Association United States Association of Counties Worldwide G-8 and G-20 meetings RWU Green Collar Training Programs Government Protection from Liability

The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act was passed in 1996 to protect all donors of edible leftover food from liability. Bill Emerson was a Congressman from Missouri who pushed for this legislation. His widow, JoAnn, replaced him in the United States Congress in 1997 and presently serves the constituents of the St. Louis area and is a Rock and Wrap It Up! Board Member Working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Mass mailings 2006 2009

Rock and Wrap it Up! Partnerships

Government Agencies Colleges and Universities School Districts Music Industry Professional Sports Franchises Hotels Green Collar Training Companies State of New Mexico Federal Food Donation Act of 2008. Researched, written and sponsored by Rock and Wrap It Up! Lobbied for by Phil Schiliro current White House Liaison to Congress Federal Buildings to Donate Food

Act introduced in House by Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson Passed Unanimously 12/17/07 Act introduced to Senate by Senator Chuck Schumer Passed Unanimously 5/23/08 Signed into Law by President G.W. Bush 6/19/08

Governors Project

Write to 50 Governors to encourage State Buildings to give their leftover food to agencies fighting poverty and not let it go into landfill.

The Rock and Wrap It Up! School Program introduced at the Presidents Summit on Volunteerism in Philadelphia, PA, April 1997 Absenteeism in America’s schools and colleges generates leftovers. USDA mandates a choice at lunch. Choice = leftovers. Millions unused school meals per day nationwide. Our program promotes volunteerism and community service. We can fill graduation requirements. Builds awareness about issue of hunger. Positive recognition for students and schools. Molloy College , Fordham University, SUNY Old Westbury January 2008 Letters of Reference for College Applications and Community Service Requirements Office of Undergraduate Admissions New York University 22 Washington Square North New York, NY 10011-9191 I have the pleasure of knowing and working with Zachary Zoppa, for the past two years. He and his brother Andrew work with and leads the Rock and Wrap it Up! School Program Program. Rock and Wrap it Up! is an international volunteer hunger relief organization. Its work is far reaching, from picking up backstage leftovers from concerts to encouraging schools to help end hunger in their communities. The Rock and Wrap it Up! School Program teaches students that they can make a difference in the community surrounding the school by organizing and collecting leftover school generated food and delivering it to the needy in the local community. Zach helps to lead this project and also puts hunger awareness in the minds and hearts of students. Zach works as a food collector and as a missionary in teaching other students in other schools to replicate the program in their school and community. He also helps administer it, and continues to recruit replacements so it will continue when he graduates. He spent over 100 hours alone during the summer of 1999 teaching thousands of people how they could make a difference in their communities. His intelligence, compassion and tenacity have made him successful. He is an asset to our organization, his school, and especially to the thousands that have benefited from his efforts. It has been a distinct pleasure working with him and I wish him the most success in life. Zachary is self reliant and responsible far beyond his years.

Sincerely

Syd Mandelbaum, MA, MBA CEO and Founder Scholarships

Since 2000, There have been 4 winners of the Coca-Cola Scholarship totaling over $50,000 in prize. High School Program leaders have been accepted into: Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, Columbia University of Virginia, George Washington University, NYU, Villanova, Fordham to name a few Participating in our School Program

Dave Matthews Jewel Indigo Girls The Goo Goo Dolls L L Cool J Sinbad Ani DiFranco blink 182 Matchbox 20 The Offspring Blues Traveler Avril Lavigne Usher Britney Spear Mike Maroth Tiki Barber Eli Manning David Wright Jose Reyes Brian Cashman Nickelback Anti-Poverty and Hunger Conferences

Molloy College 2004,2005, 2007 List of Participating Bands and Festivals

1994 Rolling Stones, 94,97,98 Aerosmith,94,97,98 Bruce Hornsby,94,96,97 Michael Bolton,94,96,98 1999 Alanis Morissette, dc Talk, R.E.M, The Offspring, Journey, Phish, Nine Inch Nails, MegaDeth, Bad Religion, John Mellencamp, Cher, Bare Naked Ladies, Bruce Springsteen Candlebox, and the E. Street Band, Bette Midler, 1995 Page and Plant,95,98 Van Halen,96,98 2000 blink 182, Jonny Lang, Smash Mouth, Britney Spears, Melissa Etheridge, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Christina Aguilara, 95,96,97,98,99, Queensryche, Tom Petty and the 2001 Weezer, Backstreet Boys, Eric Clapton, Madonna Heartbreakers 95,99, Hootie and the 2002 Creed, CSN&Y, Bob Dylan, Linkin Park, The Who, Usher Blowfish,94,95,98,99 Grateful Dead, Bonnie Brooks and Dunn, Paul McCartney, The Eagles, Phil Lesh, Korn Raitt,95,98,99 Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam,00 John Mellencamp, Alicia Keys, 1996 Allman Brothers,96,97,98,99 The H.O.R.D.E. 2003 Avril Lavigne, The Dead, Good Charlotte Festival 95,96,97,98 Bon Jovi, Lollapalooza 2004 John Mayer, Neil Young, Simon and Garfunkel, Josh 95,96,97 ,Soul Asylum, Rusted Root, David Bowie, Groban, String Cheese Incident Ozzy Osbourne, The Dave Matthews 2005 Jack Johnson, Judas Priest Band,96,97,98, Red Hot Chili Peppers, 2006 Nickelback, Joe Satriniani, Kenny Chesney 1997 AC/DC, Rod Stewart, 96,98,99, James 2007 Will Hawkins, Justin Timberlake Taylor, 96,97,98,99 Bush, The Smashing 2008 Jackie Green, Tealeaf Green, ALO, O.A.R. Pumpkins, Neil Diamond, 95,98, Tori Amos, Linda 2009 Rise Against Ronstadt, The Further Festival,96,97, House of Blues Festival, Goo Goo Dolls, 97,99 The Three Tenors, The Cure, Sting, 1998 Santana, 97,98, Styx, Alice Cooper, REO Speedwagon, Peter Frampton, Foreigner, Presidents of the USA, Jimmy Buffett, The Who, Soundgarden, Phil Collins, Stone Temple Pilots, The BoDeans, Metallica, The Wallflowers, Sheryl Crow, Fiona Apple, Counting Crows, U2, Beck, No Doubt, The Lilith Fair,97,98,99 Boston, OZZ-fest 97,98,99, Supertramp, Jewel, Ani DiFranco 97.98.99, Fleetwood Mac, Jane’s Addiction, Billy

Red Hot Chili Peppers Christina Aguilera Alicia Keys 2002 Lena and Joseph Mandelbaum Humanitarian Award Winners Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne Phil and Friend July 1990 Pollstar Magazine 2009 Feature Piece

POLLSTAR Rock and Wrap It Up! Posted on Saturday January 17, 2009 at 12:01 AM Add | It all started with The Black Crowes and pot.

One night in the summer of 1993, Syd Mandelbaum was backstage at Jones Beach in Wantagh, N.Y., picking up leftover catering food after a show to deliver to a local soup kitchen. It was common practice at Jones Beach, an idea cooked up by promoter Ron Delsener during a meeting with Mandelbaum a few years earlier. Herb Robinson, the venue’s backstage manager, called Mandelbaum over to show him The Black Crowes’ contract, which included a section in the rider that requested a half ounce of pot in each dressing room. “I looked at Herb and said, ‘How can they do that?’ and he said, ‘Well, what they’re doing is making everybody know that they are in favor of having liberalization of marijuana laws,’” Mandelbaum told Pollstar. “Well, it struck me like a thunderbolt,” Mandelbaum said. “I said, ‘Herb, what if I want to feed people? Can I put that in the contract?’ “And he looked at me and said, ‘Syd, that is a great idea.’ And that’s how Rock and Wrap It Up! was born.” Mandelbaum is a scientist by trade and headed the American team that in 1993 disproved Anna Anderson’s claim that she was Anastasia, daughter of Czar Nicholas II. He was inspired to fight hunger by his parents who survived the Holocaust after almost starving to death in concentration camps as teenagers. “My parents have been great role models for me,” Mandelbaum said. “Their will to live allowed me to be born [after] so many people died and there were so few survivors. I feel like I owe it to the future to honor what my parents did in the past.” Diverse Support and Media Final Episode of VH 1’s Charm School with Sharon Osbourne Sports Wrap! started with Mike and Brooke Maroth Current Sports Wrap Partners

Atlanta Braves Boston Red Sox New York Liberty Brooklyn Cyclones Chicago White Sox Detroit Tigers New York Rangers Florida Panthers Kansas City Royals Philadelphia Eagles New England Patriots Philadelphia Phillies New Jersey Nets Pittsburgh Pirates New Jersey Devils Seattle Seahawks New York Dragons St. Louis Cardinals Trenton Thunder New York Islanders Washington Nationals World Wrestling Entertainment RWU Greening Programs: Keys to College Wrap! Asset Recovery Program Project It’s a Wrap!: Greening Film Projects

Recovery from food from craft services: Santa Barbara, CA April, 15,2009 Rock and Wrap It Up! will recover food from crafts services and film shoots on location from Meryl Streep’s new film. State of the County Speech

State of the County Address – 2009 January 29, 2009 Five Towns College, Dix Hills

Thank you Stanley and David Cohen and the staff here at Five Towns College for hosting us tonight in the Town of Huntington. And thank you Supervisor Frank Petrone for your warm introduction. I look forward to our continued work together. Also I extend my thanks to News12 for televising this speech tonight.

Presiding Officer Lindsay, members of the Legislature, tonight I deliver this State of the County in an economic climate not seen on Long Island in the last eighty years. Our national economy is as weak as it has been since The Great Depression. The State of New York is awash in deficits that dwarf even those experienced after the collapse of the Twin Towers.

The challenges we face here, in Suffolk County, are extraordinary. Weathering the storm ahead will take enormous resolve. These are the days when we are put to the test.

We embarked upon a Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness and brought over fifty service agencies to one setting to serve over five hundred homeless individuals with everything from haircuts, to job counseling, to health screenings. For many it was their first checkup in decades and for three, who were diagnosed with severe conditions, it might have been life saving.

Another way we can care for those in need will be through a not-for-profit program called Rock and Wrap It Up!, where we will coordinate with hotels and universities to ensure that food, toiletries and other surplus items do not go into the waste stream, but rather to agencies that help the less fortunate.

Through the Suffolk County Commission on Environment Protection, Suffolk County will become the first in America to use Rock and Wrap It Up! Tactics to reduce poverty and green the County. Tactics to include: Hotel asset recovery, College Wrap!, College Asset recovery, Project it’s a Wrap! , School Program! Union Station Foundation, Pasadena, CA

September 10, 2008 Syd Mandelbaum Rock and Wrap It Up

Dear Syd, We would like to express our warmest thanks to Rock and Wrap It Up for introducing Union Station Homeless Services to The Langham Huntington Hotel & Spa, Pasadena. Rock and Wrap It Up was critical in facilitating the new in-kind donation relationship and making it a seamless process for both organizations. The Langham’s in-kind donations of prepared food, bread and toiletry items will allow us to spend more time and resources on shelter, food, and supportive services for those who depend on Union Station for assistance. We are dedicated to helping homeless individuals and families become productive, stable, and self- supporting. Everyday, we have the privilege of seeing men, women, and children bravely rebuild their lives. Thank you for your compassion and confidence in our work. Sincerely, Victoria Stubrin Director of Development Union Station Foundation

Union Station Homeless Services, 815 E. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104, Rock and Wrap It Up! Go Green Employment Solutions to End Poverty will include exploring, identifying and listing employment and job training opportunities to prepare workers for emerging green jobs related to sustainability, natural resource conservation and environmental related technology. the target audience for a new green collar jobs program includes unskilled, unemployed or underemployed individuals, and incumbent workers requiring updated training for new technologies. we support development of green collar jobs and job placement that will focus on low-income, disadvantaged communities and developing career-paths that lift people out of poverty. Green Collar Job Training

» Bicycle repair and bike delivery services » Car and truck mechanic jobs, production jobs, and gas-station jobs » . related to bio-diesel, vegetable oil and other alternative fuels » Energy retrofits to increase energy efficiency and conservation » Food production using organic and/or sustainable grown agricultural products » Furniture making from environmentally certified and recycled wood » Green building » Green waste composting on a large scale » Hauling and reuse of construction and demolition materials and debris » Hazardous materials clean up » Green (sustainable) landscaping » Manufacturing jobs related to large scale production of a wide range of appropriate technologies (i.e. solar panels, bike cargo systems, green waste bins, etc.) » Materials reuse/producing products made from recycled, non-toxic materials » Non-toxic household cleaning in residential and commercial buildings » Parks and open space maintenance and expansion » Printing with non-toxic inks and dyes and recycled papers » Public transit jobs » Recycling » Solar installation and maintenance » Tree cutting and pruning » Peri-urban and urban agriculture » Water retrofits to increase water efficiency and conservation » Whole home performance (i.e.: HVAC, attic insulation, weatherization, etc. What people that matter are saying…

“Grassroots efforts such as these can provide an immeasurable boost to our eventual goal of ending hunger in the United States.. There are over 95 billion pounds of food wasted by Americans each year in this country. Rock and Wrap it Up! has the answer.”

The Honorable Dan Glickman, President Motion Picture Association of America Former Secretary of Agriculture RWU Tribute Dinner at World Trade Center, NY (Windows on the World) June 18, 2001