PROJECT OPEN HAND impact report Fiscal Year 2019 with als Lo e ve M F o e o in d ic is M ed -a- Our Mission: To improve health outcomes and quality of life by providing nutritious meals to the sick and vulnerable, caring for and educating our community. @ProjectOpenHand | #FoodisMedicine | #MealswithLove -b- or 34 years, with open hands and open hearts, this special organization has served those struggling with Fillness in our community. Though Project Open Hand began in the kitchen of San Francisco resident and retired food-service employee Ruth Brinker, our work now reaches across the Bay to Alameda County. Serving 338,258 communal meals and 573,966 medically tailored meals a year, we provide services on a continuum. We consider our meals and accompanying services to be a medical nutrition home for our clients – providing nutrition, support, connections and resources that put them on a path to better health and prevent future illness or health decline. Letter from the ceo Working toward this goal, Project Open Hand is a leader of advocacy efforts on the state and national levels. As a founding member of the California Food is Medicine Coalition, we advance the concept of food as medicine OUR IMPACT by educating and encouraging the medical community to address key dietary needs and changes for patients. We are • Improved Health Outcomes working to coordinate with health insurance companies to cover nutrition as a cost effective preventative measure and • Decreased Costs treatment option for those with serious illnesses. • Decreased Emergency Department Visits We greatly appreciate the friendship and support of all our donors and partners and look forward to growing our • Decreased Hospitalizations services and replicating our model throughout the Bay and Re-Admissions Area, the State and beyond. • Increased Social/Emotional Well-being • Decreased Isolation From Day One, we have partnered with the community Paul Hepfer to achieve this impact. Chief Executive Officer Project Open Hand -1- IMPROVING HEALTH OUTCOMES AND QUALITY OF LIFE oakland 730 Polk Street 338,258 san francisco Communal 573,966 Meals Medically Tailored Meals includes groceries for meals. Our impact over time: 1985 1987 1989 1992 1997 1998 Retired Project Open POH begins POH POH moves to current POH is hired food-service Hand (POH) serving hires fi rst facility at 730 Polk by the City employee Ruth gets a place nutritious registered Street in San Francisco’s and County of Brinker starts on 17th Street meals to dietitians Tenderloin neighborhood, San Francisco serving meals to expand critically ill with a commercial- to provide with love out capacity residents in size kitchen, Grocery senior meal of her kitchen Oakland Center, registered service to friends with dietitian offi ces, and AIDS administrative offi ces -2- oakland 1921 San Pablo Avenue 7,862 Clients Served in Fiscal Year 934,434 9,070 2019 Total Total Meals Hands-on (across programs) Volunteers san francisco Project Open Hand is a pioneer in the “Food is Medicine” movement sweeping the country. Research consistently shows: fresh, nutritious meals delivered consistently improves health outcomes for individuals living with chronic medical conditions. 2005 2008 2016 2018 2019 POH receives POH and community POH opens a meal Three-year pilot POH partners major funding advocates urge then site specifi cally program begins to with health for providing Mayor Gavin Newsom for adults with provide medically insurance meals to to reject proposed $3 disabilities at 730 tailored meals for companies women million cut in emergency Polk Street – the Medi-Cal recipients to provide battling breast fi nancial assistance, legal only public meal in urban areas of medically cancer help, and food services site exclusively for California with tailored meals for those living with this population in congestive heart as a covered HIV/AIDS San Francisco failure benefi t -3- 0-1 | 1 13-1 | 1 nknown | 1 0- | 1 - | 1 0 | AGE 0- 0-1 | 1 13-1 | 1 Other Critical Illnesses | nknown | 1 0-COPD | 1 7 Other Cancer 7 - | 1 End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) HIV/AIDS | 3 diagnosis 0 | AGE Hepatitis C 6% Breast Cancer 0- Cardiovascular Disease | 1 Diabetes | 0 PROVIDING NUTRITIOUS MEALS TO THE SICK AND VULNERABLE 0-1 | 1 Our Wellness13-1 Program:| 1 nknown | 1 Middle Eastern0- 1 | 1 Other Critical Illnesses | Native American 3 COPD 7 Russian- 1 | 1 Other Cancer 7 Caucasian 33 End-Stage0 | Renal Disease (ESRD) AGE atino 1 HIV/AIDS | 3 ethnicity Hepatitis C 6% diagnosis Asian | 1 Breast Cancer 0- Cardiovascular Disease | 1African-American | Diabetes | 0 Pacific Islander 1 3,530 Clients who are living with a critical illness applied to Project Open Hand with a referral from their doctor or medical provider Otherto receive Critical Illnessesnutrition | services. Middle Eastern COPD 1 7 Native AmericanOther Cancer 3 7 # OF REGISTEREDRussian 1 End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Decline to State / nknown | CaucasianHIV/AIDS 33 | 3 DIETITIAN OFFICE AND Transgender | Hepatitis C 6% diagnosis IN-HOME ASSESSMENT/atino 1 ethnicity Breast Cancer Female | 33 COUNSELING SESSIONS Asian | 1gender Male | 3 Cardiovascular1,227 Disease | 1 Diabetes | 0 African-American | Pacific Islander 1 Middle Eastern 1 Native American 3 HHH Russian 1 Caucasian 33 213 OF OUR CLIENTS Decline to State / nknown | atinoTransgender 1 | ethnicity IN 2019 WERE Asian | 1 MILITARY VETERANS Female | 33 gender Male | 3 HHH African-American | Pacific Islander 1 0-1 | 1 13-1 | 1 nknown | 1 0- | 1 OUR ON-SITE - | 1 NUTRITIONAL RESOURCES: Decline to State / nknown | 0 | TransgenderNUMBER | OF COOKING DEMOS: 111 AGE NUTRITION CLASSES: 14 Female | 33 gender Male | 3 0- -4- Other Critical Illnesses | COPD 7 Other Cancer 7 End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) HIV/AIDS | 3 Hepatitis C 6% diagnosis Breast Cancer Cardiovascular Disease | 1 Diabetes | 0 Middle Eastern 1 Native American 3 Russian 1 Caucasian 33 atino 1 ethnicity Asian | 1 African-American | Pacific Islander 1 Decline to State / nknown | Transgender | Female | 33 gender Male | 3 HOME-DELIVERED MEALS NUTRITION /GROCERY CENTERS We deliver meals prepared by our Clients shop for a week’s worth of professional chefs and overseen by our wholesome, nutritious groceries and Registered Dietitians to those who are pick up nutritious meals, approved by too sick or frail to shop or cook. our four staff dietitians at one of two Grocery Centers in Oakland and Our visits provide a vital wellness San Francisco. check and a warm social touch. 0-1 | 1 13-1 | 1 nknown | 1 0- | 1 - | 1 0 | AGE MOBILE OUTREACH SERVICES 0- Our weekly mobile service van eliminates barriers by providing groceries and produce, along with nutrition education and intake information to clients in their own neighborhood. -5- Other Critical Illnesses | COPD 7 Other Cancer 7 End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) HIV/AIDS | 3 Hepatitis C 6% diagnosis Breast Cancer Cardiovascular Disease | 1 Diabetes | 0 Middle Eastern 1 Native American 3 Russian 1 Caucasian 33 atino 1 ethnicity Asian | 1 African-American | Pacific Islander 1 Decline to State / nknown | Transgender | Female | 33 gender Male | 3 PROVIDING NUTRITIOUS MEALS IN A COMMUNAL SETTING TO SENIORS & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES Our Community Nutrition Program: TUESDAY 12 warm, nutritious 4,241 at 16 sites meals served Clients served across 365 days a year San Francisco 337 adults 90 3,813 seniors Speak 8 ith disailities LIVE BELOW THE ages 60 and up Languages ages 18 to 59 POVERTY LINE 30% of seniors live alone in San Francisco Source: SF Department of Disability and Aging Services -6- In Fiscal Year 2019, we served 7,862 clients. As more and more Californians face chronic disease with multiple diagnoses, we see growing wait lists for our services and sometimes have to turn people away. In order to help put more people on a path to wellness and restored health, we need additional long-term support. Will you make a commitment to POH today? www.openhand.org/donate -7- 2019 Highlights GILEAD SCIENCES FUNDS NEW FIRST OF ITS KIND NUTRITIONAL MEAL POH HIV NUTRITION PROJECT PILOT SHOWS PROMISE Project Open Hand has been working closely The California Food Is Medicine Coalition, of with a key partner in HIV prevention and which POH is a founding member, secured $6 support, Gilead Sciences. In 2019, Gilead million in funding over three years (2018-2020) funded a POH project to address nutrition and from the state of isolation of people living with HIV in San Diego California for medically and Los Angeles. tailored meals for Medi-Cal recipients. PROJECT OPEN HAND WELCOMES POH and its partners began administering ST. JAMES INFIRMARY TO POH medically tailored meals in 2018 for MediCal HEADQUARTERS recipients in urban areas of California with Along with the SF Community Health Center, congestive heart failure. The pilot is ongoing, Shanti Project and POH, the presence of St. and results appear to be positive. James Infirmary solidifies partnerships to serve the LGBTQ community, fighting for the equity of sex workers and trans people of color. OUR SIGNATURE ANNUAL EVENTS: JOIN US IN 2020 HAND TO HAND LUNCHEON Held every December, this festive celebration brings together our diverse community of supporters for a unique family style luncheon with courses prepared by award-winning Chefs. The event included an exciting live auction, raffle and fund-a-need donation drive. It was a successful event thanks to the support of our donors and volunteers. DINING OUT FOR LIFE, OAKLAND Dining Out For Life® is a national annual dining event that raises money for community-based organizations serving people living with or impacted by HIV. Project Open Hand was proud to be the Oakland host/beneficiary for the first time in 2019, the same year that our Oakland location celebrated 30 years of service in Alameda County.