2012 Newsletter

Sustenance

Providing a reliable food supply so that no person in Pierce County goes hungry.

Mother Earth Farm, a program of Emergency Food Network

Executive Director’s Report

One meal can make a difference in someone’s life, and each and every one of us has the power to provide it.

January 1 to March 31st we saw 336,583 client visits to our partner food banks and meal sites and the number of people being served continues to increase. The mix of people needing assistance has changed. In years past, families would go to the food bank once a month or every other week to supplement their income. More and more of those same families need to go once or twice a week. Individuals are making choices between paying the rent or mortgage, buying necessary medicine or having enough food to feed their family. We have seen an increase in the number of seniors and families with young children needing assistance.

In 2010, EFN began purchasing truckloads of food to keep pace with the increasing need. This strategy allows us better pricing and the ability to select nutritious food. Thanks to the generous donations of our many supporters, our partner programs can count on a reliable, predictable supply of staple items.

To budget effi ciently, we are asking our donors to consider becoming monthly supporters. We recognize, for example, that it can be very diffi cult to write a $600 check, but committing to $50 per month is more manageable. Many lives would be touched by meals from EFN because of your monthly generosity.

You can provide meals for people in other ways:• Many of you receive our email updates and contact your legislators to

stress the importance of maintaining the state food assistance programs

in the budget. The Farmers Market Nutrition Program for WIC and seniors, School Meals, and the Emergency Food Assistance Program were all preserved. You made a difference in someone’s life.

• More and more of us are growing gardens than ever before. Did you know that all of your extra produce can be taken to your local food bank? I visited a neighborhood garden the other day in the north end of Tacoma and saw that two of the raised beds had “Food Bank” signs on them. All of the produce grown and lovingly tended by all the neighbors goes to the food bank closest to the garden. Farmer’s market-style fresh produce; it doesn’t get any better than that! Seeds will be available in all branches of Pierce County Libraries in May. You can make a difference in someone’s life, one tomato or zucchini at a time.

• If you have a fruit tree or trees in your yard, please register them with the Pierce County Gleaning Project (Page 5). You can also become your neighborhood’s coordinator and promote the program to your friends. In 2011, approximately 50,000 pounds of fruit and produce that would have been wasted was gleaned and distributed. That made a difference in someone’s life.

• There are volunteer opportunities at our warehouse and at our farm. One person or a group of most any size is welcome to come and assist. Without the many wonderful volunteers giving of their time we could not operate. Please consider this hands on way to make a difference in someone’s life.

Thank you for the power we have as a group to make a difference in hundreds of thousands of lives each year by supporting EFN and the more than 15.5 million meals that we provide annually.

-Helen McGovern, Executive Director

How you can helpOrganize a food and donation drive at your workplace, school, place of worship, or civic goup. Donation drives are more effective than food drives because EFN can turn $1 into $12 worth of food!

Donate money directly to EFN by mail or through our secure PayPal site that you can fi nd at www.efoodnet.org.

Designate Emergency Food Network through your workplace payroll deduction plan.

Volunteer at one of EFN’s projects such as Mother Earth Farm or our Repack Project. Contact (253) 584-1040 or volunteer@efoodnet.org for more information.

Plant an Extra Row (or more) of fruits and vegetables in your personal garden and donate your harvest to a local food bank.

Register your fruit tree online for gleaning by volunteers. www.piercecountygleaningproject.org

Make a planned gift through your will. Conact jeff@efoodnet.org.

In Pierce County, 15.1% of our population is food insecure and 20% of children do not get enough food to eat. In the United States 30% of all food, worth $48.3 billion, is thrown away each year. The Pierce County Gleaning Project exists precisely because of these two statistics. We work to connect the dots between hunger and waste.

We have all seen the results of food waste in our local communities- a neighborhood fruit tree ripens beautifully, only to have all of the

fruit fall and rot on the ground, uneaten. Meanwhile, many of our neighbors don’t have enough to eat. Diet related diseases in low-income populations are now on the rise due to reduced access to healthy foods like fresh produce. It doesn’t have to be this way!

Last year, the Pierce County Gleaning Project harvested over 29,700 pounds of fresh produce from neighborhood fruit trees, farmers markets, and local

Get to know one of the 67 meal programs

in EFN’s network!

From an interview with Stew Bowen of Bonney Lake Food Bank:

EFN: What is the name of your food bank?SB: Bread of Life Bonney Lake Food Bank.

EFN: What community do you serve?SB: We serve east Pierce County (anyone who comes to us).

EFN: How long have you been in operation?SB: 18 years.

EFN: Tell us a little bit about your program. (Who you serve, what it’s like, why you do it)SB: We serve lunch at 5 sites and supper at 1 site, we serve sack meal style and we are looking at another site to better serve the kids over the summer. Hunger does not stop because the last school bell rings.

EFN: What does EFN mean to your food program and the community?SB: EFN is vital to our success providing guidance, support, food, and encouragement. Without the support of EFN and other partners we could not serve the community in need with the variety or volume of items we are able to serve.

farms. This year, we expect to increase this number, and we need your help to do so.

What can you do? The Pierce County Gleaning Project, a collaboration between Emergency Food Network and Harvest Against Hunger, depends on volunteers to run these three main programs:

Neighborhood Fruit Tree Harvest: We can help you pick your excess tree fruit and donate it to a local food bank. If you have a fruit tree, register it online at www.piercecountygleaningproject.org or call (253) 383-5048. You can also volunteer to harvest trees in your neighborhood!

On-Farm Gleans: Gleaning, the ancient practice of harvesting excess food for those in need, is an important way for food banks to get produce. Every Friday morning beginning in June we host farm harvest parties starting at Mother Earth Farm in Puyallup. Email emily@efoodnet.org if you are interested in this opportunity.

Plant an Extra Row: When planning your garden this year, consider planting an extra row or crop for your local food bank. Every squash counts! Visit www.efoodnet.org for a list of food sites to donate your produce.

EFN is excited to welcome new staff member Elizabeth Chipps-Freeman. Elizabeth is our Associate Development Director, a new position created to bolster the organization’s efforts to gain more support throughout the community.

Elizabeth comes to EFN on the heels of her return from managing an orphanage in Kenya for three and a half years. The Dunga Orphanage Project is a nonprofi t organization dedicated to providing for the basic human needs of roughly 40 orphan children within a small AIDS ravaged village in Kenya. Most of these children lost both of their parents to the virus. Elizabeth managed

EFN Staff Profile

the fi nances of the orphanage and coordinated communication between sponsors and kids. In addition, she created many of the policies, set up a board, worked with the Children’s Department, and worked with teachers.

Her passion for serving in Africa started when she was young, after seeing a video in school about children in Ethiopia. “It just stuck with me,” she says. Knowing this, her mother invited her to hear a Kiwanis Club speaker who ran a nursery school in Kenya. Elizabeth met with the speaker and agreed to volunteer to fulfi ll her childhood dream. After six months in Kenya, Elizabeth knew she wanted to stay longer and applied for a permanent position with the Dunga Orphanage Project.

Experiencing another culture and helping kids at the orphanage is something that Elizabeth values tremendously, along with the opportunity to see elephants, her favorite animal. Still, she was happy to return to Washington to enjoy familiar foods and to shower under hot running water.

Why EFN? “It’s an organization that I believe is important and everyone working here seems very dedicated to the mission of the organization.” That is why after taking a month off after returning home, Elizabeth decided to interview and accept the position. It was easy for her to see the benefi ts of fi ghting hunger in Pierce County, and she found ties to the work she did in Kenya. “The guardians of the children, if they had them, couldn’t always provide basic essentials like food for the orphans,” she says, “so part of my job was making sure basic needs were always being met.”

Prior to Kenya, Elizabeth worked at the Seattle Children’s Home for two years as a Primary-2 Residential Counselor, working with children who were not yet ready for the foster care system. Many were teenager dealing with trauma, so the nurturing she provided would help get her clients to a place where they could succeed in foster care. Elizabeth grew up in Puyallup, attended Puyallup High School, and majored in Social Work at Seattle University.

“Development” at a nonprofi t of EFN’s size and scope encompasses a range of activities, including fi nding and securing major gifts from caring individuals, sustaining annual giving, writing grants, coordinating events, working with volunteers, connecting with corporations and local businesses, creating newsletters and other publications, maintaining a donor database, managing social media, and community relations. Development Director Jeff Klein has worked with Helen and various support staff to expand the budget in order to meet the increased need in our community, but a healthy, thriving organization needs a solid balance of multiple funding sources. Elizabeth will write grants and help on the public relations side, allowing for more of a focus on individual giving as a greater source of revenue. Our goal? More money for more food to alleviate hunger in Pierce County!

AbundanceAuction OCTOBER 27, 2012

$75 PER PERSON, $750 TABLE OF 10 $1,000 FOR A PATRON TABLESPONSORSHIPS AVAILABLE

SHARON MCGAVICK CENTER

CLOVER PARK TECHNICAL COLLEGE

LAKEWOOD, WA 5:30PM - 10PM

Abundance will feature a delicious dinner, exciting live and silent auctions, and a meaningful opportunity to give back to our community. Proceeds from this special night will provide food and essentials for low-income children, adults and seniors in Pierce County.

RSVP TODAY!Call 253-584-1040 or email abundance@efoodnet.org

Saturday, November 17, 20121:00pm - 4:00pm

Charles Wright Academy7723 Chambers Creek Rd W, Tacoma WA 98467

Bowl Sales benifi t EFNFree soup from area restaurants

Corporate/Civic partners are companies and organizations with a special tie to EFN. We will feature our corporate partners prominently whenever possible on our website, in newsletters, on Facebook, and anywhere else we can promote our partnership.

Bank of AmericaBoeingBusiness ExaminerChuckalsDaVitaFranciscan Health SystemGordon, Thomas, HoneywellKeyBankLaborWorksLakewood Police DepartmentLeMay Pierce County Refuse

Corporate/Civic Partners actively demonstrate a commitment to civic engagement and workplace giving.

Corporate/Civic Partner Program

Corporate/Civic Partners engage in our efforts to fi ght hunger in at least three of the following ways:

• Contribute $1,000 or more• Host a donation or food drive• Place a link to EFN on your

website• Have an employee involved on

EFN’s board or a committee• Purchase a table at EFN’s

auction for $1,000• Bring a group to volunteer at

EFN’s warehouse or farm

30th Anniversary Recognition Breakfast Honorees

Thir ty years of

3Silver Spoon Awards

United Natural Foods, IncRotary Club of Tacoma #8

Key Peninsula Lutheran ChurchMarsh Allen

The Gary E. Milgard Family FoundationAmerican Fast Freight

Totem Ocean Trailer ExpressSchnitzer

David P. Ottey Lifetime Achievement AwardCarrie Little, Little Eorthe Farm

Past Farm Manager of Mother Earth Farm

Retiring Board MembersMichael Hansch

John LongWalter Waisath, Jr.

MultiCare Health SystemMurray Pacifi c CorporationPacifi c Lutheran UniversityRoman Meal CompanyRotary Club District 5020SchnitzerStadium ThriftwayTacoma-Pierce County Association of RealtorsTucci & Sons

Current EFN Corporate/Civic Partners:

Food collected during a food drive hosted by American Fast Freight, one of EFN’s Silver Spoon Award recipients.

Each October, Tacoma Public Utilities’ Community Connection Leadership Team evaluates our programming and makes recommendations for the coming year. As part of that evaluation,

A Word from an EFN Volunteer

-Erika Tucci, TPU

we take a look at the most pressing needs in the community based on current call volume to 2-1-1. Utility assistance and food are consistently among the top needs in our community, so, it just made sense for us to direct employee volunteer resources toward hunger issues. We see it as another direct way we can help our customers.

We also noticed that many of our employee volunteers did not have large amounts of time to commit to volunteering. It better suited them to have several smaller volunteer opportunities throughout the year rather than just a few with a larger time commitment. EFN Repacks offer our employees a chance to get to know each other as they work. I’ve been in on some really funny conversations over a table full of frozen corn! We’ve noticed that volunteers love this opportunity. Each time we have a Repack on the calendar, we don’t even have to advertise it. People just ask when the next event will

VOLUNTEER

Distribution Warehouse:Groups of volunteers help out in our warehouse Monday through Saturday with a variety of tasks. Food sorting, order building, truck loading and unloading, and repacking are just a few of the important jobs that keep EFN running.

Volunteers are a signifi cant part of Emergency Food Network’s success. Whether it’s weekly, monthly or every so often, your willingness to help those in need is invaluable.

Mother Earth FarmVolunteers prepare the land for cultivation, plant seeds, weed the fi elds, and harvest food throughout the growing season. Once food is harvested it is immediately available for Pierce County feeding programs, often arriving within hours of harvesting.

Other Volunteer Opportunities• Administrative Needs: Mailings, data-entry, fi ling, typing, etc.• Special Events: EFN has several events throughout the year.• Community Outreach: Help educate the community about EFN.• Food Drives: Download EFN’s Food Drive Kit at efoodnet.org• Food Banks: EFN serves 67 sites that always need a helping hand.

VOLUNTEER!

For more information about volunteer opportunities contact Stephanie Genton at 253-584-1040 or stephanie@efoodnet.org

be and we keep a running list.

It also helps that our volunteers tend to be motivated and competitive. There have also been Repacks where the volunteers were so focused on working fast that the chatter was at a minimum. Volunteers have found their expertise, whether it’s bagging, taping or moving large boxes around. Our volunteers take their work seriously – no matter what it is, and they are very proud of the results! Each Monday after a Repack, someone will call, email, or stop by my desk to tell me how many pounds of what food they packed on Saturday. It has given our employees something fun to talk about around campus and there is an ongoing debate about the best type of food to repack. Naturally, it’s usually the heavy stuff!

Repacking food is a very tangible activity for our volunteers. They can see their results immediately. It has also been nice for our volunteers to see the full circle of food assistance in Pierce County. Our employees also volunteer with My Sister’s Pantry and FISH Food Banks. They see repacked food from EFN come through their hands as they work at these other agencies and the whole circle just clicks. We also had volunteers working at Mother Earth Farm last fall. So really, our employees have touched all aspects of the food circle in our community.

I like to think that this experience has made our employees more thoughtful members of this community. They now understand why it is important to donate items like peanut butter and tuna to food drives rather than whatever they may have on their shelf at home. They also seem more attentive to the needs of our community. Once a person has an understanding of the challenges related to the most basic needs, it is easier to understand how the entire puzzle fi ts together.

1. Fill a bag with food.2. Place it by your mailbox on May 123. Job well done! Your Postal Carrier will deliver the food to Emergency Food Network.

Saturday, May 12 marks the date of this year’s National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive. This event brings in over 300,000 pounds of food to help feed the hungry children, seniors and adults that visit food banks, shelters and meal sites 110,000 times each month. All of the food donated by the community is picked up by letter carriers and is collected, weighed, sorted, and distributed by EFN to local emergency food programs throughout Pierce County.

Sunday, October 7, 2012For more information visit:

www.associatedministries.org

What you can do...

Once upon a time (last year), in the land of books and publishing, Harlequin asked readers, authors and fans to help choose the recipients for the 2012 Harlequin More Than Words award—a national contest that recognizes and rewards women making extraordinary contributions to their community. After more than 111,000 online votes and 7,800 Facebook shares, the 2012 recipients of the eighth annual Harlequin More Than Words award were chosen – one being EFN’s own Helen McGovern! Each of the three honorees received $15,000 for her charity. The story continues as the three award winners are paired up with three of Harlequin’s authors to write short stories inspired by the life and work of the recipients. The short stories will be available in 2013 in ebook format to download at no cost (but alas, Fabio will not be on the cover with Helen).

More Than Words...

Maybe it’s true that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. This is certainly the case at Mother Earth Farm, where in January, Canyon Little succeeded Carrie Little as Farm Manager.

We are happy to welcome Canyon in his new role, and even happier that Carrie will stay involved with farm activities, including caring for the 8 bee hives that keep our produce bountiful.

Canyon spent the past two years learning the “ins and outs” of EFN’s lush, eight-acre organic farm, which provides 150,000 pounds of produce annually to roughly 27 food banks. These programs receive the food on the same day that it is harvested, so hungry families and individuals in Pierce County often receive better fruits and vegetables than the average person could purchase in the store.

Growing up, Canyon’s mom always had gardens, she was always opposed to genetically modifi ed produce, and she taught Canyon from a young age the importance of eating healthy and organically farmed food. The Littles settled in Puyallup and Tacoma when Canyon was 9 years old. He attended Western Washington University where he received a BA in Business with a concentration in Marketing. After managing some retail stores, he went to UW-Tacoma for a post-bach in environmental studies. When he fi nished school in 2009, he spent time helping at Mother Earth Farm, where he had volunteered since 2001. Carrie needed a farm assistant, and after a search, Helen McGovern, submitted Canyon’s name to the Board.

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Next Generation Growth at Mother Earth Farm

He learned about things like soil structure, crop rotation, cover crops, drip tape irrigation, harvesting seeds, seed germination, pruning fruit trees (thinning cuts and leading cuts), bees, cross pollination, and more, all of which prepared him to take over the farm when Carrie retired to work more on her family farm. Canyon wakes early each morning to grab the 6:15 bus from Mercer Island to King Street Station. The 6:50 Sounder Train gets him to Sumner, where he then bikes 25-35 minutes to the farm at 8am. At 4pm, he hops on his bike to return home.

Canyon says he is very optimistic about his new role at Mother Earth Farm “because it has so much potential to have an impact on the lives of people in need.” His goals are to increase production from 150,000 pounds of vegetables, fruits, and honey to 200,000 pounds annually. To do this, the farm will harvest on more days, use more volunteers, and work more closely with the Pierce County Gleaning Project coordinator. As always, Mother Earth Farm will rely heavily on a core of 8-10 women from the Washington Corrections Center for Women. For years, this group has provided the core hours and skills needed to keep farm operations going, receiving college credit for their efforts.

At EFN’s 30th Anniversary Breakfast on May 2, our community recognized Carrie with the David P. Ottey Lifetime Achievement Award for her work at Mother Earth Farm. She and David were a part of the farm from its roots.

Distribution Centers don’t have farms.That was the way it had always been until a meeting took place over breakfast at a restaurant in Bonney Lake in March of 1999. That meeting was between Doreen Johnson - the grandmother of an EFN volunteer who owned eight acres of farmland located between Sumner and Orting, and past EFN Director, David Ottey.

The land in question was part of twenty acres that had been “in the family” for more than 50 years, providing the owner’s family with vegetables during the time Doreen grew up and also serving as a source of income from vegetables sold at the Tacoma Market where her father dropped them off each morning on his way to work at The News Tribune. After Doreen’s parents died, the land was split into eight acres owned by Doreen, ten acres owned by her brother, and two acres that were sold. For more than a decade, Doreen leased her acreage to a valley grower, but decided that she wanted the land to do “something special” and offered to lease it at minimal cost to provide food for those in need. Although a radical idea in the larger emergency food community, EFN was well aware of the “seed to the table” approach of providing low-income folks with food. A deal was cut allowing for the project to be attempted, once two years of funding specifi c

to the project, was in hand. The funds were provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates, Ben B. Cheney, Fuchs Foundations and Grantmaker Consultants, Inc. In 2000 the project began.

Enter Carrie LittleIn 1993, Carrie became a volunteer at the newly formed Guadalupe Gardens urban community garden project. It was the goal of this group to provide fresh vegetables, free of charge, to homeless and low-income people in Tacoma by turning empty space in the economically depressed areas of that city into organic gardens. By the end of that fi rst season, Carrie had become “the farmer in charge” and by 1996, the project had grown from one lot to nine lots providing signifi cant produce not only to low-income individuals but also to the community’s largest food bank, St. Leo’s Food Connection, and largest hot meal site, The Hospitality Kitchen.

farm has produced more than 1,000,000 pounds. All of this food has gone into food banks and hot meal sites in Pierce County.

It’s not just about the food. It’s also about building community and giving people hope.It was Carrie’s idea to provide customers of local food banks with an annual survey to suggest crops to plant. Based on the results of the surveys and growing capabilities in the northwest, Carrie planned crops for the upcoming year.

It was Carrie’s efforts that developed a model program for the Washington State Department of Corrections, bringing crews of female inmates from the Purdy Correctional Center for Women to plant, weed, and harvest crops on a regular basis. The success of this program led to the development of a curriculum providing successful crew members with a certifi cate in organic farming from a local post-secondary school. It was also Carrie who was responsible for creating a fl ower garden at Mother Earth Farm that was tended by a Girl Scout Troop imade up of girls with mothers incarcerated at Purdy. While the mothers and daughters were not allowed to be at the farm at the same time, each could watch in the development of the labors of the other. The Girl Scouts delivered all of the fl owers to seniors in housing centers.

Carrie also worked to link local school district classes with volunteerism at the farm and to tie that work into the curriculum of those classes. One middle school student, when interviewed while weeding at Mother Earth Farm, was asked by The News Tribune columnist, Kathleen Merryman, how he felt about working on the farm. He responded by saying: “ I do things for my family when they tell me to, but this is different. It makes me feel good to do something for somebody I don’t even know. It makes me feel like I am not just taking up space.”

After so many years of hard work to foster a program with such a tremendous impact, it is time for the next generation to carry on Mother Earth Farm. We wish both Carrie and Canyon success.

EFN immediately sought out Carrie Little and offered her the daunting task of turning the high production, pesticide-riddled acreage into an organic farm. Carrie, having conquered the task of developing scattered urban organic gardens, accepted the offer of rebuilding soil and producing food that would go directly into the community’s emergency food system.

While not certifi ed, Mother Earth Farm uses

no non-organic materials of any kind in the production of fruits and vegetables. Since full acreage use began in 2004 (after four years of rebuilding the soil), the

2011 FOOD DRIVESThe following businesses and individuals held food drives for EFN in 2011, helping to accommodate the 110,000 monthly visits to feeding programs in Pierce County each month. We appologize for any names we may have missed. Thank you for your commitment to helping EFN ensure that no person goes hungry.

10,000-99,999pounds

1,000-9,999pounds

A Storage CenterBoeing CompanyDollar TreeFranciscian Health SystemGraham Kapowsin High School-ROTCJoint Base Public Works DeptartmentPoint Defi ance Zoo & AquariumTacoma General HospitalThe News TribuneTCCFTotem Ocean Trailer Express

American Fast FreightFallen Offi cers Food Drive - Lakewood Police DepartmentMcChord AFB Commisary

100,000 pounds and above

Fort Lewis CommisaryNational Association of Letter Carriers

999 pounds or less

Albertson’s - SteilacoomAldebaran CenterAlder CourtAmericanWest BankAPA - The Engineered Wood AssociationAspen ParkBolero Lanes Poker RoomBrass MonkeyCedar CourtChuckals Offi ce SuppliesDavita Inc.Dockyard Derby DamesDupont LibraryEatonville LibraryFidelity National TitleFiguresFire Station 5 TacomaFreddie’s Club FifeGig Harbor LibraryGraham LibraryGraymont Western USHarrison PrepInterstate Distributor Co.Kappa Alpha Theta - Delta Iota ChapterKey Center LibraryLakewood Career AcademyLakewood City HallLakewood LibraryLes Schwab TireMetro Parks Tacoma - Center at Norpoint

Milton/Edgewood LibraryMindy OnielMulitcare Social Work & Care ManagementNALS of Pierce CountyOlympia Occupational CenterOlympic Sports & Spine RehabilitationOrder of Eastern Star, Chapter #35Park Place ApartmentsParkland LibraryParks & RecreationPierce County Library AdministrationProgress Rail ServicesRound Table PizzaRusty’s Auto & Truck RepairSafeway - MiltonSchnitzerSlavonian American Benevolent SocietySouth Hill LibrarySpencer Air Craft & Safety In Motion Flight CenterSpring Tree AptSteilacoom LibrarySumner LibraryTacoma LibraryTacoma Musical PlayhouseUFCW Local 367University of Puget SoundUniversity of Wahington Tacoma Education ProgramUniversity Place LibraryUS Offi ce of Personnel ManagementWalsh TruckingWest Pierce Fire & RecueYMCA

Looking for a meaningful way to take action and a great opportunity to get involved? Food drives and fund drives raise awareness of hunger in the community, collect food for people in need, and play an essential role in the fi ght against hunger. Whether it’s your child’s school, your family’s church, your place of employment, your local Girl Scout Troop, or any other caring group, every item and dollar you donate to food drives makes a difference to a hungry person.

Let EFN help coordinate your efforts with posters, bins, and delivery and pick-up of items. Visit our website at www.efoodnet.org to download our Food and Fund Drive Coordinators Kit.

E -mail joanna@efoodnet.org or call (253) 584-1040 with any questions you may have about your upcoming food drive.

Host a Food/Fund Drive for EFN!

Donations $2,500-$4,999

Marsh & Helen AllenTimothy & Lauren AtwillBruce & Lauren DammeierAndie GernonBonnie KernBradley & Rebecca MaxaL. T. MurrayTodd & Teresa SilverJoel SnodgrassJohn Van Buskirk & Kitty-Ann van DoorninckDavid & Mary YoungBruce W. Gilpin Memorial Foundation Cooper Levy Trust/Union Bank Dimmer Family Foundation Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation KeyBank Foundation Mary Redman Foundation MultiCare Health System Pierce County Lawyer’s Helping Hungry Children Rotary Club of Lakewood St. John Bosco Church Stadium Thriftway State of Washington SuperValu TD Ameritrade Clearing The Baker Foundation United Natural Foods, Inc. Washington State Employees Credit Union Wells Fargo Foundation Windermere Foundation

Donations $5,000-$9,999

Bart & Berta BrynestadJack & Angela ConnellyHenry SchatzCynthia ThompsonBank of America Ben B. Cheney Foundation Catherine Holmes Wilkins FoundationDeFalco Family Foundation Lakewood Chamber of Commerce Muckleshoot Indian Tribe Nelson Family Foundation Rotary Club of Tacoma # 8 Safeco Insurance Schnitzer Simpson SL Gimbel Foundation The Bamford Foundation The Titus Will Families Foundation William Kilworth Foundation

Donations $10,000-$49,999

Darrell & Anne JesseOttie & Clara Kinner LaddCity of Lakewood Federal Emergency Management AgencyFlorence Kilworth Foundation George & Dorothy Babare Family Foundation Franciscan Health System Green Partnership Fund Boeing CompanyJ. R. Albert Foundation, Inc.L. T. Murray Family Foundation Lucky Seven Foundation Medina Foundation Murray Pacifi c CorporationSafeco Insurance Foundation Tacoma Pierce County Association of RealtorsThe Hendrix Foundation The Norcliffe Foundation Transportation Club of Tacoma Ueland Foundation Walmart Foundation Weyerhaeuser Company

Donations $50,000 and above

City of Tacoma Gary E. Milgard Family Foundation Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Foundation M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Pierce County Puyallup Tribe of Indians State of Washington Tucci & SonsWashington Women’s Foundation

2011 DONORSThe following individuals and businesses are active participants in the system of generosity required to help those less fortunate in our community. We appologize for any names we may have missed. Thank you for your commitment to helping EFN ensure that no person goes hungry.

In 2011, EFN distributed 13.1 million pounds of food valued at $16.1 million to 67 food banks in Pierce County.

Donations $500-$999

Jesse AllenRobert AllenMargaret ArcherAl & Aileen BaconDaniel & Mariam BarnettJonathan & Kristine BartelsWolfred & Marlene BauerAaron BemillerConstance BenderCharles BinghamJames & Elaine BrockAaron BrooksWilliam & Sandraki Cammarano, Jr.Don & Gretchen CampbellEllie ChambersMeiling ChiWinston ChurchillDennis & Patty ClarkShelley ClaytonJames ColburnJoan EisenhardtLynn Epstein & Allan EpsteinTerry & Kay EstvoldKaren FischerBill & Betty Fleming & Lise McKinneyJohn Folsom & Mary Folsom-LobrovichAusten FreedaMargaret GarrisonJames & Cathy GisteNeil Gray & Meagan FoleyJohn & Jennifer GuadnolaDavid & Darlene HaleVeronica HamlingJoseph & Kathryn HammondKellen HarknessMichael & Susan HarlanMary Healey & Ruth CornwallMack HogansAndrea HynesMichael & Debi JacksonCharles & Sheryl JacobsonDonald & Mary JohnsonElizabeth Lee JohnsonSieglinde JohnsonWild Bill Jones & Dyann Lyon

Gretchen JordalDebra KelleyAnthony & Kathy KimRon & Margo KleinJohn & Evelyn La FondRod & Shelley LaddWilliam & Martha LarkinSteven & Lois Ann LarsonDave & Kim LawsonPeter & Jiffy LemckeKim LintottMargery LovelyMary LyleGary & Linda MattesonKenneth MatthewsKenny MayneGreg & Melanie McFarlandC & J McNeelyGlen Mills & Angela CassedyRita MorkridRick & Joan MyersMary NadeauSheila OgburnWilliam & Patricia O’GradyMichelle OstStanley & Sharon PalmerNeel Parikh & Patricia GuySteve & Therese PasquierBrain & Patricia RandallWilliam & T.L. ReidDennis & Suzanne SchmidtJon Seward & Joanne HenrySurinderjit & Sukhjiwan SinghGeorg Smith & Gail PersteinKyle & Gayle SmithAaron Sparks & Emily RitterGeorge & Mildred StebbinsSara SteelTroy & Jean TackettDean & Barbara TankersleyBrewer & Joanne ThompsonMark TranGwen Turbyfi eldJohn & Marcia VaccaroCarol VandervortNeal & Karen VeitenhansLisa WagnerKenneth & Sheila WagonerWalt Waisath & Linda Shaffer

James & Sally WillJoseph & Elizabeth WilliamsThomas & Marlene WisslerRobert & Michie YamashitaAmerica’s Credit Union Ann and Peter Darling Fund Apple Physical Therapy Arthur Foss Foundation Automated Systems of Tacoma, LLC Cirquetrie Concrete Technology Corporation Connelly Law Offi ces Cutco Closing Gifts DalBalcon Gift Fund Edward P. and Juanita J. Miller Fund Heritage Bank Olympia Island Tug & Barge Co Kiwanis Club of Tacoma Kopperstone Family Outreach Lawyers Helping Hungry Children Mailhandlers Services, Inc. Margy McGroarty Endowment Fund Military Order of World Wars Murphy and Company Museum of Glass NMRA, The Tacoma Clinic Northwest MHP Pierce County Mustang Club Professional & Techinical Employees Public Safety Employees Insurance, Inc Puget Sound Energy Quota Internationa of Tacoma Schuler Properties Schwab Charitable Fund Sound Screening Services St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Sterling Savings Bank Superior Linen Service Tacoma Grocery Outlet Tacoma Public Utilities Tahoma Associates The Cafaro Foundation The Hyde Family Foundation Thomas Capital Group Ticor Title Tom Taylor Insurance Brokers, Inc. Two Labs Charitable Fund Wells Fargo

Donations $1,000-$2,499

Janet AshJulian & Stephanie AyerPaula & Donald BallantyneDavid & Janet BeMillerEd & Carmen BrooksJudith BumbaughDan ClarkBrian & Sydelle DenmanDanny & Amy DeWaltWilliam Driscoll & Lisa HoffmanMichael & Liz DunbarTalmage & Mary EdmanSusan EidenschinkSteven & Bertha FitzerBruce FunkhouserCorina GoingWilliam HarrisonCharlean HillBill HoltChris HruzaJames & Eileen KelleyBruce & Sara KendallClyde & Sydna KoontzWayne & Sally LarsonDiane LeeJohn & Sara LongMary LongWilliam & Janice LudwigJerry McLaughlinLarry & Susan MeanyMichael Mirra & Nancy SprickDeena MoodyJamie & Sandra MurrayToby & Laurie Murray

Guy & Gloria NeffDonald & Phyllis Ann NidekSara Offi cerEugene PearsonPeter Philley & Monica BulterAaron & Liana PottsChristine Quinn-BrintnallMichael & Colleen RogersJohn RowleyDaniel SargentCarolyn SimonsonJerry StantonL.T. StiebenBuck Thompson & Joanne TitusRobert & Mary ThompsonMike & Mary Jo TucciChuck & Deedra WalkeyRoger WellsGeorge & Wendy WeyerhaeuserNancy WoodworthJanessa Michelle WrightJohn XitcoDavid & Barbara YoungCharles & Madelyn ZimmermanAbsher Construction Allison Foundation American Family Insurance APM Terminals Pacifi c Ltd. Christopher Kimball Financial Services Chuckals, Inc. D.V. & IDA McEachern Charitable Trust Davies Pearson, P.C. DaVita, Inc Charity Committee Diane and Fred Matthaei Gift Fund Dwyer Pemberton & Coulson P.C. Financial Insights Inc. GKT Motorcars Gordon Thomas Honeywell

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For every $1 donated Emergency Food Network Distributes $12 worth of food for low-income families and individuals.

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Greg PiacitelliPeter PorietisPaul & Kaaren PorterStephen PoteetMichael & Kelly PothNancy PowellPamela PowellKen & Vicki PowersDebbie Price & Mike CorcoranBarbara RacinePhyllis RaderAnniley RaihlEd & Sharie RamosCarol RandallAllen Ratcliffe, PH.D.Barry & Rebecca RayLinda RaymondDave & Barb ReamesLeo & Debbie RegalaRobin & Linda RegoMark & Lori ReimanBryan & Nicole ResslerDouglas & Charlene RichardsonMarguerite Richmond & Tam JacksonAlfred RicksJohn & Gayle RieberGregory & Diana RigelmanRussell RiggsSean RimkusAnthony Rivera & Lori MilgardJeffrey Robinson & Mary DickeMike & Julie RobinsonRosemarie RobinsonJohn RodgersNina RookJaqueline Rosenblatt & Garold JohnsonErik RossumSandra RoszmanJohn & Mary RowlandsWilliam & Sandra RuddKirk & Sharon RueWilliam & Pamela RychartJoy SageMichael & Deborah San SouciePhillip & Jean SanbornSpencer Sandberg & Lei Lani Jackson LeeMike & Ann SandersSothary SangPaul SassNorman & Lina SatherLarry & Sally SaundersLeo ScafturonAngelo & Linda Scalici

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In 2011, there were 1,285,903 visits to food banks in Pierce County. You can make a difference in the lives of hungry children, seniors, and adults.

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