Spring 2012
Getting by in golden years
N
ancy Delaney has had to
learn how to live without
worry. A former foster child
who fled an abusive husband,
she got news that she was to be
evicted and that she had breast
cancer in the same month in
2009. After sleeping on friends’
couches for months, she found a
place at Sojourner Truth Manor,
a senior housing community in North Oakland.
“Some people are worried
about their stocks going up and
down,” Nancy said. “I hear people
around here saying, ‘I’m thankful
I’m still above ground!’”
She and her neighbors are also
thankful for groceries from Mercy
Brown Bag, a Food Bank member agency.
FOOD IS MEDICINE
Mercy Brown Bag began
30 years ago, when seniors at
the Mercy Retirement Center in
Fruitvale noticed some of their
neighbors skipping meals to pay
bills that wouldn’t wait. In those
early days, they went door-todoor collecting donations.
Since then, the program has
grown to distribute 900,000
pounds of food each year — 85
percent of it from the Alameda
oldest members. “Sometimes,
you’re the only one with a roof,
and maybe only because it’s
subsidized. So you’re trying to
make ends meet with the same
amount of money, and more
mouths to feed.”
Even living alone can be a
challenge, as low-income seniors
have been hit hard by state budget cuts.
“The cost of transportation,
“I can’t say how many times the Food
medicine and rent have been
Bank has saved me at the end of the
increasing, all at once,” Nancy
month,”-- Nancy Delaney
said. “With food from the Food
County Community Food Bank.
Bank, I don’t have to worry about
The bags are still assembled by
how I’ll pay for dinner — and it’s
senior volunteers, now at 14 sites. an enormous difference.”
Program director Krista
When we visited her, Nancy
Lucchesi explained that choosing shared a baked apple with a little
between food and medicine is
cinnamon on top — an apple you
painfully common. Often, food may have packaged if you’ve
is medicine.
volunteered at the Food Bank
“Your doctor might tell you to recently.
eat more fruits and vegetables,”
“I can’t say how many times
Krista said. “But your budget
the Food Bank has saved me at
won’t stretch to get you five to
the end of the month,” Nancy
seven servings a day. The food
said. “It means so much when the
from the Food Bank gets you a money runs out, and you open
lot closer.”
your cupboard to see a can of
green beans, some spaghetti, an
MORE MOUTHS TO FEED
apple or two — knowing people
Krista said she’s seen
out there had you in mind and
households grow as families
hitting hard times turn to their
made this possible.”
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Community Harvest: Food Bank News
FROM THE DESK OF SUZAN BATESON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Providing for those who provided for us
Board of Directors
OFFICERS
Mike Moye, President
Hanson Bridgett Law Firm
Tarang Amin, Vice President
Schiff Nutrition International
Tracy Jensen, Secretary
City of Oakland
AGENCY REPRESENTATIVE
AND AT-LARGE MEMBERS
Jackie Steward
Greater Bethesda Church of God, Oakland
Rabbi Steven Chester
Retired – Temple Sinai, Oakland
Winifred Day
Fine Art by Day
Janet Egler
Union Bank
Doug Elefant
City National Bank
Sydney Firestone
Retired – Deloitte FAS LLP
Larry P. Ginsburg
Ginsburg Financial Advisors
Barbara Llewellyn
Barbara Llewellyn Catering & Event
Planning
Ralph Loura
The Clorox Company
Jan Markwart
Horizon Services, Inc.
Teena Massingill
Safeway, Inc.
Ted Monk
Sodexo School Services
Norma Mosley-Lampley, Ph.D.
East Oakland Ob-Gyn Medical Group, Inc.
Kenneth Porter
Greater New Beginnings, Oakland
Chuck Reinhard
Ernst and Young LLP
Beth Sawi
Retired – Charles Schwab & Co, Inc.
Dr. K.M. Tan
Retired – Kaiser Permanente
John Verber
Burnham Brown
The mission of the Alameda
County Community Food
Bank is to alleviate hunger by
providing nutritious food and
nutrition education to people in
need, educating the public, and
promoting public policies that
address hunger and its root causes.
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I
magine the line who spent their lives working to
at a food pantry provide a better future for us. The
painful truth, however, is that as
or soup kitchen:
our population ages, more will need
who do you
our assistance. Signs are there:
picture?
A man whose the number of seniors we helped
through our Emergency Food
unemployment
Helpline rose a staggering 22%
benefits have
Suzan Bateson,
from 2010 to 2011.
disappeared
—
Executive Director
but his daughter’s
AN ENGAGED COMMUNITY
hunger hasn’t? A woman working
While seniors are among our
— but not enough to afford a week’s
community’s most vulnerable, we’re
worth of meals?
also blessed by their engagement.
Your
They lead us to the steps
Seniors know
family? Parents
of the State Capitol at Hunger
or grandparents? the impact of our
Action Day (hint: this coming
May 17). They carve out their
It’s an image actions on future
retirement to serve on our
that seems
generations.
Helpline. They’ve packed
inconceivable,
tens of thousands of bags of food for
but is a stark reality for many.
our Children’s BackPack Program.
It’s painful to witness a line
It’s no surprise they’re so
of seniors waiting for a bag of
involved. They know the impact of
groceries. I can’t help but think of
our actions on future generations.
how hard it would have been to see
They serve as inspiration — and a
my grandmother Katharine in that
challenge — for us to work harder
line. Frankly, she could have been
and think smarter.
– she was too strong-willed to have
As far as I know, Grandmother
admitted it if she needed help.
Katharine never used a food pantry.
But thousands do every day. To
GROWING NEED
Seniors increasingly rely on the Katharine, who struggled to feed
Alameda County Community Food seven kids, food was more than
sustenance — it was love, life and a
Bank. Each week 9,000 people
hope for a better future. And I think
in their golden years — parents,
grandparents, neighbors and friends she’d be proud of my commitment
– and yours – that no table is left
— receive food from a Food Bank
empty.
member agency.
The stories are endless. A retiree
drained her life’s savings to pay
Help us end hunger! Tell us
medical bills. A man laid off at 62
about the stories and images that
— able to work, but no one willing
inspire you. Join our corps of 9,000
to hire. Seniors on fixed incomes
volunteers, attend a Food Bank
that can’t keep pace with the cost of
event, visit our Facebook page,
living. These are today’s realities.
and share your thoughts with the
community. It’s a simple thing you
Everyone deserves access to
can do today to help us end hunger.
nutritious food, especially those
Spring 2012
Community Harvest: Food Bank News
“CCA students learned a lot about food insecurity while helping to honor Food Bank staff, volunteers, and clients.
The two murals designed and painted by our students demonstrate how artists contribute creatively
to their local community.” -- Eduardo Pineda, Adjunct Professor, CCA and Muralist
When ‘food’ becomes ‘dinner’
CCA murals brighten, enlighten Food Bank warehouse
C
arrots, apples and beans.
Cans of soup and juice.
These common sights on the floor
of our Community Engagement
Center (CEC) are now adorning
the walls, too.
Currently, 1 in 6 people in
Alameda County rely on the
Food Bank — and the need for
emergency food has reached
all-time highs. Our community
of neighbors, local businesses,
schools, religious and civic
organizations has stepped up to
volunteer time equivalent to 32 full-time employees in the last year.
To honor that commitment,
students from California College
of the Arts (CCA) designed and
painted two murals depicting the
myriad connections among our
community of clients, volunteers,
member agencies, supporters
and staff. The murals were
installed in December, just in
time to celebrate the CEC’s first
anniversary early this year!
Through CCA’s innovative
service-learning program,
“ENGAGE,” students collaborate
with stakeholders — in this
case, Food Bank employees and
volunteers — to provide realworld solutions to community
organizations.
“Only an artist or a poet
can really capture the beauty of
the work that takes place inside
these walls,” said Client Services
Associate Jorge Rosales. Jorge
was part of a team from the Food
Bank who worked with the CCA
students to capture the changing
meaning food takes on as it leaves
our warehouse and reaches the
cupboards of families in need —
as “food” becomes “dinner.”
A second mural above the
shopping area for our member
agencies depicts the connections
among our community —
donors, volunteers, companies,
community partners —
illustrating the many hands that
touch our lives, often in ways we
don’t see.
VOLUNTEER. BE PART OF OUR COMMUNITY.
A great way to check out the murals firsthand is to visit us for a volunteer day!
Your help is urgently needed on weekdays.
Can you enlist your coworkers, church,
community group, family, school group or
book club for a morning or afternoon of
service?
Our 9,000 volunteers in the last year will
tell you: it’s a great way to learn more
about the Food Bank, have fun, and give
back! Call (510) 635-3663 ext. 308 or email
[email protected] to get started.
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Spring 2012
Community Harvest: Food Bank News
ADVOCACY UPDATE
Arm yourself with facts on food stamps
F
Spending on the
ood stamps
program will decline
were rebranded
naturally as the
as SNAP (the
economy improves.
Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance
Myth: SNAP is rife
Program) years ago,
with fraud and
but some stubborn
abuse.
myths about the
Reality: In 2010,
program just the Government
won’t die.
Accountability
Known as
Office found that the
CalFresh in
national rate of food
California, SNAP
stamp fraud declined
puts food on the
from about 3.8 cents
table for millions
per dollar of benefits
of families. Despite
SNAP now feeds nearly 1 in 4 children in America. Alliana’s parents both
in 1993 to a mere 1
their importance,
work full-time, but the cost of living in the Bay Area is high, and any
cent per dollar today.
nutrition benefits are
emergency can stretch their budget to the limit. They rely on CalFresh
(SNAP) to ensure that Alliana and her brother Alex eat healthy meals.
Myth: We can’t
now under attack
stop the cuts.
like never before.
expect to work. Children, seniors Reality: Despite a vocal minority,
Here are some common
arguments used to undermine this and people with disabilities a recent poll shows that 77% of
successful program. Arm yourself make up well over half
voters oppose cutting SNAP to
with the facts about food stamps: the recipients.
reduce government spending. We
Myth: It costs taxpayers too
can protect this vital program —
Myth: SNAP is a “hand out”
but we need your voice.
that keeps people unemployed. much.
A version of this article
Reality: Many of the households Reality: The benefits of food
stamps far outweigh their costs.
originally appeared in Hunger
receiving SNAP also earn a
Currently, paying for SNAP takes Advocacy News, our quarterly
paycheck. In fact, SNAP helps
less than 1 cent of every federal
advocacy action newsletter.
keep people off welfare by
helping families make ends meet budget dollar. On the other hand,
every $5 of SNAP generates
with low-wage jobs. Most new
$9.20 in economic activity!
applicants use benefits for eight
ONLINE ACTION
months or less.
Myth: SNAP is growing our
SNAP bridges the gaps in
national debt.
family budgets caused by lost
The Food Bank’s advocacy team has
jobs, fewer hours or lower wages Reality: SNAP is doing exactly
gone digital. Join our new email what
it
is
meant
to
in
times
of
that are so common during
alert list!
economic uncertainty: lessen
a recession. People can’t be
We’ll share late-breaking hunger
productive — in school, at work, poverty, and put food on people’s
tables.
policy news and political
or looking for work — if they
developments as they happen, along
SNAP
is
also
one
of
the
are hungry and fearful about not
with actions you can quickly take
having enough food to feed their fastest, most efficient forms of
from your computer or smartphone.
economic stimulus, because it
families.
helps maintain demand for food
Sign up for advocacy alerts at That said, most who receive
accfb.org/advocacy!
during
economic
slowdowns.
SNAP benefits are not people we
Web of activism
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Spring 2012
Community Harvest: Food Bank News
HUNGER HEROES
Tales of the pint-sized and the powerful
F
rom small businesses to small
people, we depend on our
community to find innovative
ways to help us alleviate hunger.
We call our supporters Hunger
Heroes because they inspire
others to take action. Here are
just a few of the stories we’ve
heard recently:
a nuisance, but Alameda County
libraries did double duty doing
good when they offered relief
for delinquent book borrowers.
Through Food for Fines, the
libraries gave patrons a break on
past-due fines in exchange for a
donation of non-perishable items
for the Food Bank.
All told, the libraries
collected 4,054 pounds of food
— equivalent to 3,100 meals —
for local families. Now that’s a good story.
huge success. They dropped off
five barrels full of food in the
weeks before Christmas!
By donating $5, people could decorate
their own ornament and place it on
the Oaklandish tree.
CROWDSURFING FOR A CAUSE
Duck Pond preschoolers proudly present
their $250 check to the Food Bank
PINT-SIZED PHILANTHROPY
You don’t need to be all
grown up to make a huge impact
on your community! The students
of Duck Pond Preschool proved
that during a recent visit to the
Food Bank.
After taking a tour to learn
all about the Food Bank, the
students surprised us with a
check for $250 they earned
during their holiday bake sale!
The generous and talented young
bakers told us that their favorite
bake sale items were the “worm
cookies” — which we’re sure
were delicious!
READ A GOOD BOOK RECENTLY?
That forgotten library book
on your shelf isn’t just collecting
dust — it’s collecting food for
the Food Bank!
Library fines might be a bit of
Bill and Susan (right) delivered five
barrels full of food from their
“Christmas Lights” food drive
BIG GIFT FROM CANDY CANE LANE
Bill and Susan of Queen
Anne Court in Union City
are known throughout the
neighborhood for their beautiful
holiday light display. But
when they realized just how
much attention their house was
attracting, they had an idea that
would make a huge difference for
their neighbors facing hunger.
This year, they decided to put
Food Bank food drive barrels out
front, asking for contributions
from the gawkers. Their notso-subtle hint turned out to be a
Oaklandish, a downtown
Oakland apparel company,
celebrates “local love and
original Oakland charm” — and
they proved their commitment in December.
Through their Give Back
Benefit concert, Oaklandish
brought together a lineup of
musical acts and raffle prizes
from local businesses as eclectic
as Oakland itself to benefit local
charities, including the Food Bank.
They also took donations in
their store throughout the holiday
season, collecting hundreds of
pounds and dollars to support a
worthy cause!
Thanks to these — and every
other hunger hero — for
making our work possible …
and fun!
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Community Harvest: Food Bank News
C
Chia Hamilton
Member,
Will to End Hunger Society
hia Hamilton has made giving
back a lifetime vocation. In the
early 1990s, her interest in exploring
our food system brought her to our
warehouse as a volunteer. She then
worked with food-justice groups in
West Oakland and Mexico.
Through it all, her commitment
to her local food bank remained
strong—we’ve been able to count on
her annual donations and shared many
events with her.
“No one should be hungry,” she
told us. “Especially children, whose
future holds so much more promise
with regular access to nutritious food.”
Now, Chia’s commitment will
extend beyond her lifetime. As a
member of the Will to End Hunger
Society, she has designated a bequest
to the Food Bank, ensuring that
beyond her years, her community has
access to healthy food.
To find out more about the Will
to End Hunger Society, call Kate
Berenson at (510) 635-3663 ext. 379.
Gifts
Given on Behalf of Loved Ones
Partial list of gifts received from July 1 to December 31, 2011
IN MEMORY OF
Alfred and Alice Alder
Carol Nelson
Muriel and Russell
Countryman
Ralph Countryman
Paul Crotty
Robert and Sydney Alexander Melanie Crotty
Penelope Goldsmith
Dad
Raghu Balasubramanian and
Carolyn Anderson Fryer
Anita Sastri
Matt Fryer
Raymond Ausmus
Dorothy Ausmus
B.D.’s mother
Andrew Schwarz
Baby Jessica Hanamura
William Hanamura
Phil Baptista
Machinists Automotive Trade
District Lodge 190
Katie Barber
Dianne Barber
Bassett Family
Mary and Petro Estakhri
Lorna Bastian
Stephen Harris, Ph.D.
Melville and Helen Behrendt
Melville Behrendt Jr. and
Valerie Ranche
Ted Bjerkan
Celia Bjerkan
Nicholas Botelho
David and Pamela Botelho
Michael Bothel
Thomas and Evelyn Heller
Lousie Thelma Kitty Breault
Alfred Harris
Lance E. Brown
Cordell Brown
Amy Bryant
Jeff Knoll
Jerry Daly
Scott and Kathy Law
Napoleon De La Cruz Santos
Desiree Santos
Louise DeMersseman
Susan DeMersseman and
Raymond Holbert
Atma Singh Dhillon
Jaspal Dhillon
Joseph A. Donovan Jr.
Kathleen J. Donovan
Mark Christopher Dostal
Don Dostal
Natasha Draper
Martha Tracy
Werner Goldsmith
Penelope Goldsmith
Lucy and Fred Goldstrom
Harley Goldstrom and Linda Kehoe Goldstrom
Sylvia Gomez
Neil and Judith Kellman
Hugh Gourdin
Leigh Gourdin
Eileen Gray
Toni and Santiago Casal
Bob Greene
Rochelle Thorne
Marvin Griebrok
Patricia Edgar
Shakuntala and SL Gupta
Reetu Gupta
Virginia T. Hadsell
John Hadsell
Mary F. Harmon
Michael and Rachelle Harmon
Charles G. Drickersen
Dr. D.A. Hedge
Deborah Drickersen Cortez and Gopal and Vani Hedge
Ian Haney Lopez
Virginia Hickey
Dallas Edgar
Bernard and Janis Bishop
Patricia Edgar
Caroline Hoffman
Danny Egler
Linda Hoffman
Janet and Dennis Egler
Carolyn Holbert
Steven Fenster
Susan DeMersseman and
Emily Fenster and Dora Dome Raymond Holbert
Erik Fitzpatrick
Erika Grove Hynes
Jenifer Dever
James and Donna Hynes
Florence
Odis L. Ivery
Marian Wolfe and Joyce Ivery
Scott Scheffler
Fred Jacobson
William P. Foley
Donald Waight
Jennifer Chang
David Chang
Edward Foster
Isabella Fahrney
Lilleo and C. P. Chen
Tso Chen
Cecelia Gaddini
Ann Foster
Rodolo Cheng
Mary Cheng
Harold Garton
Gail Coney
Children of Alameda County
Glen Boyer
Patricia Gillis Buyense
Michael Buyense
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Minnie Goldberg
Marcia and Walter Levy
Anonymous
Lisabeth Kaplan
The Kaplan Family
Bernard Karne
Jon and Liisa Hale
Kathy and Rosie’s mom
Kathleen Carrai
Jerry and Virginia Kehoe
Harley Goldstrom and Linda Kehoe Goldstrom
Frank Kellogg
Frank Holland
Bryan Kelton
Patricia Schwartz
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gayle and James Woodhead
Molly Kruger
Robert Kruger and Amy Kaminer
Paul Lanferman
Owen and Erma Smith
Kelly Smith Cole
Charlotte and George
LePoutre
Dennis Baldocchi and Nicole LePoutre-Baldocchi
Mrs. Rochelle Lester
William Lester, Jr.
Alfred Lutz Jr.
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Jack E. Macy
Nancy and William Levey
Marian Magid
Albert Magid
Daniel and Robinn Magid
Czar Marcevich
Helen Marcevich
Robert and Rickey
McCullough
I.V. and Minnie McCullough
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Kevin McGown
Matlie McLean
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Jack Blumenkrantz
Robert Blumenkrantz
Patrick and Ellen Coffey
Alyson Dinsmore
Margaret Freitag
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Brian Kataoka
Judy Law
Dennis Murphy
Pam Neuberg
Marc Pandone
Ben Phillips
Ellen Schulte
Catherine Sharp
Pat Silver
Timothy Simone
Ruth Wittman
David Wittman
Marion Mutry
Vera Ruffin
Siegfried Nussenbaum
Evelyn Nussenbaum and Hans Vogelstein
Joe Oakman – a wonderful
Kiwanian
Gerald Cockrill
Mary V. O’Malley
Kate O’Malley
Chad E. Ontai
Laura D. Mattos
Francis Jean Ottesen
Howard Davis and Kathy Ottesen
Lawan Pakabunto
Gary and Kanokwan Yee
Parents
Christine Dawson
Robert Glantz and Nancy Montgomery
Yana Parker
Mary-Ellen Mort, M.L.S.
Laura Patterson
Karen Eagan
Virginia Pierce
Patricia Edgar
Delvin Ranche
Melville Behrendt Jr. and
Valerie Ranche
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Barbara Giuffre
Anne and Harold Rybandt
Joyce Rybandt
Luis Santos
Erica Chiu
Encar Santos
Desiree Santos
Donald Schmidt
Karen McNamara
Aleena Schutjer-Mance
Kristen Schutjer
Barbara Ann Seibert
Harold Seibert
Betty Sellars
Jennifer Pahlka and Christopher Hecker
Phyllis Sheppard
Cheryl Sheppard-Tunsell
William Slingsby
Stephen and Rosanne Slingsby
Joan Songer
Liesl Songer-Nelson and
Thomas Nelson
Eugene G. Souza
Laura D. Mattos
Frank Souza
Machinists Automotive Trade
District Lodge 190
John Stewart
Andrew Stewart
Fred and Ruth Ann Summers
E. Elizabeth Summers
Sherman B. Sweeney, Sr.
Patricia Alves
Clifford Sweet
Diane Graydon
Anna Bell Tatmon Harris
Alfred Harris
Pete Taylor
Mary Renter
William N Taylor Sr.
Anonymous
Jeni Thams
Heather Thams
Les Thomsen
Richard Meiss
Dr. George Tiller
Shelley Sella and Julie Litwin
Konstantin Tomashevsky
Oleg Tomashevsky
Richard Toof
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Juanita B. Torres
Juanita Ortegon
Louise Tracy
Maria and Matthew Tracy
Tsung-Sheng Tsai
Tsais Family Foundation
Eleanor and Mary Tully
George Gagnon and Michelle Collary
Willie Turner
Ric Ricard
Paul A. Wade
Betty Hightower
Morley Walker
Sandra Ahn
David S. White
Noralee and George Alexander
Gordon Seligson
Dick Williams
Antonia Clark
Tony Wilson
Philip and Irene White
Paul Winnacker
Martha Winnacker
Chen Ching Yang
Tsais Family Foundation
John Brennan
Sarana Chen
Silver Lake
Rebecca Brewer and Brendan
Brownfield
Lillian Brewer
Brother
Rebecca Abrams
Brother and Aunt
William Hogan
Marty Rose and Chip Burkert
Trish Henry
Betty Burnham
Shari and Robert Burnham
Carolyn Cahill and Michael
Laufer on the occasion of
their Wedding
Daniel and Audrey Aljoe
Anonymous
Maia Cahill
Kevin Cahill
Georgia and Jesse Feldman
Matt Fidanque
Christie Fraser and Ned Ripple
Carol Goodman and Peter Robinson
Arthur and Annette Grollman
William King, D.C.
Irwin and Eleanor Kra
IN HONOR OF
David Laufer
The 99% who must struggle Shaheen Munir-McHill and
Grant McHill
to put food on their tables
Harold and Ettalee Pass
Michael Ubell and Rebecca Peters
Paula Hawthorn
Simon Pyle
Melvin and Oleta Abrams
Joshua Stephens and Aya Nitori
Rebecca Abrams
Milton and Sally Zlatin
Jennifer Abrams
Nicole Callis
Patricia T. Kelly
Scott Callis
Ron Acosta
Carolyn, Jon and Liz
Ronnie F. Acosta
Kathleen Carrai
Norm & Elena Agostino
Ann Carroll’s 80th Birtthday
Donna Williams
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Francie Agostino
Kanta Chauhan
Donna Williams
Nisha Chauhan
Val Agostino
Leung Cheng
Donna Williams
Chik and Chi Cheng
Jay Alexander
Annette Chinn’s 50th
J. Michael and birthday
Edith Ann Robertson
Elizabeth Backman
Roger and Rachel Chinn
Almaraz Family
Sarah and Robert Chinn
Susan Douglass
Joan Namkoong
Mike Altfest
Christmas
Raphael and Carla Danziger
Daphne Huey
Tarang Amin
Christy
Suzanne Hidekawa-Lane and
Nancy Powell and Joanne Wile
Jonathan Lane
Dr. Greta Clarke
Marge Atkinson
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Clients and Friends
Suzan Bateson
ID/Architecture, Inc.
Patrick and Liz Callahan
John and Nancy Callahan
Dency and Moira Nelson
Anne Bengtson and Jim Buser Clients
M. Dolores and Anne Bengtson Shub Financial Services
Xantrion
Graciela Benito and Jeff
Colleagues
Lindquist
Straty Righellis, DDS
Paul and Susan Lindquist
Conn-McLean Family
Anagha Bhatm and Sindhu
William and Suzanne McLean
Madhavan
Bheem Bhatia
Corpus Christi Elementary
School Staff
Pat Blanche
Nancy Powell and Joanne Wile Mary Mockel and Family
Corpus Christi Parish Clergy
Jim and Judy Blumenthal’s
and Staff
Anniversary
Mary Mockel and Family
Hanna Levenson
Laura Dahms’ birthday
Susan Bond
Kathleen Carrai
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Steve Blake
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Fred and Christy Dillemuth
Baby Djojonegoro and Jamie Dillemuth
Julie Do
Linh Do and Erno Pungor
Douglass Family
Susan Douglass
Downs Fishes and Loaves
Volunteers
Norma Mosley-Lampley, Ph.D.
DSPS Colleagues
Jeffrey and Emilene Fearn
Marjorie and Edward DuViv
Eleanor Dunn
East Bay Pediatric Medical
Group
Richard and Judith Oken
Michael Epple
Kyiakhalid Ruiz
Eva and Lauren
Anonymous
Family and Friends
Carole Bidnick
Dana Fox and Paul Langlie
Nelson Morgan
Karl Nichols and
Sherry Hu-Nichols
Franklin and Elizabeth Silver
Robert Fan
Chisun Fan
Maggie Feld
Nancy Powell and Joanne Wile
Sydney Firestone
Gordon Howie
Marck Rubin
Nancy & Ray Fisher
Amy Ahlers
Ramadan and Eid-ul Fitr
Syed and Lina Nazar
Colleen Fong and Carl
Stempel
Guido and Anne Stempel
Derrick Fong-Stempel
Colleen Fong and Carl Stempel
Dana Fox and Paul Langlie
David, Gloria and Jesse DaSilva
Margaret and
William Plageman
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Gilbert Family
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occasion of Hannukah
Florence Ginsburg
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Robin Hampton
Florence Ginsburg’s 90th
birthday
Hanna Levenson
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Paul Israel
The Goldstrom and Kehoe
Families
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Gorgeous Gals
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Grobmna-Howard Family
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Rick Hanson and Sharon
Serpic Hanson
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Holidays
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The Holy Spirit of God
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Johnson Family
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Flaherty on the occasion of
their wedding
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Lau Family
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Hanna Levinson on the
occasion of Hannukah
Florence Ginsburg
Hanna Levenson’s birthday
Florence Ginsburg
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Chanukah
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Spring 2012
Community Harvest: Food Bank News
Making food deserts bloom
Mobile Pantry program brings fresh fruits, veggies — and hope — to Alameda County “food deserts”
F
or most of us, a
weekly trip to the
neighborhood grocery
store is a part of our
everyday lives.
Make a list, grab
a cart, and know that
everything you need — a
crisp head of lettuce or a
bag of apples — will be
available at a store in your
neighborhood.
But for thousands
of people in our county,
healthy food may be hard
to find.
That’s where the Food
Bank’s new Mobile Pantry
program comes in.
in West Oakland — a
neighborhood notoriously
barren of grocery stores.
Nearly 200 households —
representing more than 700
residents — attended. As
they’ve done every month
since.
Each family takes home
a bag of nutritious food
— as large as 25 pounds —
completely free of charge.
In October, on the
heels of the McClymonds
success, a second mobile
pantry was launched
exclusively for students
at Oakland’s Laurel
Giovani takes a bag of oranges
Elementary, in cooperation
with Target’s Meals for
away. In Alameda County, 85
Minds initiative.
Food deserts don’t
percent of all food outlets are
Four-year-old Giovani picked
have outlets for fresh
fast food chains, corner stores
up some healthy food staples
and liquor stores. Some of our
produce and other
and a bag of fresh oranges with
neighborhoods — known as “food his mother, Beatriz, at Laurel.
healthy food … so the
deserts” — don’t have grocery
Giovani’s father works full time,
Food Bank brings that
stores or other outlets for fresh
but his paycheck isn’t enough
food to them.
produce and other healthy food … to pay the bills and always put a
so the Food Bank brings that food healthy meal on the table.
Mobile pantries bring nutrition to them.
“The food we get from the
into neighborhoods where fresh
The program launched last
pantry really helps us at the end of
food may be two bus transfers
July at McClymonds High School the month,” said Beatriz.
I want to help provide food for families in need in Alameda County!
Enclosed is my tax-deductible gift of:  $35  $50  $100  $250  Other $__________
 I commit to a monthly gift of $___________
My first gift is enclosed.
Name ____________________________________________________
Please charge my gift to my:
Address __________________________________________________
 Visa
City _________________________ State _______ Zip ___________
Card # _____________________________ Exp. Date _____________
Please make check payable to:
Alameda County Community Food Bank (or “ACCFB”)
P.O. Box 2599
Oakland, CA 94614
Name on Card __________________________ Sec # _____________
 MasterCard
 Discover
Signature _________________________________________________
Donate online at www.accfb.org.
Your donation is tax-deductible as permitted by law. The Food Bank will send you a receipt.
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