West Side Campaign Against Hunger
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<strong>West</strong> <strong>Side</strong><br />
<strong>Campaign</strong><br />
<strong>Against</strong><br />
<strong>Hunger</strong><br />
ANNUAL REPORT 2008
Our Mission<br />
Through a supermarket-style food<br />
pantry, the <strong>West</strong> <strong>Side</strong> <strong>Campaign</strong><br />
<strong>Against</strong> <strong>Hunger</strong> alleviates hunger<br />
and creates a culture that promotes<br />
self-reliance and works for change.<br />
The <strong>West</strong> <strong>Side</strong> <strong>Campaign</strong> <strong>Against</strong><br />
<strong>Hunger</strong> changes our perception<br />
of hungry people by working in<br />
partnership with them, providing<br />
food with dignity, and empowering<br />
customers to find solutions.
Dear Friends,<br />
As I write this, New York City is at the center of a world<br />
financial crisis. Workers are being laid off from Wall<br />
Street to Madison Avenue. Government is forced to spend<br />
billions to bail out banks and insurance companies.<br />
Who is helping the hungry?<br />
In 2007 we served an average of 135 households a day. Now it’s 200.<br />
WSCAH is seeing a 60% increase in first-time customers<br />
over a year ago.<br />
In 2007 we provided food for an average of 3000 meals a day. Now it’s 4000.<br />
We are facing extraordinary times—need is increasing and funding for emergency food programs is<br />
threatened.<br />
Yes, a time like this is frightening, but it also provides an opportunity to develop new solutions.<br />
WSCAH is involved in the development of new policies to overcome hunger, to eliminate “food<br />
deserts”, to bring local farm produce to cities, and to increase physical exercise and eliminate obesity.<br />
It is vital that <strong>West</strong> <strong>Side</strong> <strong>Campaign</strong> <strong>Against</strong> <strong>Hunger</strong> remains a warm and welcoming place that has<br />
sufficient food to meet the increasing need and does not turn people away. Most of our customers are<br />
families with children (53%), the elderly (16%), and working people (26%) whose earned income is<br />
insufficient to meet their basic needs.<br />
Yet even in these tough times, our strength-based organization has much to be proud of, and<br />
grateful for:<br />
Our customers continue to volunteer to run the store. They bring in deliveries, stock shelves,<br />
staff the check-out counter, and break down boxes to serve nearly 200 customers a day.<br />
Our social service staff meets with all new families and helps resolve the problems of those<br />
who are having difficulty.<br />
The partnerships we have developed with social service agencies allow us to refer our customers<br />
for food stamps, health insurance, housing, child care, and educational or employment needs.<br />
Eleven agencies provide their services on site at WSCAH, making it easier for families<br />
to gain their service.<br />
Most of all I am grateful to those who support WSCAH and help us grow and innovate. Without<br />
your support we would not be able to meet the increasing challenge. With your help, we<br />
will create a better future.<br />
Doreen Wohl<br />
Executive Director<br />
years of fighting 30 hunger 1979-2009<br />
Letter from the Executive Director
1 Supermarket-Style<br />
Customer Cooperative<br />
What “Feeding the Whole Person”<br />
Means at WSCAH<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Side</strong> <strong>Campaign</strong> <strong>Against</strong> <strong>Hunger</strong> (WSCAH), now<br />
in its 30th year, is unique in its approach to hunger. Our<br />
goals are both fulfilling immediate needs with dignity and<br />
offering a pathway to self-sufficiency. WSCAH invented<br />
the customer cooperative approach to emergency<br />
food. WSCAH’s strength-based program treats our<br />
customers respectfully: they choose their own groceries<br />
supermarket-style from nutritious food on shelves rather<br />
than receiving pre-packaged supplies. WSCAH makes<br />
use of its emergency-food contact with its customers to<br />
connect them with long-term help.<br />
A Cooperative<br />
of Mutual Respect<br />
WSCAH functions as a customer cooperative, promoting<br />
mutual respect and dignity. We are open to all New<br />
Yorkers in need. The majority of our volunteers are<br />
customers who choose to give back by offering their<br />
time. In FY 08, customers worked a total of 16,382<br />
hours. Four customer volunteers serve on the Board<br />
of Directors. Five of our current full-time staff are<br />
former customers. WSCAH also welcomes volunteers<br />
from the community and from neighboring schools and<br />
religious congregations. Volunteers help receive food<br />
deliveries, stock shelves, bag bread, break down boxes,<br />
assist customers, work checkout, and much more. The<br />
cooperative model engages customers in employmentrelated<br />
training and serves as an informal mental health<br />
support network for those who may battle depression or<br />
isolation at home. WSCAH convenes discussion around<br />
advocacy issues and working collectively to eradicate<br />
hunger and poverty.<br />
Nutritious food and the power to improve your life
Volunteer Marina Araujo<br />
In 2008, WSCAH provided 85,000<br />
customers with enough food for<br />
673,050 meals.<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Side</strong> <strong>Campaign</strong> <strong>Against</strong><br />
<strong>Hunger</strong> began in 1979. In<br />
1993, WSCAH created the first<br />
customer-choice, supermarketstyle<br />
food pantry in the United<br />
States, becoming the model for<br />
other programs across<br />
the country and internationally.<br />
1979 n Founded by the United Methodist Church<br />
of St. Paul and St. Andrew, in cooperation<br />
with neighborhood churches and<br />
synagogues.<br />
1993 n Reorganized as customer-cooperative<br />
supermarket. Customers shop for their<br />
food and help run the store.<br />
n Partnered with farm cooperatives,<br />
to make fresh fruits and vegetables<br />
available.<br />
2000 n Began social service counseling and<br />
referral.<br />
n Initiated cooking and nutrition<br />
workshops.<br />
n Started health insurance counseling.<br />
n Initiated computer database program to<br />
improve counseling and referral services.<br />
2001 n Launched WSCAH Wellness Workout,<br />
integrating exercise classes, chef training<br />
program, and nutrition education.<br />
2003 n Developed strategic plan in partnership<br />
with McKinsey & Co. and Robin Hood<br />
Foundation.<br />
2005 n Completed extensive renovation of<br />
pantry and program offices.<br />
2007 n<br />
2008 n<br />
Partnered with 20 other social service<br />
agencies for effective referrals.<br />
n Created extensive Resource and Referral<br />
Guide with more than 600 contacts.<br />
n Initiated English as a Second Language<br />
classes.<br />
Piloted on-site food stamp enrollment with<br />
the Human Resources Administration.<br />
A Tradition of Innovation
2<br />
Social Services<br />
A Tireless Advocate for Our Customers<br />
As a as an innovator and pioneer, WSCAH serves our<br />
clientele and community with a strong, experienced advocacy<br />
network that reaches out to government, foundations, and<br />
civic groups to help improve lives in our community and the<br />
entire city. We also help other organizations enhance their<br />
services based on our proven systems.<br />
In addition to our innovative supermarket-style food<br />
pantry, WSCAH offers a broad range of social services.<br />
Counselors become the gateway for connecting customers<br />
to hundreds of resources, spanning 34 different areas<br />
of need. Whether it’s information and referral or more<br />
intensive case management, counselors engage customers<br />
to find practical solutions with the hopes of gaining<br />
longer-term financial stability and overall wellness for<br />
their families and communities.<br />
Counselors assess all food pantry customers on their first<br />
visit to the food pantry and then regularly as required to<br />
help them toward self-sufficiency. Customers are more<br />
likely to gain additional support services after repeated<br />
visits with counselors.<br />
Through WSCAH partnerships,<br />
counselors connect customers with<br />
services like health care, food stamps,<br />
and job training, many of them<br />
available on site.<br />
We empower people to take control of their lives
Haydeth and Erick<br />
In 2007, Haydeth, a single mom of three living in<br />
East Harlem, referred her 14-year-old son Erick to a<br />
WSCAH counselor because he was failing in school and<br />
unresponsive to direction and discipline.<br />
Due to her limited knowledge of English, Haydeth had<br />
trouble understanding Erick’s homework and couldn’t<br />
assist him. José, a WSCAH counselor, tutored Erick<br />
three times a week for a month. Having observed Erick’s<br />
consistent attendance and dedication, José then enrolled<br />
him in an evening tutoring program. As a result, Erick’s<br />
grades improved significantly, and he was accepted into a<br />
competitive high school last fall.<br />
In addition, Haydeth, who has been a regular WSCAH<br />
volunteer, participated in WSCAH’s ESL class in spring<br />
2007. She graduated to an intensive advanced class at the<br />
College of Mount St. Vincent’s Institute for Immigrant<br />
Concerns. With her greatly improved English proficiency,<br />
Haydeth translates for Spanish-speaking customers while<br />
volunteering in the pantry or at reception. She is also<br />
participating more in Erick’s and her other children’s<br />
schoolwork. José has helped to enroll the children in<br />
summer camp and Head Start programs.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. B<br />
Spotlight<br />
After arriving from the Caribbean, Mr. and Mrs. B were<br />
living in a homeless shelter and receiving the minimal<br />
allotment in public assistance and food stamps. Both were<br />
highly motivated to advance their education and to return<br />
to work.<br />
Mrs. B, who suffers from a chronic ailment, was referred<br />
by WSCAH counselors to a nearby neighborhood clinic<br />
and a women’s support group to gain access to quality<br />
medical services. We also referred her for free career<br />
training and job placement. As a result, Mrs. B graduated<br />
Volunteer Haydeth<br />
Erick, son of Haydeth<br />
from Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) training, where<br />
she was hailed as one of the most dedicated students.<br />
Currently working as a Home Health Aide in a local<br />
nursing home, Mrs. B plans to upgrade her job upon<br />
passing the state CNA exam.<br />
Mr. B, who is taking computer training at a Manhattan<br />
institute, hopes to advance to higher level courses. Since<br />
working with WSCAH, Mr. and Mrs. B have left the<br />
shelter for a public housing apartment in Manhattan.<br />
Social Services Counseling
3 Wellness<br />
We don’t just provide food, we help people live healthier lives.<br />
WSCAH promotes healthy life styles by offering daily<br />
exercise classes, cooking demonstrations with pantry<br />
foods, and nutrition workshops. WSCAH’s 12-week<br />
Customer Chef Training Program instructs customers on<br />
the basics of culinary arts and healthy, budget-conscious<br />
meals at home or for larger groups. Of the 94 students<br />
enrolled in the Chef Training classes since 2001, 86<br />
have graduated, 58 are working and have increased<br />
their income, and 26 have enrolled for available benefits<br />
such as food stamps. Three-quarters of our customers<br />
are Hispanic. Often Spanish is their primary language.<br />
WSCAH offers free English as a Second Language<br />
classes with a focus on improving oral proficiency. Of the<br />
86 students enrolled in FY 08, all improved their English<br />
and one student gained U.S. Citizenship. Of students<br />
who enrolled with employment-related goals, many<br />
reported securing new or improved work status.<br />
WSCAH helps its customers learn about good health and how to improve<br />
their English.<br />
Promoting healthier living
EUGENIA<br />
Eugenia, a married mother of two, has been a WSCAH<br />
customer for several years and graduated from the<br />
Chef Training Program in 2006. Now a baker by trade,<br />
Eugenia has worked many hours at catering events<br />
through WSCAH.<br />
Through our partnership with the Columbia University<br />
Head Start program, Eugenia landed a part-time job<br />
as an assistant cook last fall. This spring, she enrolled<br />
in WSCAH’s ESL class. While at work, she initiated a<br />
conversation in English with the Head Start Executive<br />
Director. He was so impressed with her initiative, he<br />
referred her for a full-time position.<br />
Eugenia began her new job with a significantly higher<br />
wage and benefits—and she continues to improve her<br />
English every day.<br />
BETTY<br />
Spotlight<br />
Betty, a single woman who works as a child care provider,<br />
first came to WSCAH in 2007. Suffering from chronic<br />
diabetes and high blood pressure, Betty had been told by<br />
her physician to lower her sugar and sodium intake.<br />
Betty enrolled in WSCAH’s Customer Chef Training<br />
Program and learned new skills for preparing healthy,<br />
affordable meals. After graduating from the program,<br />
Betty reported that her blood pressure and diabetes<br />
had stabilized and she lost weight. She was also able to<br />
increase her income by cooking for her employer.<br />
ESL at WSCAH<br />
Better and Healthier Lives
Statement of Activities<br />
STATEMEnT OF ACTIvITIES<br />
FOr THE YEArS EnDED JunE 30, 2008 2007<br />
Temporarily<br />
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total<br />
rEVEnuE AnD SuPPOrT<br />
Program services 464,722 464,722 409,140<br />
Foundation grants 139,250 555,000 694,250 605,700<br />
Corporation grants 25,964 25,964 2,355<br />
Religious and other institutions 38,076 38,076 52,495<br />
Individual contributions 159,429 159,429 113,777<br />
Legislative grants 44,000 44,000 20,000<br />
Donated food 385,048 385,048 431,829<br />
Donated space 24,795 24,795 20,000<br />
Interest income 14,885 14,885 15,142<br />
Other 2,087 2,087 1,731<br />
1,298,256 555,000 1,853,256 1,672,169<br />
Net assets released from restrictions 544,526 (544,526) - -<br />
Total Revenue and Support 1,842,782 10,474 1,853,256 1,672,169<br />
EXPEnSES<br />
Programs 1,471,152 1,471,152 1,428,685<br />
General and administrative 88,326 88,326 81,842<br />
Fundraising 91,875 91,875 34,315<br />
Total Expenses 1,651,353 - 1,651,353 1,544,842<br />
Change in Net Assets 191,429 10,474 201,903 127,327<br />
nET ASSETS<br />
Beginning of year 480,745 163,045 643,790 516,463<br />
End of Year $672,174 $173,519 $845,693 $643,790
By working together we meet our collective organizational goals.<br />
An Illustrious Group of Partners<br />
To meet all the needs of our customers, WSCAH has formed a wide range of strategic<br />
partnerships with various programs, community groups, and philanthropic organizations.<br />
GOvERnMEnT<br />
NEW York CITY:<br />
Department of Health/Community<br />
Service Society<br />
Department of Youth & Community<br />
Development<br />
Human Resources Administration<br />
City Council Discretionary Grant,<br />
Gale Brewer<br />
Borough President Scott Stringer<br />
NEW York STATE:<br />
Department of Health/<strong>Hunger</strong><br />
Prevention Nutrition<br />
Assistance Program<br />
Assembly Discretionary Grant,<br />
Linda Rosenthal<br />
Senate Discretionary Grant,<br />
Eric Schneiderman<br />
FEdErAl:<br />
Emergency Food and Shelter<br />
Program/United Way of<br />
New York City<br />
United States Department of<br />
Agriculture<br />
FOUnDATIOnS<br />
The Achelis Foundation<br />
America’s Second Harvest<br />
The Corella & Bertram F. Bonner<br />
Foundation<br />
Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc.<br />
Mazon: A Jewish Response to<br />
<strong>Hunger</strong><br />
The Robin Hood Foundation<br />
Taproot Foundation<br />
Venable Foundation<br />
CORPORATIOnS<br />
Advanced Computer Technological<br />
Information<br />
Bloomberg LP<br />
Citadel Group Foundation<br />
City Hall Restaurant<br />
Extell Development Company<br />
Jefferies & Company<br />
JP Morgan Chase Foundation<br />
Labaton Sucharow LLC<br />
Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation<br />
Whole Foods Market<br />
RELIGIOUS InSTITUTIOnS<br />
The Brick Presbyterian Church<br />
Broadway United Church of Christ<br />
Christ & St. Stephen’s Episcopal<br />
Church<br />
Church of St Paul & St Andrew<br />
United Methodist<br />
Church World Service, Crop Walk<br />
Congregation Ansche Chesed<br />
Congregation B’nai Jeshurun<br />
Congregation Habonim<br />
Congregation Rodeph Sholom<br />
Evangelical Lutheran Church<br />
in America<br />
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church<br />
Fourth Universalist Society<br />
Global Ministries, United Methodist<br />
Church<br />
Jewish Theological Seminary<br />
Presbytery of New York City<br />
Rutgers Presbyterian Church<br />
Second Presbyterian Church<br />
St. Michael’s Church<br />
<strong>West</strong> End Collegiate Church<br />
<strong>West</strong> End Presbyterian Church<br />
<strong>West</strong> Park Presbyterian Church<br />
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah<br />
COMMUnITY<br />
ORGAnIzATIOnS<br />
Coalition for a Livable <strong>West</strong> <strong>Side</strong><br />
Columbia Community Service<br />
Mitchell-Lama Residents Coalition<br />
Parents Association of the Calhoun<br />
School<br />
Valley Restoration Local<br />
Development Corp.<br />
FOOD DOnORS<br />
Chubby Bunny<br />
Community Supported<br />
Agriculture (CSA)<br />
City Harvest<br />
Eli’s Bread<br />
The Food Bank for New York City<br />
Lucky’s Real Tomatoes<br />
Roxbury Farm CSA<br />
Tuv Ha’Aretz CSA<br />
Yes We Can<br />
On-SITE SOCIAL SERvICE<br />
PARTnERS<br />
AARP Tax Aide<br />
Children’s Aid Society<br />
Community Service Society<br />
Credit Where Credit is Due<br />
FEGS Center for Women and<br />
Families<br />
Government Working Together<br />
Housing Works<br />
NYC HRA Office of Food Programs<br />
Iris House<br />
Urban Justic Center<br />
OFF-SITE SOCIAL SERvICE<br />
PARTnERS<br />
American Cancer Society<br />
Center for Independence of the<br />
Disabled, NY<br />
Dress for Success & Career Gear<br />
Goddard Riverside Community<br />
Center<br />
Head Start Programs<br />
Legal Aid Society<br />
Medical Rights Center<br />
Partnership for the Homeless<br />
Safe Horizon<br />
Social Security Administration<br />
Urban Resource Institute<br />
Join Our Partnership
Individual Donors<br />
Major donors<br />
We only have room to acknowledge our largest donors but we are grateful to the hundreds of donors at other levels<br />
who make WSCAH’s work possible.<br />
$50-100,000<br />
Michael G. Fisch, American<br />
Securities Capital Partners<br />
Kenneth C. Griffin,<br />
Citadel Group Foundation<br />
25,000-49,999<br />
Tracy Cole Barker,<br />
Cole-Birches Foundation<br />
Barbara Slifka Philanthropic Fund,<br />
Jewish Communal Fund<br />
$10-24,999<br />
Dena & Jeff Greenfield<br />
Courtney Tuttle<br />
$5,000-9,999<br />
Anonymous<br />
Steven & Sheila Aresty<br />
Foundation<br />
Mary C. Clark, Silverleaf<br />
Foundation<br />
Barbara & Joseph Ellis<br />
Wolf H. Hengst<br />
Mary & Morris Rossabi<br />
Mary & David M. Solomon<br />
Sally Strauss & Andrew Tomback<br />
$2500-4,999<br />
Carolyn & John Geer<br />
Jennifer & Timothy Kingston<br />
Timothy Murphy<br />
Julia Reidhead & Jamil Simon<br />
Steve Rogers<br />
Dr. Corrine Winston<br />
& Joseph Rubin<br />
$1000-2,499<br />
Charles R. Borrok<br />
Miriam P. Burns<br />
Ellen B. Corenswet<br />
Marshalynn Flowers<br />
Helen & Stephen Freidus<br />
Bennett Grau<br />
Franklyn Hampton<br />
Robert T. Hanley<br />
Roy Hardin<br />
Ruth Acker & Paul Heller<br />
Joanna Samuels & Jeremy<br />
Hockenstein<br />
Marjorie & Robert Imersheim<br />
Gayle Johnson<br />
Anna & Robert Kelly<br />
Andrea & Lawrence Kutscher<br />
Robert McKuin<br />
Lillian & Andrew Meyers<br />
Paula Pace, Frank Pace Jr.<br />
Foundation<br />
Rivka Tenenbaum & Nayo Precel<br />
Cynthia Round<br />
Martin Rosenblatt<br />
Steven G. Rubenstein<br />
Susan Samuels<br />
William Schwartz<br />
Helga Shepard<br />
Johanna Skilling<br />
Mary B. & D. Edward Smyth<br />
Nancy Solomon<br />
Amy Rossabi & Howard Sterinbach<br />
Shirley & Don Struchen<br />
Christine Swann<br />
Paul J. Taubman<br />
Laurence Willig<br />
$500-999<br />
Vicki & William Abrams<br />
Martha Bazar, M.D.<br />
Michele R. Brandt<br />
Michael Buman<br />
John Censor<br />
Karyn Zieve & Joel Cohen<br />
Mary L. Cooper<br />
Stacey & Sanford P. Dumain<br />
Anne & Jack Fried<br />
Cheryl L. Galante<br />
Carole M. Gaunt<br />
Lisanne & Howard Godnick<br />
James A. Greer II<br />
Amy & Ronald Guttman<br />
Noah J. Kroloff<br />
Lauren Kurland & Scott Cohen<br />
Ida Granowitz &<br />
Robert J. Linderman<br />
Kenneth Miller<br />
Kathleen Peratis<br />
James R. Posner<br />
Martin Rosenblatt<br />
Helen K. Rosenthal<br />
Susan Chira & Michael Shapiro<br />
Chase Stevenson<br />
Stacy Bolton & James K. Stulman<br />
Stephen L. Stulman<br />
Marjorie & Charles Van Dercook<br />
Doreen Wohl<br />
$250-499<br />
Betsy & James B. Armstrong<br />
Myriam Braunschvig<br />
Barbara & Leslie Buckland<br />
Jacques J. Capelluto<br />
Tamara Charm<br />
Jonathan M. Couchman<br />
Rachel B. Cowan<br />
Dona S. Ratterree<br />
& Adrian DeWind<br />
Barbara & Eric Dobkin<br />
Tamara Duker<br />
Marjorie Vandow & Richard Fields<br />
Kim Shafer & Isaac Finkle<br />
Fern & Daniel Flamberg<br />
Sara Levine & Philip Friedman<br />
Jonathan E. Gaines<br />
Jeffrey Scott Glueck<br />
Susan Rosenthal & L.M. Grosberg<br />
Pari & Christopher Harrison<br />
Helen & Hillel Hoffman<br />
Jennifer Jones<br />
Stuart Klawans<br />
Russell E. Makowsky<br />
Deborah J. Matz<br />
Neal Mittman, M.D.<br />
Estelle & Malcolm Newman<br />
Mary D. Olivere<br />
Ernest E. Polstein<br />
James R. Posner<br />
Jeffrey Preston<br />
Penelope Raphaely<br />
Maura Regan & James Henderson<br />
Vicki Been & Richard Revesz<br />
Rachel Robbins<br />
Constance Kaiserman Robinson<br />
Susan & Stephen Scherr<br />
Lisa & Leon Seidman<br />
Gary Sevitsky<br />
Beth Kobliner Shaw<br />
& David E. Shaw<br />
Rebecca & Philip Siekevitz<br />
Maria Vecchiotti & Paul Tanico<br />
Marian M. Warden<br />
Janice W. Wetzel
Board of directors<br />
Officers<br />
Stephen Rogers, Chair<br />
IBM<br />
Bruce Bergquist, Treasurer<br />
Rutgers Presbyterian Church<br />
Rev. James F. Karpen, Pastor<br />
St. Paul & St. Andrew<br />
Customer Directors<br />
Zoila Estrella<br />
Chris Gill<br />
William Smallwood<br />
Haydeth Tavira<br />
Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew<br />
Darlene DiDomineck<br />
United Methodist General Board<br />
of Global Ministries<br />
Mark Duffy<br />
Port Authority of New York<br />
& New Jersey<br />
Geoffrey Horrell<br />
Reuters<br />
Rosangela Oliveira<br />
United Methodist General Board<br />
of Global Ministries<br />
Julia Reidhead<br />
W.W. Norton & Company<br />
Cynthia Roney<br />
Merrill Lynch<br />
Don Struchen<br />
Barbara Wheeler<br />
United Methodist General Board<br />
of Global Min. Women’s Div.<br />
The Brick Presbyterian Church<br />
Gayle Johnson<br />
Sara Hurst Jenoure<br />
Christ & St. Stephen’s Church<br />
Lawrence Hui<br />
Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen,<br />
P.C.<br />
June Muller<br />
J. Jacobs Inc.<br />
Congregation B’nai Jeshurun<br />
Susan Samuels<br />
Congregation Rodeph Sholom<br />
Alex Peltz<br />
Peltz & Walker<br />
<strong>West</strong> Park Presbyterian Church<br />
Marsha Flowers<br />
Senior Bridge<br />
Lorraine Gonzalez<br />
Children’s Aid Society<br />
Franklyn Hampton<br />
Construction<br />
Michael Lee<br />
American Express<br />
William McAllister<br />
Columbia University<br />
Ed Ortiz<br />
Urban Justice Center<br />
Morris Rossabi<br />
City University of New York<br />
Rebecca Sparks<br />
New York University<br />
Andrew Tomback<br />
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &<br />
McCloy LLP<br />
STAFF<br />
Doreen Wohl, Executive Director<br />
Monica Aravena, Fiscal Officer<br />
Holly Park, Program Director<br />
Stewart Desmond, Development<br />
Director<br />
Sara Skolnick, Administrative<br />
Assistant<br />
SOCIAL SERvICES<br />
Jose Berroa-Saro, Counselor<br />
Sonia Maguina, Receptionist<br />
Maritza Olmos, Counselor<br />
Maria Pacheco, Social Services<br />
Supervisor<br />
Johanna Solano, Counselor<br />
PAnTRY OPERATIOnS<br />
Chris Gill, Pantry Manager<br />
Chris Gum, Pantry Stock Manager<br />
Jose Miranda, Janitor<br />
WELLnESS<br />
Mark D’Alessandro, Customer Chef<br />
Heidi Ehrich, ESL<br />
Rita Lewis, Exercise<br />
years of fighting 30 hunger 1979-2009<br />
vOLUnTEERS<br />
(100 hours and above, in order of<br />
number of service hours)<br />
Maria Fabian<br />
Marina Araujo<br />
Jim Cintron<br />
Margaret Jelks<br />
Altagracia Lopez<br />
Carrie Fair<br />
Zoila Estrella<br />
William Smallwood<br />
Christopher Gill<br />
Ana Garcia<br />
Haydeth Tavira<br />
Francisca Urena<br />
Andres Pastrana<br />
Linda Marasa<br />
Mary Grace Bookhardt<br />
Shirley Brevard<br />
Louise Weisz<br />
Angela Mendez<br />
Helene Shandall<br />
Don Struchen<br />
Jesus Torres<br />
Helen Hoffman<br />
Hilly Hoffman<br />
Esther Koslow<br />
Taproot Foundation credits:<br />
Kim Piccora<br />
Ann Thompson<br />
Christine Rhee<br />
Mark Bellusci<br />
Anant Gupta<br />
Ben Gancos<br />
Margaret Casagrande<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Side</strong> <strong>Campaign</strong> <strong>Against</strong> <strong>Hunger</strong> Directors and Staff
WEST SIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER<br />
Through a supermarket-<br />
style food pantry,<br />
alleviates hunger and<br />
creates a culture that<br />
promotes self-reliance.
Changes our perception<br />
of hungry people by<br />
working in partnership<br />
with them, providing<br />
food with dignity and<br />
empowering customers to<br />
find solutions.
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Side</strong><br />
<strong>Campaign</strong><br />
<strong>Against</strong><br />
<strong>Hunger</strong><br />
Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew<br />
263 <strong>West</strong> 86th Street<br />
NY, NY 10024<br />
(212) 362-3662<br />
www.wscah.org<br />
years of fighting 30 hunger 1979-2009
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