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EFN Staff Profile<br />

EFN is excited to welcome new staff<br />

member Elizabeth Chipps-Freeman.<br />

Elizabeth is our Associate Development<br />

Director, a new position created to<br />

bolster the organization’s efforts to<br />

gain more support throughout the<br />

community.<br />

Elizabeth comes to EFN on the heels<br />

of her return from managing an<br />

orphanage in Kenya for three and a half<br />

years. The Dunga Orphanage Project is<br />

a nonprofi t organization dedicated to<br />

providing for the basic human needs<br />

of roughly 40 orphan children within a<br />

small AIDS ravaged village in Kenya.<br />

Most of these children lost both of their<br />

parents to the virus. Elizabeth managed<br />

the fi nances of the orphanage and coordinated communication between sponsors<br />

and kids. In addition, she created many of the policies, set up a board, worked with<br />

the Children’s Department, and worked with teachers.<br />

Her passion for serving in Africa started when she was young, after seeing a video in<br />

school about children in Ethiopia. “It just stuck with me,” she says. Knowing this, her<br />

mother invited her to hear a Kiwanis Club speaker who ran a nursery school in Kenya.<br />

Elizabeth met with the speaker and agreed to volunteer to fulfi ll her childhood dream.<br />

After six months in Kenya, Elizabeth knew she wanted to stay longer and applied for<br />

a permanent position with the Dunga Orphanage Project.<br />

Abundance<br />

Auction OCTOBER 27, 2012<br />

Abundance will feature a delicious dinner, exciting live and silent auctions,<br />

and a meaningful opportunity to give back to our community. Proceeds<br />

from this special night will provide food and essentials for low-income<br />

children, adults and seniors in Pierce County.<br />

$75 PER PERSON, $750 TABLE OF 10<br />

$1,000 FOR A PATRON TABLE<br />

SPONSORSHIPS AVAILABLE<br />

SHARON MCGAVICK CENTER<br />

CLOVER PARK TECHNICAL COLLEGE<br />

LAKEWOOD, WA 5:30PM - 10PM<br />

RSVP TODAY!<br />

Call 253-584-1040 or email<br />

abundance@efoodnet.org<br />

Experiencing another culture and helping kids at the orphanage is something that<br />

Elizabeth values tremendously, along with the opportunity to see elephants, her<br />

favorite animal. Still, she was happy to return to Washington to enjoy familiar foods<br />

and to shower under hot running water.<br />

Why EFN? “It’s an organization that I believe is important and everyone working<br />

here seems very dedicated to the mission of the organization.” That is why after<br />

taking a month off after returning home, Elizabeth decided to interview and accept<br />

the position. It was easy for her to see the benefi ts of fi ghting hunger in Pierce<br />

County, and she found ties to the work she did in Kenya. “The guardians of the<br />

children, if they had them, couldn’t always provide basic essentials like food for the<br />

orphans,” she says, “so part of my job was making sure basic needs were always<br />

being met.”<br />

Prior to Kenya, Elizabeth worked at the Seattle Children’s Home for two years as a<br />

Primary-2 Residential Counselor, working with children who were not yet ready for<br />

the foster care system. Many were teenager dealing with trauma, so the nurturing<br />

she provided would help get her clients to a place where they could succeed in<br />

foster care. Elizabeth grew up in Puyallup, attended Puyallup High School, and<br />

majored in Social Work at Seattle University.<br />

“Development” at a nonprofi t of EFN’s size and scope encompasses a range<br />

of activities, including fi nding and securing major gifts from caring individuals,<br />

sustaining annual giving, writing grants, coordinating events, working with<br />

volunteers, connecting with corporations and local businesses, creating newsletters<br />

and other publications, maintaining a donor database, managing social media, and<br />

community relations. Development Director Jeff Klein has worked with Helen and<br />

various support staff to expand the budget in order to meet the increased need in<br />

our community, but a healthy, thriving organization needs a solid balance of multiple<br />

funding sources. Elizabeth will write grants and help on the public relations side,<br />

allowing for more of a focus on individual giving as a greater source of revenue. Our<br />

goal? More money for more food to alleviate hunger in Pierce County!<br />

Saturday, November 17, 2012<br />

1:00pm - 4:00pm<br />

Charles Wright Academy<br />

7723 Chambers Creek Rd W, Tacoma WA 98467<br />

Bowl Sales benifi t EFN<br />

Free soup from area restaurants

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