Sustenance - Emergency Food Network
Sustenance - Emergency Food Network
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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