2012
Annual Report
Inspiring action, because food impacts the quality of our health, our land, and our communities.
Letter From Josh & Michael
to include several new partners; we increased the number of yard gardens through Growing Matters, producing more healthful food and supporting increased community food production; and we introduced Cooking Matters, a nationally sponsored cooking curriculum that provides adults with fewer financial resources the skills and knowledge to prepare delicious, healthy, and affordable family meals. In order to continue to be a nimble and effective organization, we initiated a strategic-planning process in December that will be completed in May of 2013. This practice has challenged us to reflect on our course and to explore additional opportunities to increase the breadth and depth of our work.
Local Matters was founded in response to the urgent need to improve a broken food system that was causing a new generation of children to be the first expected to have a shorter lifespan than their parents. As a result, we focused on the need to address barriers to access and education, while supporting community action.
No matter what emerges from our strategic planning process, one thing remains clear to us: continuing to eat in a way that undermines our health, soil, and energy resources cannot be sustained. The challenges of obesity and diabetes, hunger and poverty, struggling family farms and pervasive food deserts all have one thing in common: the need to change the way we feed ourselves. We invite you to join us as we build the capacity to transform our food system to one that makes local, healthful food available to all!
Local Matters has distinguished itself by providing leadership and connecting the disparate elements of our food system, from production, to access, to education. With that framework as a base, we have created and implemented a set of core programs; built trusting, long-term relationships with organizations that share our values and complement our mission; and secured resources to support communities’ efforts to identify and address their own needs.
In Gratitude,
In 2012, Local Matters refined and expanded our core programs to reflect this comprehensive approach. We expanded Food Matters, our in-depth healthful foods curriculum for kids,
Joshua Gaines Board Chair 2
Michael Jones Co-Founder, Executive Director
Table of Contents 4—5 6 7 8-10 11 12 13 14 15-17 17 18 19
Our Approach What We Do Our Partners Our Programs Our Impact Near East Side Cooperative Market Financials Corporate & Foundation Support Individual Donors Volunteers Staff & Board List Call to Action
Local Food for All
Our Approach As a community collaborator, Local Matters works to transform
the food system into one in which sustainable growing practices and distribution positively affects our health, our land, and our communities. We facilitate access to and encourage consumption of fresh, healthful foods to drive the demand needed for the long-term sustainability of this cycle. Within this cycle, everyone matters– farmers, eaters, grocers, chefs, and processors– because everyone eats.
To do this work, we focus on three strategic areas: education, access, and engagement.
Everyone Matters in the Food System Production
Consumption
Distribution
Access
Education Teaching children and adults what healthful food is, where it comes from, how to grow it, and how to cook it. For children: Every week we teach healthful food education to 1,100 students through a yearround multicultural curriculum that offers hands-on experience. There is nothing like watching a child create and eat a “sushi volcano” and stay at the table for second– and third– helpings! For adults: We teach hundreds of families to cook healthful and delicious food on a budget. We are inspired by the individuals we work with, who are transformed and empowered through the pleasure of preparing food and the pride of cooking delicious meals for their families.
We all must consider the role of food in our lives.
Our Approach Access Working to ensure that all people have convenient access to healthful, affordable, and sustainably grown food. In neighborhoods: We believe in community-based plans to identify and meet neighborhood needs. Over the past few years we have been working with a community-led effort to open a cooperative grocery on the Near East Side. The Near East Side Cooperative Market opened in May 2013. At home: Residents in Weinland Park and the Near East Side wanted healthy food even closer to home than a community garden. We provided planning, supplies, food production workshops, and support to create over 130 yard gardens.
Engagement
With communities: Since our inception, Local Matters has been working to help build a stronger local food system for the Weinland Park community and its residents. We offer each of our core programs through partnerships with organizations such as OSU Schoenbaum Family Center, Godman Guild, G. Tyree, and CDCFC Head Start. We have also worked with neighborhood residents to create more than 130 yard gardens in the neighborhood. In light of the breadth and depth of our engagement in the community, we were invited to participate in a multi-year HUD Community Challenge Grant as liaisons between community members and other partner organizations to ensure that the vision of community members was incorporated into the development of a new neighborhood food plan.
Working collaboratively with individuals, communities, and policy makers to develop leadership and build support for a sustainable food system. With individuals: Local Matters offered the American Community Garden Association’s (ACGA) Growing Communities workshop. Through this two-day long workshop, 30 garden managers gathered to learn organizing skills, leadership development, grassroots fundraising, and coalition building. Participants left the workshop ready to work as leaders in their own communities to support increased access to locally grown food.
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What We Do
At Local Matters, we recognize that our mission of inspiring action to improve the health of our food system will only be successful if we work with communities to develop systemic solutions. We work to ensure that everyone in Central Ohio has access to healthful foods, and we partner with neighborhoods to create opportunities for our communities to feed themselves and eat well.
Through our Food Matters program, more than 5,000 young children in Central Ohio have learned the valuable life skill of food preparation and have learned about the importance of eating fresh foods for dietary health. Through our Growing Matters program, Local Matters has helped create more than 130 food-production gardens in neighborhoods where access to fresh fruits and vegetables is limited. Cooking Matters provides in-depth nutrition and culinary education programming to adults and gives them the tools they need to support positive choices for their children. This comprehensive approach allows us to reach children and adults at multiple levels, significantly increasing the likelihood of success.
Our core programs are designed to complement one another and are most effective when we can deliver them concurrently through strategic partnerships with other organizations. In 2012, we strengthened existing partnerships to broaden and deepen services offered in our communities, while also working collaboratively to secure resources to support those partnerships. 6
Our Partners Program Partners
Partner Spotlight: Amethyst, Inc.
Alvis House Amethyst, Inc. CDCFC Head Start Central Ohio Diabetes Association Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools Children’s Hunger Alliance Columbus Collegiate Academy Columbus Recreation and Parks Department Columbus School for Girls Dowd Center Franklin County Board of Developmental Disabilities Franklin County Local Food Council Godman Guild Maryhaven OSU Extension St. Vincent Family Center The Capital Kids The Greener Grocer The Ohio State University The Ohio State University Schoenbaum Family Center United Way of Central Ohio Fresh Foods Here Weinland Park Community Garden YMCA of Central Ohio
Amethyst, Inc. is a residential facility serving women and their families. Their mission is to foster a culture of recovery, empowering women and families in a safe, sober environment. Like Local Matters, Amethyst, Inc. works holistically to address a demonstrated need in our community.
In 2012, Local Matters partnered with Amethyst to implement each of our core programs on their campus in Downtown Columbus. This comprehensive suite of programs allows us to provide the women and children at Amethyst, Inc. with a complete picture of dietary health from seed to table to compost. Activities from the first year of our partnership include: • • • •
Installation and maintenance of a serenity garden, supported by the Boyd W. Bowden Memorial for New Gardens. Support from Growing Matters staff and volunteers for the on-site foodproduction garden. Food Matters, sponsored by ADAMH, for students enrolled in after-school programming at Amethyst, Inc. Three Cooking Matters course series for residents.
“Amethyst is grateful for Local Matters and their Growing Matters program. This incredible course has taught the women and children of Amethyst many skills: unity, teamwork, nutrition, health, and wellness. It has given the participants a sense of pride and accomplishment. Several of the women have expressed a desire to pursue gardening as a vocation. More than fruit and vegetables have flourished in our garden: the women and children themselves have grown and blossomed in their character.”
Nanon T. Morrison Amethyst, Inc.
Food Matters
At Local Matters, we recognize that if we reach children early, we can address the urgent issues of childhood obesity and diabetes before they become lifelong problems. We offer our Food Matters program to young children to help them gain an understanding of what healthful food is, where it comes from, how it grows, and how to prepare it. Our current food system fails to nourish our children. For the first time in modern history, our children are expected to live shorter, less healthy lives than their parents. Here in Franklin County, nearly one in five third graders is overweight and one in six families in Franklin County experiences food insecurity. More than ever before, children in our communities are in a position of extraordinary and unjust risk for diseases like diabetes and heart disease that will have a life-long, negative impact on their quality of life. Through weekly lessons, we offer children language to talk about healthful foods, and we engage them in the preparation of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and plant
proteins like beans. The onehour classes are hands-on and interactive; in fact, our Food Educators devote more than half of each lesson to food preparation, ecology, music, history, geography, and movement. In our experience, focusing on the taste, smell, culture, preparation and ecology of wholesome foods motivates children to eat more healthy foods. This approach demonstrates not just the role that healthful food plays in the health of their own bodies, but also its importance in terms of the environment and the local economy from seed to table to compost. During the school year, we offer Food Matters as a 24week program, reaching 1,100 children in 35 classrooms each week. We also offer the program in shortened after-school and summer-camp formats. This allows us to broaden the reach of the program and align Food Matters with our other core programs to ensure that we are reaching entire families at multiple levels. 8
“They are much more willing to try foods and I have noticed that when the snack is raw vegetables, the children eat every bite!! They didn’t before.� Kerebi Mochage
The Godman Guild
Cooking Matters New in 2012, Share our Strength’s Cooking Matters™ is a comprehensive food and nutrition education program designed to decrease hunger and prevent obesity among low-income parents and their children. Participants attended six weekly, hands-on lessons taught by professional chefs and nutritionists. The Cooking Matters program takes essential steps toward reducing hunger by addressing one of its root causes: a lack of information about cooking and nutrition. While many direct-aid programs succeed in bringing fresh foods to low-income communities, these foods often go to waste if recipients do not know how to prepare them in a manner that is quick, easy, and delicious.
“This course has helped to restore confidence in my food choices, cooking skills, and choices. You have kept me out of restaurants ... since the first day of class. This course showed me how to plan meals, to make good, filling food, and on a budget. I no longer feel ignorant about food! Thank you so much. To the teachers and volunteers — you all saved my life. Thank you for your dedication and endless support.”
Cooking Matters Participant 9
The Cooking Matters courses include hands-on lessons covering topics from cooking and nutrition to food budgeting and meal planning. A grocery store tour gives adult participants the opportunity to compare the foods they normally buy and discuss the many options available to make the best choices for their families. During our first year as a Cooking Matters Lead Partner, we offered 19 complete courses with a total of 239 participants – far exceeding our 2012 goal of 200 participants. In addition to gaining the knowledge and experience needed to prepare healthy, affordable meals, each Cooking Matters for Adults participant received a bag of fresh, healthful foods to take home each week to recreate recipes from class. These groceries also served as valuable nutrition assistance to families in need.
Course participants received over 850 bags of groceries, reaching more than 750 children and adults.
Growing Matters There is a critical lack of healthy, affordable, fresh foods in many of our communities. Despite the fact that Central Ohio is one of the leading agricultural communities in the country, less than 10 percent of its over 7,000 farms sell directly to consumers. Although there has been tremendous growth in the number of farmers markets in the region, many people in our communities still have limited or no access to fresh, affordable foods. Growing Matters is helping make fresh foods available where they are needed most: at home. With our yard garden program, we help residents in Weinland Park and the Near East Side install gardens in their front and back yards. We work with residents to identify their needs and often provide the lumber, soil, plants, and tools they need to get started. In addition, by engaging residents with workshops and encouraging the sharing of resources, Local Matters facilitates relationships and encourages individuals to become leaders in their own communities. Many cities have gardening programs, and some offer yard garden programs; however, few offer the collaborative, hands-on
approach to education provided by Growing Matters. This in-depth, collaborative approach ensures that residents are able to maintain the garden without additional assistance. It also fosters individual investment in the garden, thereby drastically increasing the likelihood of long-term success for the program.
Local Matters also works with community partners to create Learning Gardens at sites where we offer our other core programs. These gardens serve as outdoor classrooms for our Food Matters and Cooking Matters participants and demonstration gardens for parents and other adults in the community who wish to begin growing their own food.
“Partnering with the Growing Matters program has been integral to the success of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Educational Gardens. Growing Matters has helped to bring our educational gardens and leaders together. By creating Garden Guidelines and providing support to those with little gardening experience, we have worked together to create a sustainable and fruitful garden program.� Christina Snyder Columbus Recreation and Parks Department
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Our Impact Food Matters 35 classrooms | 1,100 children in the year-long program | 950 Summer students “We were very happy with Local Matters and the Food Matters program. There were so many lessons that I feel the children interacted with as well as our staff. Our children would probably never have thought of eating whole grains if it weren’t for Food Matters. The same is true when we were having Life Skill classes for the parents. They learned to prepare a healthy meal in no time at all and how to substitute nutritious snacks for “junk” food. Everyone came away with an appreciation of what it means to eat healthy.” Gale Hacker Dowd Center
Cooking Matters
Growing Matters
The average adult Cooking Matters participant reported a 26% decrease in the frequency with which they run out of food before the end of the month.
• 37 yard and apartment gardens created on the Near East Side, reaching 240 residents • 30 new gardens in Weinland Park • 67 Weinland Park yard gardens from 2011 received continuing support
The average adult Cooking Matters participant more than doubled how often he/she uses “Nutrition Facts” to make decisions about what to eat.
Grow Your Own
71%
71% of participants eat more vegetables than they did prior to participating in Cooking Matters.
12 Grow Your Own Workshops 720 Participants Since 2011, Local Matters has offered the Grow Your Own workshop series – the only free gardening workshop series in Central Ohio. In partnership with Ohio State University Extension, Local Matters offered these workshops with information about growing more food at home. Topics included seed saving, season extension, composting, water harvesting, irrigation, and propagation of berries and fruit trees.
MORE VE VEGGIES VEGGIES
78% of participants eat more whole grains than they did prior to participating in Cooking Matters.
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78% MOR EW MORE WHOL WHOL E G GRAINS
95% of participants say that they have prepared Cooking Matters recipes at home. 11
Veggie Van | Near East Side Cooperative Market
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lack of grocery stores that carry healthy food in lower income neighborhoods in Central Ohio increases the risk of obesity and diet-related diseases for neighborhood residents. And no wonder — with fresh food far away and often out of price range, it’s easier to rely on the lowcost, low-nutrition foods that are plentiful in neighborhood corner stores. For the past four years, our Veggie Van program helped address the critical issues of community food sovereignty and affordability of fresh, healthful foods in Columbus neighborhoods without access to reliable sources of fresh food. With help from our strategic partner, The Greener Grocer, Veggie Vans delivered low-cost, pre-packed bags of “the good stuff”— fresh fruits and vegetables, organic and local whenever possible — to partner sites in these neighborhoods. In 2012, through our Veggie Van program we sold 6,249 bags of fresh food, which contained more than 80,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables. These bags were sold at eight different sites throughout the Columbus area and reached more than 350 unique families. Beginning in 2013 and in keeping with our desire to support our
community partners who are developing their own solutions to creating access to affordable, healthful foods—Local Matters will no longer offer the services of the Veggie Van. Instead, we will encourage all partners interested in access to bags of affordable fruits and vegetables to patronize the Near East Side Cooperative Market (NESCM). With funding support from the Community Health Funder’s Collaborative, Local Matters helped NESCM open a community-owned, cooperative market in Spring 2013. As a part of its services, NESCM offers the Fresh Bag program to partner sites on the Near East Side and in surrounding communities. The Greener Grocer will maintain its relationship with NESCM by providing a connection to local farmers and artisans and offering ongoing assistance as a hub for the aggregation of fresh foods.
Financials Statement of Financial Position as of Dec. 31, 2012 ASSETS
Statement of Activities for year ended Dec. 31, 2012 2012 REVENUES
Current Assets
Support
Cash
$76,842 Contributions $539,449
Accounts Receivable
$80,266 Earned/Other Income
Prepaid Expenses Total Current Assets
Fixed Assets, Net TOTAL ASSETS
$1,845 Special Events
$11,098
$158,953 Consulting Fees
$51,698
Program Income
$159,500
$35,510
Miscellaneous $8,531
$194,463
Net Assets Released from Restrictions TOTAL REVENUE
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS Accounts Payable Notes Payable Deferred Revenue Total Current Liabilities Note Payable Long Term TOTAL LIABILITIES Unrestricted Net Assets Temporarily Restricted Net Assets Total Net Assets TOTAL LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS
$30,000 $800,276
$43,102 EXPENSES $28,677 Program $607,548 $14,264 Development/ Marketing $86,043 Administrative $9,019 TOTAL EXPENSES $95,062 Change in Net Assets $71,901 Beginning Net Assets $27,500 Ending Net Assets $99,401
$15,758 $183,707 $807,011 ($6,735) $78,636 $71,901
$194,463 * Copies of annual audit are available to the public upon request.
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Corporate & Foundation Support 50,000+ Chipotle The Community Health Funder’s Collaborative The Medical Mutual of Ohio Charitable Fund 25,000-49,999 The Cardinal Health Foundation The Greener Grocer Share our Strength 10,000-24,999 Abbott Nutrition The Columbus Foundation Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams Limited Brands Foundation The Dispatch Group/ Columbus Crave The Harry C. Moores Foundation Two Caterers Whole Foods
5,000-9,999 Cameron Mitchell Restaurants CareSource Foundation Dine Originals Columbus Huntington Premier Allergy Tansky Sawmill Toyota 2,500-4,999 ADAMH Advocates for Kids Kroger Ohio Cooperative Development Center The Ohio Children’s Foundation U.S. Bank Foundation 1,000-2,499 CGI Comresource Crane Group North Market Osteopathic Heritage Foundation: Boyd W. Bowden Memorial for New Gardens
1,000-2,499 (cont.) Step By Step Pediatric Strategic Business Solutions 1-999 Alana’s Food and Wine Avant-Garde Art and Craft Shows Bodega City Folk’s Farm Shop Columbus Food Adventures Columbus School for Girls Dinin’ Hall Evans Adhesive Corporation Fête en Blanc Columbus The Hills Market JP Morgan Chase Lowe’s Nestle Research and Development Center North Market Cookware Ohio Wesleyan University Pistachia Vera Surly Girl The Worthington Inn UPS
Corporate ContributorSpotlight: The Greener Grocer In addition to providing generous financial support for Local Matters, The Greener Grocer is Local Matters’ strategic partner and connection to local farmers. The Greener Grocer also serves as a food hub for distributing regionally and sustainably grown foods by connecting farmers to market opportunities through The Greener Grocer Market Bag, the Near East Side Cooperative’s Fresh Bag Program, and at their retail store located in the historic North Market. As a mission-driven, for-profit enterprise, The Greener Grocer is committed to providing education around and facilitating access to fresh, locally grown, and sustainably sourced foods in our communities. They source many of the fresh foods used in our core programs and events and connect Local Matters 14 to market-based solutions to addressing local food security.
Individual Donors 50,000+ Kimberly & Mark Allison Karen & Michael Jones 10,000-49,999 Beth Crane & Richard McKee Judy & Tom Tansky The VanDegna Foundation 2,500-4,999 The Crane Fund Jill Kingsley Mary-Lynn Niland & Derek McClellan The Moritz Family Foundation Cathy & David Presper 1,000-2,499 Jeni Britton-Bauer & Charly Bauer Stacey & Joshua Gaines Louisa & Ron Green Ge Shang Lisa Han & John Kirsner Karen Olstad & Will Kuhlman Catherine Strauss & John Lowe Michelle Patella Betsy & Bryan Ross Joy & Bruce Soll Leah & Brian Westwater Angela & Matt Wooster* 500-999 Kate & Patrick Giller Lesley & Ken Hobday Margaret & Michael Johnson Cortney Porter Mary Lou & Tom Shaw Sonya & David Thesing Susan & Nathan Yost
250-499 Barry Badertscher* Mona & Dave Barber Elizabeth Jewell Becker & Sean Becker Margaret Chase Jeffrey Donaldson John Erickson Sallie Quammen & Charlie Fazio Linda Kass Deb & Thom Mak* Bill Martin Sheryll Perry* C. Russell Thompson Laura & Gordon Troup Adam Fazio & Karl Whittington 125-249 Mark Blake Betty Brown Judy Czarnecki Cathy Levine & Jonathan Groner Susan Hutchins* Amanda & Ryan Kozak Genevieve Reiner & Todd Mills* Jen Adrion & Omar Noory Lori Pierson Marilyn & Kent Pitcher Alison Szymanski 1-124 Jenny Anderson* Jules Angel* Pam Archer Arlene Armstrong Donnie Austin Elizabeth Rhodes & Michael Bella Laura Bidwa Jennifer & Art Block
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Jennifer Brickner-York Michelle Moskowitz Brown & Aaron Brown Robert Brown Elise Burgess* Stephanie Burlingame* Troy Carlson Katie Chiki Sharon Levy & Jim Coe* Maria & Jeffrey Cohen Nicole Copeland Teresa & Mark Craddock* Dan Crane James Curtin Lucy Seabrook & Brian Deas Joe DeLoss Lisa Dent Travis Diehl* Charoula Dontopoulos Amy Dutt Lauren Edwards* Mary Beth & Mark Einerson Beth Finnerty Nancy Fleming Kim Fortier Robin Fremer Michelle & Ben Gibbons Shauna & Adam Gibson Susan Green* Richard Hendrix* Jessica & Philip Hoffman Sarah Irvin Florence Jain* Judith Jenkins Michael Jones Maryann Kafer* Janet and Andy Katz Tia & Todd Kegler Becky & Joe Keglewitsch Elika & Erk Keller
Individual Donors 1-124 (cont.) Amy Kesting* Kathryn Kiefer Jeri & Don Klopfenstein Chris Kloth* Michelle Kozak* Laura Kubik Helland* Kathleen Lannan Matthew Leasure Jan Legg Stacy Levin Robert Livingston Ryan Longbrake* Carrie & Michael Loukas The Lurie Family Charitable Fund of The Columbus Foundation Chuck Lynd* Mary Lyski Amy Mampieri Martha & Gerard Marcom Ty Marsh Andrew McKee Ashley McKee Ian Meske Jessica Michel* Gilbert Miko Marcia Miller Adam Minton* Steven Moore* Brice Patterson-Blight* Amy Petsch* Kim Philips* Bonnie Pugh Jill Rable Darla Reardon Daniel Reese R. Gabe Reitter II Laura & Bob Robertson-Boyd Christie Rose Debby Rosenthal Zach Rusk Jill Russ
Paul Ryder* Jay Schmidt Molly Farrell & Jesse Schotter* John Schumacher* Adam Schweigert Barb Seckler Kathleen Shaffer Katie & Brian Shepard Stephanie & Daniel Sherwood* Gautam Shirhattikar Drew Shonk* Matt Slaybaugh* Cheryl Smith Marlee & Richard Snowdon Burton Steck Tyler Steele Kathryn Stephens Marlene Stewart Carly Stoneberg Daphne Suh Amy & Glen Sullivan Ryan Sullivan Emily Crabtree & Mark Swanson Amy Timmons Shiloh Todorov Anne Vogel Erin Voithofer Lorraine Walker Marilyn Welker Nancy & Dale Whittington Leah Whittington David Wible Ellen Williams Lauren Wilson Crystal Wilson* Natalie Wise* Laurinda Woodward Jim Wooster Kenneth Wright Colleen Yuhn Heather & Nick Zerbi
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Laura Zimmerman Susan Zoldak IN HONOR OF Stacey & Josh Gaines, by Larry Levine Aristea Filippakis & Scott Alan Greif, by Judith Goldstein Elizabeth Jewell, by Adam Burk Kay Davenport, by Marc Reigel Isabella & Julian, by Anita Davis* MJ, by Nancy Lurie Michael Jones, by Janice Wolman John Lowe IV, by John Lowe III Dr. A Harry Klopf, by Zoe Klopf Switzer* Lucille & Paul Kronenberger, by Julie Kronenberger* Shauna & Jon Latshaw, by Stacie & Ben Stormer Mary-Lynn Niland & Derek McClellan, by Mary Ann & Richard Bogart Carter & Reese McClellan, by Mary-Lynn Niland & Derek McClellan Todd Mills, by Shannon Paige* Adam Minton, in honor of his birthday, by Sonya Thesing Mary-Lynn Niland MD, by JoAnn Rohyans Cathy Presper, by Lou Ann Ransom Elias & Nils, by Johanna Sellman* IN MEMORY OF George, by the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation in Support of the Boyd W. Bowden Memorial for New Gardens Cheryl Foster, by Noreen Warnock Mike Lucas, by Michael Loukas
IN MEMORY OF (cont.) Olive Mae Knott Schuman, by Tim Chiles Donald Sheets, by Kermit Whitfield Naomi Smith, by Laquore Meadows Pat Snider, by Linda Pace
Volunteers Who served over 25 hours in 2012
ON BEHALF OF Community Entrepreneurial Growth Initiative (CEGI), by Susan Cull Mama Pat, by Patricia Cunningham Duncan Draper, by Laura Draper RoseMarie Fazio, by Charlie Fazio Fit Body, By Brittany, by Brittany Walker* Vivienne & Natalie Frank by Sara Frank* Josh Gaines and Karen Jones, by Jill Levy Kaufman Development, by Brett Kaufman Kitchen Spark, by Randee Stroud* Glen Kizer, by Suzanne Roberts* Latin Waters Translation Services, LLC, by Nydia Mercedes Luckage* Mary-Lynn Niland & Derek McClellan, by Donna Niland Organic GreenFix, by Lisa McKivergin The Pickled Swine, by Tracy Hunt* Laura Robertson-Boyd, by Joyce Hite Laura Robertson-Boyd, by Ken Schory The Royses by Sarah Royse David Scott & Family, by David Scott Madelyn Shultz, by Carol Ann Fisher Slow Money, by Lisa Daris * Monthly Recurring Donation Mary Beth Einerson
Ian Ackers* Pam Archer Tracey Armitage Taryn Ashcraft Molly Bergen Linda Berry Kristen Betz Hannah Bills Lauren Blalock Megan Block Allison Bradley Carol Burger Rita Cabral Matt Carosi Melissa Clayton Miyaunna Cleveland Megan Daniel Megan Denti* Ryan Edwards Andi Edwards* Mark Einerson Mary Beth Einerson Karen Evans Savannah Freeman Ethan Gaines Stacy Haught Khalila Hayden Tracy Hawk Lesley Hobday Lisa Hoffman Florence Jain Ben Justice Rachel King
Brooke Kinsey Jeri Klopfenstein Jessica Koepnick Katie Kontra* Jaclyn Lipp Jenny Lobb Kerry McCarthy Jazmin McNeal Beth Miglin Mara Moss* Lisa Myers Jackie Nester Josh Papworth Charise Pettit-Shartle Maneka Phalgoo Kristin Rhee Amanda Richmond Tara Ritter* Robin Robinson Dan Sohner Jessica Stonecypher Randee Stroud Bob Swanson Katy Tuckerman Max Vokhgelt Xuedan “Diana” Wang* Leana Weisberg* Meghan Wilneff Angela Wilson David Wolfe Jim Yue Courtney Zielinski *Intern
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Staff and Board List
Board Joshua Gaines
Cardinal Health | Board Chair
Karen Olstad
WOSU | Board Treasurer
Matt Wooster
Huntington Bank | Board Secretary
John Kirsner Squire, Sanders and Dempsey, L.L.P.
Ryan Kozak
Staff
J.P. Morgan
Deb Mak
KMA Associates
Laquore Meadows The Ohio State University
Sue McManus Nationwide Insurance
Michael Jones
Co-Founder, Executive Director
Michelle Moskowitz Brown Director of Operations
Noreen Warnock
Co-Founder, Director of Public Policy & Community Relations
Elizabeth Jewell
Director of Development
Adam Fazio
Development Manager
Liz Fremer
Stephanie Craddock Sherwood
Communications & Marketing Manager
Volunteer Manager / Wellness Matters Program Manager
Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians: Step by Step Pediatrics
Trish Clark
Victoria Strickland
Growing Matters Program Manager
Food Matters Program Manager
Cortney Porter
Lauren Edwards
Elizabeth Bolen
Mary-Lynn Niland
Shane’s Gourmet Catering
Judy Tansky
Cooking Matters Program Manager
Laura Robertson-Boyd
The Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University; Tansky Sawmill Toyota
Executive Chef
Sonya Thesing
Diana Webster
Community Volunteer
Board Member Emeritus Jeni Britton-Bauer
Food Educator
Rashaan Cargile-Gregory Food Educator
Laura Helland Sous Chef
Bookkeeper
Courtney Zielinski AmeriCorps VISTA
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams
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Jesse Hickman Food Educator
Jessica Lucas Food Educator
Monique McCoy Food Educator
Hungry for Change? DO YOU BELIEVE EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO EAT WELL?
Together we can transform our food system by supporting healthful food education, increasing equal access to wholesome, delicious food, and advocating for fair food policies. Please join us in building a healthful, local food system for all.
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Local Foods Week is an annual celebration designed to raise awareness of local food and draw attention to its role in establishing a vibrant, sustainable future for the Central Ohio food system. Visit http://local-matters.org/local-foods-week to join us.
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