Well mention again later, they also gave quite a big gift to the campaign. Thank you. Its now my pleasure to really move us into thanking the other people who really put down significant mark er s and donatn s and pledges to this campaign and invite other people who have really lifted for me so long to come up and thank people who have participated, thats russ flin and hjose allen. [ applause ]. Thank you, ashley. Good morning, everyone. I am hjose allen. Im a member of the board of meals on wheels frisk San Francisco, and along with russ flin, i co chachaired the 50th s anniversary capital campaign. Us russ and i are proud to be part of this vital project and to be able to thank each of you for your support of meals on wheels. Clearly to be successful in r e raising almost 41, dlr 42 needed for this project require s extensive jen rgenerosity for, many support er s. Luckily we have been successful in raising the funds necessary to move forward and have secured 80 of our goal. We have
People who really put down significant mark er s and donatn s and pledges to this campaign and invite other people who have really lifted for me so long to come up and thank people who have participated, thats russ flin and hjose allen. [ applause ]. Thank you, ashley. Good morning, everyone. I am hjose allen. Im a member of the board of meals on wheels frisk San Francisco, and along with russ flin, i co chachaired the 50th s anniversary capital campaign. Us russ and i are proud to be part of this vital project and to be able to thank each of you for your support of meals on wheels. Clearly to be successful in r e raising almost 41, dlr 42 needed for this project require s extensive jen rgenerosity for, many support er s. Luckily we have been successful in raising the funds necessary to move forward and have secured 80 of our goal. We have 20 left to go. Now, it gives me great pleasure to thank the individuals. I call them our First Responder s p who helped jumpstart this campaign. Fir
Sincerely, i think you can see it pretty easily how blessed we are to have russ and hjose ad frankly every board member and b donor associated with this. We wouldnt be here without you. Were coming to the end of the speaking program. I give you the chance to re lla but also to secelebrate a littl bit. We now were going to do somethi something i dont know how were going to do this, but i do want to offer a few closing thanks and instructions. Flawl first of all , can we jut give our staff that work every day delivering food [ applause ]. Answering the phones, i just dont think none of us who dont do this work think about what it means to walk up buil buildings and six flights of stairs with food in our your hand and buildings with he wieor s that dont work and getting in and out of a car. We have pretsocial worker s goi trying to help people who literally have nothing and people who have challenges and so forth and we have a staff that back them up thats unparalleled. Again, my deep ees
Usf donates 100120 pounds of food a night. For the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the Food Recovery Network. Im maggie. Im nick. Were coechairs of the national led organization. What food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. The moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didnt recover it the next day. I want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, its one of the largest emitters of Greenhouse Gases in the world. If it was a nation, it would be the Third Largest nation behind china and the United States. America wastes about 40 of the food we create every year, 160 billion worth and thats made up in the higher
Has been our consultant from Northern California Community Loan fund. Thank you, david. Thank you for helping me understand this weave of stuff and so forth. Leading the way to make sure that we anchor the new market tax credit that we needed for the project is the city of San Francisco and the San Francisco Community Investment fund, or as we call it sfif. Without them jumping in and p putting their projestamp on thi project, i dont know if othes s would have joined as easily. We just wareally want to thank e sfif for supporting us. Along side of the sfif, San Francisco sfif was california loan fund who in vvested with u early as well. The group that put us over the top is an Organization Called Community Impact partners which is more of a National Partner and they came in to push us forward as well. The irony is that two of these organizations are doing more than just giving us credits. Theyre actually funding our construction loan and thats Community Vision and Community Impact part