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••••••••••• “Project Bread is about safeguarding the health and future of the individual. As the state’s leading antihunger organization, we see, firsthand, the terrible toll that hunger and poor nutrition exacts from children and adults. It doesn’t have to be this way – the solutions to ending hunger lie within our reach. And the very best solutions are woven into the activities of daily life – school, community meals, and farmers markets. So we make help available in a wide range of ways that feel natural to those in need.” — Ellen Parker, executive director of Project Bread

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Project Bread • Voices 2008 • page 1

Especially if you’re a senior.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • ABOUT MARTA Before she and her husband came to Boston from Cape Verde eight years

Photo © Judith Ritter

ago, Marta Rodriguez spent her days endlessly working to raise and support

her four children. She worked in a fish water from a public well to her home. “Work was never finished all those

years. I am thankful that, at seventy-five years old, I am here in the U.S.,” she says with a sigh so palpable it is as if she

is reliving the exhaustion of a lifetime of hard physical work. . . .

Photos © Joshua Touster

factory, took in laundry, and hauled

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Project Bread • Voices 2008 • page 2

Solving hunger means doing aggressive outreach to get eligible elders on SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps). From August to October 2008, Project Bread’s FoodSource Hotline prescreened 2,730 elder households for food stamps, which represented an 850-percent increase from the same period in 2007 when there were 321 seniors screened. The average benefit for an elderly person is $120 per month, providing hungry seniors with additional money for fish, fresh produce, and milk.

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Today, Marta is a citizen, reconnected with several of her children who moved to the U.S. before her, and is happy and grateful for the programs that enrich her life at Kit Clark Senior Center in Dorchester — one of the four hundred emergency food programs supported by Project Bread. At the bustling senior center, where there is such a cultural mix that bingo is called in three languages, there are day trips, exercise classes, and Rodriguez’s personal favorite — biweekly dances where she has the opportunity to do some of the rural dances of Cape Verde. “I’m a big fan of funana, bataku, and coladera,” she says, laughing and demonstrating a quick Cape Verdean dance move while still in her seat. “Dancing is my favorite!”

Life in America wasn’t always easy for Rodriguez who lost her husband recently. Before coming to Kit Clark, by her own admission, she was sad and often lonely. Now she not only benefits from its social activities but also, like many of Kit Clark’s elderly visitors, from the Project Bread–funded food pantry at Kit Clark. “I get lots of things that are just too expensive to buy,” she says. “I really couldn’t do without it.”

•••••••••••••• “Help seniors. Many elderly are poor, no longer able to work, and the cost of living is so high.” — Marta Rodriguez, senior, at the Kit Clark Senior Center

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Eager to give back to the Center she enjoys so much, Rodriguez also volunteers and helps other seniors who are less physically capable and less financially well off. She offers companionship to elderly Cape Verdeans who speak no English, accompanies others who have no families to the hospital, and even finds a way to generate a little extra money for some of the seniors who are not qualified to receive assistance or who lack family support systems and have nothing. “We help each other with a couple of dollars here and there,” she says. “You know there are some seniors who don’t even have an extra dollar for the bus!” Since coming to the center and helping the other seniors, Rodriguez says she “feels alive” again. She does, however, miss Cape Verde, her family, and especially her mother who just turned one hundred. “When I dream, I dream about Cape Verde,” she says wistfully, but she knows that were she there, she wouldn’t have access to quality healthcare, and she says that’s the major issue for seniors today. She is grateful that Massachusetts has so many programs for the elderly, but she knows not every senior in America is on equal footing with her. And she has a few words on the subject for the president of the United States. “Help seniors. Many elderly are poor, no longer able to work, and the cost of living is so high,” she says forcefully. “Just do something to help out more. It would be a great thing!”

Project Bread • Voices 2008 • page 3

Especially if you’re a child.

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“When I grow up, I want to be president!” — Jose D. at the Gerard A. Guilmette School in Lawrence, Mass.

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olving hunger means partnering with experts in the field of nutrition to change the paradigm of hunger from one of poverty to education and health.

•••••••••••••• “School food typically accounts for up to fifty-five percent of the calories a low-income child consumes in a day,” says Ellen Parker, executive director of Project Bread. “It’s our job — everyone’s job — to make sure that each one of those calories counts.”

Several years ago, Project Bread developed a pilot program in partnership with the Harvard School of Public Health, called the Better Breakfast Initiative. This grew out of the organization’s success in getting breakfast launched at all low-income schools across the state, enabling more than 128,000 kids to eat every day. The Better Breakfast program eliminated trans fats and sugared cereal, reduced dairy fat, and increased fruit and fiber. Its standards met the USDA’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and challenged common practices in many school kitchens, requiring some new thinking about what kids would eat. Last year, Project Bread worked again with the Harvard School of Public Health and the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts University to create reference tools that researched and catalogued an array of products that meet these higher guidelines. The result is two toolkits — the Better Breakfast and Better Lunch Toolkits — which, along with the Marketing Healthy Foods Toolkit, were provided to every food service director in the state.

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ABOUT ERIC “The argument is that you can’t get kids to eat healthily, but if you don’t give them chocolate milk in kindergarten they just don’t expect it in second grade!”

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— Eric B. Rimm, Sc.D., Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition and Director of the Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health

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rowing up on a Wisconsin apple farm, planting trees and picking fruit could have been the inspiration for Dr. Eric Rimm’s career in studies in nutrition, but he says laughingly, “It wasn’t. I grew up in a ‘meat and potatoes’ era, a period of time when nutrition wasn’t a big focus.” Today, however, nutrition and its effect on adults and children is the focus for Dr. Eric Rimm, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard’s prestigious School of Public Health and board member for Project Bread. Dr. Rimm is responsible for groundbreaking work on adult heart health and nutrition and what became clear to him in doing his adult studies was, he explains, “that what you eat during your early years impacts your health in later years.” That, plus having his own children and seeing their food habits and those of their friends helped turn his attention to nutrition and children. What concerns Rimm the most is the exponential rise of childImproved MCAS Scores hood obesity tied to over-consumption and over-processed food. “Poor nutrition impacts kids’ abilities in school,” Rimm says, “their For several years, Project Bread has known the brain function and even their mental health.”

Rimm’s concern for children’s nutritional health dovetailed with that of Project Bread’s, and the five-year collaboration between Dr. Rimm and the organization, he admits, is one of his greatest joys. He is particularly hopeful about his work with Project Bread on the Better Breakfast program. On one visit to a school in Orange where the program was implemented, Rimm saw positive evidence that, given the opportunity, kids will choose good food. “I saw an entire cafeteria of kids eating healthy foods and loving it,” he says. “The argument is that you can’t get kids to eat healthily, but if you don’t give them chocolate milk in kindergarten, they just don’t expect it in second grade!” One thing that would go a long way, he believes, is to change the existing subsidy program. “If subsidies focused on helping ordinary school food directors provide fruits and vegetables rather than hotdogs and processed foods, that would certainly help.” Rimm admits that changing children’s food habits is a big job, but he says assuredly, with groups like Project Bread on the beat, it can be done. He points to the success of the breakfast program. “They started with breakfast,” he says, “and now they’ve put together the political will to change school lunch programs. I am just incredibly delighted and proud to work with Project Bread.”

importance of using the latest in nutrition science to fuel young minds. In elementary schools, higher school breakfast participation correlates with higher MCAS scores. In fact, schools where eighty percent or more of the students eat school breakfast produce significantly higher MCAS scores in both English and math.

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Research from Massachusetts General Hospital, sponsored by Project Bread, found that when children received food as close as possible to morning lessons, their grades improved, their attendance improved, and they behaved better in the classroom.

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Especially if you’re a parent.

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When a family with three children who are eligible for free or reduced breakfast and lunch, eat those meals at school, they can realize a savings of $2,200 a year — allowing the family to put more money into a nutritious evening meal together.

Project Bread • Voices 2008 • page 6

Solving hunger means that it’s never been more important to use every tool we have to protect hungry people. In particular, we must take aggressive steps to achieve full enrollment in the federally funded nutrition programs like food stamps, school meals, summer meals for kids, and after-school snacks.

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ABOUT AMY

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ometimes after an especially long day working at The Family Health Center of Worcester, Amy Grassette just needs her spirits buoyed, so she listens to music, a song such as Josh Grobin’s “You Raise Me Up” or Coldplay’s “Fix You.” The lyrics to both of those songs talk about finding respite from struggle, exhaustion, and sadness through someone’s or something’s help. For the most part, however, it is Amy Grassette who is the one raising spirits in her role as food-stamp advocate. In the past three years, she has filed over eight hundred applications, many of them for hungry parents of hungry children. “If you are a mom and don’t have food for your kids, that’s rough.” she says.

“If you are a mom and don’t have food for your kids, that’s rough.” — Amy Grassette of The Family Health Center of Worcester

Amy Grassette knows exactly how rough it is to try to provide enough food for a hungry family in a financial crisis. With a husband with disabilities and three children at home, for many years Grassette was the sole support of her family. She remembers that, at one point, the family had run out of stamps and, with nothing left to eat except peanut butter and crackers, Grassette decided she had to go to a local restaurant and ask for a meal. “That was hard! I just never thought that would happen to me,” she says with some emotion. The experience of years of relying on food stamps and even enduring a period of homelessness, though difficult, has served her well. “I have a good perspective on hunger, and that period of my life made me realize I wanted to do something important.” That “something important” is her tireless work every day on the frontlines of hunger. Working on a grant from Project Bread, Grassette helps individuals and families navigate the complex bureaucracy of food stamp (now called SNAP for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) applications. In a challenging economy of increased joblessness, higher costs for food, she says her phone calls seem endless, and the number of applications has more than doubled this past year. She not only files applications, she gives tips on cost cutting, budgeting, and shopping from her own experience on food stamps. She feels more than qualified to do that because, as she explains, “I know what it is like to have hungry kids.” She says passionately, “It is just so hard knowing you can’t give your kids a good meal.” And her prescription for public awareness about hunger? “I think it would be wonderful if all politicians had to live on food stamps for a few days!” she says wryly.

Photo © Michael Dwyer

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Especially if you’re someone who cares.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • “For a generation, The Walk for Hunger has been the achievement not of individuals or particular groups, but of an entire people. Who are the heroes of this — Boston’s finest public act? There are no heroes, and that is the point, which is why this city has taken the Walk permanently to its heart. The Walk is an act of pure citizenship. Boston is never more beautiful than on the first Sunday in May, and never — one dares to hope — more itself.” — James Carroll, columnist, The Boston Globe

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• • • • • • • • • • • • • • The Walk for Hunger — Nothing Else Like It

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On the first Sunday in May, The Walk for Hunger mobilizes 40,000 caring people who roar forth to protest hunger.

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roject Bread’s signature event, The Walk for Hunger, is the

oldest, continual pledge walk in the country, and the only

walkathon dedicated to social justice. For forty years, this grassroots event has provided over $70 million in private donations to neighborhood emergency food programs

throughout the state. These programs served 42.1 million meals to hungry people last year, which is the largest number ever recorded.

Last year, through The Walk for Hunger, Project Bread mobilized 40,000 Walkers who, in turn, involved 50,000 contributors to raised $4 million dollars. Along with the

2,000 volunteers who help at the Walk each year, more than 92,000 caring people in the state are united in some form of hunger relief on the first Sunday in May.

Solving hunger means providing a safety net for the state’s 400 emergency food programs. The Walk for Hunger

mobilizes support for soup kitchens, food pantries, food Heart & Sole Walkers are a group of dedicated participants who raise a minimum of $500 for each Walk for Hunger. In 2008, their numbers grew to more than 1,700 individuals who raised $1.6 million dollars to feed hungry people.

banks, and food salvage programs in 131 communities across Massachusetts.

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Solving hunger means providing a safety net for the state’s 400 emergency food programs. The Walk for Hunger mobilizes support for soup kitchens, food pantries, food banks, and food salvage programs in 131 communities across Massachusetts. These programs, in turn, provided 42.1 million meals to hungry people in 2007.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • ABOUT BOB AND BETH

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“The Walk has made its mark in Massachusetts and we’ve had fun being part of it.” — Bob Paine, long-time Walk Day Coordinator, speaking about his and his wife’s support of The Walk for Hunger

hen Bob Paine and Beth Fuller begin to talk about the Walk, the discussion can go on for a long time. Bob’s been involved with the Walk since 1976, when he became a member of the Paulist Center, where the Walk originated. “In the early days, things were pretty rustic,” says Bob. “There were no cell phones or even HAM radio operators involved. We would make little Walk Day coordinator kits and put them into lunchboxes. These kits contained some Band-Aids, a few supplies that we scrounged up, and a roll of dimes in case anything happened!” Bob’s job in 1976 was to follow the last Walker and tell the checkpoints to close. Beth was between jobs in 1977, so she volunteered at the Walk for Hunger office — neither Project Bread staff nor answering machines existed yet — where she would answer calls over a single phone and keep track of donations on three-byfive–inch cards.

“A big tradition on the Day of the Walk,” said Bob, “was to mark the route. We had hundreds of stickers and triangular signs to direct Walkers. I used to have to walk the route twice that weekend — the day before to set up the route and the day after to take it all down. One year, a Boy Scout troop called us from Watertown and they were about ten miles off route!” Beth remembers trying to support the comfort of the Walkers. “We knew Walkers had to eat something, so we started serving peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, but that became too much over the years as the number of Walkers grew. We would then peel carrots and oranges for them to pass out at the checkpoints. The day before the Walk, we’d have massive numbers of people in the Paulist Center basement peeling cases of oranges and carrots. Eventually we had to stop that as well, because we just couldn’t keep up with the Walkers. It was a futile effort. We would have volunteers at the end crying because the orange acid had burned through their gloves and into their skin. When it got to that point, the Walk staff (there was staff by then!) started to hunt down donations from food companies to help us.” Bob laughs and says, “We only have positive memories of being involved. It seemed as if The Walk for Hunger met a need that wasn’t being met any other way. Those small soup kitchens and food pantries would never have gotten money from the United Way because they weren’t big enough. There weren’t other granting organizations and Project Bread made it simple. The Walk has made its mark in Massachusetts and we’ve had fun being part of it.”

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Working to End Hunger Photos © Michael Dwyer

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he following organizations received grants from Project Bread

through its Walk for Hunger and the Massachusetts Child Hunger

Initiative (MCHI) during the 2007 – 2008 funding period. They include emergency food programs, schools, after-school programs, summer

“ There is a symbiotic link between our kids’ nutrition and their academic success. I am grateful for the partnership that exists between Project Bread, the legislature, and the City of Brockton – a partnership that seeks to end hunger in our city and ensures a strong foundation of healthy lifestyles for our youth.” — State Representative Christine Canavan, speaking about the Summer Food Programs in Brockton

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food programs, health centers, and neighborhood organizations.

Project Bread • Working to End Hunger 2008 • page 2

Working to End Hunger The following organizations received grants from Project Bread through its Walk for Hunger and the Massachusetts Child Hunger Initiative (MCHI) during the 2007 – 2008 funding period. They include emergency food programs, schools, after-school programs, summer food programs, health centers, and neighborhood organizations.

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Abington St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry

Acton Acton Community Supper, Inc.

Acushnet Shepherd's Pantry, Inc.

Allston Allston/Brighton APAC Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church Joseph M. Smith Community Health Center

Amesbury Our Neighbors' Table

Amherst Amherst Survival Center

Arlington Arlington Food Pantry

Ashburnham Ashburnham Community Church Food Pantry

Ashfield Hilltown Churches Food Pantry

Athol Community Action of the Franklin, Hampshire, and North Quabbin Regions - First Call for Help Salvation Army

Attleboro Attleboro Area Council of Churches - Food 'n Friends Kitchens Community Care Services - Family Resource Center Hebron Village Outreach Center Self Help, Inc. St. Joseph's Food Cellar Project Bread strives to be as accurate as possible in listing our funded agencies. We appreciate your help in correcting any errors or omissions.

Auburn Auburn Youth and Family Service

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Working to End Hunger Working with community partners in 131 lowincome communities throughout the state, Project Bread strengthens local programs to feed hungry children where they live, learn, and play. The goal of this work is to ensure that each family in our state has the same chance to grow and thrive. Project Bread also continues to work with agencies in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont.

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Ayer Loaves & Fishes

Bedford Bedford Community Table/Pantry, Inc.

Beverly Beverly Bootstraps Food Pantry First Baptist Church in Beverly North Shore Outreach Ministry St. Peter's Episcopal Church

Boston ABCD - Child Care Choices of Boston ABCD North End/West End ABCD South End Neighborhood Action Program Adella Klugh Missionary Society

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AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay – Boston Food Pantry; Food Drive for Hungry Asian American Civic Association – Ricesticks and Tea Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Bay Cove Human Services – Center Club Bethel Tabernacle Pentecostal Church Boston Can Share Boston Medical Center – Preventative Food Pantry Boston Public Health Commission Boston Public Schools Department of Food & Nutrition Services Boston Rescue Mission, Inc. Boston University Student Food Rescue Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Inc. Cathedral Church of St. Paul – Monday Lunch Program Catholic Charities – El Centro del Cardenal Food Pantry Catholic Charities – Refugee & Immigration Services Church of the Advent Church of the Covenant Food Cupboard City Mission Society Concord Baptist Church Elm Hill Family Service Center – Boston ABCD, Inc. Project Bread strives to be as accurate as possible in listing our funded agencies. We appreciate your help in correcting any errors or omissions.

Emmanuel Gospel Center – Starlight Ministries Friday Night Supper Program The Greater Boston Food Bank Haley House, Inc.

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Working to End Hunger “We see an average of three to five new clients a week. We’re seeing people who own homes, but just can’t make ends meet. We also have single mothers, seniors, and families – all of whom are struggling to provide the daily nutrition they need to survive.” — Cathy Jacques, pantry coordinator, Germantown Neighborhood Center Pantry, Quincy

The following organizations received grants from Project Bread through its Walk for Hunger and the Massachusetts Child Hunger Initiative (MCHI) during the 2007 – 2008 funding period. They include emergency food programs, schools, after-school programs, summer food programs, health centers, and neighborhood organizations.

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Brockton

Neighborhood Action, Inc.

Brockton Coalition for the Homeless – MainSpring House

New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans

Brockton Housing Authority

Paulist Center – Wednesday Night Supper Club and Food Pantry

Brockton Public Schools

Pine Street Inn

Charity Guild Food Pantry

Rosie's Place

Full Gospel Tabernacle Food Pantry

Salvation Army – Family Service Bureau

Lincoln Congregational Church

Saturday's and Sunday's Bread

Lost & Found Ministries

South End Community Health Center

Mt. Moriah Emergency Food Program

South End Neighborhood Church Food Pantry

Pentecost United Methodist Church Food Pantry

St. Anthony Shrine – St. Anthony Center

Salvation Army

St. Francis House

Trinity Baptist Church – MANNA Ministry

Trustees of Tufts College

United Way of Greater Plymouth

Union United Methodist Church – Work Area on Adult Ministries

Whitman Elementary School

Women's Lunch Place

Bourne Friends of Bourne Council on Aging – Bourne Friends Food Pantry

Braintree Braintree Community Food Pantry

Catholic Charities South – Brockton Food Pantry

Burlington People Helping People, Inc. – Burlington Community Food Pantry

Cambridge Bread and Jams, Inc. Cambridge Cares About AIDS – Youth on Fire

Braintree Holidays/Friends, Inc.

Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee Food Pantry

Senior Citizens Independent Center, Inc.

Cambridge Senior Center Food Pantry

Brighton

Cambridgeport Baptist Church – The Harvest

Allston/Brighton Food Pantry

East End House, Inc.

F. Lyman Winship School

First Church Shelter

CommonCare

Project Bread • Working to End Hunger 2008 • page 5

Working to End Hunger Working with community partners in 131 lowincome communities throughout the state, Project Bread strengthens local programs to feed hungry children where they live, learn, and play. The goal of this work is to ensure that each family in our state has the same chance to grow and thrive. Project Bread also continues to work with agencies in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont.

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Salvation Army

Harvard Square Churches Meal Program, Inc. Loaves & Fishes Meal Program Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Massachusetts Avenue Baptist Church – Project Manna Pentecostal Tabernacle Food Pantry Shelter Inc. St. James Episcopal Church – Helping Hands Food Pantry St. Paul AME Church Food Pantry Union Baptist Church – Project Uplift

Photo © Joshua Touster

Canton Canton Food Pantry

Charlestown Harvest on Vine Food Pantry

Charlton CHIP-IN Food Pantry of Charlton

“I’ve got to get food for my kids. It’s not just for me; I can go without. It’s for them. They’ve got to eat. I’ve been feeding them cereal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I can’t keep doing this.”

Chelmsford Chelmsford Community Exchange, Inc.

Chelsea Chelsea Housing Authority

— Mother who came to Project Bread looking for food

Chelsea Human Services Collaborative Community Action Programs Inter-City, Inc. MGH Chelsea Healthcare Center Network of Community Food Providers – Chelsea Community Kitchen Roca, Inc.– Youth STAR Food Pantry Salvation Army St. Rose Parish Food Pantry

Chicopee

Bowe Public Elementary School Chicopee Emergency Food and Fuel Chicopee Health Center Mission Center, New Jerusalem, Inc.

Project Bread strives to be as accurate as possible in listing our funded agencies. We appreciate your help in correcting any errors or omissions.

Clinton James 2:15 Kitchen WHEAT Community Services

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Working to End Hunger The following organizations received grants from Project Bread through its Walk for Hunger and the Massachusetts Child Hunger Initiative (MCHI) during the 2007 – 2008 funding period. They include emergency food programs, schools, after-school programs, summer food programs, health centers, and neighborhood organizations.

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Concord Open Table, Inc.

Dedham Dedham Food Pantry

Dennisport Cape Cod Council of Churches – Hands of Hope Outreach Center

Dorchester Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston – Yawkey Center Food Pantry Codman Square Health Center Dorchester House – Multi-Service Center Earthen Vessels, Inc. Emmanuel Temple Food Pantry Photo © Joshua Touster

Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses, Inc. Full Life Gospel Center Food Pantry Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center, Inc. Kit Clark Senior Services Mt. Calvary Holy Church Neponset Health Center - Harbor Health Services

“We love Project Bread and everything they do for us and the fight against hunger. It’s not only the money, but also the resources for families in need. It’s the FoodSource Hotline and the advocacy at the Statehouse. We do not have the time or ability to do what Project Bread does, but because they do these things, we do have the freedom to focus on our primary mission, feeding hungry people.”

Project Care and Concern Project Hope Refuge and Relief Ministry, Inc. Rehoboth Bethel Church Food Pantry St. Luke Christian AME Zion Church St. Mary's Episcopal Church Food Pantry Upham's Corner Health Center Veterans Benefit Clearinghouse, Inc. Zion Temple Holy Church

East Boston AVANCE, Inc.

— Pat Adams, director, Weymouth Council for the Hungry

East Boston APAC East Boston Ecumenical Community Council East Boston Harborside Community Center East Boston Neighborhood Health Center Most Holy Redeemer - Our Daily Bread Food Pantry East Boston YMCA

Easthampton Easthampton Community Center

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Working to End Hunger “Students cannot learn unless they are properly fed and ready for the school day. We are grateful to the City of Boston and Project Bread for expanding our resources to address the overall health and wellness of our students.” — Boston Superintendent of Schools, Carol R. Johnson, Ed.D., speaking at the Mario Umana Middle School Academy in East Boston

Working with community partners in 131 low-income communities throughout the state, Project Bread strengthens local programs to feed hungry children where they live, learn, and play. The goal of this work is to ensure that each family in our state has the same chance to grow and thrive. Project Bread also continues to work with agencies in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Everett

Immaculate Conception – St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry

Fall River Citizens for Citizens, Inc. – Fall River Food Pantry

Department Salvation Army South Middlesex Opportunity Council - MetroWest Harvest Food Initiative St. Bridget's Food Pantry

Community Development Recreation

Franklin

Greater Fall River Community Food Pantry

Franklin Food Pantry, Inc.

HealthFirst Family Care Center Lighthouse Christian Center – Feed My Sheep

Gardner

People, Incorporated – Children's Services Division

Gardner Community Action Committee, Inc.

Falmouth

Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center

Falmouth Service Center

Fitchburg Academy Middle School Cleghorn Neighborhood Center Community Health Connections Family Health Center

Gloucester The Open Door / Cape Ann Food Pantry

Greenfield Community Action of the Franklin, Hampshire, and North Quabbin Regions - Center for Self Reliance

Fitchburg Parks & Recreation Department

Federal Street Elementary 21st Century Community Learning Center

Gardner Visiting Nursing Association, Inc. – Community Services Center

Franklin County Community Meals

Montachusett Opportunity Council, Inc. – Elder Services and Leona Fleming Food Pantry Salvation Army

Framingham Framingham Civic League, Inc. - Saturday Meal Program Framingham Public Schools Food Service

Salvation Army Tapestry Health Systems – AIDS Services of Franklin County YMCA in Greenfield/Child Care Center

Hamilton Acord Food Pantry, Inc.

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Working to End Hunger The following organizations received grants from Project Bread through its Walk for Hunger and the Massachusetts Child Hunger Initiative (MCHI) during the 2007 – 2008 funding period. They include emergency food programs, schools, after-school programs, summer food programs, health centers, and neighborhood organizations.

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Harwich Family Pantry Corporation

Hatfield The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts

Haverhill Calvary Baptist Church – Calvary's Kitchen Catholic Charities of the Merrimack Valley – Open Hand Food Pantry City of Haverhill Community Action, Inc. – Drop-In Center & Amesbury Center Emmaus, Inc. Haverhill Public Schools Joyful Ladle Pregnancy Care Center of Merrimack Valley

Holyoke Photo © Michael Dwyer

Boys and Girls Club of Greater Holyoke

Chef Kirk Conrad at the Mario Unama Middle School Academy in East Boston

Holyoke Community College Holyoke Health Center Providence Ministries of the Needy Salvation Army

Hull Wellspring, Inc.

Huntington Pioneer Valley Assembly of God – Huntington Food Pantry

Hyannis Calvary Baptist Church – Calvary's Pantry/Kitchen Cape Cod Child Development Program Food Pantry First Baptist Church of Hyannis Housing Assistance Corporation – NOAH Emergency Shelter Mid-Upper Cape Community Health Center Nam Vets Association of the Cape & Islands – Veteran's Food Pantry Salvation Army

Hyde Park Healthy Baby/Healthy Child Program Project Bread strives to be as accurate as possible in listing our funded agencies. We appreciate your help in correcting any errors or omissions.

Hyde Park Emergency Food Pantry

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Working to End Hunger Working with community partners in 131 lowincome communities throughout the state, Project Bread strengthens local programs to feed hungry children where they live, learn, and play. The goal of this work is to ensure that each family in our state has the same chance to grow and thrive. Project Bread also continues to work with agencies in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont.

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Indian Orchard Community Survival Center

Jamaica Plain Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Community Servings Curly K-8 School Dominican Development Center Greek Orthodox Diocese of Boston – Philoxenia House Jamaica Plain APAC

Photo © Joshua Touster

Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly Martha Eliot Health Center Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Southern Jamaica Plain Community Health Center Young Achievers Science and Mathematics Pilot School

Kingston Plymouth Area Coalition for the Homeless – Pilgrims Hope Food Pantry

“Project Bread is the backbone of our entire operation. We went from a soup kitchen where we fed 400 people lunch each weekday and a couple of years later we closed that down and now have food pantries. Since my very first day, Project Bread has been there for me”

Lakeville Mullein Hill Baptist Church – Hearts of Abundance

Lawrence Bread & Roses Community Services Agency, Inc. Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Groundwork Lawrence Lawrence Public Schools

— Beth Chambers, Greater Boston Catholic Charities

Lazarus House, Inc. Ministerio Los Milagros de Jesus – Food for the World Pantry Neighbors in Need, Inc. Si, Se Puede, Inc.

Leominster First Baptist Church of Leominster – Food and Clothes Cupboard Leominster United Methodist Church – Ruth's Harvest Pantry The Spanish American Center, Inc.

Lincoln The Food Project

Project Bread • Working to End Hunger 2008 • page 10

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Working to End Hunger

Staff Photo

“The Summer Food Program is so important to Revere children and I hope that Revere families continue to take advantage of these sites, which Project Bread helps us to expand and grow.” — Mayor Thomas G. Ambrosino, speaking at the Revere Summer Food Program, 2008

The following organizations received grants from Project Bread through its Walk for Hunger and the Massachusetts Child Hunger Initiative (MCHI) during the 2007 – 2008 funding period. They include emergency food programs, schools, after-school programs, summer food programs, health centers, and neighborhood organizations.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Lowell

Malden

Abraham Lincoln Elementary School

Bread of Life

Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell

Cambridge Health Alliance F/B/O - CHA Malden

Catholic Charities of the Merrimack Valley – Lowell Food Pantry

Emmanuel Baptist Church – G.G. Jefferson Emergency Food Pantry Ministry

Central Food Ministry, Inc.

Malden Public Schools Food Service Department

Charles W. Morey School

Malden Haitian Church of the Nazarene Food Pantry

Christ Jubilee International Ministries

North Shore Assembly of God Food Pantry

Community Teamwork Inc.

Philadelphie SDA Church

Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Council

Tri-City Community Action Program, Inc.

House of Hope, Inc. Lowell Community Health Center

Mansfield

Lowell Transitional Living Center, Inc.

Our Daily Bread: Friends Caring and Sharing

The Merrimack Valley Food Bank, Inc. Open Pantry of Greater Lowell

Marlborough

S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary School

Marlborough Community Services, Inc.

The Caleb Group

Mashpee

Lynn Catholic Charities North / Lynn

St. Vincent de Paul – Christ the King

East Coast International Church Food Pantry

Mattapan

Lynn City Mission

Dorchester Nazarene Compassionate Center

Lynn Community Health Center

Glad Tidings Food Pantry

Lynn Economic Opportunity Council, Inc.

Greater Victory Temple Food Pantry

Lynn Shelter Association

Haitian American Public Health Initiatives, Inc.

My Brother's Table Sacred Heart Tree of Life Pantry

Maynard

Salvation Army

Maynard Food Pantry, Inc.

St. Mary's Parish Tree of Life Pantry St. Vincent de Paul - St. Joseph Conference

Project Bread • Working to End Hunger 2008 • page 11

Working to End Hunger Working with community partners in 131 lowincome communities throughout the state, Project Bread strengthens local programs to feed hungry children where they live, learn, and play. The goal of this work is to ensure that each family in our state has the same chance to grow and thrive. Project Bread also continues to work with agencies in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont.

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Medford Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford – Community Cupboard Food Pantry

Medway Medway Village Church

Methuen City of Methuen Recreation Department Methuen Arlington Neighborhood, Inc. Methuen Housing Authority Methuen Public Schools

Middleborough Central Baptist Church – Love in Action Ministry

Milford Photo © Judith Ritter

Daily Bread Food Pantry

Millis Millis Ecumenical Food Pantry

“We work to provide a safe place for kids to come after school so that they can do their homework. My goal is to give these kids a more level playing field academically. It breaks my heart when they don’t have enough money to buy the cardboard for a science project or the colored pencils for art class. We make sure they have the tools they need as well as a healthy snack, thanks to Project Bread.”

Milton Boston Minuteman Council – Scouting for Food Milton Community Food Pantry

Natick A Place To Turn

New Bedford American Red Cross – Greater New Bedford Chapter Apostolic Faith Ministries Catholic Social Services – Solanus Casey Food Pantry City of New Bedford Parks and Recreation Department

— Linda Soucy, coordinator, Safe Haven Computer and Homework Center, a service of Methuen Arlington Neighborhood

Grace Episcopal Church Greater New Bedford Community Health Center Market Ministries, Inc. Salvation Army St. Lawrence Parish Food Pantry United Way of Southeastern Massachusetts – Hunger Commission of Southeastern Massachusetts

Project Bread strives to be as accurate as possible in listing our funded agencies. We appreciate your help in correcting any errors or omissions.

Project Bread • Working to End Hunger 2008 • page 12

Working to End Hunger The following organizations received grants from Project Bread through its Walk for Hunger and the Massachusetts Child Hunger Initiative (MCHI) during the 2007 – 2008 funding period. They include emergency food programs, schools, after-school programs, summer food programs, health centers, and neighborhood organizations.

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Newton Hellenic Gospel Church Newton Food Pantry Synagogue Council of Massachusetts – Project Ezra

North Adams Berkshire Food Project North Adams Public Schools Salvation Army Vietnam Veterans of America 54

North Andover Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Council People's Pantry

Northampton Community Action

Photo © Paul Shoul

MANNA Soup Kitchen, Inc. Northampton Survival Center ServiceNet, Inc.

Norwood Ecumenical Food Pantry of Norwood

“It is so clear that a good, nutritious breakfast prepares children for their day of learning. By being part of the Better Breakfast Program that focuses on less sugar and better nutrition, we can help our children jumpstart a positive day of learning.” — Principal Sheryl Brault of the Fisher Hill Elementary School in Orange

Oak Bluffs Island Council on Aging

Onset Onset Foursquare Church – Heart & Soul Soup Kitchen

Orange Orange Public Schools Young Entrepreneurs Society, Inc.

Orleans Lower Cape Outreach Council, Inc.

Palmer Palmer Food Share, Inc.

Peabody Haven From Hunger

Project Bread • Working to End Hunger 2008 • page 13

Working to End Hunger

Photo © Michael Fein

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Working with community partners in 131 low-income communities throughout the state, Project Bread strengthens local programs to feed hungry children where they live, learn, and play. The goal of this work is to ensure that each family in our state has the same chance to grow and thrive. Project Bread also continues to work with agencies in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont.

Project Bread’s Jennifer Akula presents a check to Colbert Calixte of the BenEmmanuel Ambassadors of the Messiah Church Food Pantry in Randolph, as one of over more than 400 grants given to emergency food programs as part of the culmination of the 40th Annual Walk for Hunger at the 2008 Grant Ceremony.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Pepperell

Raynham

Friends of the Pepperell Senior Center – Food Pantry

Raynham Food Basket, Inc.

Pittsfield

Reading

Berkshire Community Action Council

Arc of East Middlesex Food Pantry

Gladys Allen Brigham Community Center Pittsfield Public Schools Food Service Department

Revere

Salvation Army

City of Revere

Plymouth

First Congregational Church of Revere Food Pantry

Catholic Charities South – Plymouth Guild Food Pantry

Revere Public Schools

Plymouth Public Schools Salvation Army South Shore Community Action Council, Inc.

Provincetown AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod Soup Kitchen in Provincetown

Quincy Esther R. Sanger Center for Compassion – Quincy Crisis Center Germantown Neighborhood Center Pantry Interfaith Social Services, Inc. – Pantry Shelf Quincy Community Action Programs Quincy Interfaith Sheltering Coalition – Father Bill's Place

MGH Revere Healthcare Center

Roslindale Roslindale Congregational Church Food Pantry

Roxbury ABCD Parker Hill/Fenway Bethel Baptist Church Open Door Kitchen Church of God of Prophecy Food Pantry Grace and Hope Mission, Inc. Grant AME Church – Self-Help, Inc. Hawthorne Youth and Community Center, Inc. Omega Men in Action Resurrection Lutheran Church Food Pantry Roxbury Prep Charter School Salvation Army Sojourner House, Inc.

Salvation Army

St. Katharine Drexel Parish –Warwick House

Randolph

Twelfth Baptist Church Food Pantry

Ben-Emmanuel Ambassadors of the Messiah Church

Whittier Street Health Center

Project Bread • Working to End Hunger 2008 • page 14

Working to End Hunger The following organizations received grants from Project Bread through its Walk for Hunger and the Massachusetts Child Hunger Initiative (MCHI) during the 2007 – 2008 funding period. They include emergency food programs, schools, after-school programs, summer food programs, health centers, and neighborhood organizations.

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Salem Catholic Charities North / Salem Jewish Family Service of the North Shore, Inc. – Temple Israel Salem Food Pantry Salem Mission Salem Public Schools Salvation Army Save Our Children St. Joseph's Church Food Pantry

Salisbury Pettengill House Food Pantry

Somerset Photo © Joshua Touster

Church of Our Saviour – Annelle Delorme Hagerman Food Pantry

Somerville Catholic Charities Somerville/Cambridge Elder Services Somerville Homeless Coalition – Project SOUP

“We couldn’t feed people at our dropin center without Walk for Hunger funding – it’s vital. Without it, we’d be unable to feed the most needy people in Haverhill. We provide food at all times – food is available five days per week, between five and eight hours a day.”

South Boston Catholic Charitable Bureau Labouré Center - Initial Response Program Fourth Presbyterian Church Food Pantry Julie's Family Learning Program South Boston Community Health Center St. Augustine's Parish Food Pantry

South Easton My Brother's Keeper, Inc.

— Bill Browning, director of Community Services, Community Action Haverhill

Southwick Southwick Family Support Coalition

Spencer Mary, Queen of the Rosary Church Food Pantry

Springfield Anti-Displacement Project Arise for Social Justice Project Bread strives to be as accurate as possible in listing our funded agencies. We appreciate your help in correcting any errors or omissions.

Baystate Brightwood Health Center Baystate Mason Square Neighborhood Health Center

Project Bread • Working to End Hunger 2008 • page 15

Working to End Hunger Working with community partners in 131 lowincome communities throughout the state, Project Bread strengthens local programs to feed hungry children where they live, learn, and play. The goal of this work is to ensure that each family in our state has the same chance to grow and thrive. Project Bread also continues to work with agencies in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont.

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Caring Health Center Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts Freedom Life Line Food Pantry and Soup Kitchen Gray House, Inc. Holy Redeemer Cathedral Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School of Excellence Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center – Food Distribution Program Open Pantry Community Services, Inc. – Loaves and Fishes Kitchen and Emergency Food Pantry Salvation Army Springfield Girls Club Family Center Springfield Public Schools

Stoughton Stoughton Food Pantry

Stow Stow Food Pantry

Sudbury Sudbury Community Food Pantry Staff Photo

Taunton Church at the Crossroads – The Lord Cares Food Program Citizens for Citizens, Inc. – Taunton Food Pantry

“I sincerely thank Project Bread for its leadership in helping us provide our children healthy meals throughout the summer months. I hope that Salem families will continue to take advantage of the activities and meals provided throughout the City. They are a smart resource at any time and especially now when food prices are high.” — Mayor Kimberley Driscoll, speaking at a Salem Summer Food Program, 2008

Coyle & Cassidy High School Food Pantry Old Colony YMCA Taunton Division Our Daily Bread St. Vincent de Paul – Food Pantry and Salvage Center

Templeton Templeton Food Pantry

Turners Falls Desmond Callan Health Center

Wakefield Wakefield Interfaith Food Pantry

Waltham American Red Cross – Waltham Food Pantry Community Farms Outreach Jewish Family and Children's Service – Family Table Food Pantry

Project Bread • Working to End Hunger 2008 • page 16

Working to End Hunger

Photo © Matt Stone

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“When we open the door for our meals, you are standing at our shoulders.” — Rosemary E. Werner, executive director, Our Neighbor's Table, Amesbury, speaking in reference to Project Bread - The Walk for Hunger

The following organizations received grants from Project Bread through its Walk for Hunger and the Massachusetts Child Hunger Initiative (MCHI) during the 2007 – 2008 funding period. They include emergency food programs, schools, after-school programs, summer food programs, health centers, and neighborhood organizations.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Joseph M. Smith Community Health Center Middlesex Human Service Agency, Inc. – Bristol Lodge Kitchen Sacred Heart Church Food Pantry Salvation Army

Wareham Church of the Good Shepherd Damien's Place - The Family Pantry St. Patrick's Church - St. Patrick's Table St. Vincent de Paul - Wareham Food Pantry

Watertown Watertown Food Pantry

Wayland Celebration International Church – The Food Storehouse

West Barnstable YMCA Cape Cod

West Roxbury May Institute

West Springfield Parish Cupboard Victory Temple Food Pantry West Springfield Public Schools Food Service Department

West Townsend Townsend Ecumenical Outreach

West Yarmouth Town of Yarmouth, Recreation Division

Westfield Boys & Girls Club of Greater Westfield, Inc.

Westford Friends of the Cameron Senior Center - Westford Community Food Pantry

Weymouth Weymouth Council for the Hungry

Whitman St. Vincent de Paul Society – Whitman Food Pantry

Winchendon Winchendon Community Action Committee, Inc.

Woburn Woburn Council of Social Concern, Inc.

Worcester AIDS Project Worcester Catholic Charities – Worcester County Food Pantry

Project Bread • Working to End Hunger 2008 • page 17

Working to End Hunger Working with community partners in 131 lowincome communities throughout the state, Project Bread strengthens local programs to feed hungry children where they live, learn, and play. The goal of this work is to ensure that each family in our state has the same chance to grow and thrive. Project Bread also continues to work with agencies in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont.

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Centro Las Americas City of Worcester Department of Public Works and Parks El Buen Samaritano Food Program Family Health Center of Worcester, Inc. Friendly House, Inc. Great Brook Valley Health Center Henry Lee Willis Community Center, Inc. - Great Brook Valley Neighborhood Center Jeremiah's Hospice Massachusetts Veterans Inc. Mt. Carmel Outreach Ministry Pernet Family Health Service Quinsigamond Village Community Center Food Pantry Rachel's Table Refugee Apostolate, Inc. Regional Environmental Council Salvation Army South Worcester Neighborhood Center

Staff Photo

The Worcester Community Action Council

“Just because school is out doesn’t mean kids are not hungry. We have a great program during the school year, but obviously something was missing in the summer. Nothing is more important than making sure that everyone has something to eat.”

Worcester County Food Bank Worcester Public Inebriate Program, Inc.

••••••••••••• Connecticut Connecticut Association for Human Service End Hunger Connecticut!

— Marlborough Mayor Nancy Stevens, speaking about a Marlborough Summer Food Program

New York Hunger Action Network of New York State Nutrition Consortium of New York State

Vermont Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger

Project Bread strives to be as accurate as possible in listing our funded agencies. We appreciate your help in correcting any errors or omissions.

Project Bread 2007 Statement of Activities • Page 1

Project Bread 2007 Statement of Activities

Photos © Todd Lehman

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O

ver the past seven years, Project Bread has allocated eighty percent

of the organization’s expenses directly to help the hungry through

emergency food grants and hunger prevention programs, and twenty percent to support Project Bread’s fundraising and administrative

efforts. The Charitable Bureau of the Better Business Bureau has determined that a “reasonable use of funds requires that total fundrais-

ing and administrative costs not exceed fifty percent of total income.” We are very proud of our achievement in relation to this standard.

Because of the extraordinary from the community through generous donations of time, goods, and services, we are able to keep our overheard expenses low. As a result, those who give to Project Bread know that the money they contribute goes where it is needed most . . . to feed the hungry.

Staff Photo

support Project Bread receives

Project Bread 2007 Statement of Activities • Page 2

Project Bread 2007 Statement of Activities For the year ending September 30, 2007 and 2006 (With Summarized Financial Information for the Year Ending September 30, 2006)

Photo © David Leifer

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This is a summary of the financial statements for Project Bread – The Walk for Hunger, Inc. The complete set of financial statements, audited by independent certified public accountants Alexander, Aronson, Finning & Co., P.C. is available upon request. Project Bread – The Walk for Hunger is a private, nonprofit agency.

REVENUE AND EXPENSES Unrestricted

Temporarily Restricted

2007 Total

2006 Total

$ 2,260,934

$ 150,000

$ 2,410,934

$2,302,081

2,228,938

-

2,228,938

555,553

68,683

-

68,683

109,782

4,819

-

4,819

53,357

121,818

(121,818)

-

-

4,685,192

28,182

4,713,374

3,020,773

Gifts and other support: Contributions Government funding Interest income In-kind - legal Net assets released from restrictions Satisfaction of purpose restrictions Total revenue and support Special events: 3,540,733

-

3,540,733

3,522,384

Walk for Hunger – in-kind

497,762

-

497,762

403,291

Holiday Campaigns

403,627

-

403,627

278,125

4,442,122

-

4,442,122

4,203,800

1,079,474

-

1,079,474

1,043,750

497,762

-

497,762

403,291

Net special events

2,864,886

-

2,864,886

2,756,759

Total revenue, support and special events revenue

7,550,078

28,182

7,578,260

5,777,532

1,884,550

-

1,884,550

1,909,993

Walk for Hunger

Total special events Less costs of special events Less in-kind

Expenses: Grants provided Annual operating grants Other community grants Food Drive for the Hungry grant Total grants provided Grant allocation expenses Total Hunger Relief Grants$

91,303

-

91,303

45,142

329,998

-

329,998

373,720

2,305,851

-

2,305,851

2,328,855

49,002

-

49,002

131,661

-

$2,354,853

$2,460,516

$2,354,853

Project Bread 2007 Statement of Activities • Page 3

Project Bread 2007 Statement of Activities For the year ending September 30, 2007 and 2006 (With Summarized Financial Information for the Year Ending September 30, 2006)

Photo © Todd Lehman

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This is a summary of the financial statements for Project Bread – The Walk for Hunger, Inc. The complete set of financial statements, audited by independent certified public accountants Alexander, Aronson, Finning & Co., P.C. is available upon request. Project Bread – The Walk for Hunger is a private, nonprofit agency.

REVENUE AND EXPENSES Unrestricted

Temporarily Restricted

2007 Total

2006 Total

2,098,656

-

2,098,656

1,637,537

Childhood Hunger Initiatives

307,982

-

307,982

304,248

Food and Hunger Hotline

292,344

-

292,344

306,748

Community Education

411,913

-

411,913

271,859

Advocacy

224,652

-

224,652

121,395

-

-

-

292,106

Total community program expenses

3,335,547

-

3,335,547

2,933,893

Total program expenses

5,690,400

-

5,690,400

5,394,409

374,023

-

374,023

444,537

1,335,047

-

1,335,047

1,230,275

Total supporting services

1,709,070

-

1,709,070

1,674,812

Total expenses

7,399,470

-

7,399,470

7,069,221

150,608

28,182

178,790

(1,291,689)

3,539,605

227,990

3,767,595

5,059,284

$3,690,213

$ 256,172

$ 3,946,385

$3,767,595

Community program expenses: Massachusetts Child Hunger Initiative

Food Stamps Program

Supporting services: General and administrative Fundraising and Development

Change in net assets

Net assets at beginning of year

Net assets at end of year

2007 Statement of Financials For the year ending September 30, 2007 and 2006 145 Border Street, East Boston, MA 02128-1903 Tel 617-723-5000 • Fax 617-248-8877

ASSETS Unrestricted

Temporarily Restricted

2007 Total

2006 Total

$ 2,001,948

$156,172

$ 2,158,120

$ 2,022,658

332,677

-

332,667

104,995

9,051

100,000

109,051

336,848

248,681

-

248,681

98,079

Total current assets

2,592,357

256,172

2,848,529

2,562,580

Property and equipment, net

3,073,791

-

3,073,791

3,171,966

64,517

-

64,517

73,734

$5,730,665

$256,172

$5,986,837

$5,808,280

Current assets: Cash and cash equivalents Government grants receivable Pledges receivable Prepaid expenses

Mortgage acquisition costs, net Total assets

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS Unrestricted

Temporarily Restricted

2007 Total

2006 Total

Accounts Payable

$155,301

-

155,301

122,932

Accrued Expenses

104,595

-

104,595

126,945

Grant payable

101,697

-

101,697

72,826

40,709

-

40,709

38,763

402,302

-

402,302

361,466

1,638,150

-

1,638,150

1,679,219

2,040,452

-

2,040,452

2,040,685

Board designated reserve

2,230,764

-

2,230,764

2,011,887

Property, equipment and mortgage acquisition costs

1,459,449

-

1,459,449

1,527,718

Total unrestricted

3,690,213

-

3,690,213

3,539,605

-

256,172

-

227,990

3,690,213

256,172

3,946,385

3,767,595

$5,730,665

$256,172

$5,986,290

$5,808,280

Current Liabilities:

Current Portion of mortgage note payable Total current liabilities Mortgage Note Payable, net of current portion Total liabilities Net assets: Unrestricted -

Temporarily restricted Total net assets Total liabilities and net assets

Project Bread 2007 Statement of Activities • Page 4

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145 Border Street East Boston, MA 02128-1903 Tel 617-723-5000 • Fax 617-248-8877

www.projectbread.or g © 2008 Project Bread – The Walk for Hunger Project Bread is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Donations are tax-exempt to the full extent of the law. A portion of the photography and design of this annual report were provided pro bono to help fight hunger. We gratefully acknowledge the following individuals and organizations for helping us keep costs low: Michael Fein, Tom Hannon, Todd Lehman, David Leifer, Judith Ritter, Jonathan Sachs, Paul Shoul, Matt Stone, Joshua Touster, and Matt West © 2008 photography; Mornette Shea design.

Photo © Tom Hannon

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Photo © Matt West

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