| Upcoming Events Shop for a Cause at Vineyard Vines - Thursday, May 21, 6-9PM. RSVP.
Red Sox Raffle - Buy a ticket for the chance to host a party of 16 to watch the game from a private suite - raffle ends Friday, May 22. Boston LGBT GBBC Boat Cruise - Monday, June 1 - details coming soon!
Volunteer Appreciation Reception at City Table - details coming soon!
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| Volunteer Opportunities We need you to help prepare and package meals for the Avon Breast Cancer Walk!
Sign-up to help:
Thursday, May 14, 9-12PM
Thursday, May 14, 1-4PM
Friday, May 15, 9-12PM
Friday, May 15, 1-4PM |
| Thank You! |
Thank you to all of the
23rd annual
LifeSavor
restaurants,
sponsors, and supporters. Thanks to you, we raised $515,000 in support of our Food and Nutrition Program.
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| Nutrition Tip |
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Quinoa is on its way to becoming a common household food item, but it's not the only healthy grain on the block!
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| Nutrition News |
In this
article, NPR covers a movement by
organizations to make use of visually "imperfect" produce.
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| A Gift for Mom. A Week of Meals for Sherys.  "Sometimes during my treatments, I wouldn't even be able to get up. I wasn't sure how my girls were going to eat," said Sherys, single mother of three, diagnosed with breast cancer at age 43. "Every Monday, it feels good to fill my refrigerator. The meals [from Community Servings] take so much stress off and they have truly become part of our lifestyle. It is a symbol of good things and I could not be more thankful," she said. Each $25 or $50 purchase of a Meals4Moms gift helps provide one or two weeks' worth of hearty, nutritious meals to a mom, like Sherys, who is too sick to shop or cook for herself and her family. Buy a $25 Card, designed by Dickinson Lab, featuring artwork inspired by local artist
Susy Pilgrim Waters For $50, purchase a card and a tin of Fastachi's Signature Nut Mix Also for $50, purchase a card and a tin of Fastachi's Chocolate Bark. THE DEADLINE TO ORDER IS WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2015 AT 5PM |
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| Teaching Kitchen Students Dub Themselves the "Hakuna Matata" Class 
Community Servings recently welcomed its 26th Teaching Kitchen class. The Teaching Kitchen job training program prepares individuals who are unemployed or face barriers to full-time employment for careers in the food service industry.
The 26th Teaching Kitchen class renamed themselves the "Hakuna Matata class," symbolic of the "no worries" attitude each of the trainees bring to Teaching Kitchen. For many of the trainees, the program offers a chance to start over and create a better life for themselves and their family.
One Teaching Kitchen trainee, Tamara, said that it's  her time "to create a much better life for my kids." Tamara, a single mother of three, doesn't have any experience working in a kitchen, but became interested in working with food when her daughter was in the hospital and needed a specialized diet. Working in the Community Servings kitchen has been an educational experience for her, as she's learned more about preparing medically-tailored meals for people who are battling critical illnesses.
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