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Message From The Executive Board
The NHIFP began Spring by honoring our volunteers. Forty of us gathered at Caoiti’s Pizza Café in Studio City for a sit-down luncheon. In essence, the Board fed those who feed others. And we did it with much love.
From loading/unloading trucks of food to organizing products in the basement of Temple Beth Hillel to packing sacks of groceries in the basement to transporting, sorting, organizing, receiving, weighing, and distributing fresh food from Target, Bagel Brigade and grocery stores to finally, distributing food to our neighbors...it truly does take an army of volunteers to accomplish the work we do.
I would like to offer a special shout-out to Barbara Javitz, our volunteer coordinator. It takes a lot of organizational skill to pull all these positions to work together to make this manageable. And another big thank-you goes to Jane Poole, who orders our food each week from the LA Regional Food Bank and a local food wholesaler. This also involves maintaining an inventory of what we have on hand in order to know what needs to be purchased. And though he is not technically a volunteer, Philip Lester serves as our Director of Operations. He works tirelessly to pull together all the pieces to make sure the Pantry runs smoothly, giving 200% to all that he does.
Finely, thank you to all of the members of the Board of Directors who care deeply about the work we do, and have done for over 40 years in this community.
In deep gratitude,
Louise Sloan Goben
Chair, Board of Directors
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