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Transcript of 2010 WFC Conference Guide
Washington Food Coalition Annual Conference September 15-17, 2010
Equipping Food providErs to sustAin And EXCEL whEn thEy’rE nEEdEd most
prEsEntEd by northwEst hArvEst
WASHINGTON FOOD COALITION 2010 CONFERENCE
Presented by Northwest Harvest
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Wednesday, September 15 Afternoon 1:00 to 2:00 pm Registration 1:45 to 5:15 pm Stutzman Ranch & Gibb’s Organic Produce Tour 1:45 to 3:15 pm Tiny’s Organic Farm Tour
2:00 to 5:00 pm 4th Annual Film Festival 3:20 to 5:15 pm Winery Tour: St. Laurent Wine Tasting 3:20 to 5:15 pm Community Cupboard & Downtown Leavenworth Tour 3:20 to 5:15 pm Packing House Tour: Stemilt Growers Olds Station Packing Plant 5:00 to 6:00 pm Welcome Reception
Thursday, September 16
Morning 8:30 to 9:30 am Registration & Breakfast 9:30 to 10:45 am Keynote Address: Michael Nye
11:00 to 12:30 pm Breakout Sessions Afternoon 12:30 to 1:30 pm Lunch
1:45 to 3:15 pm Breakout Sessions 3:30 to 5:00 pm Breakout Sessions Evening 6:00 to 7:30 pm BBQ on the Patio (optional – reservation required)
Friday, September 17 Morning
7:30 to 9:15 am Breakfast Plenary Address: Reverend Kirby Unti 9:30 to 10:50 am Breakout Sessions
11:00 to 12:20 pm Breakout Sessions Afternoon 12:30 to 1:45 pm Lunch 1:45 to 2:00 pm Door Prizes, Closing Remarks
Travel safely home or stay and visit the beautiful Wenatchee Valley
• Check out the wide variety of fruits by this fourth generation orchard in the “Apple Capital” of the world and see how fruit used to be hand-packed. Experi-ence their 100 year old working family farm with a fruit stand and U-pick cher-ries, nectarines, peaches, pears and apples in season. Continue on to visit one of the area’s oldest organic farms. Learn about sustainable growing practices, local food security, and the challenges of running a successful family farm.(Tour back at 5:15)
• Visit Tiny’s and learn how this family farm is reconnecting the community with locally grown foods. From office snack packs to weekly deliveries of fresh organic produce, Tiny’s is bringing nutritious foods back to our tables through sustain-able farming practices. You might even meet the orchard’s famous trick dog, Walker!(Tour back at 3:15)
• Relax after your travels to Wenatchee and kick back for a movie viewing session comprised of inspirational and informative food-based films right at the conference center.
Location: Red Delicious Room at the Wenatchee Convention Center
• Experience the winemaking process from “grapes-to-glass” at this Wenatchee Valley estate. This estate family vineyards hang bountiful crops of grapes grown under the Eastern Washington sun. Using sustainable practices to take care of the earth, water and vines, they create elegant wines for your good times and favorite foods. Prior reservations required for this tour. $5 fee includes a tasting. (Tour back at 5:15)
4th Annual Film Festival - 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Stutzman Ranch Tour & Gibb’s Organic Produce Tour
St. Laurent Winery Wine Tasting Tour
Tiny’s Organic Farm Tour
Wednesday Tours & Activities 1:00-5:00 pm Registration Opens - Welcome! (Red Lobby)Choose from the variety of activities and tours below. Please note: transportation for tours is arranged among attendees, and carpooling is encouraged.
• Visit the Community Cupboard and their unique setup, maximizing space and running multiple programs in one location. Then enjoy guided or free time in the picturesque town of Leavenworth. Nestled in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, this alpine village offers a taste of Bavaria. Delightful specialty shops and welcoming accommodations offer a heartfelt welcome to renew and refresh your spirit. (Tour back at 5:15)
Community Cupboard & Downtown Leavenworth Tour
Tours Departing at 1:55 (meet near Registration Desk at 1:45 to carpool)
Tours Departing at 3:30 (meet near Registration Desk at 3:20 to carpool)
• Visit the Old Station Packing Plant to see a state-of-the-art facility operated by this premier grower-packer-shipper. They’re passionate about farming nutritious Washington apples, pears, cherries and organics in a sustainable manner. Stemilt is all about delivering fruit that is good for you and the environment too. (Tour back at 5:15)
Stemilt Old Station Packing Plant Tour
Evening Activities5:00-6:00 pm Welcome Reception (Main Lobby)Dinner On Your Own in Wenatchee
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Thursday Events & Workshops8:30 am-9:30 am Registration & Continental Breakfast (Red Lobby & Orchard South)9:30-9:45 am Conference Welcome (Orchard South) Julie Washburn, Executive Director, Washington Food Coalition Robert Coit, 2010-2011 Board Chair, Washington Food Coalition9:45-10:45 am Conference Keynote (Orchard South) About Hunger & Resilience For the past 4 ½ years, Michael Nye has been listening & asking questions about hunger. Why does it happen? What can we learn from them? He will share with us what he learned through this innovative & compelling project. Michael Nye, Developer, About Hunger & Resilience
Tips & Tricks of Powerpoint
Schools Out: Don’t Let
Summer Meals Take a Vacation
Nutrition in Your Food Program
Telling Stories with
Numbers & FacesGrantwriting 101
Presented by:• Amy Lewis AML Consulting
If there were a prize for ‘fun’ productivity software, Power-point would win.
Powerpoint is a fan-tastic presentation program and is far more flexible than you may realize. In tips and tricks of Powerpoint we’ll be creating slideshows with text, pictures, music, and videos. We’ll also talk about free templates avail-able for download.
Presented by:• Linda Stone Children’s Alliance• Kris Van Gasken Des Moines Area FB• Brian Carlson St. Leo’s Food Connection• Claire Lane Within Reach
Most communities are failing to meet the needs of child-hood hunger when school is out.
Find out what’s involved in running a summer meal program, lessons learned this sum-mer, and ideas for how more food providers can get involved in this important work.
Help your commu-nity earn a passing grade!
Presented by:• Philip Lee Readers to Eaters• Amy Ellings WA State Dept. of Health
This presenta-tion will focus on helping your food program provide healthfull foods to your clients, and helping your clients choose healthy foods.
Learn what foods are considered healthy, examples of policies and programs that encourage clients to choose nutritious foods, and ideas for incorporating nutrition education into your food bank through reading.
Presented by:• Michael Nye About Hunger & Resilience Project• Kelsey Beck Food Lifeline
Searching for a compelling way to talk about the need for your program?
It often takes both hard facts and succinct personal stories.
Keynote presenter Michael Nye will give you tips for collecting and shar-ing your customers’ stories.
Kelsey Beck will give you latest data and statistics on hunger in our communities and show you how to use the data you already collect in new ways.
Presented by:• Nathan Phillips South King Council on Human Services
This is an introduc-tory session to the world of grants, familiarizing you on where to look for funding sources, writing simple grant proposals, and some of the requirements and jargon of this world.
The goal of this workshop is for you to leave the class with an idea of the best places to look for the types of funds they are seeking, writing a basic grant proposal, and the most effective ways to approach poten-tial funders.
11:00 am-12:30 pm Concurrent Workshops (choose one of six)
Volunteer Management
Presented by:• Kellie McNelly & Cindy Caturia ROOF Community Services• Jan Seelye & Wes Giehm Maple Valley Food Bank & Community Services• Peny Archer Community Services of Moses Lake
This session will be a panelist presenta-tion to equip you to learn from others who are navigating the web of volun-teer training and management with success!
Learn to transform the way everyone in your organization works with volun-teers.
Expand the reach of your mission through strong community partici-pation, and ensure every ounce of volunteer effort makes a difference.
Conference EXTRAS!BINGOBINGO cards for Thursday and Friday will be
distributed each morning. Get to know your fellow
conference participants and gain a coveted chance to
win a special door prize. This is what’s known as a
“cover all” (no, we don’t mean article of clothing).
Fill in all of your BINGO squares then turn in the
card at the podium to enter into a
drawing for the day’s special prize.
Thursday Events & Workshops continued12:30-1:30 pm Networking Lunch (Orchard South)
1:45-3:15 pm Concurrent Workshops (choose one of six)
Presented by:• Susanne Altman, CPA
If you think you’d like to better under-stand the ins and outs of the IRS Form 990, this sessionis for you. Susanne will walk you through the basics of this form.
You’ll also learn how you can leverage the 990 form as a method to increase donations and communicate with the public. If the 990 form confuses you, or you just wished you knew even more about it, this will be an eye-opening experience where you will leave equipped to use the 990 like never before.
Presented by:• Joanne Austin WSU Extension• Kim Eads WSDA Food Programs• Martha Marino Dairy Council
Encouraging people to eat better is not easy, especially when they have a limited budget. Learn effective ways to communicate nu-trition information and hands-on activi-ties that encourage clients to improve their diet. Share ideas that have worked for you.
Presented by:• Janet Anderberg WA Dept. of Health• Bonnie Baker Northwest Harvest
This session will of-fer you information about recent food-borne disease out-breaks and the most recent outbreak data. The data has been compiled and analyzed with the intention of sharing the lessons learned from this year.
We had outbreaks that will make you laugh and some will leave you wonder-ing how this kind of thing can happen!
The stories will help you appreciate the good work you do offering safe food to your clients and these stories will also give you a re-newed enthusiasm for the importance of handling food in a safe manner at home too.
Presented by:• Linda Stone Children’s Alliance• Josh Fogt NW Harvest• Kelsey Beck Food Lifeline
Using the current state budget crisis as a backdrop, our panel of advocates will share a variety of simple tools that your program and supporters can en-gage in to become strong anti-hunger advocates in your community.
This interactive session will prepare beginners and “old pro’s” alike for the coming year. We welcome your own ideas for speaking out against hunger, so come prepared to share any ex-amples of your own successful advocacy.
Presented by:• Erica Mills Mills Communication Group
Marketing can be a huge ally for non-profits. It can also be overwhelming with so many options, both on- and off-line.
Should we be on Facebook? Is a blog worth our time? Do we need an elevator pitch? Is our web-site SEO-optimized so people can find us...what does that mean, anyway?!
In this workshop, you’ll learn a simple, effective and totally doable three-step process that will re-duce your stress level AND ensure your marketing efforts help you reach the donors and support-ers you need to in order to achieve your mission.
Getting to Know the 990
Inspiring Clients to Eat Better
Keeping it Clean: The Latest on Food Safety
Advocacy: Tools for Telling Your
Story
Presented by:• Nathan Phillips South King Council on Human Services
Follow up on the tools and tips ex-plained in the previ-ous session. Take your understanding to the next level by bringing in a grant you are working on and received input and critique on it from Nathan.
This session is an ex-cellent opportunity to receive practical, applicable tips on grants you are pur-suing or considering pursuing.
Learn About Washington Food Coalition
Washington Food Coalition (WFC) is committed to
strengthening the position of emergency
food providers, fostering the development
of new programs, helping to provide additional
food for individuals and families who are hungry,
and informing the public about hunger issues.
WFC is a membership-based coalition of
emergency food providers.
WFC actively educates and networks with
organizations that strive to alleviate hunger
throughout Washington State.
Conference EXTRAS!BINGOBINGO cards for Thursday and Friday will be
distributed each morning. Get to know your fellow
conference participants and gain a coveted chance to
win a special door prize. This is what’s known as a
“cover all” (no, we don’t mean article of clothing).
Fill in all of your BINGO squares then turn in the
card at the podium to enter into a
drawing for the day’s special prize.
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A Simple 3-Step Process for
Making the Most of Your
Marketing
Grantwriting Part 2
Thursday Events & Workshops continued
3:30-5:00 pm Concurrent Workshops (choose one of six)
Presented by:• Ken Craig Developer of ClientCardFB• Steve Staley ClientCardFB Programmer
This session will cover user training for the ClientCard Food Bank database program. Client intake, month-end reporting, food do-nations and tracking volunteer hours will be covered.
Bring your com-puter and we will configure your Client Card software during this session.
The latest software update will be pro-vided to all attend-ees at no charge. ClientCard is cur-rently undergoing a complete devel-opment re-write, and you will receive inside information for all of the updates and improvements that the new version will include.
Presented by:• Michelle Bentua Lettuce Link/ Solid Ground • Yvonne Pitrof Vashon Maury Food Bank• Cary Peterson Good Cheer Food Bank
Come hear about ways the entire community benefits when your clients grow their own food or receive produce from a local garden or neighborhood trees.
You will also be given resources for replication of these programs
Presented by:• Tracy Connelly City of Seattle
Emergency pre-paredness is every-one’s responsibility.
This program will talk about why we get prepared, how it impacts the com-munity, how it can affect your program and simple ways to be preapred as an individual, as an agency and as a community.
Presented by:• Erica Mills Mills Communication Group
The workshop will be packed full of new ideas to help you figure out which tools will work best for engaging and attracting your ideal donors...and which you shouldn’t bother trying.
You’ll leave know-ing how to integrate social media into your marketing mix and what traditional marketing tools are worth continuing to use.
Presented by:• Julie Washburn Washington Food Coalition• Joe Gruber University District FB• Damien Cortez Good Cheer FB• Robert Coit Thurston County FB• Kris Van Gasken Des Moines Area FB• Lila Henderson Maple Valley FB & Community Services
Recipes for Success are best practices. A best practice is a good strategy for handling a challenge in your emergency food program’s operations or service delivery.
Join us to learn about Recipes from across the state that have solved a prob-lem in a new way! Featured recipes include points-based shopping system, gardening in your food bank, offering cooking classes, and more!
Presented by:• Janet Anderberg Dept. of Health• Shayne Kraemer Meals Partnership Coalition
Have you ever won-dered what health inspectors look for when they visit your meal program or food bank? Now you can get the inside scoop and learn how to self inspect your own program.
During this seminar we will provide and discuss a self inspec-tion checklist so that you know what items are critically important. We will discuss what to look for in the inspection and how to correct issues for the health and well-being of your program guests. You can even use it in your own home. Join us to learn these important skills and help ensure that your program is safe for the community we serve.
Evening Activities5:00-6:00 pm Break6:00-7:00 pm Dinner at the Fountain Plaza (Optional) Enjoy a delicious barbeque dinner outdoors in the Fountain Plaza. Advanced Registration is required and there is a suggested donation of $10. In the event of inclement weather, we will dine in Orchard South.
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ClientCardFB Training
Bringing the Best: Fresh,
Healthful Eating for You & Your
Clients
How to Put Out Fires…and
Other Small Emergencies
Social Networking &
Marketing Tactics: What Works & What Doesn’t
Recipes for Success: Best
Practices From Around the State
Safety Through Self-Inspection
Conference EXTRAS!
District Baskets
A time-honored WFC tradition returns. District Baskets
are no ordinary door prize; they’re visual representations
of local pride and they may just be edible. Door prize
tickets are earned for attending some meals and sessions,
for turning in evaluations and maybe at other random
times. District Baskets will be on display in Orchard
South. Baskets are raffled at random times and in
random order so enter early and often.
Friday Events & Workshops7:30-9:15 am Breakfast Plenary (Orchard South) Rise & Shine! Enjoy a delicious breakfast and a presentation by our plenary speaker How To Lead When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going Reverend Kirby Unti, Pastor, St. Matthews Lutheran Church9:30-10:50 am Concurrent Workshops (choose one of six)
Presented by: • Amy Lewis AML Consulting
Excel is arguably one of the best and most widely used spreadsheet programs available. Would you like to know more than just the basics?In this course we’ll be reviewing some tips and tricks that might help you speed up some of your current workin Excel and may even give you ideas for some additional ways to use it! We’ll also be looking at how to find helpful hints on your own after the class is over.
Presented by:• David Bobanick Rotary First Harvest• Benjamin Rasmus Rotary First Harvest
Rotary First Harvest has examined Wash-ington’s hunger relief system and its ability to deliver food needed in local communities. Join us for an overview of the gaps they’ve identified and learn about new and de-veloping programs that can fill these gaps and improve our overall capacity.
Presented by:• Julie Nelson Seattle Office of Civil Rights• Joanne Austin WSU Extension
Examine your attitude towards poverty, race and culture in the US. Is it based on fact or fiction?
Learn how to better connect with your clients. Deliver bet-ter, more culturally relevant services and bring about institutional and systemic change.
Presented by:• Carl Patterson DDS Brand
Remember Korey Korfiatis, CEO of DDSBrand? Well, now here a different spin on Social Media from his right hand and Creative Direc-tor Carl Patterson.
Learn how to lever-age the power of multiple tools and aggregate them together as well as useful tips and tech-niques to drive your fans and followers to action.
Presented by:• Dr. June Darling Summit Group Resources
Coaches and perfor-mance psychologists have discovered a powerful and pos-sibly the easiest way of making yourself happier, wiser, kinder, more popular, and especially more effective.
In this engaging, fun-filled session you’ll be introduced to Cornerstone DISC as Dr. Darling acts out the four basic styles. You’ll learn how to realize strengths of “a diamond in the rough” so that you can maximize your own and others’ natural capabilities.
Tips & Tricks of Excel: Beginning
Steps
Maxed Out? Capacity
Challenges & Solutions in Our
State
Class, Race & Culture: How to Work for Long-Term Change
Taking Social Media &
Relationship Marketing to the
Next Level
Hello, Fabulous! (yes, I mean YOU) Meal Planning
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Presented by:• Shayne Kraemer Meals Partnership Coalition• Frank Jackson & Randy Stiffler Tacoma Rescue Mission• Jon “Gus” Olsen Shalom Ministries
Putting together the right orders, recipes, and ingredients for meals while jug-gling donations, perishables and other variables can be quite a challenge. Learn from others who work with the same issues on how to plan out meals for the clients you serve.
Bring thoughts of challenges you face as well as any tips and tricks you have adopted in your meal program!Conference EXTRAS!
District Baskets
A time-honored WFC tradition returns. District Baskets
are no ordinary door prize; they’re visual representations
of local pride and they may just be edible. Door prize
tickets are earned for attending some meals and sessions,
for turning in evaluations and maybe at other random
times. District Baskets will be on display in Orchard
South. Baskets are raffled at random times and in
random order so enter early and often.
Conference EXTRAS!Resource Fair
Visit the vendor tables in the Orchard Lobby to pick
up materials from some of the visiting organizations.
Note: displays may go up and come down throughout conference so be sure
to visit early and often!
Be sure to visit the Relaxation Lounge where you can kick
back, catch up and relax with a complimentary massage
on Friday! Also visit the Rotary Video Station to give a
video testimony.
Friday Events & Workshops continued
11:00am-12:20 pm Concurrent Workshops (choose one of six)
Presented by:• Nancy McKinney Ballard Food Bank• Barb Shimizu Des Moines Area Food Bank
Learn the basics of QuickBooks ac-counting software.
See how simple it is to create, use, and maintain your books with ease. Keep track of your agency’s income and expense, plan your budget, im-prove your report-ing and have access to helpful informa-tion anytime.
Presented by:• David Bobanick Rotary First Harvest
This session will be an overview of the Harvest Against Hunger program, a project whose mis-sion is to connect farms, food banks, and volunteers to secure fresh pro-duce for distribution to thousands of hungry families and individuals through-out Washington State.
This presentation will also include the 8 project models highlighted in the Gleaner’s Resource Guide.
Presented by:• Trish Twomey Solid Ground Food Resources• Jose Ortiz St. Charles Food Bank• Rick Jump White Center Food Bank• Tatyana Bistrevsky Spokane Valley Partners
Learn about the variety of cultures that come together at food programs across the state, as well as how to best understand the nu-ances of their food preferences.
We’ll hear from presenters that are well versed in the purpose and the role that ethnic background plays into food choices, equipping you to serve your clients more effectively!
Mulitiple Presenters
Did you learn a new skill in a session at the conference and would like help learning how to put it to practice?
In this session, you can receive assis-tance in a one-on-one setting to set up your agency for social networking and other practices.
Facilitated by:• Yvonne Pitrof Vashon Maury Food Bank
Food Banks of smaller size face challenges of their own kind every day. These agencies are a vital part of the hun-ger relief movement in our state.
Join with others that also work with small food banks to learn about what challeng-es you share, what others are doing to overcome them, and also share the great advantages and success that is also occurring in small food banks across the state.
Quickbooks 101
Bringing Food in: Community
Gardens, Gleaning &
Farming
Ethnic Food Favorites
Putting It To Practice:
One-On-One Assistance
Small but Mighty:
Small Food Bank Roundtable
Hot & Ready: Meal Program
Roundtable
Facilitated by:• Shayne Kraemer Meals Partnership Coalition
Throughout Wash-ington, meal provid-ers work to deliver meals that are nutri-tious, safe, and tasty to low-income and vulnerable commu-nity members.
Have you ever won-dered how resourc-es differ throughout the state for meal programs, or how to create commu-nity engagement for your program, or even how to use what is in your pantry for the best effect? Please come join us for an open round table discus-sion about these topics and others that affect meal programs.
Closing Activities12:30-1:45 pm Closing Lunch (Orchard South) Lunch is served. Here’s your last chance to network with colleagues before heading home. Enjoy!
12:30-1:45 pm Closing Remarks & Final District Basket Drawings (Orchard South)
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South King County
Food Coalition
Thank You Conference Sponsors!
Partner Sponsors:Kitsap County Food Bank Coalition
Hope SourceRural Resources Community Action
Opportunity CouncilSeattle Food Committee
Patron SponsorsEmergency Food Network & Volunteers of America Western Washington
Provider SponsorsDairy Commission, Blue Mountain Action Council, Food Lifeline & Coastal C.A.P.
Presenting SponsorNorthwest HarvestNorthwest Harvest is Washington’s own statewide hunger relief agency. For over 40 years, we’ve served the needs of our neighbors in communities across the state.Our mission is to provide nutritious food to hungry people statewide in a manner that respects their dignity, while working to eliminate hunger. Northwest Harvest provides a variety of nutritious food to a statewide partner network of more than 300 food banks, meal programs and elementary schools. Last fiscal year, we secured more than 24 million pounds of food for distribution. Our vision is that ample nutritious food is available to everyone inWashington State.
Dinner SponsorSouth King County Food Coalition
Founded in 1983, the South King County Food Coalition is comprised of 11 food banks serving urban, rural and suburban communities. Collectively,
member agencies serve over 10,000 different families in need in South King County each month. Working together, we’ve achieved a minimum standard
unit of service so all clients in the region are assured of a nutritionally balanced food selection. Member agencies collaborate through a number of projects,
including shared transportation, joint grant writing, bulk food purchases, emergency preparedness, and shared food donations.
The Washington Food Coalition
Board thanks you for coming.
See you next year!
District 14: Jefferson, Mason, Clallam & Kitsap Counties
Hoyt BurrowsCentral Kitsap Food Bank
Marilyn GremseBainbridge Island Help House
District 13: Grays Harbor & Pacific Counties
Vicki PetittCoastal Community Action
Program
Anthony AirhartCoastal Harvest
District 12: Cowlitz, Clark, Wahkiakum, Klickitat & Skamania
Counties
Nancy WilsonInter-Faith Treasure House
James FitzgeraldThe Salvation Army-Stop Hunger
Warehouse
District 11: Lewis & Thurston Counties
Robin RudyTenino Community Service
Center
Kellie McNellyROOF Community Services
District 10: Pierce County
Helen McGovernEmergency Food Network
Kevin Glackin-ColeySt. Leo’s Food Connection
District 9: King County
Yvonne PitrofVashon Maury Community Food
Bank
Joe GruberUniversity District Food Bank
District 8: Skagit, Snohomish, Island, San Juan & Whatcom
Counties
Bill HumphreysVolunteers of America Western
Washington
Mike CohenBellingham Food Bank
District 7: Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield & Asotin Counties
Kathy CoveyBlue Mountain Action Council
Wendy GonzalezHelpline Walla Walla
District 6: Benton & Franklin Counties
John NeillTri-Cities Food Bank
Chris GerkeCascade Blue Mountain Food
Share
District 5: Yakima & Kittitas Counties
JoAnn RushtonHope Source
Lisa HallNorthwest Harvest
District 4: Spokane & Whitman Counties
Connie NelsonSpokane Valley Partners
District 3: Grant, Lincoln & Adams Counties
Peny ArcherCommunity Services of Moses
Lake
Linda FinlayCommunity Services of Moses
Lake
District 2: Chelan, Douglas & Okanogan Counties
Sam KnapperRock Island Food Bank
Bob SouleChelan-Douglas Community
Action Center
District 1: Ferry, Pend Oreille, & Stevens Counties
Susan UrhausenKettle Falls Community Chest
Dan SpeareResources Community Action
Executive Officers
Robert Coit, ChairThurston County Food Bank
David Ottey, Past ChairEmergency Food Network
Kris Van Gasken, Vice ChairDes Moines Area Food Bank
Yvonne Pitrof, TreasurerVashon Maury Community
Food Bank
Nancy Wilson, SecretaryInter-Faith Treasure House
At-Large Board Members
Scott HallettCouncil on Aging & Human Servcs
Shayne KraemerMeals Partnership Coalition
Christine KiehlJamestown S’Klallam Indian Tribe
Bonnie BakerNorthwest Harvest
Convention Center Maps
Additional restrooms are
located on the upper level.
Conference sessions are all held in the lower level of the
convention center.