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ProgramCocktail Hour & Silent Auction

WelcomeLynn CullenMaster of Ceremonies, Host of Lynn Cullen Live at www.pghcitypaper.com

Introductory RemarksLinda DickersonHonorary Chair, Principal, 501(c)(3)

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ReflectionRev. Thomas SmithMonumental Baptist Church

Dinner

Just Harvest: 25 Years and Still Pushing ForwardSister Barbara Finch, Board President

Empowering a Stronger VoiceMelissa Farabaugh-Martin, Board Member

Keynote AddressSister Simone Campbell

George & Jane Becker Memorial Award Presentation to Sister Simone CampbellFred Redmond, International Vice President, United Steelworkers

Seeds of Justice Award Presentation to Just Harvest’s Founding Board of DirectorsSr. Barbara Finch, Board President

AcknowledgementPatrick Cleary-Burns, Founding Board President

Good Night

Di er Me uSaladMixed greens, roasted grapes, almonds, creamy lavender vinaigrette

EntreeRoasted chicken breast filled with fontina, proscuitto and arugula

ORLemongrass pan-seared tofu, cilantro fried rice, braised baby bok choy and a chili drizzle

DessertBavarian apple tart, nutmeg ice cream

Coffee Service

Di er COMMITTEELinda DickersonHonorary Chair

Theresa OrlandoCommittee Co-Chair

Kair PurvisCommittee Co-Chair

Sister Barbara Finch Julie MalloyAnn Sanders

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2011 Tony P. Hall

2010 Arlene Holt Baker

2009 Raj Patel

2008 Robert Kuttner

2007 Donna Brazile

2006 Frances Moore Lappe

2005 Eric Alterman

2004 Will Durst

2003 Jim Hightower

2002 Dick Gregory

2001 Paul Begala

2000 Doug O’Brien

1999 Janet Poppendieck

1998 Shirley R. Watkins

1997 Peter Edelman

1996 Frances Fox Piven

1995 Barbara Ehrenreich

1994 Ed Cooney

1993 Sr. Christine Vladimiroff

1992 Rev. David Beckmann

1991 Dr. Joycelyn Elders

1990 Nancy Amidei

1989 Dr. J. Larry Brown

Harvest Celebration Dinner

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Sister Simone Campbell has dedicated her life to social justice, serving as a religious leader, an attorney, and a poet with extensive experience in public policy and advocacy for systemic change. In Washington, she lobbies on issues of peacebuilding, immigration reform, healthcare and economic justice. Around the country, she is a noted speaker and educator on these public pol-icy issues. During the 2010 congressional debate about health-care reform, she wrote the famous “nuns’ letter” support-ing the reform bill. This action was cited by many as criti-cally important in passing the Affordable Care Act. In 2012, she was instrumental in organizing the “Nuns on the Bus” tour of nine states to oppose the “Ryan Budget” approved by the House of Representa-tives and designed to decimate programs for people in need. “Nuns on the Bus” received an avalanche of at-tention across the nation from religious communities, elected officials and the media. This summer she led a new cross-country Nuns on the Bus focused on compre-hensive immigration reform. Simone has often been featured in the national and international media, including recent appearances on 60 Minutes, The Colbert Report, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She has received numerous awards, including the “Defender of Democracy Award” from the International Parliamentarians for Global Action and “Health Care He-roes Award” from Families USA. In addition, she was a featured speaker at the 2012 Democratic National Con-vention. Prior to working at NETWORK in 2004, Simone served as the executive director of JERICHO, the Cali-fornia interfaith public policy organization that works like NETWORK to protect the interests of people living in poverty. Sister Simone founded and served for 18 years as the lead attorney for the Community Law Center in Oakland, California, where she served the family law and probate needs of the working poor of her county.

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2012 East Liberty Presbyterian Church

2011 Joyce Rothermel

2010 Joni Rabinowitz

2009 East End Food Co-op

2008 Senator Jim Ferlo

2007 University of Pittsburgh, School of Social Work

2006 George and Jane Becker

2005 Attorneys Against Hunger

2004 Molly Rush

2003 Congressman Bill Coyne

We are proud to honor Just Harvest’s founding Board of Directors with the 2013 Seeds of Justice Award. Thanks to their visionary leadership, Just Har-vest continues to be guided by its mission and founding principles. In 1986, Just Harvest was formed to continue the legacy of Hunger Action Coalition in working to eliminate hunger in our community through public policy advocacy and community education. And for over 25 years, we’ve been a leader in the fight to end hunger and poverty in Allegheny County. The Seeds of Justice Award is presented annually to individuals or organizations that make extraordinary contributions in advancing Just Harvest’s mission to eliminate hunger and poverty. It gives us great pleasure to present the 2013 Seeds of Justice Award to our first leaders in the fight to end hunger: Patrick Cleary-Burns, Fr. Garrett Dorsey, Brigid Lund, Tom Menk, Ginnie Mertz, Sr. Jean Murin, Dolores Patrick, Joyce Rothermel, Molly Rush and Rob Shepherd.

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Teamwork is a hallmark of Just Harvest’s success. Just Harvest remains effective and strong because of the com-mitment and hard work of our board, our staff (including seasonal tax project staff), our interns, our volunteers, our members, our funders, our donors, our sponsors, our advertisers, our guests, our allies, and community partners. Thank you for being part of the Just Harvest team.

Esther L. BushPresident and CEO,Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh

Antoinette CardamoneCommunity Volunteer

Senator Jay Costa

Bill CoyneFormer Congressman

Jane DowningSenior Program Officer,The Pittsburgh Foundation

Congressman Mike Doyle

Senator Jim Ferlo

Leo W. GerardInternational President,United Steel Workers

Phil Hallen

Constance PortisConnie Portis Enterprises

Rev. Thomas E. SmithMonumental Baptist Church

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Sr. Barbara FinchPresident

Fran GrudenVice-President

Mary Elizabeth McCarthySecretary

Jeffrey AndersonSara Bennett AJ Baughn (term ended 2013)

Keith CaldwellAlexander CarlisleBarbara CoffeeMelissa Farabaugh-MartinJeannette HickmanPatrick HorvatMary Ann HvizdosPaul McKrellGabe McMorlandTheresa Orlando

Emily CleathCommunications Coordinator

Rochelle JacksonPublic Policy Advocate

Eugenia MosbyFood Stamp Specialist

Ken MunzOperations Coordinator

Zach MurrayEmerson Hunger Fellow (until Summer 2013)

Maria MuzzieGrassroots Organizer

Ken RegalExecutive Director

Ann SandersVolunteer Coordinator

Adrien Schless-MeierEmerson Hunger Fellow

Emily SchmidlappEBT @ Farmers Markets Coordinator

Heather SeidersOffice Manager

Kristie Weiland StagnoTax Campaign Organizer

Adam CannonNick ChubbCarly CottoneAndrew FrizzellSamantha LitvakSirisha Kandukuri Dylan MolloyBrandie Waxler

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In the late 80’s, when Just Harvest was just beginning, the US Con-ference on Mayors reported that many cities provided funds to help fight hunger--either through their own budgets, or through federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). Richard Caliguiri was Mayor of Pitts-burgh then, and Pittsburgh was not among them.

Just Harvest organized an active coalition around this campaign for a “Pittsburgh Hunger Fund,” including Just Harvest, the Food Bank, Pittsburgh Community Services, the Rainbow Kitchen (Bob Anderson & Terry Chalich), East End Cooperative Ministries (Mary Reiger), Northside Common Ministries (Bob Christner), SW Pittsburgh CDC (Alice Nixon) and many others. One key leader was John Ungerman (at left in the news photo below), the feisty director of a Northside food pantry and a city firefighter, who suggested that 1% of the city budget be designated for hunger.

Jim Ferlo had been newly elected to City Council and was excited about taking on the challenge of bringing Pittsburgh on board to help hungry people. Ferlo proposed taxing video poker machines in bars to create new revenue for a hunger fund.

In April 1988 Ferlo introduced the Pittsburgh Hunger Act to create a Hunger fund and provide for an annual “State of the Poor” report, but after a threatened legal challenge to the video poker tax plan, there was no funding mechanism. Using the Conference of Mayors report, we pushed council for a set-aside of city CDBG funding.

We organized demonstrations, press conferences and media inter-views, post cards, petitions, public hearings and direct lobbying for the new city hunger fund, including actions at the mayor’s office, where Sophie Masloff had recently succeeded Mayor Caliguiri.

At a critical moment in the cam-paign, actor Ed Asner visited the

Rainbow Kitchen in Homestead. Mayor Masloff attended his event there, hugging Asner and announcing that she would include $100,000 from CDBG for the “Hunger Fund,” in her first budget as Mayor.

We continued to organize and mobilize actions to demand that Council and the Mayor raise the allocation in the 1989 CDBG budget, and both our victories and the Hunger Fund grew.

The details of the Hunger Fund’s distribution have changed a lot over the years. But four mayors and many city councilmembers later, anti-hunger groups led by Just Harvest still visit council members each fall to remind them of their responsibility to give the most they can to the Hunger Fund.

During the original campaign, then-Councilman Jack Wagner urged us to approach the County Commissioners with a similar request. This helped kick off our Allegheny County Budget Campaign in 1989. Over the next several years, this campaign also succeeded, persuading the County not only to set aside significant CDBG funds for hunger, but also to establish a formal committee of county departments and anti-hunger organizations to coordinate effective action for our hungry neighbors.

i TRIBUTEback i the day:just harvest's early victoriesby Joni Rabinowitz, Founding Co-Director & 2010 Seeds of Justice Awardee

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In the midst of our celebration, Just Harvest pauses with sadness in tribute to three former members of our Board of Directors who passed away earlier this

year. Jane Becker, together with her husband George, was a recipient of our 2006 Seeds of Justice Award. She served on Just Har-vest’s board in the early 1990’s and was on the planning

committee for the Harvest Celebration Dinner in a few of its earliest formative years. She was a long-time labor and po-litical activist, and a founder of SOAR, the Steelworker Organization of Active Retir-ees. Jane died on July 19 at the age of 80. Tonight our annual presentation to our keynote speaker is renamed the “George and Jane Becker Memorial Award.”

Bill Page was one of Just Harvest’s first interns and joined the board of the Just Har-vest Education Fund in the late 1980’s. Bill joined Just Harvest as

an activist social work student and played a major role in our Allegheny County budget campaign. That project won the creation of the county government’s first comprehensive coordinated response to hunger in the early 1990’s. He went on to become a community organized for the Allegheny Intermediate Unit. He passed away on June 15 at the age of 55.

Rachel Freund, described by the Post-Ga-zette as a “tenacious fighter for people with mental illness” passed away on September 18 at the age of 54. A long-time organizer and advo-cate for the Mental Health

Association of Allegheny County, Rachel played a key role in our “Just Vote!” vot-er education and mobilization campaigns. She served on the Just Harvest board from 2005 to 2008.

25 years ago this week: Just Harvest rallies for Hunger Fund at Mayor’s office.

:POISED FOR ACTIOby Ken Regal

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When Just Harvest was in its in-fancy, the Physician Task Force on Hunger in America conducted hear-ings and field visits around the nation to document the impact of Reagan-era policy on America’s hungry families. So it was fitting that the Task Force’s chair, Dr. J. Larry Brown, was the key-note speaker at our very first Harvest Celebration Dinner on October 26, 1989. Although Just Harvest was then al-most three years old, the first Harvest Celebration Dinner was in many ways our “coming out party,” the launch of a signature fundraising event that to-night marks its Silver Anni-versary. Just Harvest emerged from the dissolution in 1986 of the Hunger Action Coali-tion, which had led our com-munity’s anti-hunger move-ment for 11 years. Hunger Action had created the Greater Pittsburgh Commu-nity Food Bank; advocated powerfully on local, state and national hunger issues; conducted research and educated the community on hunger; and pioneered food stamp application assistance.But amid financial and political pressures, H.A.C. determined that it could no lon-ger effectively operate its direct ser-vice programs and its strong indepen-dent advocacy on public policy issues. Just Harvest’s intrepid founding board of directors—honored tonight with our Seeds of Justice Award—were ten H.A.C. board members who would re-engineer for the next generation the mission of public policy advocacy for economic justice. Chalking up early policy victories on school breakfast in Pittsburgh and several surrounding communities, and helping advance state WIC policy and national improve-ments on food stamps, Just Harvest established our credibility as astute but uncompromising advocates for hungry people. In the years since, an entire generation of Pittsburghers has

grown up healthier thanks to breakfast at school. Tough but successful campaigns to push the City and County govern-ments for budget commitments on anti-hunger initiatives followed, as we mobilized a growing base of members, coalition partners and community sup-port (see Joni Rabinowitz’s sidebar for details on the original City Budget Campaign). These campaigns still bear fruit in annual anti-hunger budget set-asides by local government. Today’s projects on food deserts and access to food also have their roots in our early work to combat in-

ner city supermarket closings, which led to the creation of the Pittsburgh Food Policy Commission in the early 1990’s. Just Harvest’s participation in ground-breaking national research on childhood hunger and led to our publi-cation of the Hometown Hunger report in 1994 led to further organizational growth. Our organizing agenda grew in the mid-1990’s as we mobilized wom-en on welfare to speak out, advocate, protest, educate, and break stereo-types, during the national debate on welfare reform. Leaders in that strug-gle included Rochelle Jackson and Eugenia Mosby, now staffers at Just Harvest. We joined in protests from the George W. Bush ranch in Texas to the United Nations to local welfare offices; we educated thousands of voters about issues; and we trained

students by the busload to lobby our elected officials before they were even old enough to vote. Major voter regis-tration and mobilization efforts, cam-paigns on numerous state and federal budget issues, and coalition projects to strengthen our local food system continued in the ensuing years. Just Harvest’s largest growth in the past decade has been the devel-opment of services to connect people in need to public safety net programs and reduce barriers to participation in those programs. In 2003, our com-munity education campaign to inform low-income working families about

the Earned Income Tax Credit transformed into a full-fledged free Income Tax preparation program. In 2007, our advocacy work on food stamp policy was enhanced by a program to assist households in apply-ing for benefits. Our Wel-fare Justice efforts took on case-by-case advocacy for people struggling to navi-gate the welfare bureaucra-cy. These services gained institutional strength and visibility in 2010 when we

were selected to become a partner agency of the United Way of Allegh-eny County. Seven thousand food stamp applications, hundreds of wel-fare clients empowered, and 17,000 tax returns and over $30,000,000 in tax refunds later, Just Harvest is a local and statewide leader in each of these policy arenas. In 2012, we completed a new stra-tegic plan and organizational chart. These documents ground current ef-forts to re-invigorate our grassroots mobilization,and to extend our creative leadership in the fight to end hunger. Today, as we mark the 25th An-niversary of the Harvest Celebration Dinner, we remain true to our advo-cacy origins. And we are still—as we described ourselves in our very first newsletter in 1987—“Just Harvest: Poised for Action.”

“A Menu for Food Justice”

For nearly half of our Pittsburgh neighbors (47%), the simple act of getting nutritious food at a store is a huge difficulty.

In June, Just Harvest released “A Menu for Food Justice: Strategies for Improving Access to Healthy Foods in Allegheny County”, written by Zachary Murray during his term with us as an Emerson Fellow of the Congressional Hunger Center.

Just Harvest hosted a community forum to discuss this report and mobilize community members to action. In fact, one of those efforts is already underway: Farm Truck Foods, a mobile grocery store that will deliver food to Pittsburgh’s low-income neighborhoods. They plan to be on the road by next spring and, according to an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, will select their targets based on Just Harvest’s food deserts report.

Fresh Access

For the first time in a decade food stamps can be used at Pittsburgh Citiparks farmers markets. In May, Just Harvest launched Fresh Access, a program that enables purchases by EBT card—as well as by credit and debit cards—at the Citiparks farmers markets.

Over $10,000 worth of EBT (Food Stamp) sales have occured at Citiparks farmers markets through this progam.

2013 highlights

1 in 7people receive SNAP in Allegheny County and have not had access to the fresh, local foods available at farmers markets.

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As a lead organization in the United Way of Allegheny County’s Money in Your Pocket Coalition, Just Harvest operated four volunteer income tax preparation sites: at our South Side office, the Community College of Allegheny County Boyce Campus, Bedford Hope Center, and at the Prospect Park housing community in Baldwin.

Like so much at Just Harvest, this effort would not have been possible without our volunteers. This year, 95 volunteers at our sites donated 4,300 hours of their time to help us complete over 2,800 returns accounting for over $4.9 million in refunds to low-income families!

Tax Campaign Helps More People Than Ever

Pushing Against Barriers to Benefits

During the course of our first community meeting, food stamp clients shared their own customer service stories of caseworkers not returning phone calls and losing their paperwork. Many could relate to Gloria Pierson, who reported, when calling the Department of Public Welfare’s Change Center, being put on hold for lengthy periods of time only to then be disconnected—“like my time means nothing”.

“It’s humiliating to be poor,” said Kim Robinson, who says she and other food stamp recipients are treated with utter disrespect. “It’s like they’re being paid to provoke you and make you give up.”

Work continues on this campaign as we prepare to meet with DPW Secretary Beverly Mackareth on October 30, 2013.

Organizing Efforts

With the return of a full-time community organizer to the Just Harvest team comes a renewed commitment to grassroots engagement. Some of the campaigns we’ve worked on:

• Monthly grassroots meetings that allow for direct participation and face-to-face relationship-building while also serving as a powerful vehicle for addressing hunger-related poverty issues;

• An effort to improve customer service at the Department of Public Welfare in regards to Food Stamp processing;

• An ongoing effort to stop cuts to SNAP in the Farm Bill including a SNAP challenge with Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Just Harvest staff;

• A campaign to keep payday loans out of Pennsylvania;• A coalition effort with One Pittsburgh to campaign for an increase in the minimum wage.

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1993 Pennsylvania Public Health Association

Rodale Award for Health Promotion

1997 Congressional Hunger Center

Victory Against Hunger Award

2001-2003 Congressional Hunger Center

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2003 Dominion Foundation Community Impact Award

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Cremation: pollutes the air and

wastes energy

Woodland Burial: helps restore forest land

with only minimal pollution

Conventional Cemetery: wastes steel, concrete, and

rainforest hardwoods

“They all ate and were satisfied.” Mk 6

The Association ofPittsburgh Priests

APP@catholicpittsburgh.org

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Michael J. Crossey, President W. Gerard Oleksiak, Vice President Dolores M. McCracken, Treasurer

John F. Springer, Executive Director

Public education is about all of us. The public schools are our schools. It takes parents, community leaders, elected officials, and educators working together.

www.partnersforpubliced.org

Just Harvest &Greater Pittsburgh

Community Food BankPartners in fighting hunger!

www.pittsburghfoodbank.org412-460-FOOD

CongratulatesSeeds of Justice

AwardeeJust Harvest’s

Founding Boardof Directors

_____________PIIN

564 Forbes Avenue #808Pittsburgh, PA 15219

E-mail: office@piin.org

135 East Ninth Avenue  Homestead, PA 15120 

412‐464‐1892 www.rainbowkitchen.org 

Helping families in need since 1984 

Join the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh For the annual “State of Black Pittsburgh” Opportunity Fair and Town Hall Meeting

Saturday, October 26th from 8am-2pmFor more information, please call 412-227-4229.

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Eliminate Hunger & The Nuclear Danger

- Twin Threats To Human Health And Survival -

TO SAVE LIFE ON EARTHWORK FOR PEACE AND JUSTICEABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONSNO WAR ON SYRIA OR IRAN

Physicians For Social Responsibilitypsr-pgh@igc.org

cdpsisters.orgM

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f Divine Providence

The Sisters of Divine Providenceare pleased to honor

Simone Campbell, SSSwith the 2014 Ketteler Award for Social Justice

To be presented at the Annual Assemblyof the Sisters of Divine Providence in August 2014

SCHOOL SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS

934 Forest Avenue – Pittsburgh, PA 15202412-761-6004

Thank You, Just Harvest,for your outstanding service to the poor!

Marian Hall Personal Care Home – 412-761-1999Mount Assisi Academy Preschool – 412-761-0381 Saint Francis Center for Renewal – 610-867-8890

www.schoolsistersosf.org

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Michael

laMBcity controller

For a Better PittsburghCongratulations to the

Founding Board of Just Harvest—this year’s Seeds of Justice Awardee.

Best Wishes.

Levin Furniture Co.

JUST HARVESTThank you for your outstanding

service to our community!

Congressman Mike Doyle“Proudly serving the Pittsburgh

Region in Washington, DC”

Best WishesJust Harvest

from

BILL MULLENALLEGHENY COUNTY SHERIFF

Paid for by the Committee to Elect Bill Mullen Sheriff

Continued Blessings on your efforts to feed the hungry.

Sisters of MercyNew York, Pennsylvania,Pacific West Community

SHADYSIDE - Edward G. McCabe, SupervisorBLOOMFIELD - Edward G. McCabe Jr., Supervisor

Buckler, McKenney & NadzadiCertified Public Accountants

MITCHELL K. McKENNEY, CPA

116 Fox Plan Road (412)856-7880

Monroeville, PA 15146 Fax (412)856-0510

mitch@bmn-cpa.com

Call to Action – PACatholic Advocacy for

Social Justice & Inclusion

salutes the Founding Board

for planting a seed that has blossomed for 25 years and is still

bearing fruit.

ROBERT N. ISACKE, JR.

ATTORNEY AT LAW

430 BOULEVARD OF THE ALLIES

PITTSBURGH, PA 15219

412-391-3927 Thank you Just Harvest for all you do for the community!

Congratulations toJust Harvest’s Founding Board!

Thank you for your dedication to our commity!

State Representative Dan FrankelPaid for by Dan Frankel

for 23rd District

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice

everywhere.”MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL, APRIL 16, 1963

Hugh Fitzpatrick McGoughATTORNEY AT LAW hfmcgoughlaw@gmail.com 412.441.7677

Saint Vincent Seminary

www.saintvincentseminary.edu

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Brashear Association Salutes Just HarvestAn Advocate for Justice

Consumer Health Coalitionadvocates for quality, affordable healthcare.412-456-1877

To our anti-hunger colleagues at Just Harvest, Keep up the good work.PA Hunger Action Center

State RepresentativeHarry Readshaw36th District

Continued blessings on your work.Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communitieswww.sosf.org

St. Stephen ChurchCome Worship With Us!5115 2nd Avenue, Hazelwood

The Steel Valley Authority (SVA) is an organization dedicated to saving and creating sustainable manufacturing jobs which are vital for successful families and strong communities.

William Zammerilla DMDFamily Cosmetic Dentistry, Pleasant Hills412-653-1115

Community Living and Support Services, Inc. (CLASS)Working Toward A Community Where Each Belongswww.CLASSCommunity.org

Thank you for all the work, services and advocacy you provide to alleviate poverty and hunger in the region. City Councilman Daniel Lavelle

Congratulations, Sister Simone!The Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill join youin standing for justice for God’s People.

Who Cooks For You Farm is Certified Naturally Grown providing vegetables, fruits and herbs via farmers markets, CSA & wholesale.

Happy Anniversary!Thank you for your great mission to end hunger.Congregation of the Sisters, Servants of IHM

Everybody IN, Nobody OUT!Expanded and Improved Medicare for AllWPaSinglePayer.org

Harry Davis & Companywww.harrydavis.comCongratulations Just Harvest’s Founding Board!

Bill Benter Merging Media is proud to support Just HarvestDr. & Mrs. Edward W. Sites

Cecelia Epperson

Lin & Stanley EhrenpreisSt. Raphael Food BankCliff & Nora JohnsonMichael & Jane Louik

Fitness Techniques

HARVESTER GLEA ER

SOWER TILLER

patro s

*THANK YOU FOUNDING BOARD MEMBERS OF JUST HARVEST*

Putting “people first” in Recovery

3433 Bates Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-683-7140

www.peoplesoakland.org

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TO OUR SPO SORS

Association of Pittsburgh PriestsCall to Action PADollar BankEast End Food CoopEast Liberty Presbyterian ChurchGreater Pittsburgh Community Food BankLaRoche CollegeLinda Dickerson & FriendsPatrick Cleary-Burns & Friends

Peoples Natural GasRae O’Hair & Friends - In memory of Jerry YoestSchool Sisters of St. FrancisSt. James WilkinsburgSteel Valley PrintersUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Social WorkWomen of Steel - United Steelworkers Local 3657 – In memory of Jane Becker

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Learn more about our commitment to corporate social responsibility at bnymellon.com/csr

BNY Mellon is a global financial services company operating in 36 countries

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