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“Change” seems to be the popular theme in politics today. But, if you truly want to witness change at its best, walk through the new front door at MANNA. With a struggling economy and more of our clients facing illness without healthcare, MANNA increased its program to serve ALL clients 3 meals a day, 7 days a week starting in July. Instead of clients averaging 10 meals a week, all of our clients now receive 21. After all, our clients aren’t just battling illness 5 days, they live with it everyday. MANNA works to ensure all clients receive the nutrition they need to live.

Mark Twain once said, “Eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” Most of us don’t realize just how true this is. Our bodies are well-oiled machines that need proper nourishment. Our menu delivers optimal nutrients for a variety of illnesses. MANNA takes great pride in knowing we don’t just deliver the right nutrition to our clients, we also educate them. Our registered dietitians offer free one-on-one consultations and group classes, plus they now develop nutrition tips that are distributed in client meal bags each week.

Change has not come without some bumps along the way, but with a devoted staff and dedicated core of volunteers and donors, we’ve come a long way! With each turn around a new corner, we learn that change may be ongoing, but MANNA’s mission is enduring.

A Y E A R O F C H A N G Eby Sue Daugherty-Rodriguez, RD, LDN, Chief Operating Officer

- Renovate kitchen and invest in new equipment, refrigeration and freezers - Purchase fleet of temparature-controlled delivery trucks - Invest in a logistical software program for deliveries- Make once-a-week deliveries to accommodate client schedules - Double our daily production and increase volunteer shifts to four a day- Freeze all meals to preserve nutrients and ensure food safety- Restructure and align diet modifications to meet diverse nutrition needs

How do we do it? An outpouring of support from donors and volunteers has enabled us to:

MANNA’s NEW EVENT CALENDAR

Three major fundraising events for 2008- 2009

In the past, MANNA’s fundraising events were like a Thanksgiving dinner: with seven or eight offerings, you didn’t know where to start!

Just as we’ve renovated our building and meal program, we are streamlining our events calendar. This is partly an effort to reduce the number of times we ask you, our donors, for support throughout the year. It will also provide the development team with new resources to ensure that each event meets its fundraising goals.

The best elements of our signature events will be available for your enjoyment in the coming years, like spectacular dance performances, tantalizing cuisine, and breathtaking artwork created by a community of supporters including dancers, chefs and artists to raise funds to support MANNA’s mission to nourish clients.

Pie in the Sky kicks off this fall, Shut Up & Dance leaps up in March of 2009 and May welcomes our new spring event, Nourish2009, which combines the best elements of A Show of Hands and ChefAID.

We hope you will continue to be an active member of the MANNA community by supporting these exciting events.

(more Events on page 4)

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Measuring SuccessMealService software is one of the primary tools MANNA uses to document and measure client information. Developed in 2000 for MANNA, the program is now an industry standard used by agencies in 20 states as well as in England and Canada. MealService allows MANNA to maintain detailed client information including demographics, health information and outcomes.

By using this software, MANNA can accurately track who we serve and the impact of our program. Pie charts at right depict the variety of medical diagnoses that we have serviced in the past year. Both components of our comprehensive program have shifted to include a variety of medical concerns, like AIDS, cancer and renal disease.

As part of its semi-annual recertification process, this past fiscal year MANNA implemented a survey tool developed in accordance with national standards. MANNA now collects and compiles quality of life and health indicators among meal program clients just as other ANSA (Association of Nutrition Services Agencies) member agencies across the country. ANSA member agencies are striving to increase collaboration in hopes of collectively quantifying the value and positive responses our programming provides.

Current outcome data suggests MANNA is succeeding in its goals of nourishing clients.Since implementation, 97% of MANNA clients surveyed have reported experiencing at least one positive outcome from the meal program and consultations.

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by Cyndi Dinger, RD, LDN, Director of Nutrition and Client Services

Ryan Estes Photography

T h e S T e v e n K o r m a nn u T r i T i o n C e n T e r

a LETTER from ThE C.E.O.Dear Friends,

A few weeks ago I had a chance to deliver meals to some of our clients for the first time in many months. Although my time “on the road” was brief, the motivational impact has been significant.

Driving home that day down I-95, I re-traced the trip in my mind and thought about those I just met:

Approaching the newly refurbished MANNA with its expanded capacity, I realized that these good people do feel cared for and hopeful in the face of their illnesses as we provide 100% of their nutritional needs 7 days a week. I’d like to personally thank you for your loyal support and “Bless you for coming by.”

Richard Keaveney, CEO

O U R S P O N S O R S

FOR INFO ON BECOMING A MANNA SPONSOR CALL ROB SAXON AT 215-496-2662 x138

THE STEVEN KORMAN NUTRITION CENTER at MANNA Dedication

June 9, 2008MANNA board chair Barbara Kaplan,

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, honoree Steven Korman and

CEO Richard Keaveney celebrate the newly renovated kitchen and offices.

See the dedication on video at www.mannapa.org

MANNA is proud to announce US Airways as presenting sponsor of Pie in the Sky 2008

US Airways believes good corporate citizenship is in the best interest of the company and helps ensure the airline’s long-term viability. Through community relations activities, US Airways contributes to the economic and social well-being of the communities in which it operates. US Airways fulfills its commitment to corporate citizenship through corporate philanthropy, foundation giving and employees’ involvement in their local communities through volunteerism and service.

MANNA believes that forging sponsor relationships is serious business. We are dedicated to building strong sponsor relationships for the benefit of the clients we serve and at the same time providing our sponsors with maximum opportunity for exposure. A special thanks to all of our dedicated sponsors.

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Nutrition education is an essential component to improving our clients’ ability to attain and sustain their nutritional health. MANNA is committed to not only deliver the meals necessary to improve a nutritionally compromised client, but also to teach that real foods can provide important nourishment. As a result, MANNA has moved away from canned liquid supplemental meal replacers in favor of home-cooked food and homemade smoothies that clients can prepare for themselves.

Suykee Or, a summer nutrition intern from Cornell University, developed a series of nutrition tips that will be distributed in the client meal bags this fall. These short and fun tip sheets are designed to provide clients with information about what types of nutrients are included in their meals and how they relate to their health. MANNA hopes to encourage the concepts of balance, variety and moderation for meal planning so that when our clients are stable and no longer in need of the meal delivery program, they will make informed food choices. Our hope is that by providing information and education on food that is affordable for our clients to eventually stock in their own kitchens, we can help each person maintain optimal nutritional health.

MANNA has also added a new Monthly Nutrition Tips page to the Services menu of our website. Don’t forget to sign up for monthly e-mails of healthy MANNA recipes at www.mannapa.org/nutrition.

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by Cyndi Dinger, RD, LDN, Director of Nutrition and Client Services

A man with severe diabetes who exclaimed, “Bless you for coming by and it’s my 65th birthday today. I’m a lucky man!”

A middle-aged woman, forced to leave her job due to a three-day-a-week kidney dialysis regimen, told me how grateful she was that MANNA now delivers a full week of meals on one day, freeing up a day for her sister to take her on errands and out for a ride.

And the young man, not yet 30 years old and barely able to open his door, who, when asked how he was feeling, answered, “I just don’t know.”

Ryan Estes Photography

C A P I TA L C A M PA I G N

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manna now delivers to clients 100% of their nutrition with 3 meals a day, 7 days a week. our production has increased by 30%.Throughout manna’s history, meal turn-out was scheduled in the morning, which was the most labor intensive time.

now that meals are frozen to improve food safety and retain nutrients, meal turn-outs are scheduled throughout the day. Can you spare 3 hours a week to chop vegetables, prepare homemade soups and package meals for our clients?

Please join the manna community of volunteers, tie on your apron and help prepare meals for critically ill clients.Contact Sue aistrop, Director of volunteer Services, at saistrop@mannapa.org or 215-496-2662 x120.

YO U C A N B E T H E C H A N G E

Tuesday through Friday Packing Shift

6:00 am to 9:00 am

Friday Kitchen Shifts 8:00 am to 11:00 am 11:00 am to 2:00 Pm

monday through Thursday Kitchen Shifts 8:00 am to 11:00 am 11:00 am to 2:00 Pm 2:00 Pm to 5:00 Pm 5:00 Pm to 8:00 Pm

Kitchen Help Needed on Every Shift!

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donors is availalble on our website:

www.mannapa.org/give

List final as of 09.12.08.Reflects pledged and received donations.

$500,000+Commonwealth of PennsylvaniaSteven H. and Jennifer Korman

$150,000 Keystone SocietyJohn R. AlchinThe Connelly FoundationHarold and Lynne Honickman, The Honickman FoundationBarbara and Leslie KaplanRichard Keaveney and James BrownM·A·C Global Foundation/M·A·C AIDS FundTamar and Stephen Olitsky, Jewish Communal Fund

$50,000 - $149,999Independence FoundationMr. and Mrs. Stephen B. KleinReid Reames and Allan SchimmelMichael Ryan and Randee SpelkomanUS Airways/US Airways Community Foundation

$10,000 - $49,99912 South 23rd Street, LPCharles and Wendi ChaseClaneil Foundation, Inc.Margaret S. G. CookeNicole M. FriesJames C. HessBernice R. KormanFrederick D. KroonPamela B. LevinsonAnne E. McCollumThe McLean ContributionshipElizabeth R. MoranThe Estate of Daniel F. NessMark W. Niehaus and Brooks HoneycuttJames E. O’Neill, Esq. and David RubinThe Honorable Wendy Pew and Derek N. PewWestern Shade Cloth Charitable Foundation

$5,000 - $9,999Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. AschenbrennerCarroll Contractors, Inc.Barbara T. and Kevin IlsenLewis Katz, The Katz FoundationAgnes M. OgletreeBradley RichardsJanine A. RollGregory T. RoweJulius M. Steiner

$1,000 - $4,999Ira and Myrna Brind FoundationPatricia A. BassChip CapelliIra GerberJohn GeronimoJohn C. and Chara C. Haas Charitable TrustRichard and Marion E. ImmermanCathy LindyThe Pew Charitable Trusts Matching Gift ProgramBarbara Rice and Tina Phipps-

$500 - $999Andrew and Anne AbelJames H. BrysonTimothy CabreyDominic D’OrazioSusan E. DaughertyThomas Richard DennisonKurt L. DouglassFriia Trust, Mary Friia Genovese ColvinPhyllis FurstHerman and Monica EhretGE Foundation Matching Gift ProgramMr. and Mrs. Robert D. GoldblumJoan and Bill GreenfieldDavid HakesStephen Judd HartleyRobert HollingerAnn Hoskins-Brown and Greg BrownMartha H. HoskinsMr. and Mrs. James L. KermesMr. and Mrs. Stan E. Klet, Sr.Janis M. LeeKenneth L. LociceroCarly LynchDr. Arlen C. MarksCharles E. Mather IIIJohn F. McKemeyFrederick John MorningAlan E. MorrisonBeth R. NeidermanRoyal ArcanumMarlene PetterThe Reverend Susan M. Richards and John RichardsMeg Rider and Natalie Hope McDonaldJonathan and Diane Spivey RogersStephen R. and Rhoda M. SandPhyllis SchreiberDavid J. SeamonJ. Stephen StinesDr. and Mrs. Bayard Storey

Patricia D. TaylorThe Thursday CrewRobert and Jane TollMichael WeissJay Weiss

$100 - $499Aon Foundation Matching Gift ProgramConley BenfieldMarcia BloomfieldElva BruscaDavid Sorensen and Sally E. BurrellRuby J. CamarenaElizabeth P. and John CampNina CarducciJohn R. and M. Patricia CarrollKatrina ClaghornMr. and Mrs. David Elliott CohenJudy and Lewis De VicarisCarmine DeCinqueMr. and Mrs. Donald W. DelsonMichelle DuncanM. L. Alexandra EscherJustin EttelsonVirginia G. FanferaIrma M. FeldmanDeborah D. and Theodore R. FlintMr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Fluehr, IVKristi FoxMr. and Mrs. Joseph S. FranzStephen W. and Heather E. GeorgeSuzanne GerberRevelle S. GershmanJohn F. GrandizioPeter HaigisLorraine HarringtonMark A. HarringtonSuzanne M. HechtDr. and Mrs. William J. HenryLorraine HillemanJohn M. HoguetNino ImperartoJudith Justman, M.D.Robert L. Kaplan and Edna DickMr. and Mrs. John KeaveneyMr. and Mrs. Patrick M. KeaveneyFrancis W. KlingMark R. KlingermanBarbara A. Konkle and Peter KollrosCarl KopfingerJudith A. KrugerGabriele W. LeeMary Theresa LeonardCarl Levitsky

Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. LyttonDr. and Mrs. Rob Roy MacGregorRabbi Jill Lisa Maderer and Leonard J. Lipkin Lynn G. McDevittLori McEvoyJoseph A. MicucciVandana and David L. MillerKathleen J. MoyerTammy MurabitoDonald P. NienasCharles J. and Debra Ann K. O’DonnellMr. and Mrs. Allen OlinJeffrey OrleansMr. and Mrs. Alan B. PalmerPhilip G. PetriChristopher PetroEve Putkovich and John GoukerMarion D. RaskinGary Stein and Ellen ReeseDavid J. and Karen ReibsteinJennifer RellisFrances W. RobbSteve RosardKaren and Joel RosenJames Brown and Gaetan RouleauAdair M. RuffH. Cheryl Rusten and Margaret OuderkirkJohn H. Schott, IIIFrank and Kathleen SeidmanFlorence Ruth SilversRita A. SilvestriArlene and Bernard SolomonKathleen E. Squires and Matthew H. CarabasiRabbi and Mrs. Richard F. SteinbrinkEllen Steiner and Rich WalterMarianne T. StewartMr. and Mrs. Steven E. StilleyKenneth A. StorckPeter and Jeralyn SvandaCraig S. ThomasDavid R. TidmanLarry A. TuffVeronica A. TustinEkkehard and Debra UnverdrussDavid J. and Nancy E. WalshCarol B. WaltonDebra S. WeinerSarah T. WerntzLinda J. WolfendenMr. and Mrs. Harold L. Yoh, III

Photos: Brett Thomas Photography

The official registration and financial information of MaNNa may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Dept. of State by calling toll-free within Pa 1-800-932-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement.

UPCOMING EvENTS & DATES TO REMEMBER:

SHUT UP & DANCEMarch 28, 2009 (Tentative Date)

The Forrest TheatrePhiladelphia, PA

US AIRwAYS PRESENTS PIE IN THE SKY 2008Helping never tasted so good!

P.O. Box 30181Philadelphia, PA 19103

P: 215.496.2662 F: 215.496.1349

Ad d r e s s co r r e c t i o n r e q u e s t e d

Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition AllianceTHE STEvEN KORMAN NUTRITION CENTER

REMEMBER TO PL ACE YOUR PIE ORDER BY NOv. 19 @ NOON!

MANNAPA.ORG/PIE

Try our scrumptious Apple, Pumpkin, Sweet Potato and Southern Pecan pies. For those who like to live outside of the (pie) box, there is our new US Airways SkyPie, a heavenly combination of rich cheesecake and decadent chocolate ganache, a true gourmet’s delight.

Each purchase of the US Airways SkyPie includes one entry into our drawing for US Airways airline gift certificates ($1,000 value).

Change is in the air, but one thing that has not changed at MANNA is our unwavering dedication to nourishing our neighbors. In that spirit, we have mixed some of your favorite ingredients from our past events, adding a dash of new

flavor to create one of the most innovative events this town has ever seen: Nourish2009.

Fine art, fantastic foods and fabulous friends – Nourish2009 has all this and more. Feed your mind, body and spirit this spring to help MANNA

continue our mission of nourishing those in need.

visit www.mannapa.org for info!

Now in its 17th year, Shut Up & Dance is a one-night-only spectacular presented by the dancers of Pennsylvania Ballet. The show’s uniquely spirited, funky and enthusiastic style includes an evening of original dance, choreographed and performed exclusively for MANNA. Tickets to the performance and VIP Party will be on sale in 2009.

Nourish2009Food! Art! Life!May 12, 2009 (Tentative Date)

Marketplace Design CenterPhiladelphia, PA

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Committees for all MANNA events are forming now - to get involved, please contact Meg Rider at 215-496-2662 x115 or mrider@mannapa.org.