In an effort to reach more hungry metro Detroit residents, Forgotten Harvest will launch a mobile food pantry this November.The mobile food pantry will take nutritious, fresh food into neighborhoods that have few or no emergency food assistance agencies. While Forgotten Harvest currently services nearly 150 soup kitchens, shelters and pantries throughout metro Detroit, there are significant pockets in our community that are underserved because there are no emergency food providers to distribute to those in need. Since Forgotten Harvest does not provide direct service to individuals, we rely on our partner agencies – area soup kitchens, pantries and shelters – to distribute the food we provide to children, families and seniors. The mobile food pantry will operate similarly by working with a partner agency that will indentify individuals and families in need. But instead of our trucks delivering food to a partner agency that may distribute it to their clients a day later after sorting or packing with other food items, the mobile food pantry will arrive at a location at a set day and time and

clients will receive the food on the spot. One of the benefits to this model is that it doesn’t require a building, significant staffing or refrigeration on the agencies’ part, making it a very cost-effective way to distribute food to those who need it. The three-year mobile food pantry project will be funded in part by a $105,000 grant from The Jewish Fund and a $52,000 grant from Kraft Foods. This summer, Forgotten Harvest partnered with Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan in a pilot mobile food pantry project titled “Summer Vacation from Hunger,” which targeted the Osborn neighborhood in northeast Detroit. The six-week project, funded through a $100,000 grant from Charter One Bank, provided fresh food items from Forgotten Harvest and non-perishable food items from Gleaners and served 1,055 families and 2,738 children. Of those families, 83 percent said they were unemployed. The project was so successful and the need so great that Forgotten Harvest and Gleaners are looking for more ways to collaborate on mobile food pantry services.

Harvest News FAll crop 2008

Metro Detroit’s only mobile food rescue organization Driving Hunger from our community since 1990

inside dish:

3 Harvesters drive out hunger every day 4 This season’s harvest 5 Order your Forgotten Harvest holiday cards 6, 7 Event highlights 8 Forgotten Harvest helps feed hurricane victims

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We are very pleased to announce that Forgotten Harvest has completed a $3.7 million capital campaign to support a new state-of-the-art distribution facility located in Oak Park. The campaign, which began its public phase in May 2007, exceeded its initial goal of $3.6 million and finished three months ahead of schedule. Major contributions to the campaign included: a $1 million lead gift from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; $550,000 from The Carls Foundation; a $400,000 challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation; $250,000 from the Nonprofit Facilities Center; $200,000 from McGregor Fund; $107,000 from Kraft Foods; and $100,000 each from The Chrysler Foundation, Daimler Financial Services Americas and General Motors Foundation. According to Susan Goodell, Forgotten Harvest executive director, despite the tough economic challenges facing our region, the capital campaign was successful for several reasons. Campaign supporters recognized that in the current economic climate, meeting basic human needs, such as feeding the hungry, should be a

Forgotten Harvest to expand services with mobile food pantry

$3.7 million capital campaign

completed! Campaign finishes ahead of goal and schedule

priority. Secondly, she attributes the success to the simplicity, efficiency and effectiveness of Forgotten Harvest’s mission of preventing perfectly good food from going to waste by rescuing it and delivering it to those in need. “While we knew this capital campaign was going to be a challenge, we also knew it was imperative that we be successful so that Forgotten Harvest could continue to meet the growing needs evident in our region,” said Goodell. “We are thrilled by the overwhelming support and response by the community who saw real value and necessity in increasing Forgotten Harvest’s capacity to rescue more food and feed more people.”The headquarters, located at 21800 Greenfield, is strategically located within Forgotten Harvest’s service area of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. It features over 12,000 square feet of distribution and staging areas, a commercial freezer, expanded walk-in cooler and a truck dock to receive large donations of perishable food.

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Meet our top bananas:CAPITAL CAMPAIGN (continued from page 1)

EXECUTIVE BOARDBruce Nyberg

Chairman

Vice-Presidents:Paul BringerJohn Carter

Klaus EntenmannRobert OlenderLarry Shulman

Jon A. WoodsTreasurer

Jacqueline Sellers Secretary

Mitch AlbomBarry AllenTim Allen

Mark AnusbigianJim Bonahoom

Jim BrandstatterTom Cihonski

Ed DeebDavid Draper

Dr. Nancy Fishman

Adam FormanGeorge F. Francis III

Chuck GaidicaJames Garavaglia

Joel JacobJoyce Jenereaux

Anita JenkinsGeorge Johnson

Bill LarkinLinda Marshall

Alice OsburnTerry PalleschiColleen PetersKathryn ReidMarge SorgeVivian Stroh

Stephen SwartzRobbie TimmonsHarry C. Warner

Rabbi Paul Yedwab

Maggie AlleseeDavid Boyle

Rick BrockhausDan CarmodyJohn C. Carter

Rob CohenRoger Cook

Jack A. G. CrableJim CroceJohn Darin

Marietta DavisShauna R. Diggs

Rick GoingJoe KearneyTim Laney

Patrick NagyDavid NicholsonPeter Oleksiak

Peggy PittRoy Richie

Doris RobinsonJane Shallal

Martin ShoushanianJennifer Shroeger

Ed TraczLeon Tupper

Lisa Vallee-SmithJason Vines

Jacqueline Wiggins

ADVISORY BOARD

DIRECTORS

Management & General 2 % Fundraising 4%

Program Services 94%

Did you know?

Ninety-four percent of every dollar donated to Forgotten Harvest goes directly to program services.

This level of efficiency has once again earned us Charity Navigator’s coveted four-star rating.

Forgotten Harvest partners with 150 emergency food providers throughout Wayne, Oakland

and Macomb counties.

We’re pleased to add the following new partner agencies to the Forgotten Harvest hunger relief network:

Bussey CenterFish & Loaves

Metropolitan United MethodistMt. Vernon/Trinity Baptist

New Fellowship Church of the RockSisters of Christian Love

St. Peter/St. Vincent DePaulZion Community Enrichment

For a full list of partner agencies, visit our website at www.forgottenharvest.org.

As the nation’s third largest mobile food rescue organization, our fleet of trucks and dedicated drivers are at the very center of our mission.In fact, our drivers – also referred to as “Harvesters” – are on the frontline carrying out our mission every day rescuing thousands of pounds of wonderful, fresh food and then delivering it to our partner agencies who serve the hungry in our community. They come to us from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. A few are retirees looking to stay busy at a job with a purpose; one is a college student putting himself through school; some, who have been truck drivers for national and international companies, now find greater fulfillment driving for Forgotten Harvest.

Do something for othersFollowing careers in banking and teaching, Dijural (DJ) Felder became burned out and wanted to do something more fulfilling. After six months of volunteering at Forgotten Harvest as a Harvest Helper, she was asked to consider becoming a staff driver. It didn’t take her long to consider it, interview and accept the position. For Felder, it’s all about helping others. “We should always do something for somebody else,” she said. After a year as a driver, Felder was recently promoted to afternoon dispatcher troubleshooting and managing routes, trucks and drivers.

Desire to serveFor Chuck Spindler, it was a desire to serve others that led him to Forgotten Harvest. After a career in sales, he wanted to put his people skills into action at a job that was making a difference. “This is what I want to do at this stage in my life,” said Spindler. “From the get-go, it was challenging and stimulating and I enjoy every minute of it.” He’s eager to sit down and tell others about the fulfillment there is in helping others and how impactful his work is each day. He has seen pantries with bare shelves and the staff anxiously awaiting his arrival so they can serve hungry people the next day. He has witnessed people waiting in food lines break into tears at the arrival of his truck loaded with food. “When I see the people who receive our food, I’m absolutely in awe by their dignity and gratitude which you see from their quiet acceptance of this blessing,” Spindler said.

Nothing more gratifying Bill Keebaugh was retired for only six months when he answered an ad for Forgotten Harvest drivers. After a 30-year career at the Farmer Jack distribution center, he was a natural fit. Three years into the job, Keebaugh sees first hand how staggering the need is in our community and says there is nothing more gratifying than the work he is now doing.

Once in a while though, he’s faced with some unique challenges. Like the time he picked up several cases of jalapeno peppers and wondered where he would be able to distribute them. One call to Forgotten Harvest partner agency Latino Family Services solved the “hot” problem. They gratefully received each case and planned to share them with their seniors. But as much as he enjoys his job and believes in the mission of Forgotten Harvest, he looks forward to the day when hunger and waste are eradicated and there isn’t a need for Forgotten Harvest. “It’s my hope that one day we (Forgotten Harvest) work ourselves out of a job,” said Keebaugh.

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With Forgotten Harvest’s fleet of 18 vehicles traveling across the tri-county region six days a week, our motto “Driving hunger from our community” is really quite literal.

Harvesters drive out hunger every day

extra helpings We encourage anyone with an available day to volunteer as a Harvest Helper with Forgotten Harvest. It truly is the best way to experience our mission first-hand. Within the same day you’ll see the quality and quantity of food we are rescuing and then see the gratitude and need from our partner agencies and recipients when the food is delivered.

If you are interested in volunteering as a Harvest Helper (18 years and older please) or perhaps becoming a Forgotten Harvest driver, please give us a call at (248) 967-1500 for more details.

Top: Chuck Spindler;Right: DJ Felder and Bill Keebaugh are just a few of our dedicated staff drivers who drive out hunger in our community.

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what’s on our plate

Last year, we launched a pilot project to rescue surplus produce from Great Northern Hydroponics, a 50-acre greenhouse in Leamington, Ontario, the “greenhouse capital of North America.” We have rescued over 300,527 pounds of fresh tomatoes since the project began and recently expanded the pilot to include three additional greenhouses.

Right: Volunteers from National City Bank help re-pack bulk tomatoes for distribution at Forgotten Harvest.

We also entered into a partnership with Rock City Kitchen to develop a pilot community kitchen project that will enable us to repack bulk quantities of prepared and perishable foods into

individual and family-sized meals.

Left: Rock City staff and volunteers re-pack prepared food to serve the hungry.

To meet the growing need in our community for emergency food supplies, Forgotten Harvest looks to different segments of the food system to increase food variety and donations.

this season’s harvest Thank you to our generous funders who make our mission possible!

The following foundations and corporations awarded grants of $5,000 or more (April 2008 - present): The Skillman Foundation - $200,000 The Jewish Fund - $105,000 (3-year grant)Feeding America - Lincy Foundation - $100,000 DTE Energy Foundation - $80,000 The King’s Daughters & Sons, Inc. - $80,000 General Motors Foundation - $75,000 Community Foundation for Southeastern MI - $60,000 Kraft Foods - $52,000Charter One Bank - $50,000 Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation, Inc. - $30,000 GMAC Financial Services - $20,000 Angelo Iafrate Construction Company - $15,000

MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger - $12,000 The Kroger Company - $10,000 Oliver Dewey Marcks Foundation - $10,000 The Karen Colina Wilson Foundation - $10,000 The Trustmark Foundation - $8,000 ArvinMeritor - $5,000 Lula C. Wilson Trust - $5,000 The Myrtle E. & William G. Hess Charitable Trust - $5,000 The Karen & Drew Peslar Foundation - $5,000 Therapy Staff, Inc. - $5,000 The William G. & Myrtle E. Hess Charitable Trust - $5,000 Wolverine Packing Company - $5,000

2007 Cards are on sale! Packs of 25 are just $10.

Holiday Cards are here

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Our Holiday Cards are a great way to show others that you support Forgotten Harvest. Cards are $23 for 25 full-color cards and envelopes or $1 each. (Please add $3 for shipping on packs of cards.) To place an order, visit our website at www.forgottenharvest.org or call 248-967-1500.

“Berry Christmas”Inside: “Wishing you and yours the berry best” Creative: Yaffe & Company, Southfield

“Season’s Greetings”Inside: “May your holidays be flavored with wonderful things” Creative: Yaffe & Company, Southfield

Our popular “Peas on Earth” card redesigned:Inside: “Peas on earth” Creative: Yaffe & Company, Southfield

extra helpings

Stone Soup Project raises over $150,000 Thank you to everyone who supported this year’s JJ & Lynne Stone Soup Project to benefit Forgotten Harvest. Congratulations to the lucky winners, Brian & Kris

Gnagey of Livonia, MI who gets to claim the fully restored 1969 Camaro. More than $150,000 was raised which will provide an additional 900,000 meals to those in need.

We are especially grateful to all the generous companies and individuals who gave of their time and resources to the Stone Soup Project. (For a full list of participants, visit the Stone Soup page on our website.)

Our thanks to WCSX and JJ & Lynne for providing us with this fantastic opportunity!

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Guffaw Sponsors

Chortle Sponsors Comerica Incorporated - Ford Motor Company Fund

Hoot Sponsors National City - Toyota

Cackle Sponsors ArvinMeritor - The Chrysler Foundation - Daimler Financial Services

DTE Energy - Galeana Group - Michigan Veterans Foundation Suburban Collection - UAW-GM Center for Human Resources

Chuckle Sponsors Advance Packaging Technologies - Cooper Standard Automotive

GMAC Financial Services - The Kroger Company MCM Management - Soave Enterprises, LLC - Tama, Budaj & Raab, P.C.

Giggle Sponsors Airfoil Public Relations - Carlson Marketing Worldwide - Charter One Bank

Draper, Rubin & Shulman, PLC - Elder Automotive Group - Frankel Associates, Inc. HR Works, LLC - Insurance Exchange Agency - M3 Strategies - Metaldyne

St. John Health - Vesco Oil Corporation - Wolverine Packing Company

Media Sponsor Event Partners Detroit Media Partnership Hour Detroit - Team Detroit

Diamond SponsorJacques Nasser

Emerald SponsorLynne & Mason Rosenthal

Ruby SponsorBob & Maggie Allesee - Steve & Barbara Bartley - Jack & Claudia Crable - Eileen Gretkierewicz

Dale & Bruce Frankel - Joyce Jenereaux - Rick & Carol Johnston - Peter & Mary Oleksiak Bob & Anne Olender - Jim & Ann Raftery - Martin & Diana Shoushanian

Sapphire SponsorDavid & Hedy Blatt - John & Joanne Carter - Diana & Jim Croce

Dr. Nancy Fishman & Ronnie Wilner - Mike & Nanci Freedman Kenneth & Ruth Garavaglia - George G. Johnson - Paul & Lois Katzman - Joe & Laura Kearney

Lambro Niforos - Bruce & Katherine Nyberg - Gerald R. Pearsall - Bob & Linda Stulberg

In-Kind DonationsGregory Bator - Bonnie’s Kitchen & Catering - Carlson Catering - Elite Event Rentals

Forte Belanger - Henry Feinberg - Levy Restaurants - Ford Field - Lloyd Waters & Associates Midwest Wines, a division of Henry A. Fox Sales Co. - Dick Shafran - Team Detroit

The Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Co. - Veritas Distributors - Westborn Market

Comedy Night 2008: A Great Success!

Our thanks to all our fine sponsors, patrons and supporters who helped raise $270,000 at the 16th Annual Comedy Night on May 17th.

Check our website soon for the date and details for Comedy Night 2009!

Ronnie Wilner and Dr. Nancy Fishman, Forgotten Harvest founder and Advisory Board Member

Approximately 700 guests attended the benefit at the Music Hall featuring comedian Jeff Allen and opening act, Dwayne Gill.

Gale & Guy Gordon, Comedy Night emceeJack Crable, FH Board Member, Walter Middlebrook and Joyce Jenereaux, past Chair, FH Board of Directors

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Thank you to all our 2008 Champagne Cruise Sponsors: Classic Sponsor

Vintage Sponsors Andrews Brothers, Inc. - UAW-GM Center for Human Resources

Roadster Sponsor PVS Chemicals, Inc.

Hot Rod SponsorsBlue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan - Cauley Ferrari-Maserati

Chase - Detroit Media Partnership Michigan Educational Credit Union - Park West Gallery

Custom SponsorsBareman Dairy, Inc. - Ben B. Schwartz & Sons, Inc.

Carlson Marketing Worldwide - Clark Hill, PLC - John & Joanne Carter Dawda Mann - Giarmarco, Mullins & Horton, P.C.

Great Lakes International Trading - Levy Restaurants - Insurance Exchange Mercedes-Benz of St. Clair Shores - Royal Banana Company, Inc.

Mark & Arlene Rubinstein - Sysco - Tama, Budaj & Raab, PC

Ticket Sponsors John Bourbeau - Bob & Anne Olender - Hulet Body Company

Event PartnersGreen Sky Creative - Levy Restaurants at Ford Field - Lloyd Waters & Associates Versacom Inc - Veuve Clicquot Champagne - Mark Anusbigian, Westborn Market

In-Kind DonorsAutoCom Associates - Bastone - Gregory Bator - Beans & Cornbread

Bonnie’s Kitchen & Catering - Carlson Marketing - Comerica Bank - Cupcake Station Dark Spark Media - Donna Agosti Photography - Edibles Rex - Henderson Glass

The Henry Ford - Janet Davis Cleaners - Kay’s Sportswear - La Perfetto Cappuccino Levy Restaurants - Ford Field - Party Cakes - The Ritz-Carlton Dearborn

Veuve Clicquot Champagne - Versacom Inc - Westborn Market - Zaccaro’s Market

Media SponsorHour Detroit

There’s no better summertime party than our annual Champagne Cruise.

This year’s party on August 15th raised $140,000! A sell-out event each year, be sure to get your tickets early for 2009!

Top: Team from UPS.

Right: Glasses were filled with Veuve Clicquot Champagne.

Top: Classic cars were the main attraction at the event.

Left: Herb Abrash, Westborn Market owner and Champagne Cruise host Mark Anusbigian and his wife Donna.

Bottom left: Guests enjoy all the tasty offerings.

Photos by Donna Agusti Photography

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PAIDSouthfield, MI

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Forgotten Harvest21800 Greenfield RoadOak Park, MI 48237

Phone: (248) 967.1500 Fax: (248) 967.1510www.forgottenharvest.org

Driving hunger from our community since 1990

For all the freshest information,visit our website at: www.forgottenharvest.org

2007 Best-Managed Nonprofit

Hurricane Ike devastated the Texas coastline when it struck on September 12, causing damages that are now estimated to exceed more than $20 billion. For the residents who were struggling with hunger before the storm, the recovery process will be even longer, as they struggle to rebuild their lives with assistance from a number of organizations that are already overburdened. Several Feeding America (formerly America’s Second Harvest) network members, including Forgotten Harvest, have dramatically increased their operations to deliver emergency food assistance to those who need it most, not only in Texas, but in Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states that were hit by Hurricane Gustav earlier this month.In October, Forgotten Harvest food program liaison manager Paul Cooper and his wife Linda travelled to Beaumont, Texas to assist in warehouse operations and inventory control at the Southeast Texas Food Bank.Food continues to be delivered daily to those in need as their partner agencies that have experienced severe damage are able to resume operations. According to Cooper, the devastation and those in need of emergency food assistance is tremendous. But staff and volunteers are committed to feeding all those who are unable to meet basic nutrition needs.

Forgotten Harvest lends a hand to victims of Hurricane Ike

We salute all the Hunger Champions, teams and employees from the following companies that participated in this year’s

“OUT TO END HUNGER” campaign:

Who knew that LUNCH money could feed so MANY?

Advance Packaging TechnologiesChase

Clark Hill, PLCCompuware

Delphi Product & Service SolutionsDetroit Media Partnership

Great Lakes Medical Supply, Inc.Green & Green, PLLC

The Hylant Group

Jabil Circuit, Inc.Kerr, Russell and Weber, PLC

LEDCO-CHARGEGUARDMerrill Lynch

Peoples State BankRouteOne, LLC

UPSVersacom, Inc.

“OUT TO END HUNGER” is a one-day event that asks people to donate their lunch money for one day to help feed others.

Thanks to the generosity of some great companies and their employees, this year we will be able to provide an additional 150,000 nutritious

meals to children, families and seniors in need across metro Detroit.

Be sure to mark your calendars for Thursday, May 7for Out to End Hunger Day 2009!

If you would like to organize an Out to End Hunger campaign at your company or organization, contact Cindy Corey at 248-967-1500 x115.

Staff and volunteers load food and supplies into the cars of Hurricane Ike victims.