On Wednesday morning, November 15, 2006, visitors joined Gay Men's
Health Crisis staff and volunteers at the Meals Program Showcase,
the first in a series of GMHC Program Showcase Events.
Held in the beautiful, sunlit Peter Krueger Dining Room, the event
began with a tasty, heart-smart continental breakfast followed
by comments from GMHC Chief Operating Officer Robert Bank, Senior
Managing Director of Development and Legislative Funding Janet
Weinberg, and Jeff Rindler, Director of the Volunteer, Work & Wellness
Center at GMHC. Along with Meals Program staff and volunteers,
the speakers told the guests how their support enables GMHC to
annually meet the complex nutritional needs of thousands of our
impoverished clients living with HIV. Guests heard about the 96,000
hot meals GMHC served last year alone, often the only daily hot
meal our clients have. They also heard of the confidence and direction
that the work in the meals program has brought to former clients
and the important sense of community that motivates our volunteers.
The event closed with a tour of the Meals and Wellness Program
facilities, allowing guests to see how their support makes a difference
in the lives of those living with HIV/AIDS.
THE MEALS PROGRAM GMHC Program
Showcase
November 15, 2006
Special Thanks to:
The Altria Group
America's Second Harvest
The James Beard Foundation
Brinker International
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Tara Conner, Miss USA 2006
The Miss Universe Organization
J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation
Macy's Department Stores
Mr. Bobby Rivers
Until There's a Cure Foundation
The Wachovia Foundation
Donna Aceto, Event Photographer
and our committed family of volunteers,
individual donors and friends
|
Miss USA 2006 Tara
Conner and the GMHC Meals Program staff.
|
| |
|
GMHC Chief Operating
Officer Robert Bank addresses the
Meals Program Showcase.
|
| |
|
Jeff Rindler, Director
of the Volunteer, Work & Wellness Center
at GMHC, provides an overview of the program.
|
| |
 |
Meals Program Coordinator
Tyree Stanback speaks to the audience.
|
| |
|
Sarah Spool, Coordinator
of the Nutrition and Wellness Program, addresses the Meals
Program Showcase.
|
| |
|
Food Service Maintenance
Assistant Lydell Williams tells
of the importance of the program in his life.
|
| |
|
Volunteer Lizzie
Brown discusses her important contribution to the Meals
Program as well as the special place the program occupies
in her life.
|
| |
|
Senior Managing
Director of Development and Legislative Funding Janet Weinberg
discusses the program with Meals Program Showcase guests.
|
| |
|
Guests tour the
newly renovated Robert C. Wooley and Jeffrey S. Childs
Living Room. Furnishings for this spectacular renovation
were generously donated by Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams.
|
| |
|
Program Director
Jeff Rindler shows guests the Jerry Herman Theatre Desk,
where GMHC clients receive free and discounted tickets
to popular theatrical productions.
|
Photos: Donna Aceto
© 2006 Gay Men's Health Crisis |
home 
