2014 Program

Nora Zehetner
GUEST EMCEE
An actress who works seamlessly across both film and
television, Nora Zehetner has portrayed an array of
complex characters throughout her acting career. Most
recently, Nora was seen playing Marc Maron’s girlfriend,
Jen, in the critically acclaimed comedy series Maron, which
premiered on IFC in May 2014. Nora was also a featured
guest star playing the role of Phoebe on Season 4 of the
Emmy winning TV drama Mad Men.
Nora is widely recognized for her role on ABC’s top-rated
Golden Globe-winning television series Grey’s Anatomy,
playing Dr. Reed Adamson. Nora is best known for her
recurring role on the Emmy-nominated science-fiction
series Heroes as the mind-controlling Eden McCain, a
role which garnered a cult fan base for Nora. Her other
television credits include the critically acclaimed WB hit
Everwood, HBO’s Point of Origin, and Showtime’s Going to California.
On the big screen, Nora has appeared in numerous films, including a starring role as Rose Conlin
in the dramatic comedy Spooner. Nora’s other film credits include Brothers Bloom, in which she
starred alongside Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz, Remarkable Power in which she played Athena,
Conversations with Other Women, and as Michelle in the independent feature Fifty Pills.
Nora has many loyal fans from playing the character of Laura alongside Joseph Gordon Levitt
and Lukas Haas in the cult indie hit Brick. This smash hit with film critics won the Special Jury
Prize for Originality of Vision at the Sundance Film Festival. It was later nominated for the John
Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards.
Nora grew up in Dallas, Texas, and currently resides in Los Angeles.
Photo by Justin Chung
presents
Jonny Shorr Band
GUEST PERFORMER
October 2, 2014, 6:30pm
Kohl Mansion
Burlingame, California
COOKING UP HOPE
Featuring Recipes of Hope
that Nourish the Soul and
the Body
DESSERT AND COFFEE
Hope is a thing with
feathers… Like the four
and twenty blackbirds, it
still sings, baked in a pie.
So, following the awards
ceremony, please join us for
warm beverages, a bite of
something sweet, and the
chance to meet tonight’s
honorees.
Jonny Shorr is a singer/songwriter and musician born and
raised in the suburbs of Chicago. He currently studies in
the Music Industry program at the University of Southern
California. Jonny just released his self-titled EP, produced
and recorded with Stonecutter Records and Grammynominated producer Chris Steinmetz (Kiss, Rihanna,
Marty Casey). Over the past year, Jonny wrote an acoustic
score for USC-UCLA’s co-production of Columbinus,
interned with Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions
in Santa Monica, and has been working with writers at
the Swedish label TEN MUSIC GROUP. Recently, he raised
more than $20,000 for therapeutic arts programs with
his song “Grace,” which won the Elfenworks Social Justice
Prize at Campus MovieFest and which he performs here
tonight. He is joined by his band members Nathan Fertig
(piano/vocals), Yoonchan Choi (violin), and James Prinzi
(percussion).
Margaret Martin
FOUNDER, HARMONY PROJECT
Los Angeles, CA ~ harmony-project.org
In 2001, Margaret
Martin, DrPH,
MPH, established
Harmony Project,
which offers free
music education
and ensemble
playing for youth
in under-resourced
communities. In 2014,
80 highly qualified teaching artists taught
2,000 children at 18 sites in Los Angeles and
communities around the country. Harmony
Project commits to each child year-round for
his or her entire childhood. Students are given
an instrument and they study, practice, and
perform for hours every week. Longitudinal
scientific research shows that Harmony Project’s
music training is fundamentally re-wiring
the brains of the participants. In areas where
dropout rates reach 70%, the graduation rate
for Harmony Project students is more than
90%. By providing positive youth development
and a sense of belonging, the program is also
effectively keeping kids from joining gangs.
Scott Warren
Jim Z iolkowski
Scott Warren’s belief
in participatory
democracy
(informed by
his childhood
as a “foreign
service brat”)
is so strong that
he was still an
undergraduate
when he and a friend conceived the
idea for Generation Citizen in 2008. The
organization works to stop the cycle of underrepresentation in the democratic process
of low-income, less educated, and minority
citizens by teaching civic engagement at
under-resourced schools. This year, more
than 8,000 students at schools in Providence,
Boston, New York, and San Francisco took
action-oriented civics lessons from trained
volunteer Democracy Coaches, who work
with the support of teachers in existing
classes. The students identify a concern, spend
the semester strategically addressing that
problem, and present their plan to local leader
judges at Civics Day. Student by student,
Generation Citizen is chipping away at the
civic engagement gap.
For 23 years, Jim
Ziolkowski and
buildOn have been
working to break
the cycle of poverty,
illiteracy, and low
expectations through
service and education.
Domestically, an
extensive network of
youth service programs in under-resourced
urban areas promotes community and civic
engagement. Farther afield, these same
students (and others) are building a new
school every three days (645 at last count) in
the remotest areas of developing nations—
bringing education and opportunity to the
world’s poorest, and teaching American
youth the value of education. Over the years,
more than 800,000 low-income students in
cities across America have completed 1.3
million hours of service. Ninety-four percent
of buildOn students go to college, and
buildOn schools are educating 85,000 people
every day—realizing Ziolkowski’s dream of
improving access to education for the world’s
poor.
FOUNDER, GENERATION CITIZEN
New York, NY ~ generationcitizen.org
FOUNDER, BUILDON
Stamford, CT ~ buildon.org
Cocktails
ROBERT EGGER - 2009
Robert Egger founded the DC Central Kitchen in the
mid-1980s, and turned the food bank model on its head.
Instead of providing a simple handout, Egger uses food
as a vehicle for change: clients become employed cooks
through the Kitchen’s Culinary Jobs Training Program;
college students learn
LIBERATION LIBATION
about service and
business in the Campus
1.Coat the rim of a rocks
Kitchen Project; and
glass with zeal.
5,000 of Washington,
2.Fill with resolve.
DC’s hungry are fed
3.Add the remaining
as more than 700,000
ingredients of
pounds of food are
compassion, knowledge
recycled every year. The
and wisdom to your
Kitchen additionally
shaker.
provides street outreach
4.Muddle
until the ego
and nutrition education
dissolves,
adding a splash
for at-risk kids. In 2013,
more humility if needed.
Egger moved west and
opened LA Kitchen,
5.Shake passionately with
to replicate the DC
unyielding commitment.
model’s success. He also 6.Fill with resilience and
galvanizes the nonprofit
shake again, very hard.
industry through
7.Strain with courage.
countrywide talks,
8.Top with solidarity.
pushing for reform and
Serve with generosity
a place on the national
and purpose.
stage.
Hors d’Oeuvres
GARY OPPENHEIMER - 2012
In 2009, Gary Oppenheimer conceived of
AmpleHarvest.org, a nationwide campaign
to enable America’s 42 million home
gardeners to easily share some of their
food harvest with local food pantries. It’s a
technology solution that educates, empowers,
and connects home gardeners and local
food pantries. Food pantries are often tiny
operations with little virtual presence. By
enrolling with AmpleHarvest.org, they
become visible to home gardeners searching
for a place to donate extra produce. In just
five years, 7,000 food pantries have enrolled
on AmpleHarvest.org, creating a national
movement that has the power to impact
hunger in this country.
Note… it is not
Any extra
uncommon for those
bounty should be
who believe they have
distributed to a nearby
a black thumb to fail
food pantry for those in
to even attempt to try.
your community who lack
The secret behind this
ready access to similar
dish is the fact that to
fruits of labor.
do the impossible, you
must first believe it isn’t.
AMPLE HARVEST CRUDITÉS
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Ample area of rich, moist soil
Ready access to sun
Water
Pinch of seeds
Sprig of time
Whole heart
1.Fully blend and turn soil. Add unused/
overripe material from past harvests if
available.
2.Warm under adequate sun.
3.Add water to moisten but not saturate soil.
4.Distribute seeds as space allows. Gently
tamper each one in where it lands.
5.Add time as recommended on seed packet.
6.Nurture with whole heart.
7.Patience can be added to the time if time
is short.
8.When ready for harvest, carefully remove
the fruits of your labor and savor. Share
with friends and family. Consider preserving
whatever you cannot use or share.
CURE VIOLENCE CANAPÉS
BE SURE YOU HAVE ALL THE KEY INGREDIENTS BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO ASSEMBLE:
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One well-seasoned community partner
A drum-load of data
A ton of training
A handful of Violence Interrupters
A handful of Outreach Workers
1.Begin by selecting a well-seasoned community partner.
2.Add a drum-load of data, a ton of training, and a handful each of Violence Interrupters and
Outreach Workers.
3.Mix thoroughly until a game plan emerges and conflict resolution skills set in.
4.Sift out misguided ideas about the expected and accepted use of violence.
5.Dust with hope.
6.Chill until new norms and a healthy neighborhood emerge.
7.Enjoy!
GARY SLUTKIN - 2013
Epidemiologist Gary Slutkin’s expertise in
combatting infectious disease informs his
approach to stemming the tide of violence in
American cities. In 2000, he formed Chicagobased Cure Violence (then called CeaseFire),
convinced that violence could be halted with
an approach taken directly from the public
health model: first, interrupt the transmission;
second, identify and change the thinking
of the highest potential transmitters; and
third, change social norms. At the core of the
program are the violence interrupters and
outreach workers—veterans of the street who
are carefully recruited and trained to stem the
flow of violence. Cure Violence has effectively
reduced shootings and killings by 41-73% in
urban neighborhoods around the country.
Soups & Salads
GREG BOYLE - 2009
Father Greg Boyle’s Homeboy Industries is a
one-stop shop for those who have decided
to leave the world of LA’s gangs behind.
Homeboy provides addiction and recovery
programs; a full curriculum of classes that
includes anger management, parenting,
GED, and computer classes; and free
services such as tattoo removal, mental
health counseling, job development,
legal counseling, and case
management. Former gang
members help manage and run
the enterprise, which includes
a bakery, café, and silkscreen
operation, and maintenance
and retail shops that
fund about a third of
Homeboy’s operations.
Fr. Greg has been a
beacon of hope in a
blighted landscape.
His efforts have
directly impacted
the lives of more
than
100,000 people.
CALDO OF HOPE
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8 qts. of the water of community
1 c. of unconditional love
1 c. positive regard
1 c. purposeful activity
1 c. gainful employment
1 T. of the buoyancy of hope
1 T. of soft skills
1 T. of job training
1 t. delight
DIRECTIONS:
1.Stir all ingredients; add more
water as more folks show up.
2.Serve. Enjoy. The thrill of hope.
The weary world rejoices.
REBECCA ONIE 2010
Rebecca Onie was just 17
when she lit upon a simple
but powerful idea: college
students could volunteer to
work with physician/nurse
mentors to locate critically
needed social resources for
children visiting pediatric
clinics. As Onie learned, a
medical approach does not
always solve a child’s chronic
health problems if the
family is deciding between
paying rent, putting food
on the table, or paying for a
prescription. Today, nearly
1,000 student volunteers help
18,000 people obtain critical
resources every year through
Health Leads’ Family Help
Desks, and a new generation
of leaders is being trained to
change the system of health
care delivery in this country.
HEALTH ADVOCATES SOUP
MIX TOGETHER:
• 25 tons of patients with unmet resource needs,
such as food, employment, and health insurance
• 1 ton of health care providers lacking the time and
infrastructure to address patients’ resource needs
• 900 college student Advocates/future health care
leaders
• 80 staff dedicated to patient service and systems
change
• 15 hospital and health center partners
• Waiting rooms and clinic offices (any size)
• 20 reams of screening and referral sheets that
prompt patients and providers to discuss resource
needs
• 1 integrated case management and community
resource database that Advocates use to connect
patients to resources
• 4 tons of training, adding one every three months
• 1 hour of Advocate reflection, added weekly
• As much discipline, courage, and passion as
necessary to change the health care system
BORSCHT
by Alexei Bondarev, A Moment’s Worth
Alex and his band, A Moment’s Worth, performed at
the 2011 In Harmony with Hope Awards ceremony as
winners of that year’s Elfenworks Social Justice Prize in
the Campus MovieFest music contest. Here, he shares his
mother’s beloved borscht.
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2 c. shredded peeled beets
1 c. shredded carrot
1 c. chopped onion
3 14-oz. cans of beef broth
2 c. coarsely chopped cabbage
1 T. butter
1 T. fresh lemon
Sour cream, to taste
DIRECTIONS:
1.Cook the beets, along with
carrots and chopped onion, in
the beef broth for about 20
minutes and cover with lid.
2.Add cabbage and butter,
and cook for another 20
minutes, uncovered.
3.Stir in the lemon juice.
4.Serve with sour cream.
5.It’s also excellent the
next day!
ALEX’S RECIPE FOR HOPE
INGREDIENTS:
Gratitude, Relationship, Love,
Passion, Art, Service
DIRECTIONS:
Wake up every morning and
express a deep gratitude
for the relationships in your
life (just saying “thank you”
while you’re getting ready is
enough). Proceed throughout
the day extending love (even
if just silently) to everyone
you come across. Let that
love pour out of you and into
your passions and your art.
Take the gifts that you create
in this way and offer them
up in service to anyone who
receives them. Repeat the
next morning.
EASY CHICKEN SOUP
from Dr. Sheridan Speeth, A Family Recipe Passed Down To You
INGREDIENTS: DIRECTIONS:
• Olive oil, to taste
• 1 onion, diced
• Veggies, chopped (anything handy:
radishes, potatoes…)
• 1 clove garlic, chopped
• 2 c. chicken breast, diced
• 2 c. broth, heated
• 1 bay leaf
• Parsley, dash
• Sage, dash
• Rosemary, dash
• Thyme, dash
• Salt & pepper, to taste
• Kettle of boiling water
1.Set a kettle of water on to boil.
2.Dice onion and brown it in olive oil in the
bottom of a soup pot.
3.Add garlic and vegetables and brown.
4.Add diced chicken, cooking until browned
and cooked through.
5.Add heated broth and spices.
6.Cook until veggies are tender.
7.Add boiling water as necessary to cover
and flavor.
8.Serve hot.
Sides
GROWING POWER’S STIR-FRIED KALE
INGREDIENTS:
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1-2 T. extra virgin olive oil
1lb. curly kale
2 cloves of garlic, minced
Salt and pepper to taste
1/8 c. honey
DIRECTIONS:
1.Wash & air-dry kale.
2.Chop/shred kale into 1/4” strips.
3.Heat oil in skillet.
4.Put kale in covered skillet and simmer 1-2 minutes, stir.
5.When kale becomes dark green, add garlic and salt and
pepper, stir to mix.
6.Add honey and stir and simmer with lid off for 2-3
minutes, or until desired texture is reached.
Makes 4 servings and can be used as a side or
served over rice or mashed potatoes. Also goes
well with chicken. Optional add-ins: chopped
onions and carrots.
WILL ALLEN 2010
Will Allen has spent the
past two decades crusading
to bring healthy, low-cost,
sustainable food to the
food deserts of our nation’s
urban centers through
his organization, Growing
Power. From a 2.5-acre
farm located in the heart of
Milwaukee, Allen is feeding
the city’s poor, educating a
nation about urban farming,
and mitigating racism by
empowering the minority
communities he serves. His
farming model incorporates
innovative cultivation and
distribution network design,
including aquaculture,
vermiculture, horticulture
composting, soil reclamation,
food distribution, and
beekeeping. Growing Power
also runs collaborative
projects, teen internships,
and training projects,
which engage city youth in
producing healthy foods for
their communities.
BRENDA EHEART 2011
Disheartened by the state of the foster care system in this country, Brenda Eheart, who had
spent years in academia researching Illinois’ foster care system, conceived of an intentional
intergenerational village filled with parents raising and adopting foster children, and senior
citizens volunteering to help support the kids and the community in exchange for lowered
rents. Hope Meadows opened on a closed military base in Illinois in 1994. Two decades later, a
dozen families live in the community free of rent. In exchange, they agree to adopt three or four
foster care system children who have slim chances of finding permanent homes. Those children,
once the most difficult to place, boast a high 89% permanency rate.
INTERGENERATIONAL STAFF OF LIFE
Like sourdough bread, we begin with a starter, create a sponge, and then produce the final product.
THE STARTER:
THE FINAL PRODUCT:
• Bring together approximately 9 to 12
households of elders and young vulnerable
families, using a ratio of about 3 elder
households to each family household
• Stir until well blended
Keep adding elders and families to the “starter”
group. Stir in the “sponge” until bended; add
• A handful of community celebrations,
repeating annually
• Recognition of random and spontaneous
acts of care, such as a hug or kind words
• A weekly community newsletter that
includes recognition of individual
achievements, birthdays, events, etc.
• Many opportunities for meaningful ways
to engage in both relationships and
community
• A lot of laughter
• Let rest—evolving organically and
authentically—in a warm, caring
environment until double or triple in size
• Bake at a moderate temperature and serve
daily with generous helpings
THE SPONGE:
• Add large handfuls of empathy, caring,
innovation, and belief in the goodness and
importance of people regardless of age,
vulnerability, or life experience
• Combine all ingredients, blend well, and
allow to stand at room temperature until
a culture of care and kindness begins to
form, becoming a part of everyday life—
approximately 6 months
ANDREW YANG
2013
At Venture for America (VFA), Andrew Yang is
redirecting enterprising college graduates into
early-stage businesses in underserved American
cities. The program is revitalizing American cities and
communities through entrepreneurship and allowing
top graduates to earn hands-on business experience
and grow a culture of achievement. It provides an
alternative to the predictable post-graduate march
into low-growth sectors like financial services,
consulting, or the law in cities like New York, Boston,
San Francisco, or Washington, DC. VFA has placed
hundreds of graduates in two-year fellowships with
exciting start-ups in cities like Detroit, Cincinnati,
Baltimore, and Pittsburgh. VFA’s goal is to create
100,000 new jobs by 2025.
AN AMERICAN VENTURE MULTIGRAIN
INGREDIENTS:
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2 c. of how you want the world to be
1 c. of the world as you find it
1 t. of compulsion
1 T. of enthusiasm
DIRECTIONS:
1. Mix into a very large bowl.
2. Enlist many friends, giving each a large spoon to mix.
3. Bake for 3 - 5 years (hope typically takes a long time
to rise). Must be vigilant to ensure results.
4. Slice into very fine slices and distribute to as many
as possible.
DC CENTRAL KITCHEN
See also Robert Egger’s cocktail recipe
ANAND’S FRESH FALL SALAD
This recipe was created by Anand
Shantam, a graduate of the DC Central
Kitchen Culinary Job Training Program.
INGREDIENTS:
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1 bunch curly kale
1/2 red bell pepper, small dice
1/2 green bell pepper, small dice
1/2 red onion, small dice
1/4 c. olive oil
2 T. Braggs Liquid Aminos (may
substitute soy sauce)
• 1/4 t. garlic powder
• 1/4 t. cayenne pepper
• Juice of one lemon
DIRECTIONS:
1.Thoroughly wash, drain and
chop kale.
2.Add diced onion and peppers.
3.Cover with lemon juice, olive
oil & Braggs Liquid Aminos.
4.Sprinkle with cayenne pepper
and garlic powder.
5.Toss.
Serves four
Main Dishes
JACK MCCONNELL 2008
CULTURE OF CARING CASSEROLE
Jack McConnell created the
INGREDIENTS:
first Volunteers in Medicine
• 1 champion
Clinic in 1994, when he
• 1 c. community commitment
paired a group of retired
medical personnel who
• 1 c. retired medical professionals
were searching for a way to
• 1 c. dedicated volunteers
continue practicing their
• 2 c. uninsured individuals without health care
profession with a large
DIRECTIONS:
uninsured population on
1.Combine the champion with the community
Hilton Head Island, South
commitment until well blended.
Carolina. He worked with the
2.Add retired medical professionals, dedicated
state legislature to pass a bill
volunteers, and uninsured individuals.
to create a special volunteer
3.Mix together within a Culture of Caring and simmer
medical license that would
allow retired physicians to
until joy bubbles to the top.
practice medicine at free
clinics without taking
Cook’s note:
the licensure exam or
VIM clinics provide
paying the fee. Today,
hope, dignity, and
the Volunteers in
the gift of health
Medicine Institute
to hardworking
shepherds the
individuals and their
replication of that
families.
program—there are
96 VIM clinics in 29 states
whose 12,000 volunteers
deliver care to more than
100,000 uninsured Americans
each year.
LOIS LEE 2008
Lois Lee has spent the past 30+ years advocating for and providing help to thousands of
children between the ages of 11 and 17 who are forced into prostitution. Children of the Night
(COTN) started as a walk-in crisis center and 24-hour hotline. Three decades later, the hotline’s
highly trained staff receives 10,000 calls from desperate kids each year. An in-home program
started in 1994 provides shelter and nurture for up to 100 teens, and features an onsite school
and college placement program. In 2011, Lee initiated With Out Walls (WOW) to bring COTN’s
award-winning programs and case management services to underfunded and undeveloped
teen shelters across the country.
HOPE STEW
• 1 pound of hard work
• 2 pounds of deferred gratification
BILL MILLIKEN
2011
All his life, Bill Milliken had been told he was
dumb, so he stopped caring about school
and began hanging out on the streets. A
chance encounter with a caring adult who
taught him to believe in a different life story
changed Milliken’s life forever. Within a few
years, he and a friend had founded 18 schools
they called “street academies” in Harlem. Over
the past 40+ years, his work has evolved into
what is now the country’s largest dropout
• 1 pound of determination
• 1 ton of teaching
• Equals HOPE
prevention program, Communities In Schools
(CIS). It was founded in the belief that
programs don’t change kids, but relationships
do. CIS is a unique community model that
forms partnerships between schools, families,
and community leaders to build a solid
support system for students. The results
speak for themselves: 99% of the program’s
students stay in school and 96% of its students
graduate.
COMMUNITY POT PIE
1. Take equal parts of the good faith of others, belief in oneself, and desire to contribute.
2.Combine them in a supportive environment.
3.Add in meaningful work, necessary resources, and thyme (er…, that is time).
4.Season with optimism and perseverance.
5.Serve up generous helpings to everyone you know.
PAUL MINORINI 2007
Paul Minorini has been
involved with Boys Hope
Girls Hope (BHGH) for half
his life. The organization
helps academically capable
and motivated children
in need meet their full
potential by providing
family-like support in a
home-like environment, and
opportunities and education
through college. Nurtured
in a safe home and provided
with an excellent education,
these youth thrive. Under his
leadership, Boys Hope Girls
Hope began a communitybased outreach program
for children whose home
situation did not require
out-of-home placement,
effectively doubling the
number the children that
BHGH can serve. Based in
Bridgeton, Missouri, Boys
Hope Girls Hope currently
serves children in 15 U.S.
cities, plus Guatemala,
Mexico, and Peru.
VISIONARY STEW
INGREDIENTS:
• Vision
• Talent
• Resources
DIRECTIONS:
1.Identify challenge in need of solution, talk with people
close to situation and immersed in it, listen to them,
understand and engage them, research already tried
solutions as well as possible new solutions, and develop a
full load of passion-inspired vision for a better tomorrow.
2.Next, gather together the best most passionate talent you
can find. Mix the vision and talent vigorously until vision
is fully absorbed in talent (note: vision may be modestly
altered and improved in consistency if mixed with enough
high-quality talent).
3.Bake vision with sufficient resources to ensure vision is
completely fulfilled and ready to serve.
CHICKEN AND SAUSAGE GUMBO
from Devon Filo
Devon who hails from New Orleans, recently joined Elfenworks to provide research assistance for
a number of projects. This recipe is a hometown and family favorite.
INGREDIENTS:
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1.Wash chicken and place in pot. Add enough water to cover
the chicken and add garlic, bay leaves, and black pepper.
Bring to a boil and reduce heat to low. Simmer covered until
meat is tender. Remove the chicken from pot and let cool.
Keep stock warm in pot while making the roux.
2.Combine the oil and flour in a skillet to make the roux.
Cook over medium-high heat while constantly stirring and
scraping the bottom of the skillet. Cook until roux is dark
brown. Remove the skillet from heat and immediately add
1/2 cup onions and 1/2 of the bell pepper. Stir roux until
vegetables stop cooking.
3.Bring stock to a boil. Add a couple of tablespoons of roux
to the boiling stock and stir until roux dissolves. Continue
adding roux until all of prepared roux has been added.
Reduce heat to a simmer.
4.Remove chicken from bones. Add chicken meat,
sausage, and remaining onions and bell pepper
to the pot. Simmer for 1/2 hour and then add
the parsley and green onions.
Continue cooking 15 minutes.
Season with salt and Tabasco
to taste. Serve over
cooked rice.
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1 chicken
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 bay leaves
1 t. black pepper
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3/4 c. flour
1 c. chopped onion
1 bell pepper, diced
1 lb. smoked sausage,
sliced
1/2 c. chopped parsley
1 bunch green onion tops,
chopped
Salt to taste
Tabasco sauce
Cooked rice (1 c. raw)
FEIJÃO (BLACK BEAN STEW–A HEALTHY AND KOSHER VERSION)
from Lauren Speeth
INGREDIENTS:
DIRECTIONS:
• 3 bags (6 cups) black beans
• 2 lb. pork-free parve sausage or traditional
Linguiça, fully cooked
• 1 package turkey bacon or soy strips
• 2 T. extra virgin olive oil
• 2 yellow onions, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• 3 bay leaves
• Parsley (fresh or dried)
• 1 t. oregano
• 1 tomato, chopped
1.Pick over the beans to remove rocks &
broken bits. Rinse beans in cool water.
2. For each 2 cups, add 6 cups water. Place
in cooking pot, in refrigerator, to soak
overnight.
3.Replace water in morning, put on the stove
to simmer adding chopped onion, garlic, 1
T. olive oil and bay leaves.
4.Chop sausage in 2” pieces, and add in.
5.Chop “turkey-bacon”, simmer in 1 T. olive oil,
and cook; then add to pot.
6.Bring liquid to a boil, reduce to mediumlow heat, cover, simmer for 2 hours, stirring
as needed, mashing a few of the beans to
add thickness. Skim off foam and oil.
7.Add chopped tomato. Cook 15 more
minutes, seasoning to taste.
INGREDIENTS FOR SALSA:
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1 bunch cilantro
1 bunch green onions
1 white onion
2 T. olive oil
1 tomato
1/4 c. white vinegar
ADDITIONAL INGREDIENTS:
• 2 oranges, peeled and cut in
segments with skin attached
• 1 large bunch collard greens
• 1 bagged side dish made of manioc, called
“farofa de mandioca” (manioc), available
in the international aisle. Buy it “ready to
serve.”
Photo by Lauren Speeth
ECNISC (IT SECURITY) STUFFED PEPPERS
from Don Kane
8.While the dish is
simmering, roll 1 large
bunch of collard greens
tight in a ball and chop
thin, then quickly sear in
olive oil.
9.To make the salsa, chop 1
bunch cilantro, 1 tomato,
1/2 c. white onion, 1/2 c.
green onion. Stir vinegar
and olive oil into chopped
veggies.
Serve with salsa and manioc
flour, garnished with oranges
on the edge of the plate, vand
a side of fried collard greens.
This tasty crockpot dinner keeps your meal safe and secure in
your absence, and at the ready when you get home—easy as 1,
2, 3!
INGREDIENTS:
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1/4 c. corn kernels, non GMO
1/4 c. onion, finely chopped
1 small can tomato paste
1/4 c. carrot, grated
1/2 c. cooked wild or brown
rice
• 1/2 t. horseradish
• 1/2 t. Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 t. salt
• 1/8 t. pepper
• 1/2 lb. leanest ground beef
or turkey
• 4 peppers, guts removed,
bottoms intact
• 10 oz. can condensed
• tomato soup
DIRECTIONS:
1.Mix first 9 ingredients well and stuff into 4 medium green
peppers.
2.Spoon tomato soup over/around the peppers.
3.Cover and cook for 7-9 hours in crockpot on medium, or 3 1/2
to 4 1/2 hours on high.
4.Serve hot.
Photo by
Lauren Speeth
Desserts
CHRISTA GANNON 2013
Christa Gannon and Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) understand that young people who are
in trouble with the law might be less likely to re-offend if they understand the law and the
consequences of their crimes. Following a 12-week law course, 70 youth who want to transform
their lives can enter leadership training, giving them the skills and support they need to realize
their true potential. A two-year mentor program helps another 100 kids struggling with drug or
alcohol use, and a middle school platform reaches out to 1,000 at-risk kids before they get into
trouble. FLY costs less than 10% of the cost of incarceration, and more than 80% of all youth in
FLY’s programs share that FLY inspired them to change their lives.
TRANSFORMATION CAKE
INGREDIENTS:
DIRECTIONS:
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1.Mix together with vigor then add
• 10 smiles
• 10 hugs
• 10 high fives
2.Dish into a comfortable cake pan while
chanting “I believe in you, I know you can
rise.”
3.Let sit overnight allowing ingredients to
settle into the belief that transformation
is possible!
4.Awake to find an amazing dish of hope
ready to take on the day!
1 c. enthusiasm
1 c. belief that ALL children have potential
1 c. love
1 c. perseverance
1 c. nonjudgmental wisdom
ROSALYNN CARTER 2007
Rosalynn Carter, co-founder
of The Carter Center, created
the center’s Mental Health
Program, which combats
the stigma against mental
illness and promotes
improved mental health
care. She chairs the center’s
Mental Health Task Force
of eminent people in the
field, and each year brings
together leaders of national
mental health organizations
to foster consensus on
pivotal issues. Her advocacy
over the decades led to
the passage of the Mental
Health Parity Act in 2008.
Lending her voice to many
important causes, Carter also
promotes early childhood
immunization through the
nationwide “Every Child by
Two” campaign and assists
caregivers through the
Rosalynn Carter Institute for
Caregiving.
MENTAL HEALTH PIE
INGREDIENTS FOR THE CRUST:
• A cadre of ambitious mental health experts
• 1 c. of dedication and courage
• A hearty portion of strong partnerships
INGREDIENTS FOR THE FILLING:
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A generous helping of dedicated journalists
2 c. of compassion
1 c. of education on current issues
2 T. of commitment to accurate reporting
1 T. of teamwork
A dash of informed policies
Sprinkle with the work of dedicated interns
DIRECTIONS:
1.Mix the ingredients for the
crust to create a strong,
foundation.
2.Stir together the
journalists, compassion,
education, accurate
reporting, teamwork,
informed policies, and
interns to fill the pie.
3.Bake until discrimination
and misconceptions about
mental health no longer
exist.
4.Slice and serve fresh to
promote improved mental
health care, reduce stigma,
and spread hope.
This delicious concoction
has been crafted by The
Carter Center more than 100
times. Each slice of Mental
Health Pie has helped create
more than 1,400 books,
television mini -or full-length
documentaries, newspaper,
magazine, and online pieces,
hundreds of minutes of radio
and television airtime, as well
as creative and innovative
uses of multimedia.
JIM MCCORKELL 2011
When Jim McCorkell founded College Possible in 2000, he
joined together his personal knowledge of what it means to
grow up in poverty with his belief that education provides
the best path out of poverty. His goal was to make college a
reality for the 200,000 at-risk kids who graduate high school
each year prepared for
college but who, thanks
to cultural and functional
CANNOLI DIPLOMAS
barriers, aren’t able to get
Make one batch annually to change the world.
there. College Possible
delivers highly personalized
INGREDIENTS:
support to 15,000 low• 15,000 talented low-income students
income students in the
• Raw dreams, one per student
Twin Cities, Milwaukee,
• 130 idealistic AmeriCorps coaches
Omaha, Philadelphia, and
Portland. Its goal is to serve
DIRECTIONS:
20,000 students annually
3.Fill dreams with four
1.Roll
out raw dreams.
across the country by
years of study and
2.Mix 320 hours of
2020. McCorkell was the
first person to leverage
mentorship.
study, applications to
the AmeriCorps service
4.Enjoy the sweet flavors
top schools, campus
infrastructure for college
of dreams realized, an
visits, and scholarships
access, and it is essential to
end to poverty, and a
support.
the model’s success.
strengthened workforce.
BLUEBERRY TART
from Marian Sprague
One way that Marian cooks up hope is by managing our In Harmony with Hope® Awards. She
can often be found baking with her daughter for the kids and families staying at Palo Alto’s
Ronald McDonald House. Here’s her blueberry tart, an easy summer recipe that’s sure to please.
CRUST:
FILLING:
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1 c. flour
2 T. sugar
1/2 t. salt
1/2 c. butter (softened)
1 T. white vinegar
DIRECTIONS:
1.Preheat oven to 400o.
2.Mix flour, sugar, salt & butter with hands.
Stir in vinegar.
3.Press dough evenly on bottom and one inch
up sides of ungreased 9” loose-bottom
pan. No thin areas at seams of the pan.
4.Refrigerate 15 minutes.
5.Mix sugar, flour & cinnamon
Stir in 2 cups of blueberries.
6.Spread evenly over crust.
7.Bake until golden brown (5060 minutes). Sprinkle with
remaining cup of blueberries
and powdered sugar. Cool and
remove pan rim. (Can also be
baked in an 8x8x2 baking pan.)
1 c. sugar
2 T. flour
1/2 t. cinnamon
3 c. blueberries
2 T. powdered sugar
CUSTARD APPLE PIE
from John & Anna Maria Mello
You might wonder what a guitar maker could do to really impact hunger, but luthier John F.
Mello has come up with a wonderful creative solution. He produced a CD featuring guitarists
playing his guitars, and proceeds from the sales of this CD benefit local food banks. “I consider
every attempt an experiment!”
PIE CRUST:
PIE FILLING:
• 1 1/4 c. flour
• 6 T. unsalted butter, cold and cut into 1/2inch cubes
• 1/2 t. salt
• 4 T. ice water (more as needed)
• 4 medium apples, peeled, cored, sliced 1/4inch thick
• 3/4 c. sour cream
• 1/4 c. buttermilk
• 3 large egg yolks
• 1/2 c. sugar
• 2 T. flour
• 2 t. vanilla
• 1 t. cinnamon
MAKE THE CRUST:
1.Toss flour and salt together.
2.Cut in butter with a pastry blender until
texture of fine crumbs.
3.Toss in water until pastry comes together
(may need an extra tablespoon or two) into
a ball.
4. Roll out to fit a 9” diameter, approx. 1-3/4”
deep pie dish.
5.Flute the edge.
MAKE THE FILLING AND FILL THE PIE:
1.Preheat the oven to 425°.
2.Fill the pie crust with apple slices, sprinkling
each layer with cinnamon.
3.In a medium bowl, mix the sour cream, egg
yolks, sugar, flour, and vanilla until blended.
4.Pour the custard over the apples (it might
look like it’s not enough custard; it’s okay).
5.Bake the pie for 30 minutes.
STREUSEL TOPPING:
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2 T. unsalted butter, softened
1/4 c. flour
2 T. brown sugar
2 t. cinnamon
1/4 c. chopped pecans
MAKE STREUSEL TOPPING AND FINISH THE PIE:
1.Combine the butter, flour, brown sugar, and
cinnamon together in a bowl and mix with
your fingers until the mixture resembles
coarse crumbs.
2.Sprinkle the streusel topping over the
baked pie.
3.Reduce oven temp to 400o and bake for
another 15 minutes.
4.Remove from oven and cool.
Happy experimenting!
LEMON-ICING CHRISTMAS COOKIES
from Aunt Gillian Speeth
INGREDIENTS:
LEMON ICING:
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• a mix of confectioner’s
sugar and freshly squeezed
lemon juice
1/2 lb. of unsalted butter
2/3 c. sugar
1 egg, beaten
1/4 t. baking powder
1 1/2 t. vanilla
2 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
DIRECTIONS:
1.Preheat oven to 350o.
2.Beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
3.Add egg, baking powder, vanilla
and beat until well combined.
4.Stir in flour, mixing until smooth.
5.Divide in half, refrigerate 30 minutes.
6.Remove half the batter at a time,
taking care to keep the other half cold.
7.Cut cookie patterns and place 1” apart
on nonstick or greased cookie trays.
8.Cook until brown, 6-9 minutes.
Remove from oven and let stand
on a cooling rack.
9.Decorate with lemon icing
and colorful sprinkles.
Photo by Lauren Speeth
MINEIRA DE BOTAS - “MINER WITH BOOTS ON”
from Lauren Speeth
This is the very recipe that brought Lauren Speeth fame for her lack of cooking skills.
She was in a small apartment that had an electric stove and, absent-mindedly, she
took the Pyrex dish out of the oven and left it on the still-hot top burner where she
had just been frying the bananas. She went to the other room to whisk the egg whites
and, suddenly, BANG, there was an explosion! She ran back into the kitchen to find
shards of glass in the ceiling, on the floor—everywhere. Try the recipe, if you dare. And
remember, it’s not our cooking skills—or lack thereof—that are the issue. After all,
anyone who can open a can of beans can help someone who’s in danger of starving.
It’s your heart, and your willingness to take the next step.
INGREDIENTS:
DIRECTIONS:
• 3 t. unsalted butter
• 1 c. sweet condensed milk (doce de
leite)
• 1 scant c. fresh soft white cheese
• 8 mature bananas, sliced long
• Cinnamon to taste
• Powdered sugar
1.Preheat oven to 200o.
2.Fry bananas in butter & place in Pyrex.
3.Mix milk and cheese; pour over
bananas.
4.Whip up egg whites and sugar,
add to top.
5.Sprinkle with powdered cinnamon.
6.Bake until cooked through.
7.Serve hot, adding powdered sugar as
desired.
Caution: Be sure to turn off your stovetop after cooking the bananas, and definitely don’t place the
baking dish directly from the oven onto the stovetop.
GRANDMA SPEETH’S CAST IRON SKILLET
PINEAPPLE UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE
Caution: If you’re a purist and you don’t use soap on
your cast iron, then reserve a skillet for non-savory
goods, or this cake may taste of meat!
INGREDIENTS:
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1 1/4 c. butter, divided
2/3 c. brown sugar
1 c. flour
3/4 t. baking powder
1/2 t. salt
Nutmeg, to taste
1/2 c. milk
3/4 c. sour cream
1 T. real vanilla
4 eggs, beaten
1 can pineapple circles, drained
DIRECTIONS:
1.Preheat oven to 350o.
2.Melt 1/4 cup of butter in a cast-iron skillet.
3.Arrange layer of pineapple on bottom, set
aside.
4.Cut remaining cup of butter into small bits.
Add to dry ingredients.
5.Mix dry ingredients together, then mix in
wet ingredients and pour over pineapple
circle base.
6.Bake for 45 minutes or until done.
7.Cool and invert within 10 minutes, before
the sugar hardens.
THREE-STEP CARROT TOFU CAKE
from Noriko Tabata & John Watkins
Noriko Tabata is the wife of Elfenworks’ chief
wizard in technology, John Watkins. Like John,
Noriko is a wizard with web design, working
to keep a local government website
operational and providing services. Last
month, the family volunteered some time
supporting SF Homeless Innovation at a
meet-up. They put their special skills to work
to cook up hope, at work and after hours.
INGREDIENTS:
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1 carrot
2 T. raisins
1 c. less 1 T. (100 grams) pancake mix
1/2 c. (100 grams) silken tofu (not regular
firm)
• 1 egg
• 4 T. sugar
• Cinnamon to taste
DIRECTIONS:
1.Preheat oven to 360o.
2.Grate the carrot.
3.Crush tofu and mix all ingredients together.
4.Pour into mold.
5.Bake 15-17 min.
UPDATES FROM OUR IN HARMONY WITH HOPE ALUMNI HONOREES WHO DINE OUT
RAFAEL ALVAREZ 2012
In 2002, business executive
Rafael Alvarez created
Genesys Works to create
a pathway out of poverty.
The program places high
school seniors into parttime jobs with Fortune 500
corporations, following a
summer intensive in soft
skills and technical training.
In a win-win proposition,
the students receive on-thejob training and are paid
more than minimum wage,
while the corporations pay
less than the going rate for
trained IT workers. This year,
1,200 seniors, caught in a
generational poverty loop
that doesn’t provide access
to living wages, started on
their paths to professional
careers. Currently operating
in Houston, the Twin Cities,
Chicago, and San Francisco,
expansion plans are on track
for additional programs. Of
special note, 75% percent
of Genesys Works’ budget
comes from earned income.
JOYCE DATTNER 2007
Joyce Dattner brought one of
the country’s largest antiviolence youth development
programs to the San
Francisco Bay Area in 2002.
The All Stars Project (ASP
of SF Bay Area) promotes
youth development
through an innovative
performance-based model.
This supplemental education
approach, which recognizes
after-school learning
opportunities as crucial to
urban children’s success in
school and life, provides
educational and performing
arts activities for thousands
of poor and minority young
people around the Bay
Area. By allowing youth
to participate fully in all
aspects of its programs, ASP
of SF Bay Area empowers its
participants to fully develop
as learners, producers, and
leaders.
PAUL FARMER 2007
Paul Farmer has been
successfully delivering quality
health care to millions of the
world’s poor for nearly 30
years. It began with a visit
to Haiti. Today, Partners In
Health (PIH) has a presence
in 12 countries, including
the US. All projects share
common goals: to care for
patients, to alleviate the
root causes of disease in
their communities, and
to share lessons learned
around the world. Through
a partnership with Justice
Resource Institute, PIH
employs community health
workers in the Boston area to
monitor a group of Boston’s
ill and marginalized patients
and ensure that their medical
and social needs are being
met. A partnership with the
COPE Project similarly uses
community health workers
to help manage the chronic
diseases of those living in the
Navajo Nation.
ROSANNE HAGGERTY 2010
Rosanne Haggerty’s tested
innovations in reducing
homelessness, rooted in
her decades spent directing
Common Ground (the largest
developer of supportive
housing in the country), are
now being scaled nationally
through her leadership of
Community Solutions. Its
mission is to strengthen
communities by building
partnerships, sharing
innovations, and connecting
vulnerable people to
homes and support. The
100,000 Homes Campaign
coordinated the efforts
of national organizations
and local communities to
collectively house 100,000
homeless individuals and
families. At Common Ground,
Haggerty helped house 5,000
individuals in and around
New York. The 20-block
area around Times Square
experienced an 87% drop
in homelessness following
the opening of Common
Ground’s first rehabilitated
property.
MAURICIO LIM MILLER 2012
In 2000, Mauricio Lim
Miller founded the Family
Independence Initiative
(FII) to develop strategies
that increase the control
and choice that low-income
people hold in their lives,
reinforce community,
and reward initiative. His
approach for social and
economic mobility leverages
age-old strengths of selfdetermination, mutuality,
and choice. In demonstration
projects around the country,
FII has partnered with
thousands of individuals—
placing them in peer support
groups and challenging them
to come up with their own
solutions. FII incentivizes
monthly reporting of data,
which provides each family
with small amounts of extra
capital. By investing in their
strengths and initiative, FII
is able to deliver sustainable
and cost-effective outcomes:
on average, participants
report a 24% increase in
earnings and a 120% increase
in savings.
PETER YOUNG 2009
Father Peter Young has
helped inmates and
parolees overcome their
addictions for more than
half a century. Peter Young
Housing Industries and
Treatment (PYHIT) evolved
out of Fr. Young’s firm belief
that effective recovery is
only possible if treatment is
followed up with housing
and jobs training. Fr. Young
calls this his three-legged
stool model of recovery.
PYHIT has forged publicprivate partnerships across
New York State. Its network
of treatment, housing, and
job training programs spans
more than 100 sites. Three
thousand people rely on
services from PYHIT every
day. PYHIT boasts an enviable
recidivism rate of less than 10
percent. Fr. Young has helped
hundreds of thousands move
from addiction to becoming
taxpaying members of
society.
My Kitchen Notes:
Good things start with a vibrant
community
When people care, it shows. Members of this community cared enough to
put time and effort into making this event happen. And today, life for
everyone here got a little bit richer.
Elfenworks, you’ve enriched our community.
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