2014 Program
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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 • • • • • • 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: • • • • • 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 • • • • • • • • • 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. INGREDIENTS : • • • • • • • • 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: • • • • • 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: • • • • 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: • • • • • • 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: DIRECTIONS: • • • • • • • • • 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. • • • • • 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: • • • • • • 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: • • • • • 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: • • • • • 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: • • • • • • • 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: • • • • • • • • • • 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: • • • • • 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: • • • • • • • 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: • • • • • • • • • • • 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: • • • • 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. 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