Monday, November 22, 2010

Turkeypalooza was a Success!!!




With the help of multiple organizations and volunteers, the Baylor University Campus Kitchen was able to collect 65 Thanksgiving meals! These meals were donated to The Family Abuse Center of Waco, Talitha Koum, and the Waco Arts Initiative. Many underprivilaged families around Waco will now be able to enjoy an amazing Thanksgiving dinner due to all of the time, effort, money, and hard work put in by our volunteers. We want to say a HUGE thanks to everyone who participated!!! It is because of you all that Campus Kitchens is able to have such a great impact on the community. THANKS EVERYONE!!!






Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Turkey Palooza

This year for Thanksgiving Campus Kitchens at Baylor will be distributing 50 Thanksgiving Dinner Baskets complete with all of the necessary items to prepare a proper Thanksgiving dinner. We are looking for people to sponser entire baskets or to donate items for the baskets.

The ingredients for the baskets include:
1 10 lb. turkey
4 cans of green beans
4 cans of corn
1 box of stove top stuffing
1 pie
1 bag of dinner rolls
2 cans of cranberry sauce

If interested, please email Hwan Yi at hwan_yi@baylor.edu. Any donations are welcomed!

Monday, September 13, 2010

APPLY FOR THE LEADERSHIP TEAM!

EMAIL KELLY_L_BAKER

POSITIONS INCLUDE:

pick up crew leader

marketing coordinator

public relations coordinator

special events project manager

community outreach liaison

volunteer coordinator

produce coordinator

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Robert L.E. Egger President, DC Central Kitchen, Inc.

Robert Egger is the Founder and President of the DC Central Kitchen, where unemployed men and women learn marketable culinary skills while donated food is converted into balanced meals. Since opening in 1989, the DCCK has distributed over 22 million meals and helped 800 men and women gain full-time employment.

Egger served as the Co-Convener of the first Nonprofit Congress in 2006, and was the founding Chair of the Mayor’s Commission on Nutrition, and Street Sense, Washington’s “homeless” newspaper.

Egger has been on the Non Profit Times “50 Most Powerful and Influential Nonprofit Leaders” list in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. He was the recipient of the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington’s 2007 “Lifetime Achievement” award and the 2004 James Beard Foundation “Humanitarian of the Year” award. He has also been named an Oprah Angel, a Washingtonian of the Year, a Point of Light and one of the Ten Most Caring People in America, by the Caring Institute. He is also a 14-gallon blood donor to the American Red Cross.

Egger’s book on the non-profit sector, Begging for Change, received the 2005 McAdam Prize for “Best Nonprofit Management Book” by the Alliance for Nonprofit Management.

Egger currently leads the V3 Campaign, which educates politicians to the economic contributions of America’s nonprofit sector. Egger speaks nationally and internationally on hunger and homelessness, social enterprise, and nonprofit unity. For a complete list if speaking engagements, or to access Egger’s op-eds, podcasts, videos or blogs, please go to www.robertegger.org

Shannon Sedgwick Davis Partner, Bridgeway Charitable Trust

Shannon Sedgwick Davis is a partner at Bridgeway Foundation, the charitable giving arm of Bridgeway Capital Management, Inc. The Houston-based investment firm commits one-half of its annual profits to philanthropic endeavors that combat genocide while promoting peace, reconciliation, and human rights around the world.

Davis previously served as vice president of Geneva Global, an organization that invests in developing-world communities, and as director of public affairs at International Justice Mission (IJM), a human-rights organization that works to end slavery, forced prostitution, and illegal land seizures in the developing world. During her tenure at IJM,

Davis organized the 2002 Olympics Sex Trafficking Briefing. She also conducted high-level briefings for White House staff, members of Congress, and leading human rights activists. Her work was featured in the Emmy-winning Dateline segment “Children for Sale.” Ms. Davis has spent a significant amount of time traveling abroad working to free children from brothels and slavery.

She is on the advisory board for the Elders, a collective group of world leaders—including Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Muhammad Yunus, and Desmond Tutu—assembled to contribute their wisdom and integrity to tackling some of the world’s toughest problems. Ms. Davis is an honors graduate of McMurry University and Baylor Law School.