Sunday, May 31, 2015

Project Angel Food - Los Angeles CA


Project Angel Food
922 Vine Street Los Angeles, CA 90038 main 323.845.1800 fax 323.845.1818

Laurie Lang, CEO
Marianne Williamson, Founder

Each meal costs $5, including fresh ingredients, cooking and delivery.

The Project Angel Food Program is founded by Marianne Williamson as an outreach program of the Los Angeles Center for Living, which helps people with life-threatening illnesses. 


Project Angel Food's kitchen and offices are located in our building on renowned Vine Street in the heart of Hollywood, between Santa Monica Boulevard and Melrose Boulevard, at the corner of Barton Avenue and Vine.

Project Angel Food's main office is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday - Friday.
Our Kitchen operates from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday - Friday and 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Our professional kitchen, a former costume design shop, is equipped with the latest equipment and tools, gives us ample expansion capacity as the need for our meal service grows.

Our central location offers easy access to the many volunteers who make our work possible. It also provides our delivery drivers close proximity to freeway arteries, enabling us to efficiently serve clients throughout all 4,700 square miles of Los Angeles County. 

Our vital food and nutrition services, including medically tailored meals and nutrition education and counseling to our clients, families and care providers, help underserved people throughout LA County who are too sick to shop or cook for themselves. This year almost 2,100 people, ranging in age from 19 to 104, received service. Three-quarters of our clients are at or below poverty level.

All of our clients need to watch their caloric and nutrient intake for one reason or another. Some need to gain weight and others need to maintain or lose weight. We have established more than 20 different menus to address each client's specific needs. Some meals are lower in sodium and potassium others are high in complex carbohydrates all with the objective to help our at-risk neighbors fight the good fight.

You can find out about services in your immediate area from the County of Los Angeles Info Line by dialing 211. 211 is an easy to remember three-digit dialing code that enables a caller to access over 28,000 health and human service programs throughout Los Angeles County 24 hours per day, 7 days per week and is TTY accessible. The City of Los Angeles has a similar service, it can be reached by dialing 311.

Main webpage: http://support.angelfood.org/site/PageNavigator/homepage.html#.VWvA589Vikq

We make giving easy: http://support.angelfood.org/site/PageServer?pagename=support_index#.VWvDOM9Vikp

Nutrition Assessment and Menus
http://support.angelfood.org/site/PageServer?pagename=nutrition_index#.VWvDkM9Vikp

MEarth Carmel - Hilton Bialek Habitat


MEarth Carmel

Hilton Bialek Habitat, 2008

Pivoting toward the important field of sustainable architecture and design, MEarth was granted $500,000 in seed funding from a school bond measure to pursue a state-of-the-art green building at The Habitat, with construction culminating in a grand opening in 2012.
Carmel Unified School District: MEarth staff members provide innovative, hands-on instruction to students in the Carmel Unified School District (CUSD) – from the six-week “Ecoliteracy” curriculum for all sixth-grade students of Carmel Middle School and the school’s World Language, Science, History, and English-Language Arts classes.
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District: The Habitat has an outstanding record teaching place-based hands-on programs to students from Seaside, Marina, Monterey and Salinas. Since 2004 we have offered programming to over 7,000 students from these underserved areas, and we now have programming that serves over 1,000 community students each year. School day, after-school programs and summer camps introduce sustainability and healthy lifestyle choices to the community students who attend our programs each year. Program content focuses students in the pressing environmental issues that face our planet such as: habitat destruction, invasive species, pollution (specifically plastic pollution), overpopulation and over-consumption.
Participants in MEarth programs also include the Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County, The RISE Program at CSUMB, and many area elementary, middle and high schools, including All Saints Episcopal Day School in Carmel Valley. Sixth graders at Stevenson School in Pebble Beach collaborate with MEarth staff at The Habitat during their year-long biome project to learn about soils and biodiversity.

FoodConnect

Our FoodConnect programs immerses students of all ages in the simple joy of learning how to grow, harvest, and cook foods that are healthy for both the people who eat them and the land on which they are grown. 

CommunityConnect

Our CommunityConnect program provides opportunities for our local community to connect with our habitat and programs. We welcome community members to volunteer in our gardens and kitchen, and to participate and learn at regular mission-driven community events.
http://mearthcarmel.org/programs/
http://mearthcarmel.org/press/

Interfaith Community - Efforts


Humanitarian Efforts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3J2vLNGdWY

Caring for the Poor and Needy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7nLCpeQlTY

Interfaith Gathering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytH9f1X7scg

Meal Packing Activity
1800 Missionaries at Thanksgiving time - Package 350,000 meals
Feeding Children Everywhere partnered with Utah Food Bank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2gQcLjGvLk

Thanksgiving Meals for Neighbors
Interfaith Coalition of Goodwill
12 Churches gather food to deliver Thanksgiving dinner to neighbors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSxl_eZQ-t8