SOLID GROUND'S
10th ANNUAL BUILDING COMMUNITY LUNCHEON:
Growing Community
to End Poverty
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Bryant Terry, eco chef, food justice activist & author
WHEN:
Friday May 21, 2010, 12-1:30 pm
WHERE:
Washington State Convention & Trade Center
800 Convention Place, 6th Floor, Rooms A & B
Seattle, WA 98101-2350
WHAT:
The Annual Luncheon is one of Solid Ground’s most important outreach and fundraising tools, raising critical support for our 27 programs working to end poverty in Seattle/King County. This is our 10th year of breaking bread, sharing passion for this work, and recommitting to making a more just and caring community. The Luncheon fertilizes our efforts to address the real needs of hard-working people. Guests at the Luncheon will be asked to make a gift of at least $150.
WHY:
Hunger is much deeper than the gnawing at a child’s stomach or the deep shadow of an empty pantry. Limited access to healthy food, poverty and racism have combined in a perfect storm that threatens the very survival of our neighborhoods with malnutrition, obesity and uncertainty about where the next meal is coming from. But change is growing…
On Friday May 21, 2010, we will come together 800 strong to examine hunger in our community and successful strategies to make healthy food more available, affordable and equitable. Growing Community to End Poverty will feature Solid Ground’s Marra Farm Giving Garden, Lettuce Link, Operation Frontline, Apple Corps and other aspects of our anti-hunger work, and unveil plans for a new Community Farm in the Rainier Valley.
ABOUT KEYNOTE SPEAKER BRYANT TERRY:
Bryant Terry is an eco chef, food justice activist and author. For the past nine years he has worked to build a more just and sustainable food system and has used cooking as a tool to illuminate the intersections between poverty, structural racism and food insecurity. His interest in cooking, farming and community health can be traced back to his childhood in Memphis, TN where his grandparents inspired him to grow, cook and appreciate good food.
Bryant Terry is currently a fellow of the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, a national project of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. He has garnered many honors and awards for his work and been featured on dozens of national and regional media outlets, including the Tavis Smiley Show, NPR’s Tell Me More, The Splendid Table, Jet, The Atlantic, Vegetarian Times and many more. You can see him in action talking about food discrimination online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPBpHJUorEM or visit his website at: www.bryant-terry.com.
HOW:
To reserve your spot at the 2010 Luncheon, please contact Anna Ramos at annar@solid-ground.org or 206.694.6857.
To sign up to be a Table Captain, contact Unjin Lee at unjinl@solid-ground.org or 206.694.6852.
Stay tuned for information about a Leadership Gathering with Bryant Terry following the Luncheon!
2009 Luncheon:
Thank you to the more than 725 supporters who helped raise nearly $180,000 at Solid Ground's 9th Annual Building Community Luncheon on Friday, September 25, 2009. Keynote speaker Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children's Zone, nationally recognized for his pioneering work helping children and families in Harlem and advocating for education reform, spoke passionately about the importance of education in working to end poverty.
Mr. Canada’s powerful and often humorous speech is
posted on YouTube in five 8- to 10-minute segments.
Click below to view Part 1 right here:
Watch Geoffrey Canada's entire speech on YouTube:
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Click here to read more about Geoffrey Canada.
THANK YOU to Our 2009 Sponsors!
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MATCH CONTRIBUTORS:
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Tim Crosby
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Julie Edsforth
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Ellen Ferguson
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Regan Hurley
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Martha Kongsgaard
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Dorothy Longbrake
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Bridget Perry
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Jane Reich
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Trina Wellman