Respecting Our Elders, Inc.

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Causes: Food, Food Programs

Mission: The group was formed in July, 2005 by a couple of concerned residents of the subsidized housing development at the Villas at Hamilton in Novato, Ruth Schwartz and Curt Kinkead, who became aware that some of their neighbors weren’t getting enough to eat and decided to do something about it. In starting the food program, their goal was to reduce the amount of money a participating resident in the Villas at Hamilton would have to pay per month for food to less than $100 (with the neediest paying almost nothing). The goal was achieved over a year ago, with help from Trader Joe’s, Starbucks, Safeway, Peet’s Coffee and Tea and Veritable Vegetable, an organic produce wholesaler in San Francisco. It was only in retrospect that we realized that we had eliminated poverty as well. The surplus is now feeding senior citizens at 14 other subsidized complexes in the County, and several of them are poverty-free as well.

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