...As I helped at a unique food pantry on the Southside of Milwaukee for sophomore service, a man named John expressed his appreciation for movies to me. The food pantry happens to be unique because it stands right in the middle of a major gang area. The gangs know that this food pantry is a sacred place and helps the community. Because the food pantry remains a sacred place the gang members do not participate in any gang activity near the pantry. However, when the gang members walk a few blocks away the gangs go back to selling drugs, stealing, shooting, etc. A man named John approached me after everything was cleaned up with the food pantry and he started to talk endlessly about his favorite movies and why he loved them. He explained that he can’t afford to buy many movies. When he finds a movie at the thrift store that he hasn’t seen before he becomes ecstatic. He quickly bumbles through his wallet looking for enough to purchase the movie. When he buys a new movie, he explained that he and his two boys watch the movie several nights in a row. The first night John brings home a new movie the kids would walk down to the convenience store and use the little money they could find to buy a few snacks. While the kids get the snacks, the dad moves the extra chairs into the family room....
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...Also, they have demonstrated a consistent increase in demands for services. This increase is demonstrated by return clients as well as new clients. Project 66 Food Pantry answers directly...
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...public needs, procedure of executing programs and benefits integrated in the services rendered by our food pantry throughout the New York area. Our food pantry programs are designed effectively after through research to cover maximum U.S public ultimately. The successful implementation of our programs is highly dependent on extensive communication and intimacy with our worthy public. Thesis Statement Programs of our food pantry are adequate to meet audience needs but insufficient funds can halt their efficiency and function. Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the efficiency, opportunities, issues and challenges regarding the execution of our organizational programs. It will let public know about our monetary terms, steps involved in rendering welfare services, and most importantly that how our food pantry programs strive to sustain public health. The study seeks to unfold the underlying organizational realities to wipe out confusions regarding program’s efficiency. Organization’s Programs Our major programs include community kitchen that provides more than 60, 000 meals to audience every month. Food distribution service which directly distribute food to the local and community based food organizations. There are more than 5,000 local food serving organizations registered with us from the whole New York. The third most prominent program being run by our food pantry is of Health and Nutritional awareness which approaches the schools in poor communities of New York...
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...Food pantries greatly serve to those in need, but their contributions to the famished are questionable. Hunger has always been an issue. Not only in the U.S but also worldwide. Ever since the world’s first food pantry, great amounts of people have expressed their concerns about the validity and value of them. Getting political acceptance from the left and right, the idea of having a low income and access to food through an organization is fine, right? This is where the catch of it all initiates. There is a reason why countries like Canada and the U.K determine food pantries as a public policy, and not as a means of helping those who suffer from lack of food. It is because most food pantries in those countries are ubiquitous and only required...
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...patterns in hopes of absolving the obesity epidemic, but those at highest risk have low-income and may be unable to comply. According to the United States Department of Agriculture’s research, approximately one in seven Americans in 2013 struggled with food insecurity; slightly less, at a rate of one out of ten, are households with children (Coleman-Jensen, Gregory, and Singh). At this moment there are Americans experiencing the difficulty of an unwarranted fast or eating under their caloric requirements due to a shortage of resources. The least expensive foods available tend to be high in calories, salts, sugar, and fat (Drewnowski, Specter SE). A change in mindset may be needed to direct people to more healthy food choices but their resources may not cover the costs to purchase them. Food pantries make healthy food options available which helps to lessen this health disparity. Multiple issues are being addressed as the government seeks to guide Americans to a healthier way of life (McCary). Many new health policies have already infiltrated our lives, such as new school lunch regulations, taxes on sugared beverages, and MyPlate. Shortly our nutritional food labels will be replaced. "Calories from fat" will no longer be labeled, however "added sugars" will now be required on the label (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, USDA). Both changes reflect recent breakthroughs in knowledge about healthy nutrition. In A Series of Systematic Reviews on the Relationship Between...
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...BUSINESS NOVEMBER 23, 2010 The Just-in-Time Consumer By ELLEN BYRON Julia Robinson for The Wall Street Journal Rebecca Seabern in her destocked pantry. She is using groceries that she already has before buying more. Executives peddling wares from canned goods to cashmere say the shift in consumption habits is prompting them to change how they produce, package, price and deliver their goods. When the economy sank two years ago, Rebecca Seabern realized she could shrink her grocery bill just by eating into her crammed kitchen pantry. "I had eight boxes of lasagna in there and a year's worth of paper towels," says Ms. Seabern, a 31-year-old accountant and married mother of two in San Antonio. Today, Ms. Seabern still has her job, but her antipathy to hoarding hasn't changed. "I've stopped purchasing things just to have them on hand," she says, preferring to make bigger mortgage payments instead. The Great Depression replaced a spendthrift culture with a generation of frugal savers. The recent recession, too, has left in its wake a deeply changed shopper: the just-in-time consumer. Access thousands of business sources not available on the free web. Learn More For over two decades, Americans bought big, bought more and stocked up, confident that bulk shopping, often on credit, provided the best value for their money. But the long recession—with its high unemployment, plummeting home values and depleted savings accounts—altered the way many people think about the future...
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...Everyday thousands of Americans simply don't have enough food to feed their family and their children. Most turn to government assistance, such as WIC and food stamps for support. However, not all needy families qualify and some may not receive enough food stamps. In that case, they turn to local food pantries for help with food. The donations they receive can truly make a difference. Out of the realm of typical behavior, I recently donated two turkeys to Our Daily Bread Food Pantry to be distributed to their client families for their own Thanksgiving celebrations. The volunteers were overwhelmed with the support received during this time when the economy is weak. They were tremendously grateful for the local generosity and asked that I "please keep giving." I'm a firm believer in doing helpful deeds. I'm a naturally kind and compassionate person, and I believe that every negative experience in one’s life can result in something positive. I would not consider my behavior to be prosocial for the reason that I had no motive for donating both turkeys to the local food pantry designed to help others. My behavior was altruistic. Why? My act was voluntarily to help needy families with no expectation of a reward in any form, except perhaps a feeling of having done a good deed. Prosocial behavior ranges over a continuum from the most selfless acts of altruism to helpful acts that are motivated entirely by self-interest (Taylor, Peplau, Sears, 2006). The fact that I was...
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...area contains Chesterfield, Petersburg, and Colonial Heights. Petersburg, a modest city just over four miles away, previously flowed with restaurants, stores, and luxurious estates. Now, it may be the ¨most financially challenged city in Virginia. ¨ Research speculates multiple reasons for the decline, but the most defended theory points to Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company. As the former largest employer in Petersburg, employing over a thousand locals, they fled Petersburg suddenly for tax purposes. Never-ending turmoil flooded the city thereafter with thousands unemployed, lack of currency circulation,...
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...mouse, commonly used in lab experiments. Interestingly enough, no commercial meat is directly genetically modified. BACKGROUND About 20 years after James Watson discovered the structure of DNA(1953), Scientists Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen developed the process of genetic modification. From there experimentation with genetic engineering led to the creation of GMO animals and GMO crops. By 1983 the US Supreme Court ruled that GMO’s could be patented, and by 1992 the first GMO Crop to be approved by the department of agriculture was the flavr savr tomatoes. One of the early pioneers in the GMO game was the company Monsanto. HOW COMMON ARE GMO’s? Currently, 80% of all processed food contains GMO’s, and because the standard American diet is 70% processed food, a large number of food items have...
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...Misamis Oriental In Partial Fulfillment for Capstone Project – 1 of the Requirement for Bachelor of Science in Information Technology John Rigor Ochigue Jake Jesus Llido Shina Cabactulan Jovy Llanita Jonalyn Acierto March 20, 2014 Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Background and Rationale Pantry is one of the important and useful places in Saint Rita’s College of Balingasag, where the students, faculties, teachers, non-teaching personnel and parents who buy snacks, foods, drinks and especially the school supplies. Pantry is placed between from the Religious Virgin Mary (RVM) convent and HRM laboratory before. The processes of deliveries of snacks are weekly and recorded manually. Soft drinks are delivered in every two weeks and it is separately recorded manually. The school supplies are delivered monthly that is separated from snacks and soft drinks all of them are recorded manually. Recipes or ingredients for the lunch meal are bought outside from the campus and it is daily recorded manually. All files are separately recorded for them to easily find the files. The inventory of the SRCB Pantry is daily recorded and remitted. All the total credits and expenses are also listed in the database. Inventory is basically the total amount of goods that are stock and stored; it is a system that maintains the information about the activities within the firms that ensure the delivery of products to customers. The subsystems that perform these...
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...BJ’s Wholesale Club Nikki Celso Florida State College of Jacksonville Professor Elizabeth Oppe March 9, 2011 Abstract This research paper will inform you about BJ’s Wholesale Club. You will learn of there mission and vision statements. How this club keeps to its mission and vision statements. How it is involved in our local communities. Maybe you will want to be a part of this company. I have chosen BJ’s Wholesale Club because I am a member and I probably should know a little more about the company. The information about BJ’s that I already knew was, the store was named after the owner’s daughter, Beverly Jean. The owner started this company in the 1980’s. A man named Azyre started BJ’s Wholesale Club. BJ’s started as a discount department store chain in 1984, on the border of Medford/Malden, Massachusetts. When Zayre sold their nameplate to Ames, a rival discount department store, TJX Companies was formed which owned BJ's. TJX spun off their "warehouse division," consisting of BJ's and now defunct Home Club, to form Waban, Inc. Later Waban spun off BJ's to become an independent company, headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts. (Scripophily) As of January 30, 2010, BJ's operates 190 BJ's warehouses in fifteen states. (Bjs.com) It employees over 23,500 people (full and part-time.) Today, BJ's common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "BJ". The letters B and J are commonly misinterpreted to stand for Berkley and Jensen, which...
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...Macchiato from Starbucks, a bag of Hot Cheetos and a large Snickers bar next to me. I don’t consider this the best healthiest lunch, but in all honesty, this is what I felt like eating in the short amount of time I had to grab a “lunch”. I thought it was pretty ironic that while I was reading about all these “unhealthy” food options, I was eating them. This obesity epidemic has carved its way so deep into our lives, there is possible room to improve, but it’s difficult to come up with some miracle solution to make it disappear. Kelley Brownell suggests that the legislature should get rid of food advertising especially ones pointed at children watching television and also eliminating soft drinks and unhealthy snacks from school vending machines (Newman, 2004). I do favor Kelly Brownell’s suggestions but it is obviously easier said than done. I understand that food advertising is something that children see often when watching television and it does often times persuade children to decide to get up and look for something to snack on. But what is the point of getting rid of these advertisements when they could already have it in their pantry? If we get rid of these foods at school, how would we know if the kids aren’t just going to go home and eat them? Both The ABC News “Obesity in America” clip and Taubes Reader’s Digest article both suggest that the major dietary enemy in childhood obesity is refined carbohydrates. Taubes suggests that pasta, bread and rice should be cut from...
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...Anthony Morris SOCW3103/Aging Instructor: Adelle Sanders, DPA, MSW Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explain the transportation needs of, and for the elderly as a social problem. I will attempt with the help of research to show how badly the elderly need help, I will research the transportation availability. for the elderly publicly and privately in my community. Looking at the demographics in the Fuller Park community, to show ridership, location of bus stop, show the accessibility for wheelchairs. To research my neighborhood, for shopping centers, Doctors offices, food pantry’s, grocery stores. Transportation is a major problem for the elderly, and the department’s senior services area Agency on Aging administrates a variety of programs designed to address the diverse needs and interests of the elderly. For those who are healthy and active, to those who are frail and homebound. Transportation Paper Addressing the needs of the elderly is becoming a Hugh social problem. Planning Transportation to Meet the Needs of an Aging Illinois: Chicago (February, 2015) communities throughout Illinois will need to make significant revisions to current transportation options, explore more varied housing greatly augment health and human services alternatives to meet the day-to-day needs of the increasing...
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...What is Raw Food Diet? Raw Food Diet means getting the majority of nutrients that your body requires from eating more of easy-to-digest raw foods. It includes fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and so on. You can give your oven a day off with a Raw Food Diet. However, you don't need to go completely raw… Just slip in a good amount of fresh vegetables and fruits in your daily meal. Benefits of Raw Food Diet You can reap great health benefits out of this diet. There are several studies to shore up that this diet got the following benefits; Provides dietary fibers and thus improves digestion. Lowers inflammation – Certain fruits and vegetables are known to have anti-inflammatory properties. Provides nutrition – There are certain vitamins and minerals that get damaged when cooked in high...
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...For this paper I took a look at possible volunteer opportunities in my local community. I gave examples of what opportunities were available and how to find information on how to become a volunteer. I choose to use google as my research criterion and found a very resourceful website with the information I needed. As you read my paper you will find information about being a volunteer, what benefits it has, and what opportunities are available. Below I listed some great information about becoming a volunteer. As a volunteer As a volunteer, you can volunteer on your own or with your family or with a group. Volunteer your time, skills, services and talents. Opportunities are available with children, teens, adults, individuals with special needs and seniors. Volunteer your expertise and experience on a community board. Share your time as an instructor. Design a web page, troubleshoot computer problems, build a bookcase or serve as a mentor Volunteer by coordinating an event, project or publication. Volunteer by making an in-kind donation (new or used). Our partner agencies need everything from computers (hardware and software), office equipment and supplies, household goods to clothing and canned goods. There are so many ways an individual can volunteer these days. Finding one that best suits you is important. You want to be comfortable while volunteering and know your gaining a great deal of knowledge to help improve your education. Search criterion When researching for...
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