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Video: Karin Page explains how SoSA provides food assistance to local pantries through farm field gleaning. From the "Community Organization Spotlight" segment on KKFI 90.1 FM's EcoRadio KC weekly radio show.

SoSA West

Regional Director:

 Lisa Ousley

Program Coordinator:

Karin Page

PO Box 300323
Kansas City MO

 64030-0098

 

816-921-0856
FAX: 816-921-0320

 

 

Special Report:

Assessing Key Stakeholder Perceptions of the Society of St. Andrew’s Western Headquarters.

 

This project was conducted by Dr. Edward Scanlon of the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, as part of a grant from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City. (47 pages)

 

Serving Kansas, Missouri, and all states west of the Mississippi

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Listen to SoSA West Director Lisa Ousley on KC Cares, 3/4/13, 11:04

The Society of St. Andrew Western Regional Office is in Kansas City, Missouri. We're a faith-based, hunger-relief, nonprofit dedicated to fighting hunger with fresh produce in states west of the Mississippi River. Our mission is simple: we get produce that might be wasted to people who might otherwise go hungry.

Since our doors opened in May 2008, we've been developing partners in our fight against hunger. We partner with farmers, growers, and other produce handlers to get graded-out and excess produce. We partner with churches, civic organizations, and corporations to engage teams of volunteers in gleaning; to gather fresh fruits and vegetables left behind in fields and orchards after harvest. We partner with food banks and feeding agencies across the west to get this healthy, nutritious food to people in need. And we partner with churches, individuals, foundations, corporations, and other organizations to support our work financially.

 

Hunger is on the rise in our country. According to the USDA, more than 40 million Americans face food insecurity each year, meaning that there are times these people may not know where or when they will eat their next meal.

 

Thank you for your support at Chipotle on March 13

SoSA West and Chipotle Mexican Restaurant partnered on March 13 to feed people-in-need with fresh, nutritious produce!

 

For every dollar spent by supporters from 11am-4pm, SoSA received 50 cents.

 

SoSA West receive $985 to distribute healthy food to those who need it most - enough for almost 50 thousand servings of fruits and vegetables!

    

The lines were out the door when the promotion began at 11am. Supporters ordered up their lunches took them back to their offices, or sat down for lunch in the restaurant. Either way, SoSA received half the proceeds and will use that money to distribute fresh food to hungry people this year.

    

Photos by Lisa Ousley

 

 

 

 
 

 
 

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