59 episodes
Breaking Bread at Long Island Cares Paule Pachter
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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Paule Pachter, CEO, Long Island Cares, Inc.-The Harry Chapin Food Bank talks about hunger, food insecurity, food banking, and the root causes impacting nearly 400,000 people and communities on Long Island.
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Breaking Bread at Long Island Cares | Michael Haynes, VP Govt Affairs, Advocacy & Social Policy, LIC
Paule Pachter welcomes Michael Haynes, VP for Government Affairs, Advocacy, and Social Policy - Long Island Cares.
"In many ways, even though things appear to have stabilized since Covid, what we are seeing from our agencies, is that it's actually worse now. We're seeing an increase in the demand of anywhere between 40 and 60 percent and without adequate state support, none of us are going to be able to keep pace".
To learn more, please visit their website https://www.licares.org -
Episode 35: Learn how food donations are directly affected by high grocery costs.
Paule Pachter, President & CEO, and Billy Gonyou, Community Events and Food Drive Manager, discuss how high grocery costs have affected donations, donor fatigue, and upcoming events.
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Breaking Bread at Long Island Cares | Joseph A. Salamone, Founder & Executive Director, LICAB
Paule Pachter welcomes Joseph A. Salamone, Founder & Executive Director - The Long Island Coalition Against Bullying.
"We are definitely seeing a dramatic rise in violent escalations to situations... our work with the schools has really become essential because that is how we are trying to shift the culture, and change minds. Last year we visited 209 classrooms, met with about 7,000 kids in 17 schools across 12 districts on the Island. This year all these numbers are poised to double."
To learn more, please visit their website https://www.licab.org -
Breaking Bread at Long Island Cares | Steve Chassman, Executive Director, LICADD
Paule Pachter welcomes Steve Chassman, Executive Director - Long Island Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence.
"LICADD is not trying to solve the drug problem. We are just trying to help one Long Islander or one Long Island family at a time, and we have done that successfully I think for 67 years"
To learn more, please visit their website https://www.licadd.org -
Episode 34: Ever wonder how finance works in a food bank?
Money, Money, Money - Helen Liarano, Vice President for Finance and Administration, talks about the role of finance within non-profits and provides some tips to help your non-profit succeed.
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Episode 33: Is Long Island Cares still experiencing supply chain issues?
Robert LaBarbara, Vice President for Procurement & Supply Chain Management at Long Island Cares discusses purchasing one-third of most of the food delivered from The Harry Chapin Regional Food Bank to our 325 community-based member agencies, and some of the challenges including rising costs that impact our ability to provide more than 13 million pounds of food annually to feed our neighbors in need.