FareStart Circle of Impact Newsletter - Dec. 2018

A newsletter for FareStart’s most impactful donors | Volume 6 Issue 3, December 2018

Rising Higher Campaign Concluded We did it!

FareStart would like to thank the following volunteers who made our campaign possible:

FareStart is deeply thankful for every single donor to our Rising Higher Campaign - you helped us reach the finish line and the $6.5 million-dollar mark! Our expansion and the creation and support of the new Foodservice Apprenticeship Program through 2021 is now fully funded. Your generosity is providing pathways out of poverty and into living wage jobs and brighter futures for apprentices who are working toward careers in the foodservice industry.

• • • • • • • • • •

Bill Adamucci, Campaign Chair Rodger Kohn, Board Campaign Ambassador Thierry Rautureau “The Chef in the Hat”, Campaign Chef Ambassador Ken Glass, Board Alumni Campaign Chair Connie Clark-Redmond Dwight Gee Tricia McKay Craig Russell Joanna Smith Lyn Tangen

To see a complete list of donors to Rising Higher, please visit farestart.org/rising-higher-campaign.

And of course, our enormous and ongoing THANKS to AMAZON - for their partnership, for making our expansion possible with the beautiful foodservice spaces in South Lake Union, and for their extraordinary support every step of the way in creating the Foodservice Apprenticeship Program!

CIRCLE IMPACT A Note from Our New CEO Dear FareStart Family, It is such a joy and a privilege for me to join your community! Though I have only met a small portion of our family of supporters so far, those who I have met have given me a fantastic welcome and have bowled me over with their enthusiasm for FareStart’s mission and work. Having spent the first few weeks of my time getting to know both the big picture and the small details of FareStart, I share their excitement. I’ve spent time in the kitchens, cooked with the Community Meals team, hung out with our Youth Culinary students – hilarious, smart, wonderful and capable young people! – and took a few turns behind the till taking orders at Rise and Community Table alongside our apprentices. It has been a beautiful experience, and it has shown me exactly why FareStart’s programs work – because of the power of a supporting community that truly believes in every individual’s potential.

As I work with the leadership team on our 2019 priorities and even farther into the future to longer-term strategies, we look forward to sharing more about our plans with you in the next year. Meanwhile, I hope to meet you at a Guest Chef Night or other event soon (please see the back of this newsletter for some upcoming opportunities).

The FareStart staff and I welcome your input and feedback as we go forth in supporting this important work of providing real solutions to poverty and homelessness.

I am so grateful for your welcome and for your continued partnership!

A permanent Rising Higher Campaign donor recognition display has been installed on a wall at Maslow’s by FareStart, recognizing Rising Higher volunteers and campaign donors of $10,000 and above.

CALENDAR OF UPCOMING FARESTART EVENTS

Month of December: Maslow’s Meal by Chef Makini Howell of Plum Bistro (see article inside)

Month of January: Maslow’s Meal by Chef Thierry Rautureau “The Chef in the Hat”

Thursday, January 31: Meet CEO Angela Stowell at a pre-graduation reception at Guest Chef Night! 6 - 7 pm at the FareStart Restaurant. 5:30 pm optional tour. R.S.V.P. to events@farestart.org Month of February: Maslow’s Meal by Chef Eduardo Jordan

Angela Stowell, CEO Tuesday, February 5: Meet CEO Angela Stowell at a casual luncheon. 11:30 am - 12:30 pm at the FareStart Restaurant.

11:00 am optional tour. R.S.V.P. to events@farestart.org

February 14: A special Valentine’s Day prix fixe menu at Maslow’s (no Guest Chef Night on Valentine’s Day)

Thursday, March 7: Meet CEO Angela Stowell at a pregraduation reception at Guest Chef Night! 6 - 7 pm at Maslow’s by FareStart. 5:30 pm optional tour. R.S.V.P. to events@farestart.org

Chief Development Officer 206.267.6211 michelle.mcdaniel@farestart.org

Megan Hampson

Director, Mission Advancement 206.787.1512 megan.hampson@farestart.org

go to school, do this program, get paid for it and earn school credits at the same time I knew it was a good program. I get here an hour early because I love it so much.”

Sunday, October 6, 2019: Save the date for the 27th Annual Great Food, Better Lives Gala Auction, Washington State Convention Center, 5-9 pm

Lauren Young

Rising Higher Campaign Manager/Mission Advancement Officer 206.267.6224 lauren@farestart.org

– Lexi, Youth Culinary student

Erika Van Merr

Mission Advancement Officer 206.267.6223 erika.van.merr@farestart.org

FareStart Circle of Impact supporters are welcome to contact us at any time for information on donations, our Legacy Circle (planned giving), volunteering, scheduling a tour, or for any other questions. Please also visit our website at farestart.org.

The high school students in FareStart’s Youth Culinary program have complicated lives and tough barriers to overcome. Many are homeless, unstably housed, or not living with their family, and the majority come from neighborhoods with high levels of gang and drug activity. All of them have fallen behind in school or are barely attending, but they are willing to try a new kind of school. Earning money is important for their survival (and sometimes for their family’s survival as well), and in the program they can make money and make progress toward their high school diploma at the same time. It is a win-win for them, and it works: this year, 31 graduates of the program have graduated from high school – our highest number ever. It’s something many of them doubted they could ever manage, but they have made it a reality, and made the possibility of a much brighter future a reality, too.

“When I found out that I could

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Michelle McDaniel

Youth Find Success at FareStart - and with MOD Pizza

Angela Stowell, CEO (standing, left) with a group of FareStart supporters at the Great Food, Better Lives Gala Auction on October 14.

Through Seattle Public School’s Interagency Academy, students enroll with the agreement that they must stay in school if they want to stay in the program and earn their stipend. Once in training, they learn basic culinary, barista, and customer service skills, and they work in the FareStart Café at Pacific Tower. They take field trips to learn (Continued on page 3)

Turning Homelessness Into Hope

What Is a “Maslow’s Meal?”

Each month, Maslow’s by FareStart (380 Boren Ave. N) partners with a local chef to create a special entrée called the “Maslow’s Meal.” It is inspired by the restaurant industry’s tradition of the “family meal”, where employees come together to eat as a team before starting service.

Youth Find Success at FareStart - and with MOD Pizza (continued from front cover) about food service, they learn food safety and knife skills, and are encouraged, coached and mentored by FareStart staff and supported by Interagency’s team and services as well – all while earning high school credit. The program’s goals are job readiness and educational advancement, with focuses on building selfconfidence and on conflict resolution. Staff make every effort to make the program a safe and welcoming space for students, to connect with them and keep them on track. They encourage them, listen to them, and sometimes even track them down if they don’t show up! Through the program the youth gain – and create – a new community for themselves, and their confidence and skills grow.

Maslow’s by FareStart, 380 Boren Ave N Open M - F, 11 am - 9 pm and available for events and buyouts

If not, there is still time to give before the end of the year. And through December 31, Amazon will match your gift dollar for dollar, up to $1 million!

Featured chefs work with FareStart Apprentices to teach them important skills they will need as they advance in their careers and their futures. In the last year those chefs have included Ethan Stowell of Ethan Stowell Restaurants, Sabrina Tinsley of Osteria la Spiga, and Holly Smith of Café Juanita.

Every one of us can do our part to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty in our community. Your support of FareStart provides opportunities for people to turn toward hope.

UPCOMING MASLOW’S MEALS:

SEND YOUR GIFT TODAY! ONLINE

BY PHONE

farestart.org/hope

206.267.6219

BY MAIL

QUESTIONS

FareStart Development 700 Virginia St. Seattle, WA 98101

donate@farestart.org or 206.267.6219

For information about gifts of stock or from Donor Advised Funds, visit: farestart.org/donate.

Thank you for your Circle of Impact Membership and your generous support of FareStart students!

2 | Circle of Impact Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 3

December: Chef Makini Howell, Plum Bistro, brings her spectacularly creative approach to vegan fare to Maslow’s.

Vegans and vegetarians, take note!

January: Chef Thierry Rautureau of Luc and Loulay – the “Chef in the Hat” will do a second Maslow’s meal – his boeuf bourguignon last May was stunning!

February: James Beard Award-winning Chef Eduardo Jordan will help FareStart by working with our apprentices on a special creation!

Meanwhile, twelve other Youth Culinary graduates successfully interned at the FareStart Café in partnership with the City’s Seattle Youth Employment Program for a third year – this group too showing resilience and finding success. All these results combined to make 2018 FareStart’s biggest internship summer yet. This is a fantastic start to growing the program to include more opportunities for paid internships that offer support and give the youth work history for their resumes, real experience and the opportunity to show leadership – a key to future success. FareStart is aiming to grow the school year training program capacity as well, and offer enrollment to more populations, after having added students from NOVA, a Seattle alternative learning experience high school, in the past year.

“This has been an incredible summer,” said JoAnn Bowditch, FareStart’s director of youth training programs, told the youth interns and their friends and supporters at the Internship Graduation Celebration in August. “I was so impressed by all of you and all of your growth. Our partnership with MOD has been remarkable and I’m just so glad that you all were here for the summer.”

As our region’s struggle with poverty and homelessness continues, your generosity and commitment to helping change lives at FareStart is needed more than ever.

If you have already given to renew your Circle of Impact membership this year, THANK YOU! Your contribution will give a student a new chance in life.

made the interns feel like a part of the MOD family, and allowed each one of them to find success and even some leadership at work.

Youth Culinary Program cohorts work together to create a name and flag at the beginning of their training. “The Breakfast Club” graduated in 2016.

Seattle has a very high rate of youth unemployment, and there is a great need for opportunities. This summer, while schools were on vacation, FareStart piloted a new partnership with MOD Pizza, with MOD providing five paid internships to select Youth Culinary graduates. Every one of those five students made it through their internship and was hired on as a “MOD Squad Member” at the end – a remarkable outcome for a pilot. There were snags, bumps and real difficulties in the process, as there often are with youth, but they persevered – every one of them. MOD is a people-first company that practices “impact hiring” – eaning, they hire those most in need of opportunities and second chances, including ex-offenders, people with disabilities, and at-risk youth. MOD staff stepped up in countless ways to provide support, mentorship and care for each of the interns. Their inclusive culture showed as their staff

Jewelez had graduated from the Youth Culinary Program in 2017, but found herself struggling in a negative job situation.

She reconnected with FareStart staff and agreed to intern at MOD Pizza, and was offered a full-time job after her internship.

She has also reenrolled in school and is stably housed.

Circle of Impact Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 3 | 3

Turning Homelessness Into Hope

What Is a “Maslow’s Meal?”

Each month, Maslow’s by FareStart (380 Boren Ave. N) partners with a local chef to create a special entrée called the “Maslow’s Meal.” It is inspired by the restaurant industry’s tradition of the “family meal”, where employees come together to eat as a team before starting service.

Youth Find Success at FareStart - and with MOD Pizza (continued from front cover) about food service, they learn food safety and knife skills, and are encouraged, coached and mentored by FareStart staff and supported by Interagency’s team and services as well – all while earning high school credit. The program’s goals are job readiness and educational advancement, with focuses on building selfconfidence and on conflict resolution. Staff make every effort to make the program a safe and welcoming space for students, to connect with them and keep them on track. They encourage them, listen to them, and sometimes even track them down if they don’t show up! Through the program the youth gain – and create – a new community for themselves, and their confidence and skills grow.

Maslow’s by FareStart, 380 Boren Ave N Open M - F, 11 am - 9 pm and available for events and buyouts

If not, there is still time to give before the end of the year. And through December 31, Amazon will match your gift dollar for dollar, up to $1 million!

Featured chefs work with FareStart Apprentices to teach them important skills they will need as they advance in their careers and their futures. In the last year those chefs have included Ethan Stowell of Ethan Stowell Restaurants, Sabrina Tinsley of Osteria la Spiga, and Holly Smith of Café Juanita.

Every one of us can do our part to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty in our community. Your support of FareStart provides opportunities for people to turn toward hope.

UPCOMING MASLOW’S MEALS:

SEND YOUR GIFT TODAY! ONLINE

BY PHONE

farestart.org/hope

206.267.6219

BY MAIL

QUESTIONS

FareStart Development 700 Virginia St. Seattle, WA 98101

donate@farestart.org or 206.267.6219

For information about gifts of stock or from Donor Advised Funds, visit: farestart.org/donate.

Thank you for your Circle of Impact Membership and your generous support of FareStart students!

2 | Circle of Impact Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 3

December: Chef Makini Howell, Plum Bistro, brings her spectacularly creative approach to vegan fare to Maslow’s.

Vegans and vegetarians, take note!

January: Chef Thierry Rautureau of Luc and Loulay – the “Chef in the Hat” will do a second Maslow’s meal – his boeuf bourguignon last May was stunning!

February: James Beard Award-winning Chef Eduardo Jordan will help FareStart by working with our apprentices on a special creation!

Meanwhile, twelve other Youth Culinary graduates successfully interned at the FareStart Café in partnership with the City’s Seattle Youth Employment Program for a third year – this group too showing resilience and finding success. All these results combined to make 2018 FareStart’s biggest internship summer yet. This is a fantastic start to growing the program to include more opportunities for paid internships that offer support and give the youth work history for their resumes, real experience and the opportunity to show leadership – a key to future success. FareStart is aiming to grow the school year training program capacity as well, and offer enrollment to more populations, after having added students from NOVA, a Seattle alternative learning experience high school, in the past year.

“This has been an incredible summer,” said JoAnn Bowditch, FareStart’s director of youth training programs, told the youth interns and their friends and supporters at the Internship Graduation Celebration in August. “I was so impressed by all of you and all of your growth. Our partnership with MOD has been remarkable and I’m just so glad that you all were here for the summer.”

As our region’s struggle with poverty and homelessness continues, your generosity and commitment to helping change lives at FareStart is needed more than ever.

If you have already given to renew your Circle of Impact membership this year, THANK YOU! Your contribution will give a student a new chance in life.

made the interns feel like a part of the MOD family, and allowed each one of them to find success and even some leadership at work.

Youth Culinary Program cohorts work together to create a name and flag at the beginning of their training. “The Breakfast Club” graduated in 2016.

Seattle has a very high rate of youth unemployment, and there is a great need for opportunities. This summer, while schools were on vacation, FareStart piloted a new partnership with MOD Pizza, with MOD providing five paid internships to select Youth Culinary graduates. Every one of those five students made it through their internship and was hired on as a “MOD Squad Member” at the end – a remarkable outcome for a pilot. There were snags, bumps and real difficulties in the process, as there often are with youth, but they persevered – every one of them. MOD is a people-first company that practices “impact hiring” – eaning, they hire those most in need of opportunities and second chances, including ex-offenders, people with disabilities, and at-risk youth. MOD staff stepped up in countless ways to provide support, mentorship and care for each of the interns. Their inclusive culture showed as their staff

Jewelez had graduated from the Youth Culinary Program in 2017, but found herself struggling in a negative job situation.

She reconnected with FareStart staff and agreed to intern at MOD Pizza, and was offered a full-time job after her internship.

She has also reenrolled in school and is stably housed.

Circle of Impact Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 3 | 3

A newsletter for FareStart’s most impactful donors | Volume 6 Issue 3, December 2018

Rising Higher Campaign Concluded We did it!

FareStart would like to thank the following volunteers who made our campaign possible:

FareStart is deeply thankful for every single donor to our Rising Higher Campaign - you helped us reach the finish line and the $6.5 million-dollar mark! Our expansion and the creation and support of the new Foodservice Apprenticeship Program through 2021 is now fully funded. Your generosity is providing pathways out of poverty and into living wage jobs and brighter futures for apprentices who are working toward careers in the foodservice industry.

• • • • • • • • • •

Bill Adamucci, Campaign Chair Rodger Kohn, Board Campaign Ambassador Thierry Rautureau “The Chef in the Hat”, Campaign Chef Ambassador Ken Glass, Board Alumni Campaign Chair Connie Clark-Redmond Dwight Gee Tricia McKay Craig Russell Joanna Smith Lyn Tangen

To see a complete list of donors to Rising Higher, please visit farestart.org/rising-higher-campaign.

And of course, our enormous and ongoing THANKS to AMAZON - for their partnership, for making our expansion possible with the beautiful foodservice spaces in South Lake Union, and for their extraordinary support every step of the way in creating the Foodservice Apprenticeship Program!

CIRCLE IMPACT A Note from Our New CEO Dear FareStart Family, It is such a joy and a privilege for me to join your community! Though I have only met a small portion of our family of supporters so far, those who I have met have given me a fantastic welcome and have bowled me over with their enthusiasm for FareStart’s mission and work. Having spent the first few weeks of my time getting to know both the big picture and the small details of FareStart, I share their excitement. I’ve spent time in the kitchens, cooked with the Community Meals team, hung out with our Youth Culinary students – hilarious, smart, wonderful and capable young people! – and took a few turns behind the till taking orders at Rise and Community Table alongside our apprentices. It has been a beautiful experience, and it has shown me exactly why FareStart’s programs work – because of the power of a supporting community that truly believes in every individual’s potential.

As I work with the leadership team on our 2019 priorities and even farther into the future to longer-term strategies, we look forward to sharing more about our plans with you in the next year. Meanwhile, I hope to meet you at a Guest Chef Night or other event soon (please see the back of this newsletter for some upcoming opportunities).

The FareStart staff and I welcome your input and feedback as we go forth in supporting this important work of providing real solutions to poverty and homelessness.

I am so grateful for your welcome and for your continued partnership!

A permanent Rising Higher Campaign donor recognition display has been installed on a wall at Maslow’s by FareStart, recognizing Rising Higher volunteers and campaign donors of $10,000 and above.

CALENDAR OF UPCOMING FARESTART EVENTS

Month of December: Maslow’s Meal by Chef Makini Howell of Plum Bistro (see article inside)

Month of January: Maslow’s Meal by Chef Thierry Rautureau “The Chef in the Hat”

Thursday, January 31: Meet CEO Angela Stowell at a pre-graduation reception at Guest Chef Night! 6 - 7 pm at the FareStart Restaurant. 5:30 pm optional tour. R.S.V.P. to events@farestart.org Month of February: Maslow’s Meal by Chef Eduardo Jordan

Angela Stowell, CEO Tuesday, February 5: Meet CEO Angela Stowell at a casual luncheon. 11:30 am - 12:30 pm at the FareStart Restaurant.

11:00 am optional tour. R.S.V.P. to events@farestart.org

February 14: A special Valentine’s Day prix fixe menu at Maslow’s (no Guest Chef Night on Valentine’s Day)

Thursday, March 7: Meet CEO Angela Stowell at a pregraduation reception at Guest Chef Night! 6 - 7 pm at Maslow’s by FareStart. 5:30 pm optional tour. R.S.V.P. to events@farestart.org

Chief Development Officer 206.267.6211 michelle.mcdaniel@farestart.org

Megan Hampson

Director, Mission Advancement 206.787.1512 megan.hampson@farestart.org

go to school, do this program, get paid for it and earn school credits at the same time I knew it was a good program. I get here an hour early because I love it so much.”

Sunday, October 6, 2019: Save the date for the 27th Annual Great Food, Better Lives Gala Auction, Washington State Convention Center, 5-9 pm

Lauren Young

Rising Higher Campaign Manager/Mission Advancement Officer 206.267.6224 lauren@farestart.org

– Lexi, Youth Culinary student

Erika Van Merr

Mission Advancement Officer 206.267.6223 erika.van.merr@farestart.org

FareStart Circle of Impact supporters are welcome to contact us at any time for information on donations, our Legacy Circle (planned giving), volunteering, scheduling a tour, or for any other questions. Please also visit our website at farestart.org.

The high school students in FareStart’s Youth Culinary program have complicated lives and tough barriers to overcome. Many are homeless, unstably housed, or not living with their family, and the majority come from neighborhoods with high levels of gang and drug activity. All of them have fallen behind in school or are barely attending, but they are willing to try a new kind of school. Earning money is important for their survival (and sometimes for their family’s survival as well), and in the program they can make money and make progress toward their high school diploma at the same time. It is a win-win for them, and it works: this year, 31 graduates of the program have graduated from high school – our highest number ever. It’s something many of them doubted they could ever manage, but they have made it a reality, and made the possibility of a much brighter future a reality, too.

“When I found out that I could

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Michelle McDaniel

Youth Find Success at FareStart - and with MOD Pizza

Angela Stowell, CEO (standing, left) with a group of FareStart supporters at the Great Food, Better Lives Gala Auction on October 14.

Through Seattle Public School’s Interagency Academy, students enroll with the agreement that they must stay in school if they want to stay in the program and earn their stipend. Once in training, they learn basic culinary, barista, and customer service skills, and they work in the FareStart Café at Pacific Tower. They take field trips to learn (Continued on page 3)