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From YouTube: Greater Boston Food Bank Chain of Giving 2019
Description
No better way to kick off the holiday season than at the annual Greater Boston Food Bank Chaing of Giving Event! Mayor Walsh joins Governor Baker, Greater Boston Food Bank President Catherine D'Amato and other elected officials, to highlight the work that the food bank does for people in need all over Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
A
A
For
those
of
you
that
don't
know
me,
my
name
is
Cheryl
Sean
deck,
I
oversee
the
operations
here
at
the
food
bank
and
we
have
an
exciting
program
for
you
today
in
the
words
of
John
F
Kennedy.
We
must
stop
and
thank
the
people
who
make
a
difference
in
our
lives,
and
it
is
so
nice
to
have
you
here
today
as
we
embark
on
the
season
of
Thanksgiving.
B
So
you
can
see
that
Cheryl's,
the
cheerleader
in
residence
at
the
Greater
Boston,
Food
Bank,
so
Thank,
You
Cheryl,
and
thank
you
all
for
being
here
this
morning.
We
have
a
lot
of
folks
to
to
acknowledge
and
appreciate
I
want
to
welcome
mayor
Marty,
Walsh,
treasurer
deb
goldberg.
I
think
the
lieutenant
governor's
on
her
way,
as
well
as
our
governor
they'll,
be
joining
us,
but
we
have
a
lot
of
other
folks
to
thank
so
Secretary
of
Labor
and
Workforce
Development
Rosalyn
Acosta
behind
may
state
Rep,
Adrienne
Madero,
mayor
of
Framingham
Yvonne
Spicer.
B
We
have
the
former
mayor
of
gander.
Newfoundland
Claude
Elliot
with
us
travelled
far
to
be
a
part
of
this
awesome
event
that
he's
heard
about.
We
want
to
also
recognize
some
of
our
Boston
City
counselors
with
us.
Today,
Tim
McCarthy,
we
have
the
Boston
chief
of
Health
and
Human
Services
I
saw
Marty
Martinez
there.
He
is
right
here.
We
have
for
the
first
time
ever
visiting
the
Greater
Boston
Food
Bank,
Boston,
Police,
Commissioner,
William
gross,
appreciate
it
very
much
and
the
superintendent
of
the
Boston
Police
Nora
Batson
who's
here
there.
B
She
is
thank
you
and,
of
course,
we
have
many
friends
from
the
mayor's
office
of
food
access,
the
mass
department
of
agricultural
resources
and
the
department
of
transitional
assistance.
These
are
all
from
the
executive
branch
of
the
legislative
branch
to
to
the
secretaries
across
the
state
and
in
the
351
cities
and
towns
served
in
our
state
that
matter
that
all
helped
to
make
this
happen.
I
do
want
to
just
thank
also
our
G
bfb
Board
of
Directors
Board
of
Advisors.
B
B
So
ending
hunger
takes
a
lot
of
us
working
together
and
I've
I
stated
this
earlier
with
many
of
the
retailers,
wholesalers
brokers,
distributors
that
are
here
today.
Where
else
do
you
find
competitors
joining
in
a
room
together
to
say
this
matters
for
the
people
of
our
state
and
for
the
state
as
a
whole?
B
So
I
want
to
thank
all
of
you
that
have
stepped
forward
all
that
you
do
for
us
throughout
the
year
and
just
appreciate
so
much
that
you're
willing
to
come
together
in
a
very
competitive
environment
and
act
to
advance
Massachusetts
to
be
a
hunger-free
state.
So,
thank
you
all
now
we're
a
strong
network
of
500
hunger
relief
agencies
and
we
have
a
deep
commitment
to
moving
from
hunger
to
health.
One
in
11
of
our
residents
in
eastern
Massachusetts
is
food.
Insecure
and
hunger
is
one
of
the
biggest
health
issues
in
our
country.
B
The
poorest
people
have
the
least
healthy
food,
and
this
promotes
a
very
vicious
cycle
of
poverty.
Two-Thirds
of
those
served
by
the
Greater
Boston
Food
Bank
go
to
a
food
pantry
in
the
hundred
and
ninety
cities
and
towns.
Here
in
the
nine
counties,
and
that
means
we
provide
a
lot
of
food
to
help
change
their
lives
or
to
make
their
lives
just
easier
and
more
able
to
be
in
the
world.
We
are
delivering
a
lot
of
food
and
a
lot
of
nutritious
food.
We
just
closed
our
fiscal
year.
B
B
The
good
news
which
we
hear
from
a
lot
of
our
supporters
is
more
than
one-third
of
that
were
our
fruits
and
vegetables
and
I'm
fond
of
saying
that
when
I
came
in
1995,
the
Greater
Boston
Food
Bank
couldn't
move
a
carrot,
let
alone
now
23
million
33
million
and
growing
millions
of
pounds
of
produce
which
matters
to
those
that
we
serve
so
I
do
want
to
thank
the
governor
and
our
legislature.
This
year
they
moved
what
is
called
me
fat,
the
Massachusetts
food
assistance
program.
B
They
increase
that
by
two
million
dollars,
so
we
have
20
million
dollars
to
buy
healthy
food
produced
in
our
state,
from
our
vendors
and
from
wholesalers
here
in
Massachusetts.
That
again
is
huge,
it's
25
million
meals,
so
you
can
see
how
this
connectivity
between
policy
access
to
food
matters
dramatically
so
turkeys.
B
Let's
talk
about
turkeys,
you
are
all
awesome,
there's
not
one
turkey
here,
but
we
do
depend
heavily
this
time
of
year
on
those
partners
that
donate
turkeys.
So
if
you
can
indulge
me
I'd
like
to
just
list
those
that
as
of
today
and
that
we
know
of
have
donated
turkeys
for
the
to
the
Greater
Boston
Food
Bank,
B&B,
Trading,
Company,
big,
wide
supermarkets,
BJ's
Wholesale
Club
broccoli
associates
C&S
wholesale
grocers,
the
Goldberg
Foundation
Hannaford
brothers,
price
right,
Roche,
brothers,
Shaw's,
supermarket
and
star
market
Simcoe
sales
stop
and
shop,
Paul,
Wahlberg,
Walmart
and
Wegmans.
B
We
believe
Massachusetts
can
be
a
Hunger,
Free,
State
and
we're
have
put
together
what
we
think
is
a
pretty
good
strategic
plan
to
drive
that,
but
there
are
three
key
areas
for
us
to
get
there.
One
is:
we
have
to
build
the
capacity
of
this
network
if
they're
gonna
take
more
food,
healthier
food,
they
need
the
resources
like
trucks
and
refrigerators
and
space
to
do
that,
we
want
to
create
a
create,
a
sustained
access
to
nutritious
food.
This
is
the
commitment
from
hunger
to
health.
B
Health
food
is
the
least
costly
intervention
on
someone's
health,
and
we
can
do
that
part,
and
the
third
is
to
expand
the
research
and
the
policy
so
that
families
going
forward
have
sustainable
resources,
so
we're
focused
here
today.
We
are
in
it
to
end
it
and
we
can't
do
it
alone,
so
you
are
all
a
part
of
everyone
having
a
role
in
ending
hunger,
and
that
leads
us
to
our
first
acknowledgement
today,
which
many
of
you
that
have
been
with
us
is
called
the
Nally
award.
B
B
They
came
to
the
food
bank
with
a
few
turkeys
and
from
there
grew
an
organization
and
grew
commitment
to
helping
young
people
understand
that
their
action
matters.
So
if
you
would
please
I
think
both
Betsy
and
Danny
are
here
but
I
know.
Betsy
is
going
to
join
me
on
the
stage
to
give
the
award
right.
Is
he
coming
to
Betsy
and
Danny
they're?
Now
all
grown
up
and
Betsy
in
Denali.
C
Unbelievable,
this
year's
award
goes
to
Fay
yang
Sadie
of
Concord.
Hopefully,
she's
got
room
for
this
award
because
she's
got
a
lot
of
other
ones
that
she's
got
guarded
over
the
years.
Faye
is
I'm
eleven-year-old
violinist,
who
has
raised
money
for
the
Greater
Boston
Food
Bank
at
her
violin
recital
for
the
past
three
years.
At
her
most
recent
recital
benefit
FEA
collected
over
1400
in
donations,
bring
her
three-year
total
to
over
three
thousand
dollars.
F
E
You
Catherine
D'amato,
Mayor,
Walsh,
governor
Baker,
Deb
Goldberg
and
the
staff
and
supporters
of
the
Greater
Boston
Food,
Bank
and
I
am
not
forgetting
Danny
and
Betsy.
Now
I
am
honored
to
accept
this
award.
The
journey
to
increase
awareness
about
hunger
started
out
when
I
was
8
years
old
and
it
is
because
of
the
Greater
Boston
Food
Bank
that
I've
had
a
way
to
directly
affect
people's
lives.
I
look
at
music
differently
than
some
people
do
the
pieces
that
I
perform
in
recitals
are
pieces
that
people
can
emotionally
connect
to.
E
E
Helping
people
understand
and
relate
to
these
emotions
makes
it
about
more
than
donating
money,
but
also
taking
the
time
to
realize
the
problem
and
to
be
hopeful
about
the
change.
They
can
be
a
part
of
I'm
going
to
play
a
short
excerpt
from
Tegan,
a
piece
by
the
French
composer
Maurice
Ravel,
which
I
have
played
at
one
fundraising
at
recital
recently.
It
was
written
about
gypsies
and
reflects
their
hard,
but
sometimes
joyful
life.
This
music
helps
you
explore
many
different
emotions,
sadness,
hopelessness,
but
also
power
and
victory.
E
B
So
if
there
isn't
enough
passion
for
us
to
emulate
from
Fae,
then
shame
on
us.
That
was
awesome.
That
was
just
awesome.
Congratulations,
fake
I
do
want
to
acknowledge
that
our
governor
and
lieutenant
governor
have
arrived.
Welcome
please
come
join
us,
okay
and
then
I
do
want
to
also
acknowledge
the
sponsors
today,
which,
in
terms
of
Ocean
Spray
being
a
part
of
this,
and
just
appreciate
that
that
very
much
that
you're
here
and
that
you
stepped
up
and
I'm
going
to
introduce
their
new
CEO
in
a
moment,
but
I
also
want
to
thank
travel
Odyssey.
B
Thank
you.
Well,
there's
icy
Odyssey
that
the
Odyssey
folks
I
I,
won't
tell
you
that
I
had
a
competitor
in
your
name
that
shame
on
me
so,
but
Odyssey
travel,
who
has
stepped
up
and
appreciate
it
very
much
so
in
such
I,
want
to
be
able
for
us
to
welcome
I,
think
it's
Bobbie
Shaco
who's,
the
CEO
of
Ocean
Spray
and
one
of
our
sponsors
and,
as
you
can
see,
there's
a
little
bit
of
product
display
here
relative
to
cranberries
and
Thanksgiving
and
Ocean.
B
G
I'm
proud
to
be
here
today
on
behalf
of
ocean
sprays,
700
family
farmers,
to
partner
with
this
organization
and
to
help
with
the
growing
number
of
families
who
struggle
to
put
food
on
their
tables.
Our
partnership
with
this
great
organization
and
with
feeding
America
as
a
whole
is
a
key
part
of
our
mission
to
connect
our
farms
to
families
for
a
better
life
at
Ocean
Spray.
We
believe
that
food
is
the
single
greatest
tool
for
health
and
prosperity.
We
need
to
transform
our
food
system
to
a
health
and
wellness
system.
G
G
So
today,
I
asked
my
peers,
my
friends,
my
colleagues
and
other
business
leaders
to
join
me
join
the
Greater
Boston
Food
Bank,
to
commit
to
this
great
cause
to
eliminate
hunger,
as
the
great
organization
has
committed
to
by
2028,
to
eradicate
the
insecurity
of
food.
So
thank
you
to
this
great
organization,
Greater,
Boston,
Food
Bank
for
all
the
great
work
done
to
feed
the
hungry
to
date
and
thank
you
for
partnering,
with
Ocean
Spray
to
continue
to
drive
meaningful
impact.
Thank
you.
H
H
And
whenever,
whenever
I
go
to
Symphony
Hall
and
the
violinist,
the
plane
that
they're
reading
music
sheets
and
they're
flipping
the
things
and
faded
and
flip
any
sheet
at
all
so
I
said
I
think
that's
amazing.
So
congratulations
to
all
the
elected
officials,
certainly
the
governor
and
lieutenant
governor
and
their
team.
That's
here
today!
Thank
you
treasurer
and
her
team.
That's
here
today,
my
dear
friend
mr.
H
Spicer
from
Framingham
and
her
team
is
here
today
the
City
Council,
Tim,
McCarthy
and
mantle
Malley
was
here
with
us
today,
Adrienne
mater
had
to
run
he's
running
the
session
today,
so
we'd
go
and
get
me
something
for
Boston.
So
he
said
ok
to
the
commissioner
and
the
police
department
and
all
the
people
here.
H
Thank
you
for
being
here
today
and
I
want
to
give
a
special
shout-out
today
because,
as
I
was
talking
to
Kathryn
earlier,
the
newest
board
member
of
the
Greater
Boston
Food
Bank
is
somebody
was
close
to
my
heart
now,
hunt
in
Boston
and
that's
Laura
parrell.
So
thank
you,
Laura
all
you
did
into
the
mirror
a
mirror
Eliot.
Thank
you
for
joining
us
today
as
well,
and
certainly
your
story
in
your
city
stories
inspiring
to
all
of
us.
H
So
thank
you
very
much
for
for
being
there
when
we
needed
you,
access
to
food
is
fundamental
to
the
values
of
our
city
Catherine.
We
were
talking
a
minute
ago
and
she
was
talking
about
the
biggest
month
that
the
food
bank
has
had
in
since
it's
been
here
is
September
of
this
year
when
I
heard
that
I
was
thinking.
Oh
my
god,
like
you
know,
we
talked
about
the
governor
myself
and
the
treasurer
and
everyone
looked
at.
H
Officials
talked
about
unemployment
being
2.7
percent,
the
lowest
in
history,
creating
a
hundred
thousand
new
jobs,
creating
31
thousand
units
of
housing
in
Boston
and
double
that
on
the
Cromwell.
60
thousand
is
the
housing
talking
about
all
the
prosperity
we
have
and
all
the
great
things
are
happening
on
our
city,
all
the
people
moving
here,
all
the
things
all
that
stuff
happening.
Yet
food
insecurity
is
still,
unfortunately
alive
and
well
access
to
food.
It's
something
that
we
need
to
make
sure
that
that
is
available.
H
So
every
child
in
our
city,
in
that
Commonwealth
in
our
country,
can
thrive.
It's
about
our
seniors,
living
in
DIC,
with
dignity
and
in
dignity.
It's
about
equity,
in
public
health,
4,500
of
our
students
in
the
city
of
Boston
are
homeless,
experiencing
homelessness
in
the
Boston
Public
Schools
4,500
out
of
about
55,000,
kids
and
then
I
can
go.
Two-Thirds
of
those
kids
also
live
in
poverty
that
their
families
are
not
that
far
away
from
being
homeless.
One
in
six
Bostonians
are
struggling
with
some
food
insecurity.
We
have
to
make
that
number
zero
I
want
to.
H
Thank
you
all
for
being
here
today,
I'm
not
going
to
go
too
much
into
what
what
I'd
like
to
talk
about.
If
we
had
the
opportunity,
you
know
the
businesses
that
donated.
Thank
you,
the
volunteers
that
are
here,
volunteering.
Thank
you,
father
Conway,
thank
you
for
being
here
as
well.
Father
dark
call
me
from
my
from
st.
Margaret's
down
the
street.
Sorry
Saint
Teresa
parish.
They
changed
the
name
to
all
the
volunteers.
Thank
you.
H
I
know
that
today,
today
is
kind
of
a
fun
day
when
we
set
up
the
chain
and
we
get
the
turkeys
off
the
truck
and
that's
great,
but
you
remember
that
turkey
that
you're
holding
is
gonna
end
up
on
a
table
of
somebody
who
can't
afford
it.
So
thank
you
for
being
here
today.
Thank
you
for
your
support,
regardless
of
what
you've
done
being
in
this
room
today.
Thank
you
for
all
the
support
you've
done.
I
Thank
You
Katherine,
I,
won't
I
just
want
to
say
ditto
to
all
the
thank-yous
for
the
mayor,
because
having
done
this
chain
of
giving
since
its
inception,
we
have
a
lot
of
work
to
do
so.
I'm
going
to
speak
quickly,
I
have
just
a
few
things
to
say,
and
that
is
from
my
point
of
view
and
for
those
of
us
who
are
grocers
and
we
have
a
lot
of
groceries
in
the
room
raise
your
hands.
I
We
understand
hunger
because
we
know
the
people
who
come
in
the
stores
and
look
for
the
bulk
rice
because
they
can't
buy
the
protein
for
their
children.
Hunger
in
the
United
States
is
an
immoral
act.
It
doesn't
belong
here.
We
are
a
country
of
Plenty
and
when
Katherine
and
the
food
banks
business
is
growing,
it's
the
only
business
here
in
Massachusetts.
I
We
don't
want
to
see
grow
so
we're
all
in
this
together
and
today
we
will
celebrate
the
ability
to
put
a
smile
on
a
child's
face
to
have
a
feast
on
a
table
for
a
family.
That
would
not
have
that
experience,
but
for
us,
but
we
also
must
remember
that
we
have
to
recommit
to
the
elimination
of
hunger
in
this
city
in
this
state
and
in
this
country,
and
so
it
needs
to
be
on
everyone's
radar,
because
this
is
the
way
we
can
change
lives.
So
thank
you,
everyone
for
being
here.
I
B
All
right
we're
getting,
we
are
getting
closer,
I
promise
and
we
now
have
our
lieutenant
governor
and
our
governor
and
we're
so
glad
you
could
join
us
today.
You
missed
the
point
of
my
remarks
of
appreciation
for
the
increase
in
meifa
and
for
you
helping
to
Shepherd
that
with
the
legislature.
So
I
would
like
to
welcome
governor
Baker.
J
J
Let
me
just
say
this:
lieutenant
governor
and
I
travel
a
lot
around.
This
Commonwealth
she's
been
to
all
351
cities
and
towns.
I
have
not
I've
been
over
200
and
she
and
I
have
many
opportunities
to
meet
with
and
talk
to,
organizations
that
are
providing
shelter
and
sustenance
and
opportunity
to
people
across
our
Commonwealth,
and
we
are
constantly
reminded
of
what
the
mayor
said,
which
is
there's
a
lot
of
great
stuff
going
on
in
the
Commonwealth.
J
There's
a
lot
of
great
stuff
going
on
in
Boston,
but
there
are
still
people
who
need
our
help
and
I
always
love
this
event,
because
it's
in
some
respects
a
kickoff
to
the
holiday
season.
For
many
of
us-
and
it
is
something
that
she
and
I
and
many
others
behind
me
and
others
will
do
many
of
these
types
of
events
over
the
course
the
next
six
weeks
or
so,
and
it's
really
important
that
we
do
it.
J
J
That's
done
by
this
organization
and
by
so
many
others
throughout
the
course
of
the
year
here
in
the
Commonwealth
of
mass
public
nonprofit
for-profit,
public-private
partnerships
to
serve
people
and
to
support
people
and
what
is
many
times
some
of
their
worst
moments,
and
that
is
in
some
respects
one
of
the
best
parts
of
having
a
chance
to
see
the
true
sort
of
heart
and
soul
of
the
people
of
the
Commonwealth
and
the
people
of
the
City
of
Boston
and
I
also
want
to
give
those
Odyssey.
Unlimited
people,
a
big
shout
out.