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Landfall Foundation Donates $25,000 to Good Shepherd Center for New Kitchen Equipment
December, 2007 - In early December, the Landfall Foundation notified Good Shepherd Center that it would receive a $25,000 donation from the Foundation for new kitchen equipment that would enhance its Soup Kitchen’s capacity to prepare meals as well as improve efficiency. Some two weeks later, the new equipment had been installed and by all accounts, the volunteers who help prepare the meals are “ecstatic.”
Good Shepherd Center provides the Lower Cape Fear area’s only comprehensive outreach to the homeless, and operates day and evening shelters as well as a soup kitchen that provides approximately 130,000 meals a year with a paid staff of about 20 and approximately 260 volunteers.
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“The Landfall Foundation Board learned about kitchen problems at Good Shepherd from a Landfall resident, and we invited Executive Director Katrina Knight and several of her board members to make a presentation giving a detailed outline of their kitchen project needs,” said Harry Williams, president of the Landfall Foundation.
“Based on Katrina’s presentation, the board felt there was a real opportunity to help a large number of individuals in our community by making a special $25,000 capital donation to Good Shepherd. The donation is consistent with the Landfall Foundation’s mission that focuses on education, the arts, and health and welfare, and this donation will greatly enhance the efforts of the more than 50 Landfall residents who regularly volunteer at Good Shepherd preparing meals.”
The Landfall Foundation gift went toward purchase and installation of a 60-inch gas range with 10 burners and two lower convection ovens, a 40-inch double deck convection oven, a 24-inch flat gas grill on a stand, and a 48-inch exhaust hood addition.
On a typical weekday, Good Shepherd Center’s Soup Kitchen serves as many as 230 lunches to low-income individuals and families from throughout the community. The program relies almost exclusively on volunteers to prepare and serve each meal. Although the Soup Kitchen operates out of a relatively new building, opened in June 2003, budget constraints prevented them from purchasing the additional commercial equipment suitable for the volume of food being prepared.
Insufficient capacity in the previous range and ovens resulted in congestion and inefficiency as well as extraneous heavy lifting and even hand and arm burns due to high flame density.
“We are deeply grateful for the generosity of time, energy, spirit, and financial support that the Landfall community has shown to Good Shepherd over many years. This new commitment by the Landfall Foundation will not only make possible a safer and more efficient work environment for our volunteers, but also the assurance that no hungry man, woman, or child will have to be turned away for lack of sufficient food prepared for them,” said Ms. Knight.
As stated on its Web site, the mission of Good Shepherd Center is to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless and foster transition of those in crisis to independence in the community, and its vision is to work to solve the homeless issue in the lower Cape Fear Region by offering programs that positively impact the lives of individuals and transition them into independent living.