Celebrating 30 Years of Service to the Community

Community Caring CenterPresents

Dreams ComeTrue Gala

2017

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Thank you for 30 years of serving our community.

Special thanks to Dr. Craig Spodak &the Spodak Dental Team for their continued

support of what we do!

The Honorable Joseph & Josephine Casello forbeing our Ambassadors and supporting our mision.

To Our Honorary ChairsSpecial Thanks

AndTo Our

Master of CeremonyG. Allan Hendricks

For energizing our evening!

Dreams Come True Gala

6:30 p.m. ...... Cash Bar & Silent Auction Preview Open

Honorary Chairs

7: 05 p.m. ........................... Welcome - G. Allan Hendricks, Master of Ceremony

Invocation - Rabbi Barry SilverJoyce Portnoy, Board President

Sherry Johnson, Executive DirectorDoreen Robinson, Event Chair

Commissioner “Joe” & Josephine Casello

7:15 p.m. ..................................................... Dinner & Dancing8:15 p.m. .................................... Fred Astaire Dance Group8:45 p.m. ........................................................... Auction Closes9:15 p.m. ......................................... Auction Winners Posted

Dancing until 10:00 p.m.

Music by TK BLU and the UncoolDance Performance - Fred Astaire Dance Group

THANK YOU ALL FOR SUPPORTING THIS EVENT & CONTRIBUTING TOTHE COMMUNITY CARING CENTER OF GREATER BOYNTON BEACH, INC.

Evening’s Program

Celebrating 30 Years of Serving the Community

MissionTo create a healthier community through

nutrition education, social services andeconomic development programs.

Board of DirectorsJoyce Portnoy, President

Everlene Baker, 1st Vice PresidentDoreen Robinson, 2nd Vice President

Larry Diljohn, TreasurerJanet Dadia

Dr. James DeVoursneyMaureen Connolly Shannon

Sharonda McClendonJohn McGovern, PhD

Rev. Nathaniel Robinson, III

Advisory BoardRev. Harold Dom

Meghan Hayes, Marketing Director, Primus HealthCareDr. Timothy Kehrig, Kehrig Family Chiropractic

Nate G. Nichols, PhD, Board President, Prime Time PBCJane Snell-Simpson, JS-1 Construction Co.

Community Caring Centerof Greater Boynton Beach

Sherry Johnson, Executive Director

Dreams Come True Gala

Steering Committee

Aishar Ali

Yvonne Ainbinder - Community Caring Center

Tara Bzotte

Zalina Diljohn

Sherry Johnson - Community Caring Center

Teresa Milanese - Castle Management

Doreen Robinson - Event Chair

Host Committee

Dr. Lynn Allison - International Enterprise Development

Janet Dadia - Heartland Health Care

Larry Diljohn - AmTrust Bank, A Div. of NYCB

Michelle Davis White - Community Caring Center

Steve Delach - Cresthaven East

Dr. James & Monica Devoursney - BB Skin Institute

Sharonda McClendon - 3 Angels Consulting

Tony Miller - Community Caring Center

Joyce Portnoy - Community Caring Center

Pat Saunders

Master of CeremonyG. Allan Hendricks

FOR ENTERTAINING US WITH YOUR FABULOUS DANCERS!!

THANK YOU

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Food is provided by the chefs at the Community Caring Center of Greater Boynton Beach’sSecret Garden Café, A culinary business development center.

The Secret Garden Café is a place for chefs to use the space for certain number of hours each week towork on their craft. Those chefs will be cooking the food for the librar’s cafe.

The menu offers fresh coffees, french pastries, granola, quiches, health juices, wraps, fruit, snacks,soup, salad, and food that fits under paleo, vegan, vegetarian, southern comfort, Italian, Mexican,

New Orleans and more. Meals for children are also available.

The café is managed by Sherretta King of “Taste of Something Special”.

Sherry Johnson, the Executive Director of CCC, said she thinks this will be the “perfect retail outlet for all of our incubator talent.”

208 South Seacrest Avenue, Boynton Beach

Sailfish Café in the Boynton Beach’s Library

Mon.-Thu. • 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. | Friday - Closed | Saturday • 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. | Sunday - Closed

561-364-9734

Children's Gardening andNutrition Education Program

The classes are designed to help children learn how to grow food naturally and what to do with it when it is harvested. It includes lessons in Composting, Pollination, understanding of the root and stem systems, and natural ways of maintaining healthy plants without the use of chemicals.

Once they have planted all their seedlings, the focus shifts to the health bene�ts of fresh fruits & vegetables and how to use them. Lessons include juicing, dehydration, canning and food preservation, raw foods and cooked foods.

Classes are held in the fall as soon as classes resume from summer break and end with the presentation of certi�cates of achievement the 2nd week in December. Classes are also held in February through May to complete Florida's growing cycle.

Our Beginning Board Representation– First Five Years

Ascension Lutheran• Rev. Richard H. Bartley• Rev. Conrad Braaten• Edna Walton• William R. Walton

Bible Church of God• Bishop Sylvester Banks• Troy Davis• Brother Willie Davis

Boynton Beach Child Care• Leatrice Joy Currier• Lena Rahming

Boynton Beach Church of God• Winifred F. McKenzie• Rev. Nathan Robinson

Boynton Beach Congregational UCC• Rev. Henry F. Ackerman• Doris M. Bull• Rev. Joseph T. Dye• Mildred Marks• Frederick McNeilly• William Wilson• Elizabeth C. Woodlen

Cherry Hill Mission Worship Center• Rev. Parker L. Williams

CROS Ministries• Rev. Pamela Cahoon

First Assembly of God First Presbyterian• Jeff New• Mickie Wynn

First United Methodist• Ruth A. Annan• Rev. George E. Dettman• Rev. George P. Lutz• Doris M. Shores• Rev. John WhiteGrace Fellowship• Rev. Charles Carrin

Grace Missionary Baptist• Elizabeth A. Jenkins

Greater St. Paul African

Methodist Episcopal

Lakeside Christian Church

Provident Missionary Baptist Church• Lottie Pierce

St. John Missionary Baptist• Rev. Douglas Davis• Ruby P. Lindsey• Eupher Lee Waters

St. Johns Haitian United Methodist• Rev. Andre Belony St. Joseph’s Episcopal• Rev. Michael Cassell• Carolyn Grover• Viola D. Higgins• Dorothy E. Snowden

St. Mark Catholic• Rev. John Block• Daniel Henchey• Sally M. Henchey• William Shortley

St. Thomas More• Deacon Daniel Arnold• Kathleen M. Brennan

Friends• Carolyn Davis• Carolyn M. Johnson• Lauren Manuel Messer• Myra Jones• Agnes Sue Payton• Dorothea H. Sellnow

James Greene & Martin Andezfor helping us capture memories.

Tara Bzottefor designing our program book

&Katie at CBIZ Weekes & Callaway

for designing our invitations

Dr. Jim & Monica DeVoursneyFor underwriting the cost of program book printing!

Special Thanks to

Special Thanks to Our Photographers

Special Thanks

&

Special Thanks to

For our fabulous decorations!!!

Dr. Aymen AtallahChampion Home Health Care

Dr. James & Monica DeVoursney

Thank You to Our Sponsors!

GalaxyFlorida Power & Light Company

Lone Star

Doreen RobinsonStarburst

HCA ManorCareMaureen Connolly Shannon

Twinkle

Table SponsorsAmTrust Bank, a div. of NYCB

Boynton Physicians Group Cambridge Medical Group

Caulfield & WheelerCity of Boynton Beach

Rev. Harold DomNancy Flynn

Sherry JohnsonJohn McGovern, PhDIvan & Joyce Portnoy

Pat SaundersTivoli Lakes Friends

Arturo WittmanE.J. Rocker

DonationsSteven & Marilyn AshmanArthur & Ophelia D’Amato

Janet DixonMichael & Linda EsrigLarry & Phyllis Facher

Marla Friedman &Sherman Rosenfield

Nancy FlynnJames & Marie MidlawRonald & Norma PoretzDennis & Anita Ruggles

Schwartz FamilyR.A. Ritter Foundation

Benjamin & Patricia Weinstein

Community Caring Center - About Us• Founded in 1987 by the Boynton Beach Ministerial Alliance • We serve 5,000 individuals annually• Provide 7,500 pounds of food each month• Through our fundraising efforts, we have been able to provide over 43,000 pounds of fresh produce and assist the mental and physical health issues related to senior isolationism with 258 frail and elderly living in this underserved community.

• Hunger surveys indicate that children in Palm Beach County are three times higher than the national average to NOT know where their next meal will come from. • Service Area is located in a USDA identified “Food Desert.”• Hunger surveys indicate that 1 in 5 seniors go hungry daily & that the majority of seniors hospitalized each year suffer from some form of malnutrition.

• 22.5% of children in Palm Beach County are food insecure children meaning 60,340 children go to bed hungry. • 14.7% of the Palm Beach County population is food insecure with 199,460 people NOT knowing where they will get their next meal. • 71% of the food insecure population is Palm Beach County qualify based on income for SNAP (Food Stamps) & other federal nutrition programs while 29% do NOT qualify for federal nutrition programs and often must rely on emergency food assistance programs & need better wages & employment opportunities to help them meet their basic needs. • $3.34 is the average cost of a meal in Palm Beach County• The food budget shortfall in Palm Beach County per person per week is $19.42 with a total shortfall of $117,489,000 or 138,428,400 meals.

• Emergency Food Pantry and Monthly Mass Food Distribution• Homeless Outreach & Feeding Site • Affordable Food Distribution Program• Emergency Food Shelter & Financial Assistance Programs• Senior Care Giving Program assisting frail & elderly to “Age in Place”• Senior Veggie Mobile – Provides weekly fresh vegetables & home delivered meals, and monthly social activities to 262 frail & elderly seniors• Chronic Disease & Wellness Maintenance Programs• Volunteer and Primary Care Giving Training & Resources

Thank you to all of the volunteerswhose hard work made this night possible!

We have a Social Services & Economic Development Departments

Palm Beach County Hunger Statistics

Social Services

• Secret Garden, a culinary business development center providing shared kitchen space, cooperative retail market, & technical support• Urban Farming Project established in 2009 in partnership with University of Florida • Gardening & Nutrition Education for Adults & Children • Easy Garden Healthy Cooking & Food Preservation Classes

Economic Development

30th Anniversary of Service

to the Community1987-2017

1987 – 2000: Organized by the Boynton Clergy in 1987 to provide basic human needs – food, shelter and financial assistance. Volunteer-run organiza-tion and self funded. Budget never exceeded more than $2,000 annually.

2000 – 2007 : • It wasn’t until 2000 that the CCC hired an executive director • 2003 “Faith in Action” 3-year Grant received from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation • Garnered financial grant support from City of Boynton Beach and CRA • Largely self-funded thru fundraising activities

2007 – 2010 : • Completed 7-yr study, funded by the Lattner Foundation, identifying the root cause for needed emergency services, and found that 32% are debilitated by a nutrition related disease to such a point they could no longer work. • CCC began to restructure existing programs based on a belief that the lack of access to sustainable healthy & affordable food was certainly one of the root causes in the poverty cycle. • CCC initialized it Economic Development Concept addressing the concept of “Creating A Healthier Community” through Green Markets, culinary business development centers, nutrition education, urban farming, & food preservation

2015 – 2017In 2015 the Jim Moran Foundation provided CCC’s first large grant for capacity building which we used for capital, sta�ng and also to identify additional resources to help address programmatic development andsustainability.

CCC is UNIQUE because of the integration of economic development & social service programs: Eco Dev programs include an Urban Farming Project, a culinary business development center, culinary job training, nutrition education, food preservation and children’s gardening classes, and acooperative market center.

Social service programs include homeless outreach, Emergency Food Shelter & Financial Assistance, food pantry and mass food distribution, and our signature social service program: The Senior Caregiving Program which helps seniors to age in place.

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Saturday, March 10,2018

Fish Depot Bar & Grille, 511 NE 4 th St

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Senior Veggie Mobile

CCC provides services to over 1,000 seniors in Palm Beach County. However, in our target area called the "Heart of

Boynton," CCC has 274 frail and elderly that are shut-in and �nd it di�cult to get to us for services.

Our case managers either harvest produce from our Urban Farming Project, or purchase from local Boynton farmers,

including one of our incubator clients Aaldmon Farms LLC,an organically certi�ed farmer.

Dr. Tim Kehrig, a board member with a masters degree in nutrition, rides from time to time to answer questions and

help evaluate nutritional needs.

Soups made at the Secret Garden Café and prepared meals,"a mini "Meals on Wheels" initiative, are included.

Staff is able to check for signs of dehydration, malnutrition, and dementia, as well as, piggy-back additional services,

including canned goods from the food pantry, utility bills and rent and mortgage assistance. Seniors enjoy social gathering

at the Secret Garden Cafe several times a year.

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ANNUAL HUNGERWALK/ 5K RUN

Saturday, March 10, 2018Fish Depot Bar & Grille, 511 NE 4th St

1.5 Mile Walk & 5k Run

2018 Sponsors

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Thank You to Our SilentAuction Donors!

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A Perfect Package

Apeiro Restaurant

Arturo Wittman

Atlantis Country Club

Benvenuto Restaurant

Burlington Coat Factory

Butter�y World

Caitlyn Bom

Children’s Schoolhouse Museum

Color Den

David Barry Jewelers

Dean Anthony’s Pizza

Delray Beach Playhouse

Delray Yacht Cruises

Denise Mollo – Faces of Friends

Doreen Robinson

Ed Krynicki

Elaine Reinhart

Five Guys

Frenchmen’s Reserve Country Club

Grandma’s Manufacture

Harriet Flashenburg

Indian Spring Country Club

Infusions Café

Jenny Craig

John McGovern, PhD

Joyce Portnoy

Le Petite Pain

Massage Envy

MJ Precopio-PICCLines Plus Infusion

Sassy Palate

Schoolhouse Children’s Museum

Secret Garden Cafe

Starbucks Coffee Company

Sweet Tomatoes

Taste of History Culinary Tour

The Wick Theatre &Costume Museum

Total Wine & More

Two Georges

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SECRET GARDEN CAFEa Culinary Business Development Center

The Community Caring Center of Greater Boynton Beach, Inc. d/b/a The Secret Garden Cafe, A

Culinary Incubator Program, is an Economic Development program which provides services and

community development initiatives that strategically promote the growth and revitalization

e�orts of a targeted low- and moderate- income communities in Boynton Beach, known as the

Heart of Boynton.

The Market/Deli/Bakery is a not- for- pro�t grocer and a culinary incubator program, known as

the Secret Garden Café. It is a unique and innovative model that integrates social service

programs and economic development by addressing root causes of poverty relating to the access

to healthy and a�ordable food. Our social services and economic development programs are

located in a poverty area of Boynton Beach, known as the Heart of Boynton.

The Heart of Boynton has been identi�ed as a “Food Desert” by the United States Department of

Agriculture. Our programs include:

A culinary incubator program to develop small businesses and create job growth;

An “Easy Garden Gourmet Cooking Classes” that provides nutrition education to adults and

children by teaching cooking, drying, and canning classes focusing on a�ordability using

seasonal fruits and veggies, teaching how the use of fresh herbs and veggies can reduce salt,

sugar and fat in diets;

An Organic and A�ordable Meat & Veggie monthly package, using our restaurant license for

bulk purchases at reduced and wholesale prices;

An Urban Farming Project which helps increase the a�ordability of locally grown fresh fruits and

vegetables;

A Senior Veggie Mobile Program providing delivered meals, fresh soups, fruits and vegetables to

the 274 frail and elderly shut - ins within the community.

This strategy encourages the expansion of capital investment; increasing family income, wealth

and employment; stimulates local economic activity and connections to the regional economy;

and improves the access to a�ordable and sustainable food centers. This strategy support healthy

environments and lifestyles within the community, and fosters empowerment and raise

possibilities. This project goes directly to the heart of community building and sustainability.”

Culinary Incubator Program

We cannot celebrate the 30th Anniver-sary of the Community Caring Center without a BIG round of applause for Sherry Johnson who has been the

Executive Director of the organization for over sixteen years. Sherry has

ALWAYS had big dreams for CCC, and she has been working intrepidly to

make those Dreams Come True. Thanks to her efforts and the tireless hours she works, she has developed many of the

programs described in our program book, including growing produce for our clients, teaching nutrition educa-

tion to children and seniors alike, bringing fresh food and hot meals to our frail & elderly seniors through our Senior Veggie Mobile Program and

developing a culinary business incubator which has developed into a business development center and training site for entrepreneurs. Her

enthusiasm, dedication and commitment to the people this organization serves is a huge asset to the community. Our Senior Care Giving Program

which allows our 260 seniors to age in place. She has done all of this while still keeping to the original purpose of providing an emergency food

pantry and financial assistance to many of the people CCC serves. And… she still has more plans in store for CCC as it moves into its next 30 years!

She has worked to create and build relationships in the community and with our wonderful partnership with The City of Boynton Beach and the

CRA has set the course for our continued growth. She is always looking for opportunities to provide better services to our clients and plans for the

future. She has been the foundation of The Community Caring Center of Greater Boynton Beach and without her dedication, passion, hard work

and sometimes sweat and tears, this organization would NOT becelebrating this milestone anniversary!

On behalf of the Board of Directors, staff, volunteers and clients,THANK YOU, Sherry for making your Dreams Come True!!!

Sherry JohnsonExecutive Director

Supports the Community

Caring Center of Greater Boynton

Beach

GCD&E, proudly serving as the City’s

the Event’s Honorary Chairs,

Joseph & Josephine Casello