CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT
PO Box 1562, Sebastopol, CA 95472 www.ceresproject.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: We create health for people, communities, and the planet through love, healing food, and empowering the next generation.

Healing Meals Program Overview:Ceres core program Healing Meals for Healthy Communities includes the following key components: 1) Supporting primarily low-income individuals dealing with serious illness with free and low-cost delivered and nutrient-rich organic meals, nutrition education, and a community of caring; 2) Involving young people as volunteer gardeners and chefs, giving them direct, hands-on experience of the difference that fresh, healthy foods and community make, and of their own capacity to contribute while building life and work-ready skills; and 3) Engaging people of all ages and from all walks as volunteers and in-kind contributors in order to connect them to others and to their value as an integral part of the community.Healing Meals Program 2019 Accomplishments:Client Program: 2019 Actual 2019 Goal % GoalClients 731 750 97.5%Meals 79,422 120,000 66.2%As you can see, we were close to our goal for clients, but very far off our goal for meals. There were several reasons:After we established these goals, we agreed to re-calibrate how we were counting meals. This is a long story and involved extras that we used to supply to most clients for free. This change decreased our meals numbers by about 22%The import of meal data from our old system to Salesforce did not work well. Weve gone through and fixed it, but we believe the first three months of the year are still under-countedFinally, there was a 2-3 month period following implementation of Salesforce when it was very difficult for the Client team to know where we actually had openings, as a result we did not get clients on the program as quickly as we would have otherwise. Other highlights:Streamlined client intake process to reduce the time between intake and first delivery by 1-2 weeksExpanded overlapping zip codes associated with Santa Rosa and Sebastopol sites to provide more options for clients, reducing the wait listLeveraged the power of Salesforce to streamline work flows between Client Team and kitchens and have better access to client numbersDeveloped a new referral relationship with Marin Community Clinics Case Management team which solved the problem of not having a full program and even increased the Marin program from 35 40 clients per week.Youth Program: 2019 Actual 2019 Goal % GoalYouth 448 480 93.3%Youth Hours 21,086 24,000 87.9%The Youth Program also reached 288 youth through 9 Global Studies classes at Analy, and 45 youth and 251 volunteer hours through one-time events with two Eagle Scout troops and a group from Cardinal Newman. That brings the total to 781 youth reached and 21,337 volunteer hours.Other highlights: Marin expanded to a 3rd day and is now able to engage another 10-12 youth per week213 new teens during the year36 new Teen Leaders36% of youth we serve are non-CaucasianWe are now serving 8 youth who identify as non-binary.Completed a SWOT analysis that will inform the future evolution of the programSalesforce is being used to schedule all volunteer shifts and to track all volunteer hoursWe also hosted three high-school/college interns: Chloe McCormick, Reilly Briggs, and Lily Maxfield who collectively provided nearly 1,000 hours of contribution.Adult Volunteers:Number of Adults 475Hours 21,682Highlights:Reorganized to have a Volunteer Relations Manager and Volunteer Coordinators at each program siteFully staffed the Volunteer ProgramSupported the addition of a 3rd day and increase in clients in the Marin Program by adding more prep, mentor and delivery angel volunteers.Salesforce is being used to schedule all volunteer shifts and to track all volunteer hours

Community Education & Outreach Overview:We provide community nutrition education programs in a variety of venues including community health centers and public libraries; we speak at meetings and conferences about the connection between healthy food, personal health and our environment; we promote media stories about food as medicine; and we work through regional and national coalitions to advocate for policies and practices that support healthy food access, food quality standards, and food as a reimbursable medical expense. Community Education & Outreach 2019 Accomplishments:Nutrition Education: Classes Participants AverageCommunity Health Centers 37 272 7Libraries: 29 329 11 Classes for Kids 24 308 13 Classes for Adults 5 21 4Smart Box Program 16 184 12Healthy Cooking Habits 3 21 7Ceres Classes 11 172 16Kaiser Employee Wellness 3 36 12TOTAL 99 1014 10Classes in Spanish 32 316 10Media Coverage:Media coverage reached 10.7 million people, including coverage in multiple local publications as well as Scholastic Action magazine, Readers Digest, Kaiser Health News, The Network for Grateful Living, and The New Medicine (a special publication of the New York Times). Speaking Engagements:EcoFarm Conference presented workshop on equity in organic food systems with CCOF; reached 75 peopleCCOF Annual Meeting keynote speaker; reached 200+UC Davis Deans Advisory Board to the College of Agriculture & Environment presented on Ceres work to group of about 30 including professors this led to potential contract with UC Davis Nutrition Department on NIH study (not yet funded)IM4US (Integrative Medicine for the Underserved) Annual Conference presented workshop with Dr. Connie Earl from West County Health Centers on Ceres work and our nutrition education programming; reached about 50The Root Cause Coalition Conference with COOF and Health Care without Harm, presented workshop on the importance of food quality guidelines and organic sourcing for food as medicine interventions; reached 35Other Policy Work & Impacts:Consulted with The Milken Institute on the design of a daylong meeting on food as medicineHelped lead the first sprint for a Food as Medicine accelerator project at the Food Lab at Google that developed a website hub and map of food as medicine programs nationallyParticipated in a day-long meeting with CCOF to develop a policy agenda to expand organic agriculture in CaliforniaLed the development of Food Quality Standards for Marin Food Now, a collaborative working to reduce food insecurity in Marin; included language related to the environmental and public health impact of the food system.Signed a 5-year agreement with Kaiser Santa Rosas Family Medicine Residency Program to offer an annual two week experience at Ceres for all residents. Launched program in July.Consulted with Kaisers national Community Health team on the development of their Food for Life strategy.Attended roundtable discussion with Kim McCoy Wade, the new Director for Californias Agency on Aging related to nutrition for seniors and the Master Plan on Aging project. Provide direction via comment letters from both Ceres and CalFIMCProvide comment letters on the CalAIM proposal related to including Meals/Medically Tailored Meals as an allowable in lieu of service benefit from both Ceres and CalFIMC

National Affiliate Program:Ceres Community Project provides training and ongoing support to programs across the country, and now in Denmark to replicate our Healing Meals Program. This is a fee based program and Ceres provides 10+ technical assistance calls annually in addition to one on one mentoring. In 2019 we launched two new community programs in Buffalo, NY and Aarhus, Denmark.

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