Asheville Citizen Times Report Card for June 29th
Posted 06/29/10
A to Kitty Schaller , executive director of MANNA FoodBank, who announced she will step down in spring 2011, after a three-decade career making sure needy families don’t go hungry. Schaller has been with MANNA since 1999 as its director of resource development, and took over as executive director in 2005, just as the economy was slowing down into a full blown recession. Under Schaller’s leadership, MANNA embarked on a $1.4 million capital campaign to purchase its volunteer center and warehouse. The opportunity to purchase the warehouse next to the administration building was unexpected, but in the long run it made distributing food more efficient. She has spent the last 28 years working with members of Feeding America, the nation’s food bank network, including 17 years with Community Food Bank of New Jersey in 1982.
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