Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joined Project Angel Food for our 16 millionth meal celebration. A contingency from Project Angel Food, led by CEO Richard Ayoub, went to Washington for the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Project Angel Food is featured as a charity on Gordon Ramsay's "Hell's Kitchen."
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joined Project Angel Food for our 16 millionth meal celebration. A contingency from Project Angel Food, led by CEO Richard Ayoub, went to Washington for the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Project Angel Food is featured as a charity on Gordon Ramsay's "Hell's Kitchen."
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joined Project Angel Food for our 16 millionth meal celebration. A contingency from Project Angel Food, led by CEO Richard Ayoub, went to Washington for the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Project Angel Food is featured as a charity on Gordon Ramsay's "Hell's Kitchen."
Oprah joined Project Angel Food's Lead with Love 3 telethon, which raised a record $1,172,970. Project Angel Food surpassed 15 million meals and was joined by Emmy winner Sheryl Lee Ralph. President Joe Biden announced at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, that access to Medically Tailored Meals will be expanded as a key pillar of the nation’s strategy for improving equitable health for all Americans. Project Angel Food served a record-setting 1,534,088 meals.
Project Angel Food welcomed volunteers back into the kitchen after a 13-month suspension due to COVID-19. The kitchen served more clients than ever before in our 32-year history and the Native American Diabetes Project, a two-year study conducted with USC Keck School of Medicine, began trials to measure health outcomes through use of Project Angel Food’s Medically Tailored Meals. The 14 millionth meal in Project Angel Food’s history was presented to longtime client and AIDS activist Richard E. on June 3 with founder Marianne Williamson, Pauley Perrette, Sandra Lee, Rufus Wainwright, and CEO Richard Ayoub in attendance.
Project Angel Food rose to meet the challenge of COVID - growing from feeding 1,500 people per day to 2,300, preparing and delivering over a million meals for the year. In April, Harry & Meghan, the Duke & Duchess of Sussex, began volunteering and delivered meals; in July, we hosted our first ever Lead with Love Telethon; in October, we celebrated our milestone 13 millionth meal; and in November, Adam Lambert shot a PSA, we hosted Project Angel Food’s Night of Gratitude & Song virtual event, and we delivered 3000 meals for Thanksgiving, an agency record. Most importantly, in 2020, we led with love.
Project Angel Food celebrates 30 amazing years by serving our 12-millionth meal with entrepreneur and philanthropist Lisa Vanderpump doing the honors of delivering it. In September of that year, The Angel Awards welcomes founder Marianne Williamson as Jamie Lee Curtis and Jamie & Klaus Heidegger are honored. The event sets a fundraising record which, unbeknownst at the time, plays a key role the Project Angel Food�s ability to response so quickly the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Project Angel Food launches the California Food is Medicine Coalition (CAL FIMC) statewide pilot for Congestive Heart Failure Medi-Cal patients to prove our medically-tailored meals can reduce health care costs.
Project Angel Food was chosen “Nonprofit of the Year” by Assemblymember Richard Bloom (District 50, Los Angeles – D). Governor Brown approved a budget that includes a three-year, $6 million pilot program funding Project Angel Food and five other organizations in the California Food is Medicine Coalition (CAL FIMC).
We celebrated our 10 millionth meal served in March. By September, we increased our menu cycle 50%, from 8 weeks to 12 weeks.
Richard Ayoub joined Project Angel Food as the Interim Executive Director in November. Six months later, he became the Executive Director.
We celebrated our 9 millionth meal served and 25 years of service to our community. We expanded our donated community gardens in Hollywood from two to three with the addition of the Madison Gardens. During the holiday season, we started distributing breakfast to children and grandchildren of clients.
Our Do Gooding Cookies program was expanded to include Pavilions locations in Pasadena, now making cookies available in 4 Los Angeles County locations. Project Angel Food also welcomed new Executive Director Laurie Lang.
Our 8 millionth meal was served during this year. Our partnership with Kiehl's grew and we were the recipient of 1% of the annual sales for the Manhattan Village store. Feed Beads were created for sale at our events and continue to provide supplemental income.
Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-31) tours the kitchen to see our life-saving work in action. Robin Fujimoto is elected as board of directors chair. Dante Di Loreto, Executive Producer of GLEE, and Lisa Lillien of Hungry Girl are honored at Angel Awards 2011, which features performances by finalists of THE GLEE PROJECT.
Our Project Angel Food Garden initiative is launched for staff and volunteers to cultivate and harvest fresh, organic vegetables and fruits for our meals, making use of community gardens and unused vacant plots donated by land owners
Our 20th year of service is celebrated at our beloved summer Angel Awards party and acknowledged with a refreshed logo to honor this important milestone. Barbie is recognized as our Fashion Icon at our acclaimed Divine Design shopping event, as part of her 50th Birthday celebration.
Our kitchen receives a perfect 100% score from the Los Angeles County Department of Health. Margaret Steele takes over the helm from long-time leader John Gile as the new CEO. Project Angel Food's expanded mission to serve various life-threatening illnesses resonates throughout the greater Los Angeles community, facilitating service to more people in need than ever before
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hosts a ribbon cutting ceremony on November 15th marking the official opening of our new building and the delivery of the 5 millionth meal. Shirley MacLaine and Xorin Balbes are honored at Angel Awards, with Maria Shriver and Christopher Schwarzenegger opening the evening.
We acquire a new building at 922 Vine Street in Hollywood for our permanent home. Groundbreaking construction party is held with Council President Eric Garcetti, Council member Tom LaBonge, Board Chair Merrily Newton, and representatives from Wells Fargo. Wallis Annenberg makes a $500,000 leadership gift to the campaign, with other leadership gifts following from Wells Fargo Foundation, Keck Foundation, MAC AIDS Fund, and the Ahmanson Foundation.
Our mission expands to include other illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, renal failure, COPD, and others. Our new mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women, and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses. We pilot a six-month Breakfast Program to provide a second meal to 35 clients most in need. Average daily meals served = 1054.
Over 2.5 million meals have been served. Whoopi Goldberg is honored at Angel Awards. Elizabeth Taylor returns to Project Angel Food to present the honor. 665 new clients enroll in our meal delivery program. 48 volunteer orientations train over 724 new Project Angel Food volunteers.
Our two millionth meal is served. Elizabeth Taylor agrees to accept Angel Award. Project Angel Food pays tribute to 10 years of volunteers. Records indicate over 20,000 people have volunteered. Over 30,000 known cases of people living with HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles.
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As the face of AIDS changes, Project Angel Food changes with it. The majority of clients are now people of color, and more women and children are now on service. Eight donor-sponsored vans are now in Project Angel Foods' fleet. Services expand to further geographic regions of the county.
Over 100 people call for meal service each month. Barry Diller, David Geffen, Barbra Streisand and Ron Burkle give lead gifts for a new kitchen. Groundbreaking is held in July and the new kitchen is fully operational by November. Deliveries are expanded through drop-off centers to include Pasadena, Downtown and greater Hollywood. Ron Burkle agrees to underwrite kitchen rent on behalf of the Ralphs/ Food-4-Less Foundation. Divine Design is held at the Pacific Design Center.
The Center for Living formally changes its name to Project Angel Food and moves its offices to an old production office on Sunset Boulevard. Elizabeth Taylor's AIDS Foundation provides Project Angel Food its first grant of $100,000. The second Angel Art is held at the Pacific Design Center. John Gile joins as Executive Director. Leonard Nimoy donates the first agency van. Project Angel Food obtains its first-ever government grant. Project Angel Food has 13 people on staff. Meals continue to be prepared at the Church.
The Center for Living experiences growing pains, but meal delivery continues uninterrupted. Out of the Closets, Into the Streets is held on Melrose Place to raise funds and is underwritten with a $50,000 gift from Marianne Williamson. The kitchen continues to operate out of the Church, but the demand for meals pushes its limit. The search begins for a new kitchen to house the Project Angel Food Program.
With the dramatic increase in AIDS cases, the Project Angel Food Program focuses its mission on the AIDS-affected community. Divine Design is held at the Barker Hangar and is the most spectacular event imaginable. It features over 50 designer showrooms, a designer label discount store, fantastic booths, and a fantasy auction where you can bid on David Hockney to paint your swimming pool, or hold a birthday party at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch, or have lunch with Barbara Bush at the White House. The evening brings in more than $1,300,000. Demand for meals continues to grow.
The Project Angel Food Program moves into the kitchen of the Crescent Heights United Methodist Church. The first Angel Art, chaired by Berry and Tony Perkins, raises over $540,000. The Center for Living opens offices on Robertson Boulevard. Due to the needs of the HIV community, the demand for the Project Angel Food Program grows dramatically. Project Angel Food has two full-time staff.
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Project Angel Food is founded by Marianne Williamson, who is joined by David Kessler, Ed Rada, Howard Rosenman, Freddie Webber and dozens of volunteers to create a program preparing and delivering meals to people living with HIV/AIDS. This service is an outreach of the Los Angeles Center for living, which helps people with life-threatening illnesses. The Center for Living provides numerous programs such as The Clean Team, Project Night Life, and hospice care. We also prepare lunch for drop-in clients, but as fewer and fewer are able to leave their homes, lunch is delivered to them. Project Angel Food is born.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joined Project Angel Food for our 16 millionth meal celebration. A contingency from Project Angel Food, led by CEO Richard Ayoub, went to Washington for the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Project Angel Food is featured as a charity on Gordon Ramsay's "Hell's Kitchen."
Oprah joined Project Angel Food's Lead with Love 3 telethon, which raised a record $1,172,970. Project Angel Food surpassed 15 million meals and was joined by Emmy winner Sheryl Lee Ralph. President Joe Biden announced at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, that access to Medically Tailored Meals will be expanded as a key pillar of the nation’s strategy for improving equitable health for all Americans. Project Angel Food served a record-setting 1,534,088 meals.
Project Angel Food welcomed volunteers back into the kitchen after a 13-month suspension due to COVID-19. The kitchen served more clients than ever before in our 32-year history and the Native American Diabetes Project, a two-year study conducted with USC Keck School of Medicine, began trials to measure health outcomes through use of Project Angel Food’s Medically Tailored Meals. The 14 millionth meal in Project Angel Food’s history was presented to longtime client and AIDS activist Richard E. on June 3 with founder Marianne Williamson, Pauley Perrette, Sandra Lee, Rufus Wainwright, and CEO Richard Ayoub in attendance.
Project Angel Food rose to meet the challenge of COVID - growing from feeding 1,500 people per day to 2,300, preparing and delivering over a million meals for the year. In April, Harry & Meghan, the Duke & Duchess of Sussex, began volunteering and delivered meals; in July, we hosted our first ever Lead with Love Telethon; in October, we celebrated our milestone 13 millionth meal; and in November, Adam Lambert shot a PSA, we hosted Project Angel Food’s Night of Gratitude & Song virtual event, and we delivered 3000 meals for Thanksgiving, an agency record. Most importantly, in 2020, we led with love.
Project Angel Food celebrates 30 amazing years by serving our 12-millionth meal with entrepreneur and philanthropist Lisa Vanderpump doing the honors of delivering it. In September of that year, The Angel Awards welcomes founder Marianne Williamson as Jamie Lee Curtis and Jamie & Klaus Heidegger are honored. The event sets a fundraising record which, unbeknownst at the time, plays a key role the Project Angel Food�s ability to response so quickly the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Project Angel Food launches the California Food is Medicine Coalition (CAL FIMC) statewide pilot for Congestive Heart Failure Medi-Cal patients to prove our medically-tailored meals can reduce health care costs.
Project Angel Food was chosen “Nonprofit of the Year” by Assemblymember Richard Bloom (District 50, Los Angeles – D). Governor Brown approved a budget that includes a three-year, $6 million pilot program funding Project Angel Food and five other organizations in the California Food is Medicine Coalition (CAL FIMC).
We celebrated our 10 millionth meal served in March. By September, we increased our menu cycle 50%, from 8 weeks to 12 weeks.
Richard Ayoub joined Project Angel Food as the Interim Executive Director in November. Six months later, he became the Executive Director.
We celebrated our 9 millionth meal served and 25 years of service to our community. We expanded our donated community gardens in Hollywood from two to three with the addition of the Madison Gardens. During the holiday season, we started distributing breakfast to children and grandchildren of clients.
Our Do Gooding Cookies program was expanded to include Pavilions locations in Pasadena, now making cookies available in 4 Los Angeles County locations. Project Angel Food also welcomed new Executive Director Laurie Lang.
Our 8 millionth meal was served during this year. Our partnership with Kiehl's grew and we were the recipient of 1% of the annual sales for the Manhattan Village store. Feed Beads were created for sale at our events and continue to provide supplemental income.
Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-31) tours the kitchen to see our life-saving work in action. Robin Fujimoto is elected as board of directors chair. Dante Di Loreto, Executive Producer of GLEE, and Lisa Lillien of Hungry Girl are honored at Angel Awards 2011, which features performances by finalists of THE GLEE PROJECT.
Our Project Angel Food Garden initiative is launched for staff and volunteers to cultivate and harvest fresh, organic vegetables and fruits for our meals, making use of community gardens and unused vacant plots donated by land owners
Our 20th year of service is celebrated at our beloved summer Angel Awards party and acknowledged with a refreshed logo to honor this important milestone. Barbie is recognized as our Fashion Icon at our acclaimed Divine Design shopping event, as part of her 50th Birthday celebration.
Our kitchen receives a perfect 100% score from the Los Angeles County Department of Health. Margaret Steele takes over the helm from long-time leader John Gile as the new CEO. Project Angel Food's expanded mission to serve various life-threatening illnesses resonates throughout the greater Los Angeles community, facilitating service to more people in need than ever before
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hosts a ribbon cutting ceremony on November 15th marking the official opening of our new building and the delivery of the 5 millionth meal. Shirley MacLaine and Xorin Balbes are honored at Angel Awards, with Maria Shriver and Christopher Schwarzenegger opening the evening.
We acquire a new building at 922 Vine Street in Hollywood for our permanent home. Groundbreaking construction party is held with Council President Eric Garcetti, Council member Tom LaBonge, Board Chair Merrily Newton, and representatives from Wells Fargo. Wallis Annenberg makes a $500,000 leadership gift to the campaign, with other leadership gifts following from Wells Fargo Foundation, Keck Foundation, MAC AIDS Fund, and the Ahmanson Foundation.
Our mission expands to include other illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, renal failure, COPD, and others. Our new mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women, and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses. We pilot a six-month Breakfast Program to provide a second meal to 35 clients most in need. Average daily meals served = 1054.
Over 2.5 million meals have been served. Whoopi Goldberg is honored at Angel Awards. Elizabeth Taylor returns to Project Angel Food to present the honor. 665 new clients enroll in our meal delivery program. 48 volunteer orientations train over 724 new Project Angel Food volunteers.
Our two millionth meal is served. Elizabeth Taylor agrees to accept Angel Award. Project Angel Food pays tribute to 10 years of volunteers. Records indicate over 20,000 people have volunteered. Over 30,000 known cases of people living with HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles.
As the face of AIDS changes, Project Angel Food changes with it. The majority of clients are now people of color, and more women and children are now on service. Eight donor-sponsored vans are now in Project Angel Foods' fleet. Services expand to further geographic regions of the county.
Over 100 people call for meal service each month. Barry Diller, David Geffen, Barbra Streisand and Ron Burkle give lead gifts for a new kitchen. Groundbreaking is held in July and the new kitchen is fully operational by November. Deliveries are expanded through drop-off centers to include Pasadena, Downtown and greater Hollywood. Ron Burkle agrees to underwrite kitchen rent on behalf of the Ralphs/ Food-4-Less Foundation. Divine Design is held at the Pacific Design Center.
The Center for Living formally changes its name to Project Angel Food and moves its offices to an old production office on Sunset Boulevard. Elizabeth Taylor's AIDS Foundation provides Project Angel Food its first grant of $100,000. The second Angel Art is held at the Pacific Design Center. John Gile joins as Executive Director. Leonard Nimoy donates the first agency van. Project Angel Food obtains its first-ever government grant. Project Angel Food has 13 people on staff. Meals continue to be prepared at the Church.
The Center for Living experiences growing pains, but meal delivery continues uninterrupted. Out of the Closets, Into the Streets is held on Melrose Place to raise funds and is underwritten with a $50,000 gift from Marianne Williamson. The kitchen continues to operate out of the Church, but the demand for meals pushes its limit. The search begins for a new kitchen to house the Project Angel Food Program.
With the dramatic increase in AIDS cases, the Project Angel Food Program focuses its mission on the AIDS-affected community. Divine Design is held at the Barker Hangar and is the most spectacular event imaginable. It features over 50 designer showrooms, a designer label discount store, fantastic booths, and a fantasy auction where you can bid on David Hockney to paint your swimming pool, or hold a birthday party at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch, or have lunch with Barbara Bush at the White House. The evening brings in more than $1,300,000. Demand for meals continues to grow.
The Project Angel Food Program moves into the kitchen of the Crescent Heights United Methodist Church. The first Angel Art, chaired by Berry and Tony Perkins, raises over $540,000. The Center for Living opens offices on Robertson Boulevard. Due to the needs of the HIV community, the demand for the Project Angel Food Program grows dramatically. Project Angel Food has two full-time staff.
Project Angel Food is founded by Marianne Williamson, who is joined by David Kessler, Ed Rada, Howard Rosenman, Freddie Webber and dozens of volunteers to create a program preparing and delivering meals to people living with HIV/AIDS. This service is an outreach of the Los Angeles Center for living, which helps people with life-threatening illnesses. The Center for Living provides numerous programs such as The Clean Team, Project Night Life, and hospice care. We also prepare lunch for drop-in clients, but as fewer and fewer are able to leave their homes, lunch is delivered to them. Project Angel Food is born.
