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Food Outreach: Creating a "Love Bubble"

Episode Notes

Julie has been the Executive Director of Food Outreach since 2016. Food Outreach provides nutritional interventions to people living in the St. Louis region diagnosed with HIV/AIDS or cancer whose incomes are at or below 300% of the Federal Poverty Level.  She graduated from FOCUS Leadership St. Louis in 2020 and currently serves on a committee working on building Black individual, household and business capacity in the St. Louis region. 

Key Takeaways:

• You need trust to get anything done - instill a “love bubble” culture in your organization to be more effective
• Think about where each volunteer is coming from, figure out what motivates them and what made them join your organization 
• Empathy and compassion should be dispensed not only to your target group or community, but also inside your organization, towards your volunteers 
• Your organization needs a culture of consistent building of positive morale and mutual trust in each other 

“What we bear witness to here is love, the opportunity to give without expecting anything in return - that's really what a volunteer is” - Julie Lock

Reach out to Julie at:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoodOutreachSTL

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/foodoutreach/ 

Website:https://foodoutreach.org/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/food-outreach/

Youtube: bit.ly/YouTubefoodoutreach

To find out how you can volunteer, go to: https://foodoutreach.org/get-involved/volunteer/

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