God's Love We Deliver
| Founded | April 17, 1986[1] |
|---|---|
| Founders | Ganga Stone and Jane Best |
| 13-3366846[2] | |
| Legal status | 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization |
| Headquarters | SoHo, New York |
| Scott Bruckner[2] | |
| Karen Pearl[2] | |
| Blaine Trump[2] | |
Revenue (2014) | $24,697,297[2] |
| Expenses (2014) | $12,934,679[2] |
Employees (2016) | 108[2] |
Volunteers (2016) | 10,000 |
| Mission | To improve the health and well-being of men, women, and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other serious illnesses by alleviating hunger and malnutrition.[2] |
| Website |
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God's Love We Deliver is a non-profit organization based in New York City which cooks and home-delivers nutritious, individually tailored meals to people in the New York City metropolitan area living with severe illness. Co-founded in 1986[1] by Ganga Stone and Jane Best, it began with meals delivered by bicycle which were donated by about fifty restaurants.[3]
As of 2011, the concern brought over 4,000 meals a day to people living with severe illness.[4] Joan Rivers chose the organization as her charity to play for when she was a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice. The comedian won the competition and earned $500,000 for the group.[5]
In 2013 God's Love We Deliver temporarily relocated its main offices from SoHo to the New York City borough of Brooklyn while a new six-story headquarters building, named for patron Michael Kors and designed Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel Architects, was being finished. The new structure would replace the old one which was named for another of the organization's largest patrons, David Geffen and in which it had been located since 1995.[6][7][8]
After 22 months in its temporary Brooklyn location, God's Love We Deliver completed its move[9] to its new home in The Michael Kors Building in SoHo.[10] The brand new, state-of-the-art, 9,600 sq. foot kitchen on the second floor has natural light, and includes four industrial-size refrigerators, three freezers, five blast freezers, five 80-gallon soup kettles, and a waste digester that converts up to 1,000 lbs. of organic food waste into disposable water.
References
- 1 2 God's Love We Deliver, Inc. Division of Corporations. New York State Department of State. Accessed on January 22, 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax. God's Love We Deliver. Guidestar. June 30, 2014.
- ↑ "God's Love We Deliver: About Us: History". glwd.org. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
- ↑ "God's Love We Deliver Brings 4,000 Meals A Day To Homebound HIV/AIDS Sufferers". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
- ↑ "Joan Rivers' Will Designates Portion Of $150 Million Fortune To Charities". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
- ↑ "God's Love We Deliver: Give: Our Expansion Campaign". glwd.org. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
- ↑ "God's Love We Deliver Architecture and Design Project". gkvarchitects.com. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
- ↑ "Revealed: 166 Avenue of the Americas, God's Love Expansion". newyorkyimby.com. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
- ↑ "God's Love We Deliver Dedicates a Building to Michael Kors". Observer. 2015-06-09. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- ↑ Frances, Jen Renzi,Scott. "God's Love We Deliver Gets a New Building That Will Propel Its Charitable Mission Forward - Architectural Digest".