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Healthy Help for the Homeless Anthony Carroccio and the Organic Soup Kitchen Ladle the Goodness Wednesday, August 4, 2010 Anthony Carroccio, the executive director of Santa Barbara’s Organic Soup Kitchen and a naturally talented chef, practices what he preaches. A Rhode Island native and self-...
I met the dynamic Beck Kanis, a key leader of the Common Ground Movement, in SF at the recent Health Care for the Homeless Conference and since then she and I have been working on planning for her to come to Santa Barbara to introduce Common Ground, vulnerability mapping and the 100,000 Homes...
Helping the Homeless Survive: the Organic Soup Kitchen It’s a topic that’s tough to think about: the homeless. There are those of us who do what we can for them—drop change in a bucket, spend a day serving food at a homeless shelter, or donate to a charity. Some dive in and do everything they...
Soup Kitchen Booted From Veterans Memorial Building The Organic Soup Kitchen will serve its final Sunday brunch to the homeless from the Veterans Memorial Building on June 13th. After that, the 9-month-old free food program will be just like its patrons, without a permanent home. However,...
Meet Our Sizzling Summer BBQ Contest Finalists Contest Finalists Announced; Public Invited to Root on Their Favorites Thursday, May 20, 2010 And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for with hopeful, sticky hands: The Indy proudly announces the finalists, culled from more than two dozen...
Robert Mislang Joins Montecito Bank & Trust http://www.noozhawk.com/noozhawk/article/042110_robert_mislang_joins_montecito_bank_trust/ By Carolyn Tulloh He will serve as vice president and senior branch manager of the bank's Montecito office Robert Mislang Robert Mislang...
Organic Soup Kitchen of Santa Barbara, California held its first annual Easter Feast at the Veterans Memorial Building on Sunday from 8am to 4pm. During the event, Founder and Executive Director, Anthony Carroccio, announced “Starting June 1, we’ll be expanding our community outreach program to...
Peet’s Coffee & Tea Uptown has collaborated with Organic Soup Kitchen of Santa Barbara, California to provide GAIA Organic Blend coffees in Organic Soup Kitchen’s ongoing “feeding community” effort. On March 21st, Peet’s donated the coffee for Organic Soup Kitchen’s Sunday brunch, which is...
Organic Soup Kitchen of Santa Barbara, California served 1,000 people at its first annual Christmas Breakfast & Dinner, held at the Veterans Memorial Building on Friday from 8am to 5pm. “Support for the event was truly a communitywide effort,” said founder Anthony Carroccio on Friday. “I am...
November 24th, 2009 by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg If you’ve done any volunteering in homeless shelters or soup kitchens, you know that these institutions have to focus on stretching their dollars to feed as many people as possible… so organic and/or local produce may be out of the question. Santa...