Robert Egger Visits Hydro
1-2-2007
Begging for Change author and CEO Robert Egger visited Challenge's Hydro facilities Friday.
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Robert Egger is the Founder and President of the
DC Central Kitchen.
At the Kitchen, food donated by regional foodservice businesses is used to fuel
the Kitchen’s nationally recognized culinary arts job training program, where
unemployed men and women learn marketable skills while donations are converted
into balanced meals.
In Washington, Robert Chairs the Mayor’s Commission on Nutrition and Street
Sense, Washington’s “homeless” newspaper. He is also on the Board of the Food
Systems Leadership Institute, which is based at UNC in Chapel Hill, NC and
RESULTS. He was the Co-Convener of the Nonprofit Congress, held in Washington DC
in 2006
Robert
was included in the Non Profit Times' list of the “50 Most Powerful and
Influential Nonprofit Leaders of 2006”. He is also the recipient of the 2005
Volunteers of America Community Service award and the 2004 James Beard
Foundations Humanitarian of the Year award. He has also been named an Oprah
Angel, a Washingtonian of the Year, a Point of Light and one of the Ten Most
Caring People in America, by the Caring Institute. He is also a 13-gallon donor
to the American Red Cross.
Robert’s book on the non-profit sector, Begging for Change, The Dollars and
Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient and Rewarding For All, was
released in 2004 by HarperCollins. It was recently awarded the 2005 McAdams
Prize for “Best Nonprofit Management Book” by the Alliance for Nonprofit
Management.