Growing Home Annual Benefit June 3rd June 3, 2010

The Growing Home 8th Annual Benefit is an evening of fun and good food for a good cause—Growing Home. Guests will be treated to an early evening cocktail hour with an open wine bar and hors d’oeuvres followed by a seated three-course dinner which will feature local ingredients. A wide variety of silent auction items will be available throughout the evening, with all proceeds benefitting Growing Home. This year’s keynote address will be given by acclaimed author and food activist Frances Moore Lappé.
Growing Home’s 8th Annual Benefit will attract over 300 foodies, socialites, and environmentalists for an evening to celebrate this fantastic organization. Growing Home is a non-profit business, started in 1992 by Les Brown, director of policy for the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, which provides job training for homeless and low-income individuals in Chicago through a social enterprise business based on organic agriculture. The evening’s culinary creations will be provided by sustainably-focused chefs, culinary artisans and Growing Home’s Job Training Program Interns.

Hors D'oeuvres by the Great Taste Cafe and The Balanced Kitchen: (www.gfreev.com)
Wine Bar Sponsored by Candid Wines (www.candidwines.com)
Salad Course by Growing Home's Job Training Program Interns (www.growinghomeinc.org/job-training) with Chef Kocoa Scott-Winbush (www.kocoaskitchen.com)
Main Course by Monogramme Catering and Events (www.monogrammeevents.com)
Dessert Course by Raw Creations (www.raw-creations.com)
Table Favors by Katherine Anne Confections (www.katherine-anne.com)

For Tickets: www.growinghomeinc.org/tickets10 or for more information: www.growinghomeinc.org

More information about Frances Moore Lappe:
Frances Moore Lappé is the author of 18 books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. She is the co-founder of three national organizations that explore the roots of hunger, poverty and environmental crises, as well as solutions now emerging worldwide through what she calls Living Democracy. With her daughter Anna Lappé, she co-directs the Small Planet Institute based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

More information about Growing Home:
Growing Home is committed to helping individuals transform their lives. Since its inception, Growing Home has worked towards this by providing a transitional job program that lets previously-incarcerated and previously-homeless individuals prepare to re-enter the workforce not only by teaching job skills, but also by providing the chance to engage in what is for many a transformational experience. Our program is different from other workforce development programs because of our intense focus on the transformational possibilities inherent in learning to nurture and grow one’s own food. For more information about Growing Home, please visit: www.growinghomeinc.org.