Compassion Coalition, along with Baldor Specialty Foods and Redeemer Church in Albany, is distributing fresh produce for those in need during the coronavirus pandemic. Volunteers organized and packaged fresh produce to be distributed at various locations in Albany, to benefit vulnerable populations during this time, including school children. A total of 18,000 pounds of produce […]
Compassion Coalition featured on Fox Business segment
Our founder Mike Servello was recently interviewed by Fox Business News below is the transcription of the interview and you watch the interview here. David Asman: Well, Thanksgiving marking the beginning of the season for giving and many businesses offer support to organizations, like the Compassion Coalition & Bargain Grocery. It’s a non-profit, it’s been working for […]
Bargain Grocery hosts cooking lesson for parents
In May we hosted our first community meeting for Martin Luther King Elementary School’s PAC program in our new commercial kitchen Bargain Grocer! We learned how to make pasta with two sauces with parents, while Proctor ROTC cadets watched the kiddos, then we ate a community meal together. How amazing is it to live in a […]
Why entrepreneurs are needed in the nonprofit world
Why entrepreneurs are needed in the nonprofit world: A conversation with Mike Servello Sr., Compassion Coalition founder and CEO, and Rachel Daughtry, Director of Agency Relations. Rachel: Compassion Coalition has grown steadily and exponentially year after year since our inception, but it’s taken a lot of hard work on the part of our team. We […]
Hunger and Waste, What Can I Do About It? PART ONE:
I kicked off my professional career working in a victims crime unit of a police department on the West Coast. If you would have asked me all those years ago that maybe one day I would be working day in and day out to solve the issue of food accessibility and equality in a food […]
4 Facts About Compassion Coalition with CEO and Founder Michael Servello Sr.
1. What spurred you to start Compassion Coalition? We started in 2000 as a result of seeing the increasing unmet needs of the less fortunate of our area were experiencing. I was heading out of town on a business trip and picked up our local newspaper, and the front page showed that food pantries were […]
