Rumor has it: A conversation about Your Bargain Grocer with Mike Servello Sr., Compassion Coalition founder and CEO Why is the food so cheap — is it all expired? No, it’s not all expired. We’re buying in massive amounts and we do not mark it up as much as a traditional grocery store, so […]
Stay In Your Lane To Create Lasting Change!
My entire professional career has been in the non profit world, and what has always amazed me is the duplication of services by a million different titles and names, yet when you narrow down exactly what these programs are doing in our communities, a lot of them are exactly the same at the root. Compassion […]
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 […]