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Tireless advocate for the hungry Catherine D’Amato to receive 2011 Dr. Susan M. Love Award
Catherine D’Amato is the recipient of this year’s Dr. Susan M. Love
Award which will be given at The 20th Women’s Dinner Party May 7.
Catherine is President and CEO of The Greater Boston Food Bank,
New England’s largest hunger-relief organization. She has been an
advocate for the hungry for more than 25 years, working tirelessly to
engage others in corporate and civic communities to support this
important cause. |
Catherine has been a long time supporter of Fenway and of Women’s
Health. Her work to help end hunger is especially important to the
health of women and single mothers with families, groups that make up a
disproportionate number of those lacking access to nutritious food.
Catherine assumed her leadership position at The Greater Boston Food
Bank in 1995 after heading up the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
and, before that, the San Francisco Food Bank. Under her vision and
leadership, The Greater Boston Food Bank has been transformed into a
nearly $63 million charitable business, an organization that now leads
the region in providing nutritious food to approximately 550 member
hunger-relief organizations. These agencies annually serve more than
394,000 – and possibly as many as 545,000 – hungry residents of the
nine counties and 190 cities and towns of eastern Massachusetts. The
Greater Boston Food Bank distributes more than 34 million pounds of food
and grocery products annually.
Catherine currently serves on the board of directors of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Boston, the Boston Foundation, the Massachusetts Food
Association, and Basic Health International. She was named vice chair
of the Boston Foundation’s board of directors in 2009. She also serves
on the Pinnacle Leadership & Team Development Advisory Board and is
a guest lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Simmons
College, and UMass Boston.
Each year, the Dr. Susan M. Love Award is given to
honor and celebrate a woman and/or organization that has made a
significant contribution to the field of women’s health. The Love
Award is given in honor of its founding recipient, Dr. Susan M. Love, a
pioneer in the fields of women’s health and breast cancer. Love helped
found the Revlon/UCLA Breast Center in 1992 and currently heads up the
Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation which is dedicated to eradicating
breast cancer.
The 2011 Women’s Dinner Party
is being held on Saturday, May 7 from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. at The Westin
Copley Place. 2011 marks the Women’s Dinner Party’s 20th year as an
elegant attire fundraiser for Fenway Health
that brings together more than 1,200 lesbian, transgender and bisexual
women and their friends and supporters for a night of dinner and
dancing. This year’s event is made possible thanks to the hard work of
event chairs Ann Rogers, M.Ed., An G. Hinds and Suffolk County Sheriff
Andrea J. Cabral, as well as the support of our generous corporate
sponsors, including Presenting Sponsor Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center. More information is available at www.womensdinnerparty.org.
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