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I Love My Job: Greater Boston Food Bank President and CEO Catherine D’Amato
The Greater Boston Food Bank feeds more than 140,000 people each month.
by HAYLEY GLATTER· 5/1/2018
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The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) is the "largest hunger-relief organization in New England and among the largest food banks in the country."  Last year the GBFB delivered over 100 million pounds of food to people in need.  Their ultimate goal is to be able to provide three meals a day, and healthy-living-support, to every person in need in Eastern Massachusetts. 

Run by a female-dominant leadership team,  the GBFB's President and CEO is Catherine D'Amato, who is confident that "hunger is a solvable problem and that our energy and intention needs to be converted to actual outcomes that cause and affect change for families to access healthy, better food," shared D'Amato.

Working in the "food banking" industry comes naturally to D'Amato, as her family ran a restaurant during her childhood and she was taught at a young age to help those in need.  "If anyone came to the back door of the restaurant to beg for food in exchange for work, we were to feed them. And they were treated with dignity and respect and brought into the front of the restaurant and sat down, and they were fed. So that’s an impression that stayed with me." said D'Amato.  

Although giving back runs in her blood, D'Amato has a passion for singing and songwriting: "I studied a lot to do that. And I still love it," she said.  D'Amato has had an opportunity to share this passion over the years by singing at the National Anthem Red Sox games. Sounds like she and Taylor Swift have a few things in common: singing, songwriting and a commitment to ending food insecurity. 

To learn read the full story from Boston Magazine click here and to learn more about D'Amato's inspiring leadership team at the GBFB, click here.  

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