JoAnn Pike Humanitarian Award
Good Shepherd Food-Bank invites your support in advancing a great cause and honoring an outstanding community leader and institution. Michael E. Dubyak, Chairman and CEO of Wright Express, will receive the 2012 JoAnn Pike Humanitarian Award on May 15 at the Holiday Inn By the Bay in Portland, Maine.
This celebration honoring the leadership of Mike and Wright Express also serves as a signature opportunity to raise funds needed to eliminate hunger in our communities. Wright Express and Good Shepherd Food-Bank are committed to the fundamental stand that no one should go hungry in Maine. We are asking for your leadership in sponsoring an event that advances this common purpose.
Press Release Announcing 2012 Humanitarian Award Recipient >
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Past Award Recipients
Each year Good Shepherd Food-Bank has the distinct honor of selecting the JoAnn Pike Humanitarian Award recipient and presenting the award at our annual Humanitarian Dinner in May. The award is named after our founder JoAnn Pike, who started a food bank in her home in 1981 to provide food for her neighbors in need. It is because of JoAnn’s remarkable dedication and passion to serve others that the Good Shepherd Food-Bank has grown from serving a few neighbors, to now distributing 12 million pounds of food annually throughout the entire state.
The spirit of our beloved founder and her altruistic generosity lives on through the many supporters who offer their talents, resources and hearts to help feed Maine’s hungry. A JoAnn Pike Humanitarian Award recipient is an individual or organization whose charitable efforts have not only helped to end hunger in Maine, but whose leadership and commitment to the non-profit community has enriched the lives of Mainers throughout the state.
2011 Honoree - Albert Lepage and Andy Barowsky
Albert Lepage is the Chairman, and Andy Barowsky, the President and CEO, of Lepage Bakeries. Albert Lepage and Andy Barowsky have been active in supporting education, health services, and the arts.
Albert Lepage has served on the boards of directors at L/A Arts, the Portland Symphony, the United Way of Androscoggin County, Hebron Academy as Vice-Chairman and Treasurer, and St. Mary’s Health System as Chairman.
Andy Barowsky has served as President of the Auburn-Lewiston YMCA board of directors and as a member of the Central Maine Healthcare board. He currently serves on the Gulf of Maine Research board of directors and is Vice-Chairman of the Dominican University of California board of trustees.
2010 Honoree – Lawrence A. Wold, Maine Market President, TD Bank
Larry Wold is Maine Market President for TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank®.
Larry has 24 years of commercial lending experience in Maine. Prior to his current position, he served as TD Bank’s Executive Vice President of Commercial Lending, Southern Maine Region. Larry joined the company in 1991 as a Commercial Loan Officer. He began his banking career in the commercial lending department of Casco Bank, the Maine affiliate of the Bank of Boston.
Larry is an active member of the community. He currently serves on the Boards of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Portland Regional Chamber, the Maine Real Estate Development Association, Maine & Company, and the Maine Association of Community Banks’ Executive Committee. His is past President of the Maine Real Estate Development Association and a past board member of Friends of Casco Bay. He has been involved in the Southern Maine fundraising community for many years.
2009 Honoree – David Barber, Executive Vice-President, Barber Foods
Chicken is in David Barber’s blood. He has lived and breathed the family business his entire life, starting as a young child going into work with his father Gus, who founded Barber Foods over 55 years ago with his wife Marjorie. He joined the company full time in 1981 after receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Babson College in Wellesley, MA.
In David’s current position as Executive Vice President, he plays an integral role in multiple areas of the business in addition to his focus on Sales and Marketing. David helps to insure that his late father Gus’ legacy of an unshakeable commitment to quality and service continues.
Barber Foods is committed to sustainable practices by investing in their workforce, growing their community, and maintaining facilities that minimize the impact to the environment. They donate over 1 million meal servings to food-banks annually and they are the single largest provider of protein in the entire state to the Good Shepherd Food-Bank. Over $2 million of product has been donated to Good Shepherd in the past six years alone. In addition, Barber Foods donated over $1 million each year to charitable organizations combating hunger and creating a better community.
2008 Honoree – Ronald C. Hodge, CEO of Delhaize America Operations
Ronald C. Hodge is former President and Chief Executive Officer of Hannaford and was with the organization for over 28 years. He was appointed CEO of Delhaize America Operations in 2009.
Throughout his impressive career with Hannaford & Delhaize America Operations, Ron has proven to be a true civic leader, spending time, resources and energy supporting organizations such as the United Way, the YMCA, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the MS Society, the Kidney Foundation, the American Heart Association, and Maine Medical Center.
Ron has received numerous awards for his charitable spirit, including the 1995 Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Center for the Disabled and the Capital District YMCA’s 1997 Citizen of the Year. Here in Maine, Ron has chaired annual fundraising efforts for the American Heart Association and Kidney Foundation, and served on the board of Maine Medical Center and the Food Marketing Institute.
It was under Ron’s leadership that Hannaford’s contribution to the Good Shepherd Food-Bank grew to nearly six million pounds of food per year. He has been a crucial partner to our work - helping us to feed over 36,000 hard working Mainers each month who otherwise may not know where their next meal would come from.