View allAll Photos Tagged Ed
The Executive Board of UN Women meet at UN headquarters in New York City on 24 January 2013.
Photo Credit: UN Women/Catianne Tijerina
080614 ed's and a shed at eastleigh. Front line of 4 from nearest camera 73107,73212,73119 and 73207.The two with the shed are 73109 nearest camera and 73201
"Story Like the Wind" by Ed Ramsburg
The artist donated this acrylic painting for the DelaPLAINe & Fancy Gala on April 28, 2012
Oregon State Representative Ed Diehl speaking with attendees at the 2022 Hazlitt Summit hosted by the Young Americans for Liberty Foundation at the DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando Airport in Orlando, Florida.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
sadly i forgot my camera so i was left with bad resolution cell phone pictures. we were actually much closer than it looks in the photo ♥
Carolyn and Ed Rose, married 50 years, founded MEND (Meet Each Need With Dignity) in the 1970's out of their garage in Mission Hills. With help from a lot of other people with similar passions and concerns about the poverty being faced in our country, they were able to grow the organization into a foundation which helps about 30,000 families a month. They provide balanced meals for families, clothing, health care services, diabetic care, and more. MEND is unique in that it is powered almost completely by volunteers. Some that have even utilized the services of MEND themselves for their families when they were in a time of need. MEND's main goal is to help others become self-sufficient and empower them to live meaningful lives.
_____
Ed: In the beginning, our first thoughts were just to help people, so there was no such thing as a big picture of MEND in our vision at all. There was a group of us, and we worked with a catholic priest in San Fernando at Santa Rosa Catholic church in the 1970’s, and as the people would come to him asking for help, we were going to respond to it.
Carolyn: at the beginning we were all volunteers. We did the basic Band-Aid services, (that’s what we called them) we couldn’t do anything major because we all were working and none of us had any money, so three of us put little food pantries in our garages and we also had the clothing and some of the furniture in our garage. We started with no money, and we would go to different pastors when we needed money, to ask for support, then later on our pastor suggested we become a non-profit so we could really go out and solicit money and people would be willing to give more because they could get the tax right off and not have to go through the church.
Carolyn: Everybody agreed we wanted to do this outreach kind of thing in Pacoima because the needs are so great in this area, and that is basically how we started mend.
Ed: We have grown to be really one of the best, course I’m prejudice…
Carolyn: (laughs)
Ed: …one of the best non-profit agencies in the valley if not of all Los Angeles. A lot of it has to do with Marianne’s leadership, our president, we were really lucky, cause if you get the wrong leader, they can do a lot of damage to an organization., and were just so lucky we got a really top-notched person who really cared.
Carolyn: a lot of our staff people have some of those same qualities. In todays society we need to be able to do that. We help each other, we share things with each other, and especially the food department, they share with other food pantries or other places, we have an excess of something, they have an excess of something, so we trade. We are getting to have a larger base because of all of the people here that are doing so much, the staff plus volunteer’s, we are always on the look out for new volunteers. A lot of our volunteers and staff have a lot of empathy, and some of our staff were clients and then volunteers, and even some of out other staff maybe had not been clients but they grew up in situations where they were very poor and so they have really good understanding of what’s going on.
Ed: When I grew up we didn’t have a lot. So, just different experiences I had. I remember one time in grade school we were having a play and we were supposed to do a square dance… thing, and so I wore what I considered to be my best jeans down there and this other kid that I knew said, Jesus, those things look horrible, you should have told me I would have loaned you one of my pair of pants…
And I just made a joke and said we’re supposed to be westerners and so I wore these pants but really they were the best pants I had!
Ed: I feel that there is a huge amount of our population in this country that have really good hearts and would like to do something, and we make that possible here at MEND because other organizations may be medical or legal and they only need a certain kind of people with a certain skill set, but here, anybody that wants to help we can have them help us, whether its filing, or cleaning the building, or doing things in the medical center. Up in the medical center every professional is a volunteer. The nurses, dentists [pharmacist, optometrist’s, 100% percent are volunteers, a variety of them. We offer people a chance to do what their heart tells them to do.
Ed Alleyne-Johnson busking one friday in York. Ed is an acomplished musician and has been producing and performing music for years. Fans of New Model Army will recognise him as their electric violinist.
Read all about him here...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Alleyne-Johnson
Next time you are wandering the streets of York and you hear the sounds of an electric violin wafting through the air, pop by and pick up one of his albums - he'll even autograph it for you - ace!
Congressman Ed Whitfield speaking at the victory party on election day, in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Seven speakers offered their ideas about educating the whole student — mind, body and spirit — at ED Talks: Big Ideas About Educating the Whole Student, on Monday, August 5, at the MTA Summer Conference at Williams College. Based on the TED Talks model, each speaker presented "ideas worth sharing."
Pictured is Camille Napier Bernstein, communications, creative writing and English teacher at Natick High School.