Project Open Hand

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
Project Open Hand was created in 1985 by <a href="/facts/Ruth_Brinker/aXubQf3x">Ruth Brinker</a>, who had worked in food service and as an executive director for <a href="/facts/Meals_on_Wheels/2HpTz6df">Meals on Wheels</a> and recognized the relatively small number of <a href="/facts/Social_services/18zC4vKy">social services</a> for those infected with <a href="/facts/HIV/ulY2rgzu">HIV</a> and their particular need for nourishing food since there was at the time no treatment for AIDS.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1">1</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2">2</a> It began as meal service to seven people with AIDS,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3">3</a> paid for by a $2,000 grant from the <a href="/facts/San_Francisco_Zen_Center/nlUgq7M5">San Francisco Zen Center</a> and the Golden Gate Business Association.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4">4</a> Meals were initially cooked in her kitchen and later at Trinity Episcopal Church;<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5">5</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6">6</a> in 1987, a grant from the <a href="/facts/Chevron_Corporation/c4sF7R9s">Chevron Corporation</a> enabled a move to a professional kitchen, and Project Open Hand took over a food bank.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a> In 1991, it also took over the AIDS Food Bank from the <a href="/facts/San_Francisco_AIDS_Foundation/IRjkxgpY">San Francisco AIDS Foundation</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8">8</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9">9</a> It served 500 meals a day by 1988, and opened its <a href="/facts/Oakland%2c_California/84tfrNlx">Oakland</a> branch on October 17, 1989, the day of the <a href="/facts/Loma_Prieta_earthquake/7J6Quzou">Loma Prieta earthquake</a>;<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10">10</a> it opened a second professional kitchen in Oakland in 1996, and in 1997 moved to 730 Polk Street, which it had purchased as its headquarters.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11">11</a>
Tom Nolan, executive director from 1994 to 2011, began expanding the organization's mission to include senior citizens and people with serious illnesses other than AIDS and chronic conditions such as <a href="/facts/Diabetes/2xeHXbsI">diabetes</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12">12</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13">13</a> Nolan was succeeded by Kevin Winge,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14">14</a> who expanded food pickup services from those with HIV or <a href="/facts/Breast_cancer/6hME580v">breast cancer</a> to people with other conditions including <a href="/facts/Diabetes/2xeHXbsI">diabetes</a> and <a href="/facts/Heart_disease/HD420nMv">heart disease</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15">15</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16">16</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17">17</a> followed in 2016 by Mark Ryle.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18">18</a> Paul Hepfer became executive director in March 2019.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19">19</a>
In 2014–16, Project Open Hand participated in a study by the <a href="/facts/University_of_California%2c_San_Francisco/tPU2yHuW">University of California, San Francisco</a> of the role of nutritious food in supporting the sick;<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20">20</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21">21</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22">22</a> since its institution in June 2017, it has played a major role in Food is Medicine, a three-year state-funded pilot project to provide medically tailored meals to chronically ill people receiving assistance through <a href="/facts/Medi-Cal/BBlNX9bw">Medi-Cal</a>, the California version of <a href="/facts/Medicaid/ml1fNWjX">Medicaid</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23">23</a>
Much of the organization's work is done by volunteers, 125 a day in 2003.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24">24</a> It is funded by a combination of donations, including from foundations such as the <a href="/facts/Isabel_Allende/PE3kyQAp">Isabel Allende Foundation</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25">25</a> federal, and city assistance. As of June 1996 it delivered 1,600 dinners a day and 1,500 bags of groceries a week, and provided as many as 300 bags of groceries to walk-in clients at its food bank.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26">26</a> As of July 2003 it was serving almost 2,000 clients a day,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27">27</a> and in 2004 it had a total of 30,000 clients.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28">28</a> As of August 2011 it was receiving $5.6 million a year in donations and government funding and serving almost 2,600 meals a day, to seniors and people with cancer and other serious illnesses in addition to AIDS, as well as providing groceries.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29">29</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30">30</a> As of April 2015 it had a $10 million budget and served approximately 8,000 clients, including 4,400 in the senior lunch program.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31">31</a> As of February 2019 it provided 2,500 meals and 200 bags of groceries a day.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32">32</a> Until 2020, when the <a href="/facts/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area/sxtqDKXv">COVID-19 pandemic</a> prevented it, it also hosted holiday gatherings at the end of the year.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33">33</a>
Responding to the AIDS emergency led many charities formed at the time, including Project Open Hand, to prioritize services over bookkeeping; after being taken to task by the <a href="/facts/Bay_Area_Reporter/uR7ddFo4">Bay Area Reporter</a>, the organization instituted a board of directors and reduced pay for the director.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34">34</a> In the late 1980s and early 1990s its finances were investigated and no improprieties found.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35">35</a>
Singer-songwriter <a href="/facts/Sylvester_(singer)/M3VCH3Iu">Sylvester</a> dictated in his will that posthumous proceeds from his albums would be directed to Project Open Hand and the AIDS Emergency Fund.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36">36</a> After the fulfillment of his past debts in the 1990s, the balance of his proceeds have been split between the two organizations since.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:37" href="#fn:37">37</a>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.openhand.org">Project Open Hand</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:2">Kane, Will (2011-11-30) [2011-08-14]. "Ruth Brinker, Project Open Hand founder, dies". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-02-06. <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/13/BAMS1KMB8S.DTL" target="_blank">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/13/BAMS1KMB8S.DTL</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">"Project Open Hand: Volunteers Are Heart And Soul Of Organization". KGO-TV. 2003-07-07 [2003-07-02]. Archived from the original on 2005-04-15. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050415220623/http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/salutes/070403_salutes_open_hand.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20050415220623/http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/salutes/070403_salutes_open_hand.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:9">"Timeline". Annual Report 2011. San Francisco AIDS Foundation. 2012-04-29. p. 14. 1991: The AIDS Food Bank transfers to Project Open Hand. <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_AIDS_Foundation" target="_blank">/wiki/San_Francisco_AIDS_Foundation</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:10">Pullen, Suzanne (2005-07-23). "The Jefferson Award: Ruth Brinker, AIDS project founder". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110514000835/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2005%2F07%2F23%2FEDGM7C8L1J1.DTL" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110514000835/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2005%2F07%2F23%2FEDGM7C8L1J1.DTL</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:12">"Executive Director Tom Nolan To Leave Project Open Hand" (press release). Project Open Hand. 2011-02-09. Archived from the original on 2011-04-15. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110415161415/http://www.openhand.org/2011/02/08/executive-director-tom-nolan-to-leave-project-open-hand/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110415161415/http://www.openhand.org/2011/02/08/executive-director-tom-nolan-to-leave-project-open-hand/</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:13">Vigil, Delfin (2017-01-26). "Tom Nolan Volunteer Service Award". Project Open Hand. Retrieved 2021-02-06. <a href="https://www.openhand.org/blog/tom-nolan-volunteer-service-award" target="_blank">https://www.openhand.org/blog/tom-nolan-volunteer-service-award</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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