A sense of urgency is behind Project Angel Food’s tireless fundraising.

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

Role models/heroes: Mother Teresa, [Mahatma] Gandhi, President Clinton, Martin Luther King Jr.

Responsibilities: Executive management and fundraising.

Challenges: “There is a constant need to raise funds, as public funding provides only 10 percent of our total budget. Managing expenses is a challenge as we are really creating a product (fresh meals) every day, and the cost of delivery and production increases each year. It is also a challenge to draw attention to hunger in this community of abundance. We act out of a sense of urgency because hunger and illness cannot wait.”