Steveanna Wynn, Executive Director of SHARE Food Programs and a Collaborative client, sat down with us recently to talk about SHARE's mission, secrets to sustaining a nonprofit, the food-focused future of SHARE's Hunting Park facility, and how the Collaborative helped her nonprofit. We invite you to sit in!

The Collaborative first met Steveanna in spring of 2011 when we organized a design charrette for SHARE. The nonprofit had just purchased the former aircraft parts factory where it has distributed food to nonprofit organizations from Brooklyn to the Eastern Shore for more than a dozen years. Now it's working to transform the site into a healthy food and urban agriculture hub. Running a Nonprofit: "It's never a problem, it's a challenge"

The Design Charrette: "All of a sudden, it was like... POOF!"



Steveanna concluded, “The amount of time that [the volunteers] spent in this building going through the basement, going through the upstairs, walking through every space, taking pictures, writing things down, getting things to scale... it was like we were the thing… like we were the most important piece of this.” Steveanna adds, "We could not have had a better group of folks that totally got who we were, totally got what we did, totally got why we did it... they were phenomenal... it was a great experience."

The first in a "Meet Our Clients" mini-series. Interviews conducted by Collaborative intern Kara Silberthau and edited by Linda Dottor.