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Diane Bevan recognized with the Kip Tiernan Award
Sudbury resident Diane Bevan has been supporting the Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) since 1999, including serving as the chair of GBFB’s Innovative Development Council. According to GBFB: “She has made a lasting impact on GBFB in several capacities, including leading the IDC and its members through the challenges of the pandemic, organizing fundraising efforts such as a women’s golf tournament and GBFB’s Thank-a-Thon, making donor calls, volunteering at the warehouse, and participating in a lifetime of charitable giving.” This year, GBFB recognized those contributions with the Kip Tiernan Award.
The award recognizes “an individual or organization that demonstrates extraordinary leadership in philanthropic and human services and exemplifies GBFB’s mission through outstanding involvement, dedication, and leadership in working with others to help end hunger in the community.” The award was renamed this year in honor of GBFB founder Kip Tiernan, and to commemorate 50 years since she began distributing food from her own station wagon in 1974. That effort eventually grew into the GBFB organization.
GBFB CEO Catherine D’Amato had high praise for Bevan:
“Few can say they have been engaged with GBFB for as long and in as many ways as Diane, who consistently goes out of her way to advocate for our mission and those in need. Fifty years after our humble beginnings, we are lucky to have an outstanding leader like Diane to champion our efforts and carry on Kip’s history of innovation and selflessness.”
GBFB CEO, Catherine D’Amato
A full list of honorees is available here.
62% of the Sudbury Food Pantry’s food is sourced from the GBFB, according to their 2023 annual report. The Sudbury Food Pantry distributed 30,618 bags of food in 2023, valued at $727,756. GBFB is the source of over 100,000 pounds of produce, meat, poultry and seafood distributed by the Sudbury Food Pantry in 2023.