{"id":13192,"date":"2009-03-25T13:24:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T20:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=13192"},"modified":"2015-08-17T14:49:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T21:49:59","slug":"volunteering-makes-a-difference-one-meal-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/volunteering-makes-a-difference-one-meal-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering makes a difference one meal at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to feeding the hungry,\u00a0Steve Saville<\/strong>\u00a0doesn\u2019t hesitate to dish up a plate.<\/p>\n

Saville, business development director for\u00a0The Lumberjack<\/em>\u00a0newspaper, has dedicated thousands of hours of volunteer community service over the years, striving to make the community a better place.<\/p>\n

As current president of Flagstaff Family Food Center, an organization providing emergency food services, Saville became involved through his six years of serving on the United Way board.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was on the allocations committee, where you go out to other agencies and analyze them,\u201d Saville said. \u201cThat\u2019s when I kind of fell in love with the food center.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saville volunteers 30 to 40 hours each month. He helps with the business side of things as well as serves food twice a month.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you see a 6-year-old come in by herself for a meal, you realize how fortunate you are,\u201d Saville said. \u201cThere\u2019s not a huge homeless population here in Flagstaff, so we mostly serve the working poor.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of the food comes from community partners such as grocery stores, restaurants and Sodexo at NAU, and \u201cit\u2019s not just calories,\u201d says Saville, as each nutritious meal includes a fresh salad, fruit, protein, starches and a dessert. Volunteers also assist more than 600 children per month with reading and homework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Want to help?<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Flagstaff Family
\nFood Center\u00a0
\n<\/strong>(928) 774-3188
\n1903 N Second St
\nFlagstaff, Arizona\u00a0 86004
\nMake a donation<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cVolunteering builds a culture of caring and giving,\u201d Saville said. \u201cIt takes everyone out of their self-centered lives and with just a little effort and energy you truly can make a difference in somebody\u2019s life. With my job at NAU, I\u2019m in a position to go out and do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides volunteering for Flagstaff Family Food Center, Saville started a special care nursery reunion picnic, offering a chance for any child who spent time in a neonatal unit to say thank-you to doctors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started this as a way to say thank-you for my daughter who was born pre-mature,\u201d Saville said. \u201cThe nurses and doctors come back to the picnic each year to see these children as they grow up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saville also has served up many other contributions in the past by volunteering with the YMCA, Theatrikos and the Flagstaff Rotary Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to feeding the hungry,\u00a0Steve Saville\u00a0doesn\u2019t hesitate to dish up a plate. Saville, business development director for\u00a0The Lumberjack\u00a0newspaper, has dedicated thousands of hours of volunteer community service over the years, striving to make the community a better place. As current president of Flagstaff Family Food Center, an organization providing emergency food services, Saville…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":13193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}