Bio
ﾠﾠﾠDavid B. Waters; CEO, Community Servings, Boston, MA -- David has been involved with Community Servings as a board member, volunteer and staff person since its founding twenty years ago and became the Executive Director/CEO in 1999. With a staff of 38, the agency delivers lunch, dinner and a snack to 1500 critically ill individuals and families per year across 200 square miles. In 2008, the agency added a new food service job training program, a social enterprise effort feeding local schools, and several sustainable agriculture initiatives, in addition to offering technical assistance to a partner agency in South Africa. Community Servings recently won two prestigious innovation awards from the Smaller Business Association of New England and the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, and was voted Bostons Favorite Non-Profit by the readers of the Boston Phoenix.
With 35 years experience in food service management, David served as the General Manager of the four-star UpStairs at the Pudding restaurant in Cambridge for eight years, where he first created Community Servings annual Pie in the Sky Thanksgiving pie sale, which is now replicated in cities around the country. He has been honored by the American Marketing Association in the field of nonprofit marketing, and received the Hero Among Us award from the Boston Celtics and the Ronald M. Leavell Award from The Dimock Center. Most recently, he was honored to receive the 2009 Social Justice Award from Wainwright Bank. He is the former Board Chair of the international Association of Nutrition Service Agencies (ANSA), serves on their Board Executive Committee, and will chair their 2010 annual nutrition conference in San Diego.
David has a MA in Fiction Writing from Boston University and an MA in English Literature from Middlebury College.