Give Back. Get Pie.
Now through 11/22, your purchase of a locally baked apple, pecan, or pumpkin Thanksgiving pie from Community Servings provides a week of meals for a neighbor in need. Order today to make a difference!
David B. Waters has been with Community Servings since its founding in 1989, moving from volunteer to board member, Board Chair, Director of Development, and, since 1999, CEO.
Under David’s leadership, Community Servings has evolved from a neighborhood meals program to a critical regional program providing medically tailored nutrition to thousands of people with acute illnesses across Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In 2025, David founded Community Servings’ AMPL Institute with the aim of making medically tailored nutrition a universally accessible standard of care nationally. The agency is currently the largest research site of medically tailored meals in the U.S. Community Servings has co-authored eight peer-reviewed publications and currently co-leads three NIH R01 nutrition studies in partnership with the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University, the UNC School of Medicine, and UMass Chan Medical School.
An advocate for integrating medically tailored nutrition into the healthcare system, David has formed partnerships with leading healthcare payers and providers to better link clinical care and social services, designing some of the country’s first health insurance contracts for prescription meals.
David is the former Board Chair of the Association of Nutrition Service Agencies and is a founding member of the national Food is Medicine Coalition (FIMC). He co-leads the FIMC Accelerator to incubate new medically tailored meals programs around the country. In recognition of his leadership and impact, David was named a Barr Foundation Fellow in 2017. In 2026, he was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy. A resident of Cambridge, David holds graduate degrees from Middlebury College and Boston University and is a trustee of the Carroll School.