May 21, 2025 • 15 mins
Food, companionship... someone keeping an eye on those homebound seniors who need another touchpoint to ensure their safety. Meals on Wheels of Southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky is expanding because there is more need
My guest today is the new CEO of Meals on Wheels Mike Dunn. He's a proven leader, with a long track record of leading non-profits and other community organizations during transformational periods of growth. Mike explains how MOW is growing and their ambitious campaign to expand and serve more Tri-State seniors.
My guest today is the new CEO of Meals on Wheels Mike Dunn. He's a proven leader, with a long track record of leading non-profits and other community organizations during transformational periods of growth. Mike explains how MOW is growing and their ambitious campaign to expand and serve more Tri-State seniors.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This week on iHeart Cincy.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's the beginning of a relationship with the driver in
that senior.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
You know, it's more than food, it's companionship, someone keeping
an eye on those homebound seniors who need another touch
point to ensure their safety. Meals on Wheels of Southern
Ohio and Northern Kentucky is expanding because.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
There is more need.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
More seniors need their services more than just a meal.
My guest today is the new CEO of Meals on
Wheels of the Tri State, Mike Dunn. He's a proven
leader with a long track record of leading nonprofits and
other community organizations during transformational periods of growth. Mike explains
how Meals on Wheels is growing and tells us about
(00:40):
an ambitious campaign to expand and serve more Tri Staters
and later, please.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Don't forget to bring your lawn chairs because it is
an outdoor mass.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well Memorial Day coming up Monday, May twenty six, tri
stats can attend a mass led by Cincinnati's new Archbishop.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Robert G.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Casey on the sacred ground of Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery.
Thousands are to join together at the annual Memorial Day
Field Mass honoring those who served and died for this country,
and praying for all the loved ones and friends interred
at Gate of Heaven.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
My guest in the second half of.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
The show is Deacon Tim Shooty with what's planned for
Memorial Day? No.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
On iHeart Cincy with Sandy Collins.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
All right, first up, it's Mike Dunn.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
He's the CEO of Meals on Wheels of Southwestern Ohio
and Northern Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Mike, good to talk to you. I'm excited to talk
to you about this new project.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
We've done some Meals on Wheels work before, and I've
had friends and family that have benefited from Meals on Wheels,
So I want to find out what's new and happening
and what it is that you guys need. So you've
been with Meals on Wheels for about a year right now.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeap May one, twenty four came on board. So just
celebrating my one year anniversary.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
And people would know your name.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
You've been here in Cincinnati nonprofit world for years and years.
Saint Vincent, I see that you ran the Senta Center,
worked at Xavier for sixteen years and also help out
with Big Brothers and Big Sisters on the board and
Catholics United for the Poor. So lots of time that
you've spent towards helping people.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
And you know, Mike, a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
There's many wonderful groups that help try Staters with the
needs that they have, from training and education to providing
clothing and help with medical issues and all this. But
Meals on Wheels is an organization that serves a very
basic survival need, and that's food without food and water
and shelter, you're cooked. And so let's talk about how
(02:46):
Meals on Wheels came about and the population that you
served there.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, we really focus on providing seniors, and seniors in
this case are defined as sixty in older with essential services.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
It's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Within our mission, meals is not part of it. We
just say we deliver central services that promote the independence
of seniors so they may remain in.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
The comfort of their own homes.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Certainly, it's inherent in our name that we are a
deliverer of meals, and meals are certainly very important, but
meals really serve as a conduit to a relationship with
a senior. So our drivers and it's largely a professional
driving staff. There are iterations of Meals on wheels across
(03:37):
the country that are volunteer based out of the local
church or synagogue or organization. But here in our community
we serve our thirteen counties, five in Ohio and Eaton
northern Kentucky largely with the professional staff and the act
of delivering that meal to the senior. Yes, we're providing
(03:59):
the nutrition, the basic need, meeting the basic need of nutrition,
but again it's the beginning of a relationship with the driver,
and that senior serves as a welfare check. How is
that senior doing? How is that senior's home? And then
from there we can help with so many other essential services.
(04:22):
And it's not that we do them all. We can
connect that senior with other great organizations here in the community,
but all of these services are really geared towards keeping
folks independent and in their home as long as reasonably possible.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So you say that you want to expand your services
as well. Now, I really didn't realize that there was
so much more background to Meals and Wheels, more than
just the meals, And you want to expand your services
with this new campaign, you want to serve three did
I do my math right, three times as many as
you're serving now, is that right?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So we are in the midst of our Driving into
the Future campaign. It is a thirty million dollar campaign
is quite ambitious for an organization of our size. So
we kicked it off publicly just on April thirtieth, and
it came after reaching kind of a milestone in gifts
and pledges of twenty two million dollars. So, you know,
(05:23):
I want to thank all the people that have been
involved thus far, but we've got a long way to
go to raise that final eight million dollars. And yes,
you know, currently we serve about ten thousand unique seniors
annually and we're looking to grow that to thirty thousand
over the course of time. And from a meal perspective,
(05:44):
we're producing about one point two million meals again annually
and look to drive that towards three million in the future.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
The only real practical experience I have is my landlady
lived upstairs for me and she received meals on wheels
as she was in her seventies at the time, and
I noticed they brought not just a meal every day.
You kind of have that idea in your mind, maybe
they're dropping by every day. No, they're not, they're dropping
what is it a week at a time.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, largely we're doing five meals at a time. There
are certain areas in our community that we're doing seven,
but largely at five meals at a time. They are frozen.
We bring them in and depending on the situation, we
can help the senior if they want us to heat
it up in all those different things, but largely we
(06:33):
help them put them in the freezer so they can
take part when they're ready.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
So there's a lot of people over the age of sixty, Mike,
who are you talking to specifically?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
At what economic level is it and is there a.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Disability requirement or any sort of other requirement that people
need to know about.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, we're a service provider. So ultimately, on the Ohio side,
the Council on Aging serves as the clearing house. On
the Kentucky side, the Northern Kentucky Area Development District serves
in that same capacity. So if folks or caregivers are
looking for the meals on wheels specifically, you would initially
(07:16):
contact Council on Aging. Again on the High side, Northern
Kentucky Area Development District on the Kentucky side and they
will qualify you. And essentially, if you are a home
bound senior and you do not have an alternative. It
is not necessarily driven by economics, but it often is.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And I'm sure that process would work with the same
If you want to, for lack of a better word,
nominate somebody, you know, if someone who needs assistance, you
can call the Council on Aging or the Northern Kentucky
counterpart and start the ball rolling for them.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Yeah, that's exactly right, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And again minimally you can call us and we'll put
you in contact with the right folks to get the
ball rolling.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
It's all about access.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
If you just tuned in, I'm Sandy Collins and this
is iHeart Cincy. My guest today is Mike Dunn. He's
the CEO of Meals and Wheels of Southwestern Ohio and
Northern Kentucky. We're talking about their new campaign called Driving
into the Future.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You know, one of the things, Sandy, that we're trying
to really tackle and not many people are completely aware
of this. We're essentially experiencing in this country a crisis
in aging.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Nearly one in.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Four Americans is a senior in the next decade, for
the first time in US history, there will be more
seniors sixty and older than young people eighteen and younger.
It's about seventy nine million seniors today, it's projected to
be ninety one million by twenty thirty and one hundred
(08:59):
and twelve million by twenty sixty.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
We're getting older, and that's going to such a huge
difference in everything. It's going to drive innovation, is going
to drive technology, is going to drive job openings. It's
going to drive everything, not just the numbers of Oh,
there's a lot more people to serve.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
We are trying to get out ahead of again this
crisis that's taking place, and certainly expanding our capacity is
at the forefront of that. So to that end, the
campaign is largely going to help us. We've already purchased
our new future home. Not that anybody's going to recognize
this address, but thirty two to fifty one Highland Avenue
(09:38):
in Columbia Township. Some people might recognize the old John
Nolan Ford.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
We're going from.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We're currently at a twenty four thousand, five hundred square
foot facility where again we produce one point two million
meals to a fifty one thousand, five hundred square foot facility,
and that campaign will enable us to transform this building
into our future home. And not only the obvious part
(10:05):
of expanding capacity, but one thing we're really excited about
is the opportunity to delve.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Into social enterprise. So we are.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Largely government funded Sandy, and even before the you know,
the changes that have taken place in the early part
of this year, we identified the need to diversify our revenue.
So the new facility will allow us to again delve
into social enterprise.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
And what does that mean.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
So there are people that do not qualify for our
services but would be willing to pay for them, and
we could be in a position from a capacity perspective,
and the new facility to be able to accommodate that. Similarly,
there are plenty of nonprofits across town likewise feeding seniors,
(10:59):
and we can become a wholesale provider of meals to
them as a social enterprise. So we need to diversify
our revenues and the new facility will help us do that.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And the cost that you're talking about for these seniors
that could pay, it's still not a large amount of money.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, and we would honestly roll it out more so
on a sliding scale. You know, from folks that can
all the way afford a meal to they can only
feel forward a portion of the meal and that has
not been fully baked jip. But when we go to
market more directly, we will have a sliding scale that
(11:38):
hopefully allows anybody that needs a meal to participate.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
So you're hoping to break round later this year, is
that right?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, So we are very much in the design phase.
We're working with Danis Construction and Champlain Architects. We're getting
to the kind of near the conclusion of the design
and development phase go into the construction drawings here shortly
there has to be essentially a deconstruction process, so a
(12:09):
lot of the building is going to be transformed. So
this summer deconstruction will start and then around labor day
we'll get into the building it out to what it's
going to be in the future.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Well, you have.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
An area where people come and get your services right
there or is this really just your location to send
out all of the help.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, mostly it is going to be our production center,
if you will. We operate out of two facilities today
and we're also excited for the first time in our
organization's history.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Just to be under one roof. Sure, like I cannot
wait for that.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Currently, our transportation program and our social services program is
in another building, so again we'll be under one roof,
so that will be wonderful. Yeah, we can't wait to
get to the one location for sure.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And you've already gotten support from some of Cincinnati's biggest
and best philanthropic organizations like p ANDNG. The Farmer Family
Foundation does amazing work, really under the radar, in my opinion.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
The other foundation is how do you say this, Haley?
Is it the Hail Foundation.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Yeah, it's pronounced Halka. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
The Hale Foundation is likewise really involved in so many
community initiatives. It has a Northern Kentucky background. It's in
Ohio currently and they're in the process of moving their
office back to the own Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
But it's a wonderful foundation.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
So if you are a corporation you're looking for a
great nonprofit to be a part of, If you work
in an office where they encourage you to do your
community service hours, if you're a school, civic group, church, whatever,
you want to do some fundraising for meals on wheels.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
They can certainly use the money.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
They're trying to get eight million dollars to put into
a new facility that they've already bought on Highland Avenue
and it's going to pretty much triple their capacity and
expand all of their services for folks over sixty who
want to stay at home but need a little bit
of assistance. So Mike, give us the website address and
any other contaent information.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
That you have.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, much more than a meal dot org.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Please check it out our campaign.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
You can click on our campaign Driving into the Future.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
There's a video.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
There's ways to give certainly, and Sandy thank you for
mentioning it. There's so many volunteer opportunities and we have
volunteers from five to one hundred. There's something for everybody,
and you can even do it from your home, you know.
We do things like birthday bags for seniors and write
notes and call seniors just to check.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
In on them. Those are all things you can do
from your home.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
We have a pet program to support seniors' pets. Knowing
there's a lot of isolation and loneliness amongst our seniors,
pets play an integral role in their lives, so supporting
their pets is important. So there's so many different ways
folks can get involved. Just jump to the website and
we'll connect with you from there.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
That sounds great.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Mike Dunn, the CEO, celebrating his first year at Meals
on Wheels here of southwest Ohio and northern Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Thanks for your time, Good luck with the campaign. Let
us know how it goes, will you.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Sandy, Thanks so much for your time, really enjoying it.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Coming up next a chance to celebrate Mass with the
new Archbishop of Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
On Memorial Day. Coming up on iHeart Cincy. That's next
This week on iHeart Cincy.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's the beginning of a relationship with the driver in
that senior.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
You know, it's more than food, it's companionship, someone keeping
an eye on those homebound seniors who need another touch
point to ensure their safety. Meals on Wheels of Southern
Ohio and Northern Kentucky is expanding because.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
There is more need.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
More seniors need their services more than just a meal.
My guest today is the new CEO of Meals on
Wheels of the Tri State, Mike Dunn. He's a proven
leader with a long track record of leading nonprofits and
other community organizations during transformational periods of growth. Mike explains
how Meals on Wheels is growing and tells us about
(00:40):
an ambitious campaign to expand and serve more Tri Staters
and later, please.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Don't forget to bring your lawn chairs because it is
an outdoor mass.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well Memorial Day coming up Monday, May twenty six, tri
stats can attend a mass led by Cincinnati's new Archbishop.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Robert G.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Casey on the sacred ground of Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery.
Thousands are to join together at the annual Memorial Day
Field Mass honoring those who served and died for this country,
and praying for all the loved ones and friends interred
at Gate of Heaven.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
My guest in the second half of.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
The show is Deacon Tim Shooty with what's planned for
Memorial Day? No.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
On iHeart Cincy with Sandy Collins.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
All right, first up, it's Mike Dunn.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
He's the CEO of Meals on Wheels of Southwestern Ohio
and Northern Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Mike, good to talk to you. I'm excited to talk
to you about this new project.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
We've done some Meals on Wheels work before, and I've
had friends and family that have benefited from Meals on Wheels,
So I want to find out what's new and happening
and what it is that you guys need. So you've
been with Meals on Wheels for about a year right now.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeap May one, twenty four came on board. So just
celebrating my one year anniversary.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
And people would know your name.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
You've been here in Cincinnati nonprofit world for years and years.
Saint Vincent, I see that you ran the Senta Center,
worked at Xavier for sixteen years and also help out
with Big Brothers and Big Sisters on the board and
Catholics United for the Poor. So lots of time that
you've spent towards helping people.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
And you know, Mike, a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
There's many wonderful groups that help try Staters with the
needs that they have, from training and education to providing
clothing and help with medical issues and all this. But
Meals on Wheels is an organization that serves a very
basic survival need, and that's food without food and water
and shelter, you're cooked. And so let's talk about how
(02:46):
Meals on Wheels came about and the population that you
served there.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, we really focus on providing seniors, and seniors in
this case are defined as sixty in older with essential services.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
It's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Within our mission, meals is not part of it. We
just say we deliver central services that promote the independence
of seniors so they may remain in.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
The comfort of their own homes.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Certainly, it's inherent in our name that we are a
deliverer of meals, and meals are certainly very important, but
meals really serve as a conduit to a relationship with
a senior. So our drivers and it's largely a professional
driving staff. There are iterations of Meals on wheels across
(03:37):
the country that are volunteer based out of the local
church or synagogue or organization. But here in our community
we serve our thirteen counties, five in Ohio and Eaton
northern Kentucky largely with the professional staff and the act
of delivering that meal to the senior. Yes, we're providing
(03:59):
the nutrition, the basic need, meeting the basic need of nutrition,
but again it's the beginning of a relationship with the driver,
and that senior serves as a welfare check. How is
that senior doing? How is that senior's home? And then
from there we can help with so many other essential services.
(04:22):
And it's not that we do them all. We can
connect that senior with other great organizations here in the community,
but all of these services are really geared towards keeping
folks independent and in their home as long as reasonably possible.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So you say that you want to expand your services
as well. Now, I really didn't realize that there was
so much more background to Meals and Wheels, more than
just the meals, And you want to expand your services
with this new campaign, you want to serve three did
I do my math right, three times as many as
you're serving now, is that right?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So we are in the midst of our Driving into
the Future campaign. It is a thirty million dollar campaign
is quite ambitious for an organization of our size. So
we kicked it off publicly just on April thirtieth, and
it came after reaching kind of a milestone in gifts
and pledges of twenty two million dollars. So, you know,
(05:23):
I want to thank all the people that have been
involved thus far, but we've got a long way to
go to raise that final eight million dollars. And yes,
you know, currently we serve about ten thousand unique seniors
annually and we're looking to grow that to thirty thousand
over the course of time. And from a meal perspective,
(05:44):
we're producing about one point two million meals again annually
and look to drive that towards three million in the future.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
The only real practical experience I have is my landlady
lived upstairs for me and she received meals on wheels
as she was in her seventies at the time, and
I noticed they brought not just a meal every day.
You kind of have that idea in your mind, maybe
they're dropping by every day. No, they're not, they're dropping
what is it a week at a time.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, largely we're doing five meals at a time. There
are certain areas in our community that we're doing seven,
but largely at five meals at a time. They are frozen.
We bring them in and depending on the situation, we
can help the senior if they want us to heat
it up in all those different things, but largely we
(06:33):
help them put them in the freezer so they can
take part when they're ready.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
So there's a lot of people over the age of sixty, Mike,
who are you talking to specifically?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
At what economic level is it and is there a.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Disability requirement or any sort of other requirement that people
need to know about.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, we're a service provider. So ultimately, on the Ohio side,
the Council on Aging serves as the clearing house. On
the Kentucky side, the Northern Kentucky Area Development District serves
in that same capacity. So if folks or caregivers are
looking for the meals on wheels specifically, you would initially
(07:16):
contact Council on Aging. Again on the High side, Northern
Kentucky Area Development District on the Kentucky side and they
will qualify you. And essentially, if you are a home
bound senior and you do not have an alternative. It
is not necessarily driven by economics, but it often is.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And I'm sure that process would work with the same
If you want to, for lack of a better word,
nominate somebody, you know, if someone who needs assistance, you
can call the Council on Aging or the Northern Kentucky
counterpart and start the ball rolling for them.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Yeah, that's exactly right, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And again minimally you can call us and we'll put
you in contact with the right folks to get the
ball rolling.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
It's all about access.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
If you just tuned in, I'm Sandy Collins and this
is iHeart Cincy. My guest today is Mike Dunn. He's
the CEO of Meals and Wheels of Southwestern Ohio and
Northern Kentucky. We're talking about their new campaign called Driving
into the Future.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You know, one of the things, Sandy, that we're trying
to really tackle and not many people are completely aware
of this. We're essentially experiencing in this country a crisis
in aging.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Nearly one in.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Four Americans is a senior in the next decade, for
the first time in US history, there will be more
seniors sixty and older than young people eighteen and younger.
It's about seventy nine million seniors today, it's projected to
be ninety one million by twenty thirty and one hundred
(08:59):
and twelve million by twenty sixty.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
We're getting older, and that's going to such a huge
difference in everything. It's going to drive innovation, is going
to drive technology, is going to drive job openings. It's
going to drive everything, not just the numbers of Oh,
there's a lot more people to serve.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
We are trying to get out ahead of again this
crisis that's taking place, and certainly expanding our capacity is
at the forefront of that. So to that end, the
campaign is largely going to help us. We've already purchased
our new future home. Not that anybody's going to recognize
this address, but thirty two to fifty one Highland Avenue
(09:38):
in Columbia Township. Some people might recognize the old John
Nolan Ford.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
We're going from.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We're currently at a twenty four thousand, five hundred square
foot facility where again we produce one point two million
meals to a fifty one thousand, five hundred square foot facility,
and that campaign will enable us to transform this building
into our future home. And not only the obvious part
(10:05):
of expanding capacity, but one thing we're really excited about
is the opportunity to delve.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Into social enterprise. So we are.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Largely government funded Sandy, and even before the you know,
the changes that have taken place in the early part
of this year, we identified the need to diversify our revenue.
So the new facility will allow us to again delve
into social enterprise.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
And what does that mean.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
So there are people that do not qualify for our
services but would be willing to pay for them, and
we could be in a position from a capacity perspective,
and the new facility to be able to accommodate that. Similarly,
there are plenty of nonprofits across town likewise feeding seniors,
(10:59):
and we can become a wholesale provider of meals to
them as a social enterprise. So we need to diversify
our revenues and the new facility will help us do that.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And the cost that you're talking about for these seniors
that could pay, it's still not a large amount of money.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, and we would honestly roll it out more so
on a sliding scale. You know, from folks that can
all the way afford a meal to they can only
feel forward a portion of the meal and that has
not been fully baked jip. But when we go to
market more directly, we will have a sliding scale that
(11:38):
hopefully allows anybody that needs a meal to participate.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
So you're hoping to break round later this year, is
that right?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, So we are very much in the design phase.
We're working with Danis Construction and Champlain Architects. We're getting
to the kind of near the conclusion of the design
and development phase go into the construction drawings here shortly
there has to be essentially a deconstruction process, so a
(12:09):
lot of the building is going to be transformed. So
this summer deconstruction will start and then around labor day
we'll get into the building it out to what it's
going to be in the future.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Well, you have.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
An area where people come and get your services right
there or is this really just your location to send
out all of the help.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, mostly it is going to be our production center,
if you will. We operate out of two facilities today
and we're also excited for the first time in our
organization's history.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Just to be under one roof. Sure, like I cannot
wait for that.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Currently, our transportation program and our social services program is
in another building, so again we'll be under one roof,
so that will be wonderful. Yeah, we can't wait to
get to the one location for sure.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And you've already gotten support from some of Cincinnati's biggest
and best philanthropic organizations like p ANDNG. The Farmer Family
Foundation does amazing work, really under the radar, in my opinion.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
The other foundation is how do you say this, Haley?
Is it the Hail Foundation.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Yeah, it's pronounced Halka. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
The Hale Foundation is likewise really involved in so many
community initiatives. It has a Northern Kentucky background. It's in
Ohio currently and they're in the process of moving their
office back to the own Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
But it's a wonderful foundation.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
So if you are a corporation you're looking for a
great nonprofit to be a part of, If you work
in an office where they encourage you to do your
community service hours, if you're a school, civic group, church, whatever,
you want to do some fundraising for meals on wheels.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
They can certainly use the money.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
They're trying to get eight million dollars to put into
a new facility that they've already bought on Highland Avenue
and it's going to pretty much triple their capacity and
expand all of their services for folks over sixty who
want to stay at home but need a little bit
of assistance. So Mike, give us the website address and
any other contaent information.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
That you have.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, much more than a meal dot org.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Please check it out our campaign.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
You can click on our campaign Driving into the Future.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
There's a video.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
There's ways to give certainly, and Sandy thank you for
mentioning it. There's so many volunteer opportunities and we have
volunteers from five to one hundred. There's something for everybody,
and you can even do it from your home, you know.
We do things like birthday bags for seniors and write
notes and call seniors just to check.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
In on them. Those are all things you can do
from your home.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
We have a pet program to support seniors' pets. Knowing
there's a lot of isolation and loneliness amongst our seniors,
pets play an integral role in their lives, so supporting
their pets is important. So there's so many different ways
folks can get involved. Just jump to the website and
we'll connect with you from there.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
That sounds great.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Mike Dunn, the CEO, celebrating his first year at Meals
on Wheels here of southwest Ohio and northern Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Thanks for your time, Good luck with the campaign. Let
us know how it goes, will you.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Sandy, Thanks so much for your time, really enjoying it.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Coming up next a chance to celebrate Mass with the
new Archbishop of Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
On Memorial Day. Coming up on iHeart Cincy. That's next
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