About Us Prompted by a newspaper article about the growing number of people with AIDS in Marin County, Carola Detrick, a local business woman and volunteer at Project Open hand in San Francisco, founded a similar organization in Marin. She began in her own kitchen with just two clients on March 3, 1993. When her client list reached 28, Carola turned to Beth Ashley of the Marin Independent Journal who wrote a feature article about the fledgling organization. Within two days, MOM had over 50 volunteers. Our mission is to prepare and deliver appetizing, healthy, home-cooked meals to people with life threatening illnesses living in Marin County. We prepare and deliver lunch and dinner, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Our services are free of charge to those who qualify. We are the only agency in Marin providing direct food services to homebound people between the ages of 15 and 60 living with illnesses such as AIDS/HIV, breast cancer, or Hepatitis C. We also help people over 60 if they have AIDS or cancer and have special dietary needs that cannot be met by Meals on Wheels’ program. We have never missed a meal since we started in 1993. It is our goal to ensure that no person with a life-threatening illness in our county goes hungry because he or she is too weak to cook or too poor to buy food. We have no waiting list and new clients can be fed the same day their call comes in. In January of 2009, we passed the 900,000-meal mark. We have accomplished this without government funding, but with the generous financial support of private foundations, community events such as the Human Race, and donations from individuals, corporations, and local businesses. We currently serve up to 160 clients two meals daily. We have nine paid staff members (the Executive Director, the Volunteer Coordinator, the Executive Chef and Kitchen Manager, two full-time and one part-time kitchen assistants, a part-time Development Associate, as well as one full-time and one part-time Expediter. Meals of Marin is able to operate only because of the help of our generous volunteers. More than 250 volunteers are needed each week to get the meals prepared and delivered. We welcome you and thank you for your interest in MOM. It is concerned people like you who have helped this program to become what it is today, as well as what it will grow to become in the future.