SHARED Solutions Launches

"Cookin' for a Cause" Project

SHARED Solutions is a new service that offers effective, innovative solutions to business problems while enhancing corporate social responsibility at the same time. We address a business issue or goal and turn it into an opportunity to give back for the greater good. Here's an example of an actual SHARED Solutions project in action.

Kisco Senior Living, a national chain of independent and assisted living communities, identified a goal to improve food services and quality. SHARED worked with Kisco Senior Living to develop the “Cookin' for a Cause” project, an innovative business solution that also supports the SHARED portfolio of projects.

To implement “Cookin for a Cause”, Kisco Senior Living is collecting recipes from residents, families and staff to create a cookbook to preserve and share cherished family recipes. These recipes are tested and served at the different communities to bring a broader and healthier variety of meals to residents. Cook-off contests and tastings at different communities are two of the fun ways Kisco Senior Living has used to collect recipes, actively engaging residents, families and employees.

The proceeds from the sale of the cookbook will be donated to SHARED to provide medical care to orphans and other needed children in southern Africa . Grandparents are most often the primary caretakers of the more than 14 million AIDS orphans. Kisco's “Cookin' for a Cause” project is nicknamed “Grandparents for Grandparents”, honoring the special status of seniors everywhere.

This project helps Kisco Senior Living meet the business goal of bringing better food to its residents as well as engaging community members in the process. At the same time, the “Cookin' for a Cause” project is another way for Kisco's residents, families and staff to demonstrate responsibility to the greater world community.

Marketing support and expertise for the project is provided by Irving Stackpole, President of Stackpole & Associates, www.StackpoleAssociates.com and a member of SHARED's Board of Directors.

The Kisco Senior Living cookbook will go on sale at the beginning of 2006. SHARED will be making this very special item available through its web site at HealthShares.org . To learn more about Kisco Senior Living, visit their web site at www. kiscosl.com.

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The “Cookin' for a Cause” logo is a registered service mark of SHARED Inc.