Community Food Bank Serving Folsom, ElDorado Hills & Granite Bay
Community Food Bank Serving Folsom, ElDorado Hills & Granite Bay
It was 2018 when I attended my first Twin Lakes Food Bank Gala as the new Executive Director. I saw the fundraiser as not only essential to continue the programs and services for our food-insecure neighbors but also a gateway to invite the community into our mission and expand its impact. Every year since, I’ve come back to that same belief.
Forty years ago, Twin Lakes Food Bank opened with a simple conviction: no one in our community should have to choose between a meal and their other basic needs. Since then, we have been providing supplemental groceries for adults, children, students and senior citizens across the greater Folsom community.
This year’s gala, “A Moment in Time,” is our chance to celebrate everything that work has built and to look expectantly at everything still ahead of us as we grow into a new facility.
The gala is our most important fundraiser of the year. When you get dressed up, sit down to fine food and wine, and raise your paddle, you are helping a neighbor keep groceries on the table so they can turn their attention where it needs to be — on school, on a doctor’s appointment, on picking up a prescription, on making rent and keeping the lights on. Every dollar raised that night is a dollar our neighbors don’t have to pull from somewhere else just to eat.
I’m asking you to be part of that. Purchase a table. Fill it with people you love — friends, family, colleagues — and bring them into the Twin Lakes Food Bank story firsthand. The more people who walk through those doors and see this work up close, the more people we have standing with us as we write the next chapter.
Because after the glitter is swept up, the cocktail dresses are hung back in the closet, and the last bid is recorded, what will remain is this — your generosity, translated directly into impact for guests like the students and Victoria, whom you’ll read about next.
Kindly,
Lisa Tuter
A look at how our community came together to “pour love on Folsom’s next generation.”
Victoria has weathered more than a few storms, but rather than waiting for the storm to pass, she’s learning to dance in the rain.
“I was so moved by her resilience and purpose to make a better life for her loved ones. We both left the conversation knowing more about one another.”
Paul Nathan Phillips is the Principal Attorney at Phillips Elder Law, a trusts and estates, probate, senior rights and litigation practice. Paul has successfully assisted victims of elder financial abuse and physical neglect, both inside and outside of court.
With nearly four decades admitted to the California Bar and qualified before state and federal courts, Paul has practiced as an associate and partner at several Los Angeles and Sacramento law firms. Paul served as General Legal Counsel for International Business Systems, an IBM-owned company with its US Office located in Folsom, where he managed the legal team and oversaw national compliance, contracts, and human resources around the country.
Paul earned two bachelor’s degrees from UCLA in 1981, in Political Science and Psychology. In 1987 he received his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. He is a member recipient of the Saint Thomas More Honor award.
Paul has volunteered as an attorney and advisor for nonprofits serving low-income workers, the homeless, tenants rights, and elder adults. Paul has led senior outreach and healthy aging efforts through several local churches. A NASM-certified senior fitness trainer, Paul continues to lead free senior fitness classes. He shares and seeks to inspire others with his optimism and sense of humor, and deep love of hiking, paddling, camping, open-water swimming and all things nature.
An avid reader and gardener, Paul is the proud father of two accomplished daughters, and four personality overflowing grandchildren.
