Every year, Wellness in the Schools (WITS) hosts a gala featuring top chefs, restaurants, and beverage purveyors in NYC. The event features tastings from over 30 of NYC’s top restaurants, chefs, and beverage providers, live entertainment, and an auction. This year’s hosts and VIP celebrity guests include Nancy Easton, Bill Telepan, Jenna Wolfe, Lewis Black, Michael Anthony, Josh Capon, Charles Chen, Melissa Clark, Rocco DiSpirito, Amanda Freitag, Alex Guarnaschelli, Seamus Mullen, Dean Sheremet, Gail Simmons, and Bill Yosses.

HMG+ President, Karen DiPeri had the wonderful opportunity of absorbing the title of Event Planner for this year’s Wellness in the Schools Gala. Check out photos from the WITS Gala 2017 below!

ABOUT WITS:

Wellness in the Schools is a national non-profit that inspires healthy eating and fitness for kids in public schools. Through public-private partnerships, we work with schools to provide healthy, scratch-cooked meals, active recess periods, and fitness and nutrition education. Trained culinary graduates partner with cafeteria staff to feed kids real food, and fitness coaches encourage schools to let kids play. Our partnership approach drives systemic, long-term change, shifting the entire culture of schools and ultimately fighting the childhood obesity epidemic. Our programs serve more than 50,000 children in 100 schools nationwide.

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Photo credit: Ken Goodman Photography

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We would like to recognize HMG+ President, Karen DiPeri on being selected as winner of the SmartCEO Brava Awards!

The Brava Awards program celebrates high-impact female business leaders in three categories: CEOs, Executive Directors of Nonprofits, and C-suite executives. Brava award winners combine their irrepressible entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for giving back to the community, and are exemplary leaders of both their companies and their communities. They encourage local philanthropy, mentor up-and-coming leaders and set their companies on the path to tremendous growth. Each year, an independent committee of local business leaders selects winners based on company growth, community impact and mentoring. SmartCEO shares their inspiring stories in SmartCEO magazine and celebrates their success at a high-energy awards gala.

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Foodservice & Hospitality 2017:

HMG+ President Karen DiPeri

Its #GivingTuesday! As you may know, Giving Tuesday starts the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. Giving Tuesday kicks off the charitable season, which is the perfect time to focus on end-of-year giving. Since 2012, Giving Tuesday has become a movement that celebrates and supports giving and philanthropy with events throughout the year. This year, HMG+ proudly donated to the following organizations: Rescuing Leftover Cuisine and Violence Intervention Program, Inc.

Rescuing Leftover Cuisine is a national non-profit food rescue organization, operating in 12 cities and headquartered in New York City, that provides solutions to prevent excess wholesome cuisine from being wasted.

Violence Intervention Program fills a gap in domestic violence services for Latinas and their children. Their mission is to lead victims of domestic abuse to safety, to empower them to live violence-free lives, and to reach and sustain their full potential.

Nothing beats the feeling you get from giving back and helping others. Donate today for Giving Tuesday!

The American Staffing Association announced that HMG Plus service professional Wendy Hobbie is the 2017 National Staffing Employee of the Year.

HMG Plus is a New York City based hospitality staffing firm that specializes in exceptional front of house staff. Help us congratulate HMG Plus service professional Wendy Hobbie on receiving this prestigious honor!

Wendy Hobbie has been a valued employee of HMG Plus since 2014. She works on assignment as a hospitality captain, waiter, and bartender. The flexibility that staffing offers allows her to audition and teach dance to blind and deaf children. She currently volunteers at The Lexington School and Center for the Deaf, teaching hip-hop dance to students aged three to 12. Between gigs as a professional dancer, Hobbie also has taught Sunday school to underprivileged students in low-income neighborhoods through Metro World Child, a religious organization committed to providing services to children living in adverse conditions in metropolitan areas around the world.

“I am honored to be the National Staffing Employee of Year, and hope that my personal story is inspiring to others considering work as a temporary or contract employee,” Hobbie said. “Being a temporary employee is perfect for me at this time in my life. Staffing lets me support myself financially while pursuing my professional dreams and s+ing my passion for dance with visually and hearing impaired children, which means the world to me.”

HMG Plus is extremely proud of Wendy and her accomplishments, in and outside of HMG Plus. She will be formally honored and celebrated by staffing industry professionals from around the country on Oct. 26 at a recognition ceremony during Staffing World^® 2016, in San Diego, California.

Catch Wendy’s featured cover story in the January/February issue of Staffing Success Magazine!

Photos by Eric Vitale Photography

HMG Plus is giving back to surrounding communities, and we would LOVE for you to join us!

On September 13th, HMG Plus is volunteering with Citymeals on Wheels, an organization that provides home-delivered meals to New York’s homebound elderly.  The extreme temperatures faced by New York puts these individuals at a higher risk. Many are poor or live in unreasonable conditions with no air conditioning and little human contact.

If you are interested in joining our team to volunteer with Citymeals on Wheels, we have limited spaces available in our group. This is a great opportunity to give back, as well as get to know our corporate team on a personal level!

To secure a spot with us, please fill out this form.

We hope to see you there!

HMG Plus is a proud member of the American Staffing Association, the largest professional association for the staffing industry serving as the industry’s voice in government, to the media, and to the public.
Each year, The American Staffing Association selects a service professional to assume the title of “National Staffing Employee of the Year.” Winners not only represent the HMG Plus brand, but the face of the entire staffing industry. Being selected as the ASA National Staffing Employee of the Year is a high honor along with benefits including:
• Receiving an all-expense-paid, deluxe travel and hotel accommodations for Staffing World 2016, Oct. 25–27, in San Diego
• Cover story in Staffing Success magazine
• Gift card valued at $5,000
• Recognition during National Staffing Employee Week via a news release, social media, ASA website, and ASA publications
• Acknowledgement during an award ceremony at Staffing World 2016
• Required participation in a photo and video shoot (in her or her hometown) for public relations purposes

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The HMG Plus Nominating Committee wants to hear your thoughts on potential candidates for this exciting opportunity. Nominate yourself, or another team member(s) deserving of a nomination.
The only thing we need from you is 1-2 sentences describing why. Since HMG plus prides itself on providing flexible schedules, please describe how that flexibility has helped this person in their daily life.
Let us know by filling out this form:
IMPORTANT: Nominee must have been an HMG Plus employee before the Date of August 1st, 2015 to be considered for this title.
https://simple.formstack.com/forms/asa_nominees
Please reply to this email by Wednesday July 20th. If you do not reply, we will assume that you are not interested in this nomination.
Get involved with the ASA National Staffing Employee of the Year program by using the hashtag #StaffingStar and tag us @HMGPlus on social media!
Thank you for your time and continue the great work! We look forward to hearing back from you.