Lisa Scarpinato’s world changed 17 years ago when a friend told her of watching a local second-grader digging through the school cafeteria trash and stuffing discarded food in her pocket.

The night she heard that story, she and her husband Vince committed to starting Kitchen on the Street. Today they create Bags of Hope – food backpacks that provide weekend nutrition to food-insecure children.

But they didn’t stop there – they also have Family Food Pantries on school campuses and other locations; a food rescue program that picks up food ready to be discarded; Fresh on Deck classes to teach students about nutrition in afterschool programs and clubs; Taking it to the Street classroom presentations to educate affluent students; and the Jr. Board of Directors to train the next generation in volunteering and service.

Since then, she’s been honored by Self Magazine’s Women Doing Good Award, appeared on the Today Show, and received a National Points of Light award.

Click here to learn more about Kitchen on the Street: https://www.kitchenonthestreet.org/

Original air date: June 8, 2023; rebroadcast November 23, 2023

Lisa Scarpinato’s world changed 17 years ago when a friend told her of watching a local second-grader digging through the school cafeteria trash and stuffing discarded food in her pocket.
The night she heard that story, she and her husband Vince committed to starting Kitchen on the Street. Today they create Bags of Hope – food backpacks that provide weekend nutrition to food-insecure children.
But they didn’t stop there – they also have Family Food Pantries on school campuses and other locations; a food rescue program that picks up food ready to be discarded; Fresh on Deck classes to teach students about nutrition in afterschool programs and clubs; Taking it to the Street classroom presentations to educate affluent students; and the Jr. Board of Directors to train the next generation in volunteering and service.
Since then, she’s been honored by Self Magazine’s Women Doing Good Award, appeared on the Today Show, and received a National Points of Light award.
Click here to learn more about Kitchen on the Street: <a href="https://www.kitchenonthestreet.org/">https://www.kitchenonthestreet.org/</a> 
Original air date: June 8, 2023; rebroadcast November 23, 2023

The Rescuers radio show provides an opportunity to spotlight people who are working behind the scenes to make this world a better place. These people serve as inspiration and idea starters to encourage others to find creative ways to impact their community, their city, and the world.

Host Art Brooks has spent his career in broadcasting, both as on-air talent and in representing the industry as president and CEO of the Arizona Broadcasters Association for nearly 30 years. He was the driving force behind an Emmy-winning series of documentaries on drug abuse that combined a phone bank of 100 seasoned counselors and history-making "roadblock," as every TV station in Arizona and many radio stations broadcast the groundbreaking show on the same day at the same time. He also was instrumental in starting AZ AMBER Alert (one of two states in the nation where broadcasters initiated the program), helped form the Native American Broadcast Institute at Northern Arizona University and consulted with broadcasters in Bulgaria to help build commercial radio as the country was coming out of communism.

Rescuers airs 5:30-6 p.m. AZ time Thursdays on KPXQ-AM Faith Talk 1360, beginning May 7, 2020. Based in Phoenix, it is available internationally online. We invite you to submit names of heroes you think would be good subjects for the show - just message us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/rescuersradioshow/

The Rescuers radio show provides an opportunity to spotlight people who are working behind the scenes to make this world a better place. These people serve as inspiration and idea starters to encourage others to find creative ways to impact their community, their city, and the world. Host Art Brooks has spent his career in broadcasting, both as on-air talent and in representing the industry as president and CEO of the Arizona Broadcasters Association for nearly 30 years. He was the driving force behind an Emmy-winning series of documentaries on drug abuse that combined a phone bank of 100 seasoned counselors and history-making "roadblock," as every TV station in Arizona and many radio stations broadcast the groundbreaking show on the same day at the same time. He also was instrumental in starting AZ AMBER Alert (one of two states in the nation where broadcasters initiated the program), helped form the Native American Broadcast Institute at Northern Arizona University and consulted with broadcasters in Bulgaria to help build commercial radio as the country was coming out of communism. Rescuers airs 5:30-6 p.m. AZ time Thursdays on KPXQ-AM Faith Talk 1360, beginning May 7, 2020. Based in Phoenix, it is available internationally online. We invite you to submit names of heroes you think would be good subjects for the show - just message us on Facebook at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rescuersradioshow/">https://www.facebook.com/rescuersradioshow/</a>

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Great feel good program with insightful guests highlighting our unsung heroes helping in our communities.

Great feel good program with insightful guests highlighting our unsung heroes helping in our communities.

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Turning Hunger into Hope – Lisa Scarpinato

Randy Elliott’s passion is serving his “orange church,” the incarcerated at Yavapai County Detention facilities in Camp Verde and Prescott.

As chaplain, he drove more than 19,000 miles last year to lead Bible studies, distribute Bibles and devotionals, and minister. He leads a team of letter writers that sent more than 1,500 messages to incarcerated women. He offers a Bible correspondence course that 900 people completed last year. And he distributed more than 1,200 Bibles in 2023.

That’s all just numbers. What will touch you about Randy is the genuine heart he and his wife Rhonda have for service.

Original air date: May 30, 2024.

Randy Elliott’s passion is serving his “orange church,” the incarcerated at Yavapai County Detention facilities in Camp Verde and Prescott.
As chaplain, he drove more than 19,000 miles last year to lead Bible studies, distribute Bibles and devotionals, and minister. He leads a team of letter writers that sent more than 1,500 messages to incarcerated women. He offers a Bible correspondence course that 900 people completed last year. And he distributed more than 1,200 Bibles in 2023.
That’s all just numbers. What will touch you about Randy is the genuine heart he and his wife Rhonda have for service.
Original air date: May 30, 2024.

Pouring Light into Darkness – Randy Elliott

Rich Ganley is a serial entrepreneur. He’s an idea guy. And he’s also obsessed with service and helping others.

His title is Positive Impact Executive, and his projects have included a no-cost corporate relocation program, the first online interactive tools and calculators, programs to help the mental and physical health of seniors, and a dispatch and tracking system for Hospice of the Valley.

His most recent venture is the Recharge Room – an innovative new space installed to help first responders and educators to heal from traumatic stress using proactive and preventative therapies.

Click here to learn more about the Recharge Room: https://www.rechargeroom.io/

Original air date: May 23, 2024.

Rich Ganley is a serial entrepreneur. He’s an idea guy. And he’s also obsessed with service and helping others.
His title is Positive Impact Executive, and his projects have included a no-cost corporate relocation program, the first online interactive tools and calculators, programs to help the mental and physical health of seniors, and a dispatch and tracking system for Hospice of the Valley.
His most recent venture is the Recharge Room – an innovative new space installed to help first responders and educators to heal from traumatic stress using proactive and preventative therapies.
Click here to learn more about the Recharge Room: <a href="https://www.rechargeroom.io/">https://www.rechargeroom.io/</a>
Original air date: May 23, 2024.

Improve. Love. Serve. Rich Ganley

Bruce McCracken was first interested in helping marriages and families when he was in college. Wisely, he figured it might help to have a little experience in a marriage himself, so waited a couple of decades after he and his wife Karen got married, and got his Ph.D. in Christian education before starting The Marriage Hub.

The couples they seek to help are not just struggling in their marriage, but those who are at the crisis stage, maybe even actively in the process of divorce.

Key to the program is the Marriage Intensive, a 20-hour in-person experience aimed at reunification. Each couple receives a marital satisfaction form prior to the intensive, after the weekend and then six months and one year after the intensive. They see an average of a 20 percent increase in marital satisfaction.

Click here to learn more about The Marriage Hub: https://www.themarriagehub.com

Original air date: May 16, 2024

Bruce McCracken was first interested in helping marriages and families when he was in college. Wisely, he figured it might help to have a little experience in a marriage himself, so waited a couple of decades after he and his wife Karen got married, and got his Ph.D. in Christian education before starting The Marriage Hub.
The couples they seek to help are not just struggling in their marriage, but those who are at the crisis stage, maybe even actively in the process of divorce.
Key to the program is the Marriage Intensive, a 20-hour in-person experience aimed at reunification. Each couple receives a marital satisfaction form prior to the intensive, after the weekend and then six months and one year after the intensive. They see an average of a 20 percent increase in marital satisfaction.
Click here to learn more about The Marriage Hub: <a href="https://www.themarriagehub.com">https://www.themarriagehub.com</a> 
Original air date: May 16, 2024

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