Homemade Hope Makes Sure Houston Kids in Shelters Get Cooking Love

When Making a Meal Can Change Lives

By Shelby Hodge // Oct 1, 2019

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Chance Ragone, Trent Kelley, Grant Anderson (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Honorees Marcia & Brig Smart (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Gala chairs Liz Coleman and Adam Greer (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Keiddrick Fizer, Blair Bentley, Beverly & Bart Bentley, Brooke Bentley Gunst & Jeff Gunst (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Amad Saber, Tiffany LaRose, Vina & Mark Nichols (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Schulyer Evans, Sergio Marazita, Nick Scurfield PHOTOGRAPHS by Emily Jaschke (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Ashley Dockall, Natalie Gage (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Brooke Bentley Gunst, Blair Bentley (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Cliff Moore, Eila Castellano (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Codi Stuhr, Chris Schaefer (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Courtain & Shelby Janik (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Dameon & Wendy Williams (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Divya & Chris Brown, (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

DJ Kalkutta (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Josh Barvin, Angelica Bondoc, Robert Hopkins (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Kathryn Loder, Amanda Woodard, Kennedy Williams, Leslie Hernandez (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Libby Hudacek, Sarah Tringhese, Scarlett Hankey (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Margot Delaronde (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Michael Schellinger, Maggie Perlmutter (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Nillie & Ehab Shorkry (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Robby & Marissa Avery (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

Scarlett Hankey, Jenifer Ray, Natalie Synnott (Photo by Emily Jaschke)

What: Homemade Hope “Home Is Where the Heart Is” gala

Where: The Ballroom at Bayou Place

PC Moment: Two Homemade Hope students, Nehemiah and Josiah, and Southside Community Center youth director Lynn Stevenson shared opening remarks and dinner blessings on the evening chaired by Liz Coleman and Adam Greer.

Kudos to honorees Marcia and Brig Smart, she a food writer and cooking instructor behind Smart in the Kitchen and the Farm Girls Supper Club, both serving on various boards of nonprofits aiding those in need.

The evening raised more than $170,000 for the young nonprofit that provides weekly hands-on cooking classes to children in shelters throughout Houston. As emcee, KHOU Channel 11 newswoman Lily Jang kept the program moving.

PC Seen: Homemade Hope executive director Blair Bentley, Homemade Hope board president Lila Sharifian, Divya and Chris Brown, Holly and Steve Radom, Schuyler Evans, Elizabeth and Rob Willey, Wendy and Dameon Williams, Marissa and Robby Avery, Shelby and Courtain Janik, and Allison and Spencer Stasney.