SVP Fast Pitch Picnic

Lead Volunteer Sue Oliver (center) with Christine Gilbert.

After the Woodland Park Zoo Jungle Party last evening (see related blog post here), today was the Social Venture Partners Fast Pitch Picnic back at the Zoo again.  Today it was a little more challenging to get there from the Eastside with the SR-520 bridge closure, but it was a beautiful day for a picnic.

Chair and Lead Volunteer, Sue Oliver, and ZINO Society SVP Fast Pitch Project Manager, Christine Gilbert, arrived early to get everything set up for the get-together which included burgers and all the fixins' along with salads, fruit, cookies, soft drinks

Chuck Roxin and Mike Waggoner

and lots of chips.  Grillmaster volunteer, David, sharpened the knives, cut the onions and tomatoes and grilled the burgers while Christine, Kristin and the other ladies organized the food.

ZBDS Managing Director, Chuck Roxin, was there and got into an interesting conversation with Mike Waggoner, one of the social innovators, who is developing a compostible plastic cup.  It was also fun to see and taste the multi-colored carrots with green tops still attached that social innovators, Ebba and her husband brought.  Each carrot had a tag tied on reading "A

typical carrot travels 1,838 miles to become part of a U.S. meal."   I'm looking forward to getting into the social innovator applications and reading more.

Other attendees included SVP President Paul Shoemaker and SVP Fast Pitch Immediate  Past Lead Volunteer, Will Poole, along with volunteers Luni Libes, Chaitra Vedullapalli, her husband Ram Dutt and their two boys Chirag and Neal, Claire Dillow and Emma Landis of ZINO Society and a number of other social innovators and assorted children and dogs.

It was a casual and relaxing afternoon for all.  Now on with the pitches!