This local nonprofit provides nutritionally balanced meals to critically ill people and their families.
In 1989, David Waters was a man in his early 30s terrified of HIV. That same year, Community Servings was founded to provide home-delivered meals to people living with HIV/AIDS. For Waters, then a restaurateur in Cambridge, he saw in the then-fledgling organization a way for a food person like himself to make sense of this very scary epidemic and started volunteering to help raise money for the nonprofit, which was then based in Roxbury. Specifically, he recruited friends in the restaurant business to bake pies to sell for the cause. The first year, they sold 1,000 pies. More than 20 years later, Waters’s idea is still going strong (the Pie in the Sky program sells 15,000 pies a year in the three weeks leading up to Thanksgiving), as is …
