Community Leader Award Recipient Announced
June 2021
It is with great pleasure that NAWC announces the recipient of our Polly Sierer Community Leader Award:
Sasha Aber of Homegrown Cafe.
NAWC established this award in honor of our longstanding president: Polly Sierer. The award recognizes an outstanding individual or group who has taken a lead role in developing a solution to a current issue to help support neighbors in our community. Sasha's nomination stood out among the others.
Nominees said the following about her leadership to our community during the past year:
When faced with the restrictions that came with the pandemic, Sasha Aber and her staff repurposed the popular longtime Newark restaurant as a place of giving. Home Grown Cafe reached out to its customers and the Newark Community for help. The initiative Adopt-A-Unit at Christiana Care was born to help those that are helping us. Within a very short period of time over $24,472 was raised including over 466 donors serving over 3,250 meals to Christiana Care healthcare workers. Locations include Newark, Wilmington, and Middletown. The effort allowed donors to purchase meals that Home Grown Cafe would make and deliver. This effort not only helped front-line workers but also allowed Sasha to keep more staff employed at Home Grown Cafe during the pandemic.