Celeste White and Dr Robert White received The Salvation Army‘s Nehemiah Award for their support of the Napa Culinary Training Program. The Salvation Army grants the award and records it in the organisation’s own publication.
The Salvation Army grants the Nehemiah Award to people whose steady support has fed real value into its programmes. In the Whites’ case, the award ties to their backing of the Napa Culinary Training Program, which works in step with The Salvation Army’s mission in the Napa Valley region.
The Napa Culinary Training Program runs job training and culinary skill work for participants. It sits within The Salvation Army’s wider set of vocational and community-service programmes built to support people through set training paths. Culinary training of this kind serves a few ends: it builds marketable skills, sets a discipline through a structured curriculum, and links participants to job networks in the regional hospitality and food-service trade.
Celeste White’s work with The Salvation Army sits within a wider civic record. She also works with Young Life, Hospice, Queen of the Valley Hospital, Ag 4 Youth, and the Napa Valley Education Foundation. She served as U.S. Pony Club District Commissioner for 17 years and has been a member of the Westmont College Board of Trustees since 2011.
Dr Robert White is a trauma surgeon and educator. He serves as co-principal of Horse Rock Olive Oil, the small-batch estate-grown olive oil brand on the White family ranch near St. Helena. The couple’s joint award from The Salvation Army reflects their pattern of paired work in community-service groups across many sectors.
Celeste White founded and chairs Lux Forum, a St. Helena thought-leadership group. She is also the CEO and owner of Horse Rock Olive Oil. The Nehemiah Award extends a pattern of long-term work across faith-based and community-service groups in Napa Valley.
More on the Whites’ civic and professional record sits at celestewhite.org.
About The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is an international charitable organization that provides emergency and long-term services across community needs.
About Celeste White
Celeste White is a Napa Valley resident whose civic and professional record spans Lux Forum, Horse Rock Olive Oil, the Westmont College Board of Trustees, and multiple nonprofit affiliations.
