Second Harvest North Florida Volume 3 • Issue 2 • January 2011 www.WeNourishHope.org
Feeding Hope
a newsletter for food industry donors
Store efforts help feed hungry people during holidays Walmart: Holiday Hunger 2010 — Walmart and the Walmart Foundation organized several programs as part of the company's nationwide 2010 Holiday Hunger Campaign. From Nov. 15 through Nov. 22, each of Walmart’s 3,700 stores nationwide participated in the company’s first in-store food drive. To kick off the food drive, the company made the first donation – providing more than nine truckloads of food to food banks in Houston, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Miami, Charleston, Valdosta, Ga., Tallahassee, Atlanta and Birmingham. This food drive provided 45,000 pounds of food, which equates to over 35,000 meals to hungry people living in in north Florida! From Nov. 15 through Dec. 31, Walmart and the Walmart Foundation are encouraging people to visit Walmart’s Facebook page and help decide which cities should receive $1.5 million in grants to fight hunger. Participants choose from a list of 100 communities where hunger rates are the highest – the city with the most support will receive $1 million in grants and the next five cities with the highest support will receive $100,000 each. Visit http://fightinghunger. walmart.com/city/Jacksonville-FL to "Like" and help bring funds to feed hungry people in the Jacksonville community. Winn Dixie: 16th Annual Food Drive with Jacksonville Jaguars — Following the food drive kick off during the Oct. 18 Monday night football game, Winn Dixie stores continued to collect food well into November. In all, more than 67,000 pounds of food, which equates to more than 52,000 meals to people living in need here in our community, and $6,300 in cash, which will fund more than 44,000 meals, were collected in this campaign! Food Lion: Hunger Has a Cure Food Box Program — Customers donated ready-made
Hunger Has a Cure food boxes for $4.99 at local stores. Each box contained enough food to provide a family with four nutritious meals. This food drive provided over 3,400 meals to people living in need here in North Florida. In November, Food Lion and Black Diamond Performance Reporting also provided funds and food plus more than 100 volunteers who reported to Everbank Field to distribute 1,000 turkeys and the fixings to hungry people. Lastly, Food Lion customers can link their MVP Rewards cards to benefit Second Harvest North Florida with each purchase, including double credit on the tenth of each month. Second Harvest North Florida's organization code is 252366. Publix: Food For All — Customers contributed to the Food For All campaign by purchasing contribution cards in varying amounts. The funds raised are used to support programs designed to fight hunger on a local, regional, national and international level. Funds raised stay in the communities in which they were raised. In 2009, Publix customers and associates donated more than $2.4 million to the effort, of which $32,000 went to Second Harvest North Florida. As of this printing, 2010 numbers had not yet been reported. Target: Days of Giving — Target provided over 75 volunteers to help out with various projects in Second Harvest's warehouse including sorting food into categories, packing food into family boxes and more.
Donation ABCs: An alphabetical listing of the many different kinds of food industry products that can be donated.
(Letters D-E) Discontinued Product • When a product or line is discontinued from your product portfolio, what do you do with existing inventory?
Down Time • Does your plant location encounter down time? • Would you consider manufacturing product for the food bank if you could be reimbursed?
Employee Stores • Does your company operate an employee store? • If yes, how are products designated for the store? Could there be donation opportunities from this area? (Knowing that their company is donating to a charitable cause in their community may motivate employees to dedicate themselves more fully to their company's success.)
Excess Inventory Second Harvest depends thousands of volunteers and organizations to help it feed hungry people all year long. To volunteer, contact Jessie Sanders, jsanders@WeNourishHope.org, 904.517.5560.
• Do you ever have excess inventory on hand that has no customer? • What happens to that product (sell, dump, donate, other)?
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