Hotline to aid food donation program
Source: Crain's Detroit
Date: 5:17 pm, November 6, 2007
By: Sherri Begin
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan hopes to bring in additional food donations through calls to United Way for Southeastern Michigan’s 2-1-1 emergency help hotline.
Offers of food donations made to the hotline will be referred to Gleaners.
The Detroit-based food bank will then coordinate a pickup, tapping the agencies and pantries it provides with food for assistance in the effort.
In a release, United Way said that requests for emergency food assistance was the number one reason for calls in Wayne County for the second month in a row last month.
Those same requests rose from second to number one in Macomb County, but dropped to third-place in Oakland County.
Late last month, Gleaners launched a campaign to raise $1 million by Thanksgiving to help meet rising demand.
During the first nine months of this year, Gleaners said its distribution increased by 2.2 million pounds or 12.7 percent compared with the same period of 2006.
At the same time, national food donations from food manufacturers dropped a record 35 percent for the year to date, the food bank said.
Gleaners supplies food to 400 soup kitchens, shelters, churches and pantries.
Date: 5:17 pm, November 6, 2007
By: Sherri Begin
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan hopes to bring in additional food donations through calls to United Way for Southeastern Michigan’s 2-1-1 emergency help hotline.
Offers of food donations made to the hotline will be referred to Gleaners.
The Detroit-based food bank will then coordinate a pickup, tapping the agencies and pantries it provides with food for assistance in the effort.
In a release, United Way said that requests for emergency food assistance was the number one reason for calls in Wayne County for the second month in a row last month.
Those same requests rose from second to number one in Macomb County, but dropped to third-place in Oakland County.
Late last month, Gleaners launched a campaign to raise $1 million by Thanksgiving to help meet rising demand.
During the first nine months of this year, Gleaners said its distribution increased by 2.2 million pounds or 12.7 percent compared with the same period of 2006.
At the same time, national food donations from food manufacturers dropped a record 35 percent for the year to date, the food bank said.
Gleaners supplies food to 400 soup kitchens, shelters, churches and pantries.
Labels: 2-1-1, basic needs
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