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Skip Lunch, Fight Hunger for City Harvest
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John Del Signore
Published Apr 24, 2009
Modified Apr 24, 2009
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Over the past 25 years City Harvest has rescued vast quantities of excess food that the food industry would have otherwise discarded; they then deliver it free of charge to more than 600 community food programs. With the faltering economy leading to even greater demand, nearly 350,000 children and their families in NYC don’t have enough to eat. To raise money, City Harvest is holding its annual Skip Lunch Fight Hunger initiative on May 6th, asking individuals to donate their lunch money. Here's how it works: Participants sign up as a team captain for their company, organization, or school. By May 6, team captains receive brown paper lunch bags, posters, and facts about childhood hunger to help publicize the event, and the captains collect donations. Last year's initiative was a big success, with some 15,000 New Yorkers raising over $500,000 in a single day to help feed over 30,000 children and their families for the entire summer. The top 25 fundraising teams will have a chance to win one of five prize packages, including tickets to the U.S. Open, where the food is so expensive you may want to skip lunch yet again. Details here.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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