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Food Partners to benefit from Feinstein Challenge
BENZIE – For the 17th straight year, Rhode Island philanthropist Alan Shawn Feinstein is offering $1 million to nonprofit, anti-hunger agencies throughout the country and Benzie Food Partners (BFP) hope to again benefit from this special nationwide challenge.
The Feinstein Foundation will again divide $1 million among all those “Challenge” participating agencies that report their total donations received during March and April. The “Challenge” also will again recognize food product donations by crediting participating agencies $1 per item or pound donated during this time period.
Feinstein is founder of the Center For a Hunger Free America at the University of Rhode Island and the Feinstein International Famine Center at Tuffs University. Past Challenges have significantly raised awareness about hunger, and his on-going concern for the millions of hungry people in “the greatest country in the world” continues to make people aware of the need for change.
Challenge donors become a part of one of the most successful ongoing efforts ever to fight hunger.
This is the 17th year of participation for Benzie Food Partners and they are hopeful the 2014 challenge, March 1 through April 30, and their project to fight hunger in Benzie County will be as successful as in previous years.
“Our community has been very supportive of our efforts,” said Challenge Coordinator Linda Davis, and secretary/treasurer Jeffie Lynch-Jones.
“As we enter our 17th year of service in Benzie County with our user-friendly pantry, we are grateful for that support and shared concern,” they added.
The Food Partners pantry is located at 10907 Main St., at the southeast corner of Henry and Main streets in Honor. It is open from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the first and third Thursdays of each month. The pantry is also available in emergency situations.
Donations to the pantry are used in Benzie County and may be sent to Benzie Food Partners, PO Box 598, Honor, MI 49640. In 2013, BFP distributed 90,099 pounds of food and personal care/daily living needs items to a cumulative total of 2,088 families or 5,898 Benzie County residents, including 1,519 children and 1,281 seniors.
For more information about the food pantry or other suggestions on ways to help, please call 231-325-2936 or 231-882-5234. For information on the Challenge, call 231-325-2133.
The Feinstein Foundation will again divide $1 million among all those “Challenge” participating agencies that report their total donations received during March and April. The “Challenge” also will again recognize food product donations by crediting participating agencies $1 per item or pound donated during this time period.
Feinstein is founder of the Center For a Hunger Free America at the University of Rhode Island and the Feinstein International Famine Center at Tuffs University. Past Challenges have significantly raised awareness about hunger, and his on-going concern for the millions of hungry people in “the greatest country in the world” continues to make people aware of the need for change.
Challenge donors become a part of one of the most successful ongoing efforts ever to fight hunger.
This is the 17th year of participation for Benzie Food Partners and they are hopeful the 2014 challenge, March 1 through April 30, and their project to fight hunger in Benzie County will be as successful as in previous years.
“Our community has been very supportive of our efforts,” said Challenge Coordinator Linda Davis, and secretary/treasurer Jeffie Lynch-Jones.
“As we enter our 17th year of service in Benzie County with our user-friendly pantry, we are grateful for that support and shared concern,” they added.
The Food Partners pantry is located at 10907 Main St., at the southeast corner of Henry and Main streets in Honor. It is open from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the first and third Thursdays of each month. The pantry is also available in emergency situations.
Donations to the pantry are used in Benzie County and may be sent to Benzie Food Partners, PO Box 598, Honor, MI 49640. In 2013, BFP distributed 90,099 pounds of food and personal care/daily living needs items to a cumulative total of 2,088 families or 5,898 Benzie County residents, including 1,519 children and 1,281 seniors.
For more information about the food pantry or other suggestions on ways to help, please call 231-325-2936 or 231-882-5234. For information on the Challenge, call 231-325-2133.
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