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General News: Join the Food Frenzy for the Food Bank
August 23, 2010
From the Orange County CItizens Foundation
A short-term project to fight hunger in the Hudson Valley organized in 2009 by a group of professionals throughout the Hudson Valley region has been reinitiated to once again help combat the ongoing food crisis in the region.
Organized by the Pattern for Progress Fellows Program, the second annual Hudson Valley Food Frenzy Food Drive will be held from September 20-24, 2010. September is National Hunger Awareness Month.
Originally implemented in September 2009 the Food Frenzy encourages friendly competition between businesses and organizations of similar size and/or mission to collect donations of food and money during a designated time period in September. Prizes are awarded to the organizations that collect the most donations.
All donations will be directed to the Hudson Valley Food Bank to help stock the regional Food Bank’s warehouse. The Hudson Valley Food Bank serves Orange, Ulster, Dutchess, Rockland, Sullivan, and Putnam counties.
The program capitalizes on Pattern for Progress’s commitment to regionalism and the benefits of collaboration to create a regional response to hunger in the Hudson Valley.
“Local businesses and organizations really stepped up to the plate last year to support the Food Frenzy,” said Howard Protter, managing partner of Jacobowitz and Gubits. “The competitive nature of the event and the desire to make a change in the local community helped propel the project beyond our expectations. The need is still very real for many individuals and families in our region and the Pattern Fellows want to continue to help.”
Participating organizations can collect donations of both food and money. Every dollar raised translates to seven meals that can be provided. Details regarding the collection of non-perishable food items are available in the Food Frenzy registration package available on the Food Bank’s website www.foodbankofhudsonvalley.org.
“Patterns’s goal is to get the nine counties we serve to act as one Hudson Valley region. By creating a regional competition that will serve the most needy throughout the Hudson Valley, the Pattern Fellows continue to demonstrate their understanding of an important focus of Pattern for Progress and in important issue in the region,” said Jonathan Drapkin, President and CEO of the Hudson Valley “think tank”.
To register or learn more about the Hudson Valley Food Frenzy, interested organizations should visit www.foodbankofhudsonvalley.org.
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