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Sponsor a hole at Met-Ed's Harvest for Hunger Golf Tournament For only $50, you can have your business or organization's name listed as the hole sponsor on a sign at a tee box at the 6th Annual Met-Ed Harvest for Hunger Golf Tournament to be held Friday, September 24, 2010 at Willow Hollow Golf Course in Leesport. Your sign will be viewed by all 130 plus golfers playing in the tournament. This is low-cost, effective advertising and the best part is all proceeds benefit the Greater Berks Food Bank! Click here to download the sponsor form: 2010 Hole Sponsor Form The GBFB has won a "No Kid Hungry" $25,000 award! On July 8, Share Our Strength announced the winners of the three "No Kid Hungry" Innovation Awards - valued at $25,000 each. The GBFB won the "Beyond the Lunch Line" category! Thank you to all of our supporters who voted for us online and who helped spread the word to vote amongst friends, family, and colleagues. This award will allow us to expand our new Produce for Kids program in the upcoming school year - providing fresh fruits and veggies to many, many at-risk elementary school kids in the city of Reading. Join in the fun of the Grow and Share Program Members from several area churches recently created a program they call Grow and Share. The participants commit to planting a couple extra vegetable plants in their home garden to donate the crop to the Greater Berks Food Bank. A couple of the churches even planted gardens on their grounds! It is not too late to have your place of worship join in. Check out this website for more info: Community UCC - Grow and Share Program. Do you not have garden space but want to participate? Grow Bags (5 gallon plastic bags designed to hold soil for planting) and garden soil are available for free (a donation is encouraged). See the website for the contact info to get these resources. "Swine & Wine" Fundraiser - Saturday, September 18 The Christian Moses Weikel Memorial will be holding a "Swine & Wine" pig roast and wine sampling at Long Trout Winery, located in Auburn, Schuylkill County, on Saturday, September 18 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. The event will include Chinese and silent auctions as well as 50/50 raffles. Dinner tickets cost $15 and can be purchased by contacting Doug Long at dslong@feedingamerica.org. All proceeds will benefit the GBFB and another local charity. Click here for more event details: Wine and Swine event details Local findings of the Hunger in America 2010 study released On Tuesday, February 2, 2010, the Greater Berks Food Bank held a press conference to release the local findings of the national Hunger in America 2010 study. The study provides us with a lot of important local hunger statistics which will be very beneficial in our future efforts to feed our neighbors in need. Please click the link on our home page to review the local highlights. Also, click the links below for the Reading Eagle article and WFMZ story regarding Hunger in America 2010. WFMZ Berks Edition story 2/2/10
Companies - please help by sponsoring an eventCompanies are encouraged to contact the GBFB's Manager of Marketing and Development, Doug Long, to learn about becoming a sponsor of one of our 2010 events. Not only will you help the Food Bank defer the costs of these events so we can devote more funds to helping the hungry, you will be showing your community that your organization is a partner in helping our less fortunate neighbors. Doug can be reached at 610-926-5802 ext. 212 or via email at dslong@feedingamerica.org.
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