Lunch Box For Kids BBQ - Thank you!
Thanks to your involvement and generosity at the BBQ, we were
able to raise $671.32 which is $221 more than last year and means that Hope for
the City will be able to provide 952 Lunches to children in need. That's HUGE
and we can't thank you enough for your support!
I am especially grateful to the WON Committee for their continued enthusiastic support for Hope for the City, to our awesome Grillers: Mark Parten, Bill Krake, Allen Bernard & Karen Harris, and to my associates at HFTC who volunteered to help set up and clean up. Because of all of you, this event was not only a support to our local community, it was a lot of fun!
Summer brings additional stress for some parents when their stretched budgets have to stretch even more because their children do not have access to free and reduced fee school lunch and breakfast programs. As a result, children are often going hungry. In fact, children account for 40 percent of Minnesota's hungry. Findings from a 2011 study conducted by Feeding America, a national hunger-relief charity, show that more than 212,000 children in Minnesota are at risk of hunger on any given day.
Hope for the City is committed to alleviating childhood hunger. Our Lunch Box for Kids program is one example of how we are working to address childhood hunger, especially in the summer.
Each year, we assemble thousands of child-oriented lunch boxes. Every "lunch box" is filled with enough nutritious, kid-friendly food to provide two kids lunch for two weeks. In addition to nutritious shelf-stable food, such as canned vegetables and fruit, each Lunch Box for Kids contains two packages of Hope Meals, each containing six servings of fortified rice and beans or macaroni and cheese meals. The lunch boxes are then distributed to our 49 community partners who ensure they reach families in need.
Thank you for your continued support of all that we do at Hope for the City!
Lori Helland | Business Manager
Hope for the CityI am especially grateful to the WON Committee for their continued enthusiastic support for Hope for the City, to our awesome Grillers: Mark Parten, Bill Krake, Allen Bernard & Karen Harris, and to my associates at HFTC who volunteered to help set up and clean up. Because of all of you, this event was not only a support to our local community, it was a lot of fun!
Summer brings additional stress for some parents when their stretched budgets have to stretch even more because their children do not have access to free and reduced fee school lunch and breakfast programs. As a result, children are often going hungry. In fact, children account for 40 percent of Minnesota's hungry. Findings from a 2011 study conducted by Feeding America, a national hunger-relief charity, show that more than 212,000 children in Minnesota are at risk of hunger on any given day.
Hope for the City is committed to alleviating childhood hunger. Our Lunch Box for Kids program is one example of how we are working to address childhood hunger, especially in the summer.
Each year, we assemble thousands of child-oriented lunch boxes. Every "lunch box" is filled with enough nutritious, kid-friendly food to provide two kids lunch for two weeks. In addition to nutritious shelf-stable food, such as canned vegetables and fruit, each Lunch Box for Kids contains two packages of Hope Meals, each containing six servings of fortified rice and beans or macaroni and cheese meals. The lunch boxes are then distributed to our 49 community partners who ensure they reach families in need.
Thank you for your continued support of all that we do at Hope for the City!
Lori Helland | Business Manager
4350 Baker Road, Suite 400
Minnetonka, MN 55343
Direct: 952-897-7716
Fax: 952-842-7611
lori@hopeforthecity.org | www.hopeforthecity.org
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