MARIAN WRIGHT, SHAWN STEPHENS, NANCY ATTALLA, NANCY PETERS, BONNIE LUCAS, JOANN BROSNAN, JENNIFER DENIKE, CAROL BRYAN, CATHY STYLES, DENISE FISHER, DONNA PAULSEN.
Members of the Alpha Gamma Nu sorority presented a $2,000 donation to the Harry Chapin Food Bank (HCFB) this fall. The donation was part of a September Hunger Action Month Match, which helped stretch the donation even further. With their purchasing power, HCFB can take $10 and turn it into 20 meals, and thanks to a match from Suncoast Credit Union, they were able to amplify our donation to provide 8,000 meals to our neighbors facing hunger.
If you are not familiar with HCFB, they work with over 175 agency partners to distribute food in Southwest Florida. Through their feeding network, they serve over 300,000 individuals each month, serving the five counties of Southwest Florida: Lee, Charlotte, Hendry, Glades and Collier.
Alpha Gamma Nu provides support to the HCFB with money we raise through events like the upcoming Home Tour on February 22, as well as our basket sales at the annual Arts & Crafts event in November.
Would you like to help the HCFB? According to Jennifer Denike, Senior Manor Gifts Officer, here are ways you can help:
• Groups or individual members of the Herons Glen community can sign up to volunteer in the Fort Myers warehouse for one of the food bank’s convenient shifts Monday through Thursday. The greatest need for volunteers is over the summer when the seasonal volunteers leave.
• Herons Glen can consider organizing a food drive at the end of the season to collect food items to provide food during the summer, which is the hungriest time in Southwest Florida because students are out of school and seasonal jobs are cut. The HCFB team makes it easy to host a food drive, and they can coordinate dropping off and picking up supplies.
To learn more about volunteering, contact [email protected], and to schedule a food drive, email [email protected].
