Thanksgiving In July Food Drive

	Join the fight against hunger by organizing a city-wide food drive in your community. Click here to see how. Hunger is a very real and growing problem in cities across our nation. You can make a difference! Click here to view a video about Thanksgiving in July. (This link will take you to YouTube in this browser window)
Iowa City's Food Drive will be held July 20-25, 2009 Click here to view information about Muscatine's Food Drive.
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Download copy of Thanksgiving In July brochure Johnson County Crisis Center 2009 Food Drive Totals Wow! On behalf of our sponsors – Mercy Hospital, Hawkeye Foodservice Distribution, UI Health Care and Hy-Vee Food Stores, the Johnson County Crisis Center is pleased to announce the totals of the 2009 Thanksgiving in July community-wide food drive. Drum roll, please . . . Pounds of food and other items – 18,360 Financial contributions - $9089.00 We estimate purchasing 2 pounds of food for each dollar donated, bringing the grand total to an AMAZING 36,538 pounds (18.26 ton) of items for our Food Bank & Emergency Assistance program. We exceed this year’s goal of 35,000 pounds by more than one ton! Our shelves are full, our clients are thrilled and we know that no one seeking food assistance will be turned away from the Crisis Center. Thank you so much for all of your efforts to help feed the hungry in Johnson County. We look forward to working together with you next year. Beth Ritter Ruback Director of Communication & Fund Development Johnson County Crisis Center Phone (319) 351-2726 Fax (319) 351-4671 www.jccrisiscenter.org Muscatine Community Food Pantry, Pearl City Outreach, Salvation Army 2009 Food Drive Totals Our first Thanksgiving in July Food Drive was a huge success! Our total amounts collected are: 5,392 pounds $2,711.24 – Combined cash and food total is 5.4 ton The dollar total includes $750 directed to MCFP and $5 directed to Pearl City Outreach; I dropped off those checks and a gift card at their respective places. Our bank balance is $1956.24 -- First National will cut three checks for us as soon I give them the go ahead (probably early next week). Interesting notes: James Riley at Fareway Grocery had something in an advertisement about buying food for the drive and Fareway would deliver directly to MCFP -- the coordinator recorded 170 lbs as received. The food and funds brings some much appreciated assistance to community. Thank you to everyone who has helped. You do make a difference! Teressa Clark About the Crisis Center food bank of Johnson County More than 4,700 households requested assistance from the food bank during the past year Almost 50 percent of those receiving assistance are children under 18 years of age More than 25 percent of food bank clients are single women with young children The food bank distributes food to more than 725 families per week 80 percent of the food distributed comes from donations Services are provided by 150 volunteers back to top Website space provided by Hawkeye Foodservice Distribution, Iowa City, Iowa