In the Southwest Florida service area of the Harry Chapin Food Bank, 100,000 people live in poverty and too often miss meals or experience hunger. The fastest growing segments of need include children, seniors living on fixed incomes, and the working poor.

Community Gathers to Share Ideas at 2008 Food Summit and Agency Conference
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Join Us in Making the Publix Food Drive, October 15 to December 31, the Best Ever!

Last year, this collaborative food drive brought in half a million pounds of nutritious food for distribution in Harry Chapin Food Bank's five-county service area. The need is even greater this year, so help us exceed our goal in 2008 with funds (to pay for transportation, boxes, bins, and other direct costs) and food purchases at your local Publix. Click here for a complete Calendar of Events. AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUING SUPPORT!

Pledge, Donate, Walk!

Create a team, make a donation or pledge, join a team already in place, or send out invitations to friends, family members, and colleagues! Take time now to join in the 1st annual WINK News Feeds Families Hunger Walk on January 17, 2009. Visit harrychapinfb.dojiggy.com to learn more about this fun event at Miromar Outlet Mall and how it will benefit the Harry Chapin Food Bank. Also take time to thank sponsors (to date): Miromar Outlets, Northern Trust Bank; FGCU; The Prawnbroker Restaurant Group; Oswald Trippe and Company, Inc.; McDonald's/Tom Fewster, Jr.; Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, P.A.; Garden Street Iron & Metal; Miller, Helms & Folk, P.A.; Publix Super Market Charities; Keene Development; Synergy; Southwest Florida Neurosurgical & Rehab Associates; and The ROCK for Hair and Nails.

Buy Tickets for the Edison Festival of Lights Grand Parade And Support the Harry Chapin Food Bank

The Grand Parade is the centerpiece of the annual Edison Festival of Light, and you can have a front-row seat! The two-hour extravaganza features national and local marching bands, floats, local government officials and much more, as the entire Southwest Florida community celebrates the life and achievements of our most famous winter resident, Thomas Edison. The Grand Marshal of this year's event will be Florida Lt. Governor (and North Fort Myers High School graduate) Jeff Kottkamp. When you buy "Street Seats" at $8.50 each, you help support the Harry Chapin Food Bank. The seats are located at the beginning of the parade route on Edwards Drive. Call Marta Hodson at 239-334-7007 x32 to purchase your tickets. Seat availability is limited, so call now!

New Refrigerated Truck Hard at Work

With the greater need for nutritious, fresh food, the Harry Chapin Food Bank is making optimum use of its new refrigerated truck to increase perishable food pick-ups. It was purchased with grants from: The Vincent A. Stabile Foundation, The Mediterra Foundation, and Leather Medic Inc. Another truck is on its way, through a grant from Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest). And the Food Bank thanks the Church of Latter Day Saints (in group photo) for delivering a recent mixed load ($10,000 worth) of fruit, vegetables, and tuna.

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