Sentences with phrase «local food charities»

Every two weeks, the company holds a one - hour tournament where the points amassed by the top ten finishers on the leaderboard will be converted into donations to a local food charity in the winners» hometowns.

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To date, O'Brien says that Earth Angel has diverted 3,000 tons of waste from landfills, donated 90 tons of material to local charities, donated 55,000 meals to shelters and food banks, avoided over a million single - use plastic water bottles, and prevented 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by using recycled paper, limiting transportation emissions, and implementing «Meatless Monday» initiatives.

We've sponsored local realtor golf tournaments, rooted for the home team at football games, chowed down at food truck parties, hit the pavement in charity runs and, of course, filmed the occasional spoof video.

Some options when it comes to giving are, help promote local businesses, sponsor a charity, participate in holiday food drives or start your own non-profit organization.

Several local charities and food banks are partnering to raise $ 10,000 through the Puerto Rican Hurricane Relief Fund.

If you're looking for a local charity to support in the wake of Hurricane Harvey please consider Houston SPCA, Houston Humane Society, Houston Food Bank, Food Bank of Corpus Christi, or San Antonio Humane Society.

Sutton told his local news station that he will be accepting donations of food, money and toys that will then be given to a charity that helps the homeless community called Love Pantry.

And none of the money given to a charity will be used to repave our roads, help put out fires, keep out neighborhoods safe, make sure our food is safe to eat, make sure no one has a bomb or gun on your plane, or even mow the grass at your local park.

I consider the local food bank to be a charity.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

For the past couple of years I have been working with the Calgary Food Community, local charities and producers, and either organizing or creating events.

i held a charity bake sale this summer, and Large Marge Sustainables, an awesome local organic caterer (local to me, here in LA, as well as local in how they source their food products), contributed rosemary shortbread.

Its summer festival features food, beer and music, and all profits are donated to a local charity and the Make - A-Wish Foundation.

We now work with over 3,000 food donor businesses to collect quality surplus food and deliver it directly and free of charge, to over 1000 local charities.

This is a program delivered in partnership with food redistribution charity FareShare and social enterprise FoodCloud that connects Tesco stores to local charities and community groups, enabling us to redistribute food that's left over at the end of the day to people in need.

Stores use the FoodCloud app to let local charities and community groups know how much surplus food they have for donation at the end of the day.

In May 2014, in partnership with Food Donation Connection, we piloted our Food Donation Scheme to supply cooked, frozen, surplus chicken to local charities where it can be used to help feed those in need in the communities where our restaurants are situated.

The FSIC is a health promotion charity supported by state and territory health and food safety agencies, local government, and leading professional, industry and community organisations.

The 2014 HALL Cabernet Cookoff drew more than 600 food and wine lovers for a sold out crowd and raised $ 66,000 for local charities.

The charity works with local authorities, schools, parents and children to improve school meals and support food education through cooking, growing and links with local farms.

Every week we team up with FoodCloud to donate surplus food to local charities.

«It also generates millions of dollars in annual funding for local charities and community groups and will not slug consumers with higher prices that a traditional container deposit scheme will,» said Gary Dawson, Australian Food and Grocery Council CEO.

The scheme has donated over 1.4 million meals worth of surplus food to people in need to date, and over 3,000 local charities and community groups have signed up.

WHAT: 7th Annual HALL Cabernet Cookoff; a food and wine paring challenge with 100 % of ticket proceeds supporting local charities

The 2015 HALL Cabernet Cookoff drew more than 650 food and wine lovers for a sold - out crowd, and raised $ 59,000 for local charities.

The cooking school brings national as well as locally - acclaimed and beloved chefs to work directly with customers, and Southern Season's Share the Food non-profit foundation, a program that fights hunger and poverty, works with local charities to reach the hungry in the local store community.

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock settled on a friendly wager, involving local food, businesses and charities.

I suspect that, if this were to ever actually come about, that the answer will be that he has to find a local foundation / corporate charity / community organization willing to fund the transformation of his school's food service.

When your child receives allowance money, you might want to talk about setting aside a small percentage for donations to a local charity or food bank.

Founded in 1989 in protest of traditional charity models, the organization uses career training, job creation, and sustainable business practices to strengthen local food systems and reduce disparities in health and economic opportunity.

Chartwells has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years on donations to local school food watchdog Healthy Schools Campaign, and it gives $ 20,000 annually to the late Maggie Daley's After School Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board member.

She makes a difference in the Greater Boise community as well, volunteering at the food bank for the «backpack program,» helping sort donated product and assisting the local chapter to make blankets and help baskets for local charities.

i would give to my local food bank and donate to charities that care for the elderly in hospices in our area.

Mike Curtin, D.C. Central Kitchen's chief executive officer, said the charity wasn't looking to expand into the schools, but felt an obligation to offer its unique and entirely self - created position in the nascent local food distribution chain for the pilot project.

All shows are pay - what - you - can, and at each performance donations of non-perishable food items are collected for local charities.

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They will be available up until Thursday, and OC3 hopes to raise $ 1,000 for the Community Hunger Outreach Warehouse, a local charity that services a network of over 30 food pantries in Broome County.

Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition New York State Assembly NYS Assembly Community Resource Exchange (CRE) SCO Family of Services HCCI Chinese American Planning Council, Inc Heights and Hills Citizen Action of New York ROCitizen New York Association on Independent Living ATLI - Action Together Long Island NYSCAA New York Immigration Coalition Catholic Charities of Chemung & Schuyler Counties CDRC Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS Catholic Charities Professional Staff Congress Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley New York State Network for Youth Success NAMI Albany County Central Federation of Labor Food & Water Watch Jewish Family Service Metro New York Health Care for All Alliance for Positive Change MercyFirst Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York, Queens (CIDNY) SiCM — Schenectady Community Ministries Coalition for the Homeless CIDNY Citizen Action of NY PEF Retiree Urban Parhways, Inc Community Food Advocates PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 New York StateWide Senior Action Council Early Care & Learning Council Urban Pathways African Services Committee Day Care Council of New York New York State Community Action Association Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc The Radical Age Movement United Neighborhood Houses

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

Most importantly, all of you on this Thanksgiving morning helped kids and families battling the nightmare of pediatric cancer, the People to People Food Pantry, and several other local worthy charities including two scholarship funds.»

An Australian nonprofit has started working with local airlines to distribute uneaten plane food to charities in need.

This can be as easy as little acts such as helping a younger sibling or fetching a diaper for a parent, or a bigger action like taking canned goods to a food kitchen or helping at a local charity.

The other day, I organized a health and charity event which benefited the local Food Bank.

I'll Eat That is to elevate the well - known food blog format into a site of giving, connecting the passionate foodie with local, regional, national, and international charity organizations.

Though I am primarily a food critic, I have written a book about the traditions of American cooking (which included a chapter on school lunches) and can tell you that hot lunches in public schools were originally produced, with a few exceptions, early in the 20th century by local charities because immigrant children were coming to school hungry.

Taking part in community initiatives, including delivering demonstrations at Banbury Food Fair, supporting charity dinners and serving a meal for hundreds of people at Reading Town Meal, allows students to contribute to the local economy whilst creating ties for when they leave any of these colleges and go into the workplace.

The unique partnership allows Amana Academy students to become urban farmers and produce food for the school and local charities.

Schmit Brothers is the strength of our community, supporting local charities such as our food pantries and other organizations.

Wales Library offers amnesty for late books if you bring a food donation — The «food for fines» initiative, which gives borrowers the opportunity to see their penalties disappear if they donate food, will run through March, in conjunction with local charity Donation Station.

urged the Welsh town's service, which will pass the food on for distribution to charities and local people in need.