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2008 Summer Cereal Drive

Gather your team for a little friendly competition that will ultimately help provide cereal for thousands of children and families throughout central and southern Arkansas. Contact Sarah Cowan, 501.565.8121 x 15 or scowan@arkansasfoodbank.org, to sign up your team or find out more.

School Drive

Business Drive

"Stamp Out Hunger" National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive

Sat. May 10 leave a bag on non-perishable food items next to your mail box and your letter carrier will pick it up on his/her route. NALC is a national event and the largest single day food drive. Last year, Central Arkansas contributed more than 106,000 pounds of food. Please help us make this year an even greater success!

Come kick off this exciting event at a news conference on Wednesday May 7 at 10:00 a.m. at the Clinton School of Public Service (next door to the William J. Clinton Library).

In addition to putting food by your mail box, you can come help us sort collected food at the Foodbank warehouse from 6-10:30 pm on the 10th and/or schedule a time to help us as we continue to sort food throughout the following few weeks, May 12-16, 19-23. Contact Kisha Bumpers, 501.565.8121 x 23 or kbumpers@arkansasfoodbank.org to volunteer. See http://nalc.org/commun/foodrive/index.html for more information.

Reusable Grocery Totes

Get yours today for a minimum donation of $25. Purchased totes will need to be picked up at the Arkansas Foodbank Network. Totes are now also available at Gifts of Arkansas lacoated 123 East Markham in Little Rock, www.giftsofarkansas.com as well as at the Box Turtle located on 2616 Kavanaugh Blvd. Contact the Foodbank at 501.565.8121 for more information.

Spread the Sharing

Country Crock is making a donation to America's Second Harvest each time a personal experience of giving to another or having someone give to you is shared on their website. Log on to http://spreadthesharing.com/StoriesofSharing/TellStory.aspx to share your story and help a person in need.

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past events

Healthscope Benefits Food Drive

I have only one word that would describe this Food Drive...WOW !!! You went above and beyond to show you care about our community. The total amount of food collected was 1,408 lbs.

 The Peanut Butter Drive was so successful, here is the break down and the winners.

 Total :  660 lbs  of peanut butter

See pictures from our food drive here.

Check Presentation

Wal-Mart Representatives along with Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter presented a $10,000 check to Phyllis Haynes, Executive Director of the Arkansas Foodbank Network on February 25, 2008.

Wal-Mart Presentation

Kids Canstruction 2008

Under the guidance of design professionals, teams of 3rd through 8th grade children from local schools built giant artistic structures out of canned food.

Location: Pleasant Ridge Town Center in Little Rock

Structures will remain on display from Feb. 2 until Feb. 16. Admission is free.

Canstruction 2008

Location: William J. Clinton Presidential Library

Canstruction is a design/build competition to create structures built entirely out of canned foods showcasing the ingenuity of Arkansas' design community to benefit hungry Arkansans. The structures were on display at the Clinton Library from Jan. 17 - Feb. 4 (admission: adults $7, children/students/military $5). Once the structures are dismantled, the more than 15,000 pounds of food will fill the shelves of the Arkansas Foodbank Network.

Arkansas First Lady Ginger Beebe presented the 2008 Canstruction Awards at a reception, Friday, January 18, in the Great Hall of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library.

1. Overall Winner: "The Big Can Bridge" - Cromwell Architects Engineers, Inc.

2. Structural Integrity: "Get off Your Can Man" - The Wilcox Group

3. Best Use of Labels: "Super Mario Bros." - Witsell Evans Rasco Architects/Baldwin & Shell Construction

4. Best Meal: "Our Can Saw" - Fennell Purifoy Hammock Architects

5. Honorable Mention: "I-Can" - Williams and Dean Architects and the "Canburger" - Roark Perkins Perry Yelvington/May Construction

Click here to see pictures from Canstruction event.

Combined Federal Campaign

We would like to thank all Federal employees who participate in the Combined Federal Campaign and help support the Arkansas Foodbank Network.

2007 Annual Agency Appreciation Luncheon

Thank you to the agencies, supporters, volunteers, Board Members, Harvesters and others who joined us for our Annual Luncheon. We had a great time celebrating the work you all do to help feed hungry Arkansans. Thanks to Governor Beebe for joining us in thanking all who join in the mission to end hunger, to Tom Brannon, Mitch Berry and Shelly Lane for their involvement in the luncheon. We congratulate and thank all of our 2007 volunteer award winners for making an extra effort in the work to create a community where no one has to go hungry:

Golf-for-Food 2007

Thank you to all who participated in our 2007 Golf-for Food Tournament held on Monday, Sept. 17, 2007. Thank you to the Harvesters for your hard work and dedication. Thank you also to Golden Corral for providing an incredible lunch. The weather was perfect, the food exquisite and all around an extremely successful event. The tournament brought in more than $31,000… the most we have ever raised.

Thank you to our 2007 Golf-for-Food principal sponsors:

2007 Today's THV Summer Cereal Drive

SCD logoMore than 50% of children enrolled in public schools in Arkansas rely on free and reduced-price federal meals during the school year. While kids are out of school, so is the feeding program. Join us in providing breakfast to those in need. For more information, stories and daily updates visit www.todaysthv.com.

School Drive:

Thank you to our 36 participating schools for an extremely successful 1st annual Summer Cereal Drive School Edition. You collected an impressive 14,568 boxes.

Business Drive:

The 2007 THV Summer Cereal Drive ended June 21st!!! Thank you to our 109 teams that participated this year. The grand total collected by businesses this year is 75,769 boxes. With the help of schools, teams, community and wonderful sponsors the 2007 overall total is an amazing...

138,568

...boxes to help children and their families until school resumes.

THANK YOU to everyone that contributed to this worthy cause.

sponsors

Feinstein Challenge
Thank you for helping out during March and April to multiply the donations we received. We appreciate your support.

April 27, 2007: 5th Annual Empty Bowls Art Auction

Empty Bowls is the Arkansas Foodbank Network's annual auction of fine artwork from local artists! The event was held on Friday, April 27, 2007 from 6:30-9 p.m. at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church Ballroom (Little Rock). Empty Bowls is organized by Harvesters, The Arkansas Foodbank Network's Young Professionals Fundraising Group.

This year marked our most successful event to date. Empty Bowls raised almost $39,000 to help feed hungry people. Thank you to our sponsors, artists, donors and attendees for making this the best Empty Bowls yet!

 

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