Place a bag of non-perishable food items by your mailbox the morning of Saturday, May 11, and your Letter Carrier will pick it up for donation to local emergency foodshelves.
The National Association of Letter Carriers’ annual “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive is the nation’s largest one-day collection of donated food.
“The need always goes up a little bit more each year,” said Samantha Hartwig, food drive coordinator for NALC Branch 9 in Minneapolis and for a four-state region including Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North and South Dakota.
Donations to local foodshelves at this time of year are especially important, she said. “This time of year, the spring, is the time when the foodshelves have the lowest volume of food for families.”
NALC makes it easy for everyone to donate.
“On the food drive week, people will get a postcard in their mailbox telling them the food drive is coming and a blue plastic bag,” Hartwig explained. “All they need to do is bag the food and leave it by the mailbox and the letter carrier will do the rest.”
NALC members won’t be on their own for the food drive, however. The Stamp Out Hunger food drive partners locally with Second Harvest Heartland, which distributes collected food to local foodshelves. Cub Foods helps to promote the food drive and local Cub Foods stores serve as collection points where letter carriers come with their vehicles to transfer collected food to waiting trucks.
NALC enlists other corporate partners, too, this year including TCF Bank. “If people go into TCF Bank, they can make a financial contribution,” NALC’s Hartwig said. “TCF Bank will be matching up to $25,000 in cash donations,” she added. “For every dollar that goes to Second Harvest, that translates into $9 of food, so that goes a long way to feed people in our community.”
The broader labor community also will be assisting the food drive, helping at the following Cub Foods locations: Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation (Blaine North), Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 (Blaine South), AFSCME Hennepin County locals (Brookdale), Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (60th and Nicollet), WCCO and NALC Branch 9 (East Lake Street), AFSCME Council 5 (St. Paul Midway).
Reprinted from the Minneapolis Labor Review.
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Place a bag of non-perishable food items by your mailbox the morning of Saturday, May 11, and your Letter Carrier will pick it up for donation to local emergency foodshelves.
The National Association of Letter Carriers’ annual “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive is the nation’s largest one-day collection of donated food.
“The need always goes up a little bit more each year,” said Samantha Hartwig, food drive coordinator for NALC Branch 9 in Minneapolis and for a four-state region including Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North and South Dakota.
Donations to local foodshelves at this time of year are especially important, she said. “This time of year, the spring, is the time when the foodshelves have the lowest volume of food for families.”
NALC makes it easy for everyone to donate.
“On the food drive week, people will get a postcard in their mailbox telling them the food drive is coming and a blue plastic bag,” Hartwig explained. “All they need to do is bag the food and leave it by the mailbox and the letter carrier will do the rest.”
NALC members won’t be on their own for the food drive, however. The Stamp Out Hunger food drive partners locally with Second Harvest Heartland, which distributes collected food to local foodshelves. Cub Foods helps to promote the food drive and local Cub Foods stores serve as collection points where letter carriers come with their vehicles to transfer collected food to waiting trucks.
NALC enlists other corporate partners, too, this year including TCF Bank. “If people go into TCF Bank, they can make a financial contribution,” NALC’s Hartwig said. “TCF Bank will be matching up to $25,000 in cash donations,” she added. “For every dollar that goes to Second Harvest, that translates into $9 of food, so that goes a long way to feed people in our community.”
The broader labor community also will be assisting the food drive, helping at the following Cub Foods locations: Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation (Blaine North), Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 (Blaine South), AFSCME Hennepin County locals (Brookdale), Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (60th and Nicollet), WCCO and NALC Branch 9 (East Lake Street), AFSCME Council 5 (St. Paul Midway).
Reprinted from the Minneapolis Labor Review.