Hunger Hero's: Food Drives

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ORGANIZATION: Goodman Community Center

Summer can be a carefree time, but not for everyone. Many parents struggle to provide their children with three square meals when they are out of school. We think too many children - one in nine kids in Dane County - worry about having enough food. That means at least three children in every classroom don’t know where their next meal is coming from.

This summer, Goodman Community Center and News 3 want to change that, but we’ll need your help. Our goal is to send a bag of groceries home with 300 food-insecure children and families enrolled in Goodman Community Center’s summer programs every Friday this summer. Together, we’ll provide 12,000 simple, but nutritious meals!

Food Drives: Help us reach or goal of providing over 12,000 meals to our families this summer by encouraging the community to donate for and gift cards! Food Drives are an important element in ensuring that we will have enough food this summer. These are great family opportunities!

At Hy-Vee, volunteers will be posted at the main door to the store, will hand out shopping lists, and encourage shoppers to purchase items to donate to our Hunger Hero drive.

At Festival Food, volunteers will be letting people know that they can donate a cash gift card that Goodman can use to purchase food

Shifts at both stores:
  • Monday, June 25th - Friday, June 29th 3 - 5 pm / 5 - 7 pm

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About Goodman Community Center

Location:

149 Waubesa St, Madison, WI 53704, US

Mission Statement

Our Mission: The Goodman Community Center strengthens lives and secure futures. Our Vision: A community that’s thriving because everyone is valued and has the resources they need to be successful. Our Values: GCC is committed to creating and maintaining a community that respects and values diverse life experiences. Everyone deserves respect and acceptance without bias. We engage the perspectives and voices of our community and ensure they are reflected in our culture.

Description

The Goodman Community Center is not your average community center. As I get to talking with people about Goodman, they inevitably end up surprised. They’re surprised by how many programs and resources we offer, how beautiful our facilities are, or how many people we serve. Every year more than 30,000 people use the Center - some who come to one event, others who are very familiar faces here.

Thanks to our generous community, we just built and moved into a second beautiful facility across the street, the Brassworks building. We’re now reconfiguring and refreshing the Center’s first home on Waubesa Street, the Ironworks building. During this past ten years, we’ve nearly doubled in size.

Our staff are committed to learning and continually improving, too. That’s why each program uses a variety of tools to measure impacts for both the program overall, and for each individual participant. We use that data to constantly fine-tune what we do - and how we do it.

We’re glad Goodman is one of many organizations in the Madison area who are pouring themselves into making our community great - for us all. We hope you’ll join us. Because we know that every good thing that happens here is made possible by people like you.

CAUSE AREAS

Children & Youth
Community
Hunger
Children & Youth, Community, Hunger

WHEN

Mon Jun 25, 2018 - Fri Jun 29, 2018

WHERE

149 Waubesa StMadison, WI 53704

(43.096725,-89.343666)
 

DATE POSTED

June 15, 2018

SKILLS

  • People Skills
  • Verbal / Written Communication

GOOD FOR

  • Kids
  • Teens
  • People 55+
  • Group

REQUIREMENTS

  • Must be at least 8
  • 2 hrs

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