Food Drive and Katrina Update
In case you missed it, Jim Thomason sent out the following email message regarding our disaster relief efforts.
After careful consideration of our options, the Disaster Response Committee has recommended, and Senior Leadership has approved, that we support the Second Harvest Food Bank here in Nashville as it struggles to provide food for Katrina victims sheltered in Middle Tennessee.
Several thousand refugees are here, or on their way here, and this overwhelms the capacity of local charities. Our money and bibles are going to the gulf region, so we believe our remaining charity should be directed locally to Katrina victims in our own backyard. Second Harvest reports that many of those whom they are currently helping are large families with small children who arrived here with nothing. They have an immediate need for:
- Diapers
- Wipes
- Formula
- Small boxes of cereal
- Canned fruit with pop-top lids (so a can opener is not required)
- Peanut butter
- Crackers
- Individually wrapped snack items such as granola bars, cereal bars, etc.
Please bring your items to the Human Resources department. We have a set of cubicles reserved to keep those items until we can transport them to Second Harvest, who is unable to come get them due to the demands on their time for distributing food. We plan to take these over about twice a week, but if anyone has a truck or large trunk and can take those more often we’re glad to have the help.
Posted on September 10, 2005
In: Publishing
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