Stamp Out Hunger 2010
Saturday, May 8
Letter carriers in more than 10,000 communities will collect food items and deliver them to local food banks to help some of the millions of Americans, including an estimated 16.7 million children, who face hunger every day. Since 1993, families have donated nearly 1 billion pounds of food to Stamp Out Hunger. The drive, which has become the world’s largest one-day food drive, was started by National Association of Letter Carriers in 1991 in cooperation with the U.S. Postal Service and the AFL-CIO. United Way Worldwide is a full partner in this drive. Since 1946 the AFL-CIO and United Way have enjoyed a cooperative partnership. You can help make this year the most successful ever.
To donate food, simply place bags filled with nonperishable food items like canned meats, fish, soup, juice and vegetables, and pasta, cereal and rice next to your mailbox on Saturday, May 8. Please avoid glass containers. Your letter carrier will pick up the bags and deliver them to your local food bank. You can also drop off food by May 7 to United Way of Metropolitan Nashville (250 Venture Circle, Nashville, TN 37228)
To learn more, tell a friend or download materials to promote this cause, visit: HelpStampOutHunger.com.
Over 125 million postcards, sponsored by the Campbell Soup Company and the U.S. Postal Service, will be mailed to postal customers to remind them of the drive. Valpak Direct Marketing Systems is also focusing 44 million of its envelopes on encouraging food donations. Television and radio public service announcements featuring David Arquette and Courteney Cox are being made available throughout the country.
Other co-sponsors of the drive with the letter carriers’ union are the U.S. Postal Service’s Priority Mail; Campbell Soup Company; Valpak; National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association; Feeding America, the nation’s food bank network; United Way Worldwide and its local United Ways; and the AFL-CIO.
Local Davidson County efforts will support United Way partner, Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee.
