As a Team No Kid Hungry blogger, efforts to end food hunger in Connecticut is something I fully support.
FOOD FOR ALL 2014 to Showcase
Fairfield County’s Newest Restaurants and Top Bartenders
A Benefit to Support the Fight to End Hunger
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Darien Community Association
September 8, 2014, Norwalk, CT: Community Plates, the technology-fueled, direct-transfer food rescue organization dedicated to ending food insecurity in America, prepares for their signature fundraising event, “Food for All”. The event highlights the organization’s goals for the coming year and celebrates its accomplishments; and there is much to celebrate.
“Community Plates is already responsible for picking up and delivering almost 4 million meals at a value of over $6 Million to food insecure people in Fairfield County. We’re focused on meeting the need of 110,000 people right here who struggle to know where their next meal is coming from, “ says Kevin Mullins, executive director and co-founder of Community Plates, “The Food for All 2014 fundraiser is our kick-off for our next food rescue season. It’s a lot of fun, the food is amazing, and we do a lot of good in the process.”
In keeping with Community Plates’ forward-thinking operations and beliefs, Food for All features the area’s newest restaurants showcasing their signature dishes. An added highlight this year is a series of Craft Cocktail Bars presented by Fairfield County’s most innovative bartenders. The celebratory evening begins with a VIP cocktail reception (6-7 PM) featuring Marcia Selden Catering, followed by the main event (6:30-8:30 PM) which will include featured restaurants, libations, music, dancing and more. Tickets are can be purchased: www.communityplates.org/FFA14
Attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about Community Plates and their newly developed GoRescue application, the organization’s award-winning web and smartphone enabled interactive food rescue scheduling tool which connects food-service organizations that gather and donate food that would otherwise be wasted; to food runners, who give of their time to pick-up and deliver food donations; to the receiving agencies that ensure donated food gets to those in need throughout the community.
Event Details:
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Darien Community Association
274 Middlesex Rd, Darien, CT 06820
VIP Reception: 6-7 PM, $100
Main Event: 6:30-8:30 PM, $50
www.communityplates.org/FFA14
About Community Plates
Community Plates is committed to ending food insecurity in America. Recognizing the problem as a matter of logistics, not a lack of food, the organization established a volunteer-driven, technology fueled method for transferring surplus food to those in need. The simple process includes food donors (e.g., grocery stores, restaurants, caterers, bakeries and other food-service establishments), food runners (individuals who pick-up and deliver donated food) and receiving agencies (e.g., soup kitchens, pantries, etc.). Scheduling is made easy with the web and smartphone enabled Community Plates’ GoRescue technology powered by WhenToManage, which received the 2013 Computerworld Honors Program 21st Century Achievement Award for human services. Since Community Plates was founded in 2011, more than 700 volunteers have rescued food that equates to 4.9 million meals to date. Launched and headquartered in Fairfield County, CT, Community Plates also operates in New Haven, CT, Albuquerque, NM and Columbus, OH with plans to expand to four more markets in 2014. For more information or to get involved visit: http://communityplates.org.