Donor Recognition Roster
Gleaners Food Bank is honored by our community's willingness to donate and support the food bank through food drives, monetary gifts and volunteer efforts. While we are unable to post all the activities of our generous supporters, this page will hopefully reflect the direversity and commitment to feeding the hungry.
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GreenBEAN Delivery!
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In addition to the 6,710 lbs of donations your generosity made possible through the constant canned food drive, Green B.E.A.N. Delivery also provided Gleaners Food Bank in Indianapolis with an additional 1,000 lbs of fresh produce to make up a supply shortage for local food pantries. The 5lb sacks of russet potatoes will be delivered to families in need across 21 central and southeastern counties in Indiana and. Each year, more than 267,000 Hoosiers avoid hunger thanks to the great work of Gleaners and the more than 400 hunger relief agencies they support. We are proud to do our part to help increase the amount fresh produce at their disposal.
Click HERE for full story!
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Many thanks to the Fayette County Foundation who recently donated $10,000 to Gleaners Food Bank in support of the local BackSacks Weekend Food For Kids program. Fayette County has highest level of child food insecurity in Indiana, with one out of every three children living in a household with low food security. Pictured are Anna Dungan, Executive Director, Cindy Hubert, Gleaners' President & CEO along with Robert Wilson, Dir. of Corp. & Foundation Relations at Gleaners. |
Food Drives:
White River State Park food drive for MLK, Jr. Day brought in 16,830!
Participating sites were the Eiteljorg Museum, IMAX® Theater, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis Zoo, NCAA® Hall of Champions and Victory Field. Thank you to everyone who made donations!
Prologistics brought in 2,142 lbs
Slingshot SEO 2,050 lbs
IPS #69 1,887 lbs
Indiana Beef & Cattles Association Conference 1,493 lbs
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce 1,546 lbs
CSCI consulting 1,126 lbs
Cross Fit Broad Ripple 1,399 lbs
Hertz Investments 1,170 lbs
Sycamore Springs 1,273 lbs
Volunteers:
12/1 – Wellpoint, MISO and OneAmerica
12/2 – Lumina Foundation for Education
12/3 – Speedway Christian Church, IUPUI Women in Science, NE Indy Kiwanis (1,600 Holiday Bags for Seniors); Big Ten Football
Championship & Indiana Sports Corp along with Radio One (Inspected and sorted 10,000 pounds of donated food, packed
8,401 pounds of meat, 2,022 BackSacks Weekend Food for Kids, 917 CSFP Senior Boxes)
12/5 – Eli Lilly Processing (Packed 4,333 pounds of meat) Pension Fund of the Christian Church (Packed 5,881 pounds of meat)
12/7 – Key Learning Community & HKP Cares Nora Commons
12/9 – Liberty Mutual, NCAA National Office, North Central High School and Roche Diagnostics
12/10 – All for Children NCHS; Brownie Troop #764; Butler Alumni; DFAS-IN; IU Health; NUVO; Phi Kappa Psi - IUPUI; and
Rolls-Royce! 1,914 BackSacks Weekend Food for Kids; 120 - 30 pounds boxes of meat; 4,189 pounds of meat for mobile
pantries; 7,000 donated food items were inspected and sorted and 840 CSFP Senior Boxes.
12/10 – OneAmerica (1,003 BackSacks Weekend Food for kids)
12/12 – Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission
12/14 – Astellas Pharma USA
12/16 – Bank of America, Ingersoll Rand, Eli Lilly
12/17 - Leslie Greenwood Friends/Park Tudor; Westside Missionary Baptist Church; Westlake Community Church of God; Eastside
Baptist Church; IMANI Community Church; NUVO; KIPP Indy; Girl Scout Troop #1072
12/19 – Chase Business Banking, FFA Student Officers and Indiana Primary Health Care
12/20 – Sprint, Novia Care Clinics
12/21 – Aprimo Integrated Marketing Solutions and Key Impact
12/22 – Wessler Engineering
12/23 – Kingsway Life Group
Multi-platinum country recording artist Sara Evans entertained guests to close the vent, a great performance to complete a great event!
For more information on the event visit www.TasteoftheNFL.com
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Taste of the NFL at Gleaners on Feb. 4th!
Taste of the NFL, a non-profit organization dedicated to kicking hunger in America for more than 21 years, brought its annual fundraiser to Indianapolis on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012—the eve of Super Bowl XLVI. The strolling food and wine event, appropriately dubbed “The Party with a Purpose,®” took place at Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, the first time in history the event wsa held at a food bank location. Funds from the event will benefit not only Gleaners Food Bank but all Feeding America member food banks with NFL teams in their city across the nation. Click HERE for more photos of the event!
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