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Help Local Pantries with Just a Couple of Clicks
Leadership Lawrence Class of 2009 has launched a charitable and dynamic class project, called the Lawrence Virtual Food Drive. This project is a quick and easy way to purchase critically needed items at substantially discounted prices. It is extremely easy and fun, just click here. Remember, it only takes a few clicks to help prevent hunger in the
Lawrence
community!
During the first three months of this year, 7,262 people received aid from the five primary food pantries, which support local at-risk families—a 28 percent increase over the same period last year. While many generous donors help these pantries with their contributions of non-perishable foods, there is a growing need to supply pantries with donations to purchase the most nourishing and critical foods.
The
Lawrence Virtual Food Drive
aims to fill this need by offering you a quick and easy way to e-purchase critically needed items at substantially discounted prices. Because the pantries can buy items for pennies on the dollar from the Harvesters Food Bank in
Kansas City
, every dollar you donate can purchase as much as $5 worth of distributed items.
The pantries are struggling to keep up with demand, so we need your help!
Click on the following link to help prevent hunger in our community: http://vad.aidmatrix.org/vadxml.cfm?driveid=3481. Donations will be divided equally between the Ballard Center, Penn House, ECKAN, the Salvation Army, and Trinity Interfaith Food Pantry.
Help Our Youth Attain On-the-Job Training!
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce would like to introduce you to a new and wonderful program–the Heartland Works Summer Youth Program 2009. Designed by Heartland Works Inc., the program will provide approximately 350 area youth, ages 14-24, the opportunity to be placed in a paid work environment or internship, wherein each will obtain a safe and meaningful work experience in any given work environment.
Heartland Works would like to collaborate with other non-profit organizations, businesses, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations and educational institutions in establishing quality work sites sometime between June 1 and Sept. 25, 2009. Work sites will play an important role in supervising and mentoring youth to influence them in a positive way for continued success beyond the work experience. Special consideration will be given to high-growth/high-demand
industries and “green” jobs where available.
So, if your organization is interested in participating in this mutually beneficial opportunity and would like to apply as a work site or simply obtain further information, please visit, www.heartlandworks.org or contact Jennifer Jessee at Heartland Works, Inc., 234-0500, 506-1545 (cell), email: jjessee@heartlandworks.org.