Today’s Special: Volunteer

In the last 24 hours, Ed and Joan Poole have each donated 7 hours to Waste Not Want Not, almost half of their waking hours!   Every Monday morning, they volunteer in our building sorting food for our recipients.  Every Tuesday (at 6 am!) they head to Bimbo Bakery to consolidate and load several thousand packages of donated food onto our leased truck, before driving it to our building and unloading it.  Thousands of people have more to eat each week because the Pooles volunteer at Waste Not Want Not

No volunteers = No Waste Not Want Not

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In case you missed Saturday’s paper,

the Time-Union published a wonderful article about Food Rescue and Waste Not Want Not!  http://jacksonville.com/entertainment/food-and-dining/2012-01-19/story/nonprofit-volunteers-help-rescue-food-needy.

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Today’s Special: Food Donor

The students from Ridgeview High School Spanish Honor Society and National Honor Society spent the early morning picking oranges, grapefruit, and tangerines.  
They brought over 2550 pounds of gorgeous fruit gleaned from homeowners in Mandarin to Waste Not Want Not much to the delight of our recipients.  This is the 5th year that Spanish Honor Society students from two different high schools have donated time to glean citrus trees and fields (cabbage and broccoli).  We were excited to learn that Ridgeview students will be gleaning citrus again on February 4th, helping put even more surplus food to good use.

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Today’s Special: Food Rescued

The most interesting food rescued today was 400 boxes of frozen Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg & Cheese Croissant Sandwiches.  City Rescue Mission was delighted to receive 1,200  of these sandwiches, which will be enough to serve breakfast at the mission for two days this week.

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Three Easy Ways to Support Waste Not Want Not

Here are three easy ways to raise money for Waste Not Want Not.

Just start using Yahoo! powered GoodSearch.com as your search engine and they’ll donate about a penny to Waste Not Want Not every time you do a search!

Do all of your shopping through their online shopping mall, GoodShop.com, where you can shop at more than 2,400 top online retailers .  You pay the same price as you normally would, but a percentage of your purchase will be donated to Waste Not Want Not.

You can also enroll in the GoodDining program. Eat at over 10,000 participating restaurants nationwide and up to 6% of every dollar spent on the meal will be donated to Waste Not Want Not.

Here’s the web site — http://www.goodsearch.com.

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US Representatives Geoff Davis and Sander Levin introduce bill to expand and make permanent an important tax incentive for businesses and individuals to donate excess food inventory to charity.

http://geoffdavis.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=273223

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New $

Waste Not Participated in THE PLAYERS Championship: Birdies for Charity program for the first time this year and raised over $2,500. Anyone who made a donation to Waste Not as part of this community-based fundraiser was eligible to win a trip for two to the 2011 President’s Cup in Australia. We will be participating again in 2012. Look for next year’s grand prize to be announced soon.

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New Website

Park Avenue Dental, our first corporate sponsor, has granted our wish for a new website. They have hired Randy Benton of Computer Technology Services to create this beautiful site.

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New FaceBook Presence

You can now become a fan of Waste Not Want Not! Like us on our Facebook page: Waste Not Want NotFood Rescue

 

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