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AT&T, AT&T Pioneers and Share Our Strength Hold 100-City Food Drive to Fight Childhood Hunger This Holiday Season
November 14
100-City Food Drive
This holiday season, residents in 100 cities across the U.S will have the opportunity to answer a “holiday call to service” to fight childhood hunger. The nationwide initiative is led by the AT&T and the AT&T Pioneers, the industry’s largest employee and retiree volunteer organization, who have teamed up with Share Our Strength, a leading national organization working to end childhood hunger in America. The initiative also supports the goals of “United We Serve,” a nationwide service initiative dedicated to inspiring volunteerism.
The 100-city food drive will be held from November 12 to December 18, and will focus on collecting non-perishable goods that will go directly to support local food banks. In addition to the holiday food drives, AT&T will contribute $50,000 to Share Our Strength to support its mission of ending childhood hunger in America by 2015.
“Childhood hunger is tragic. But as American citizens and American businesses, we can have impact,” said Charlene Lake, AT&T Chief Sustainability Officer. “Our contributions will help a child. But they also strengthen our communities — and the health of our communities impacts us all. We’re proud to partner with Share our Strength and to support United We Serve in this holiday call to service to fellow businesses and residents in 100 cities across the nation.”
The nationwide holiday food drive is part of AT&T Cares, a community-focused, volunteerism initiative for the company’s nearly 300,000 employees. Launched this summer and backed by the AT&T Pioneers, the comprehensive volunteer initiative gets employees engaged in community service that is meaningful to them and their communities, to create change, and to stay engaged.
“We are very excited to see this large-scale volunteer effort by AT&T and want to encourage more companies and organizations to get involved,” said Nicola Goren, acting CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency leading the Administration’s United We Serve initiative. “This effort will give vital support to children and families facing hunger and is an excellent example of people coming together to tackle a serious community problem. We hope it inspires other Americans to visit www.Serve.gov to find other volunteer opportunities in their communities.”
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