 What
Dine Out Against Hunger is a restaurant-based fundraiser to help fight hunger. Over 120 participating restaurants pledge to give 20% of their food bill (excluding the bar bill) to Project Hospitality, an interfaith effort sheltering the homeless, feeding the hungry, and caring for people with HIV/AIDS on Staten Island.
When
This one-day event is set for:
Thursday, April
17, 2008.
Who
People of the community can support this effort simply by going out to eat at a participating restaurant on the day of Dine Out Against Hunger 2008. Co-workers can go out to
breakfast, lunch
and/or dinner together; friends and families can dine out in the evening.
Where
At participating restaurants throughout Staten Island.
Why
Project Hospitality helps the homeless, who struggle daily to find enough to eat, and the working poor, struggling to meet both rent and food costs. Only through the generous financial support of concerned community businesses and individuals is Project Hospitality able to offer food, shelter, and hope in time of need.
Sponsors
 Founding Corporate Sponsor is the Staten Island Advance and Founding Community Sponsor is The Honorable James Molinaro,
Borough
President of
Staten Island.
The co-chairs
are Claire Regan
and Frank
Lombardi. Lead
sponsor is
Catering by
Framboise.
Sponsors are
Mindsaw Web
Development,
Richmond County
Savings, Time Warner
Cable,
Northfield Bank,
Community Agency
for Senior
Citizens &
SYSCO Food
Services of
Metro NY, R&L
Press, SI Bank &
Trust Foundation.
For more information:
If you want to know more about Dine
Out Against Hunger 2008, please call
Project Hospitality at (718)
448-1544, ext. 163 or use the
link to the left. |
