Dear Restaurateur,

EVERYONE IS A WINNER when you participate in Project Hospitality’s 12th Annual  DINE OUT AGAINST HUNGER celebration on Thursday, April 22nd for the benefit of  ALL STATEN ISLANDERS.

Participating is easy.  Please fill out the Response Form and return it to us.  We will do the rest.

• Restaurants increase their sales and garner the appreciation of Staten Island while supporting an important community program.
• You will receive a Dine Out Against Hunger Decal for your door which can be displayed for the entire year.
• You will receive Dine Out Against Hunger balloons to help advertise your participation.
• Your wait staff will be eligible to win a cash prize of $250 donated to Project Hospitality especially for this event.
• We will advertise the event to 6,000 of our current donors via oversized postcards.
• Your establishment will be listed with its name and address on Project Hospitality’s website.
• The event will be advertised in the Staten Island Advance and on Time Warner Cable.
• When Patrons dine out at a participating restaurant, they get a chance to win DINNER FOR TWO FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR.
• HOMELESS AND HUNGRY STATEN ISLANDERS ARE THE BIGGEST WINNERS as a result of your participation.

Our goal is to raise $75,000 from 150 participating restaurants to support the food and nutrition programs of Project Hospitality.  Please help to continue a tradition, which highlights the generosity of our community each year.

"Dine Out Against Hunger 2010"

Plates

Dine Out Against Hunger 2010 is scheduled for Thursday, April 22nd. Dine Out Against Hunger is a restaurant-based fundraiser that benefits the feeding programs of Project Hospitality, the most comprehensive food pantry and soup kitchen program on Staten Island. Over one hundred restaurants will be involved in this ninth annual effort. The Staten Island Advance and Borough President Molinaro's Office, as always, have been extremely helpful in publicizing this event, as have Time Warner Cable and other groups.

Dine Out Against Hunger, 2010 comes to you with a very specific request that can be easily implemented and yet will assist the hungry and homeless of Staten Island.

Makes this Dine Out's Committee, comprised of a number of prominent Staten Islanders, asked me this week to contact you with a specific request: Would you allow Dine Out to place in your business or school our Dine Out plates so that your customers or students could assist Dine Out by sponsoring a plate in their name through making a donation?

The plate could then be posted in appropriate spots. to show your participation in Dine Out and to provide publicity for the April 22nd event.

This unique event brings together a highly motivated and large number of restaurateurs and an enthusiastic planning committee. It is our hope that you can favorably respond to this request. 

Enclosed is a reply card addressed to Anita Yuen of Project Hospitality (718-448-1544 ext. 163). She will work closely and efficiently with whomever you name as your organization's contract person.

Sincere thanks for your help on this and many other issues of common concern for the welfare of Staten Island.

"Dinner and a Dollar" Plate Promotion Response Form

Project Hospitality's Mission

Project Hospitality is an interfaith effort begun in 1982 whose mission is to reach out to the community members who are hungry, homeless or otherwise in need in order to work with them to achieve their self-sufficiency – thereby enhancing the quality of life for our Staten Island Community.

Project Hospitality seeks to realize its mission both by advocating for those in need and by establishing a comprehensive continuum of care that begins with the provision of food, clothing and shelter and extends to other services which include health care, mental health, alcohol and substance abuse treatment, HIV Care, education, vocational training, legal assistance, and transitional and permanent housing.


If you would like to be listed as a sponsor please call Anita Yuen at (718) 448-1544, Ext. 163. or see the CONTACT PAGE.