Food Pantry in Final Week of Challenge

The time is winding down to submit donations to the South Brunswick Food Pantry to qualify in the Feinstein Foundation's annual Challenge to Fight Hunger. Another strong week of donations helped the pantry get within reach of matching last year's totals in the Challenge.

"The donations to date have been wonderful," said Social Services Director LouAnne Wolf. "We are getting so very close to matching last year’s totals, and we have until the end of the day on Monday, April 30."

Social Services received just over $4,300 in monetary donations last week and over 3,500 food items were donated, as well.

"Thank you to everyone who has been so generous to remember that people are hungry every day, not just at the holiday time," Wolf said. 

For those donating food items this week, the pantry is in need of snack foods and coffee.

In 2011, 19,703 food items and donated $46,126 in cash to the pantry during the Challenge to Fight Hunger. South Brunswick generated the eighth-highest donations total in the state of New Jersey.

Each year, from March 1 through April 30, the Feinstein Foundation challenges anti-hunger agencies across the country to raise funds and collect as many food donations as possible.  Alan Shawn Feinstein, founder of The Feinstein Foundation, then divides his donation of $1 million proportionately among approximately 2,000 agencies participating in the challenge.  Each food item donated is valued at $1 per item.  

The South Brunswick Food Pantry's Feinstein Foundation Challenge to Fight Hunger Totals:

Challenge to Fight Hunger

Money Donated

Food Items Donated

Total Challenge Credit

Week 1

$2,534.44 

4,851

$7,385.44

Week 2

$10,799.26

1,479

$19,663.70

$5,605.00

$26,692.70

$314

Check back with South Brunswick Patch each week for running donation totals for the Challenge to Fight Hunger.

Please send donations to LouAnne Wolf, Director of Social Services, South Brunswick Social Services, PO Box 190, Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852. 

Please mark "Feinstein Foundation" in the memo on your check.  All donations should be made payable to the South Brunswick Human Intervention Trust Fund.

All checks should be dated later than March 1.  For more information call 732-329-4000 ext. 7674.  To learn more about the Feinstein Foundation click here.