FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TAM Feed Your Neighbor again accepts the 2009 Feinstein
Challenge 12th Annual $1 Million Giveaway to Fight Hunger

For the 12 th straight year, Alan Shawn Feinstein will divide $1 million among hunger fighting agencies nationwide using it to help them raise funds during March and April 2009. All donations reported to Feed Your Neighbor through March and April will be counted toward the challenge. The more donations FYN raises the more of the Feinstein $1 million pie we will receive. In 2008, FYN raised approximately $102,000 in food, cash, and pledges and received a check for $575 from Feinstein!

As a potential donor to Toledo Area Ministries Feed Your Neighbor Ministry, we only ask that you help FYN by doing a month - or two month-long food drive or fund drive for FYN, or sending in your donation to FYN during March and April. Anyone with a heart for feeding the hungry in the community is eligible to help out: schools, churches, Sunday school classes, youth groups, businesses, organizations and foundations, co-worker challenges, boy and Girl Scout troops, neighborhoods, and individuals on their own.

You may take the items to the TAM office or your nearest FYN pantry (call the TAM office [419-242-7401] for location nearest you) and/or send in your money to the TAM/FYN office at:

444 Floyd St. , Toledo OH 43620 .

This all needs to be done between March 1 st and April 30 th, 2008 . All dry goods will be valued at $1 each. If you take your food donations to one of the pantries or the TAM office, please count it and give them the total number of items donated. They in turn will report that to the FYN office. All counts must be in to the FYN office by May 1 st to be considered for the Challenge! Your donation toward this worthy cause makes you a partner in the most successful grassroots campaign to fight hunger of all times.

Thank you, Friends , for helping Feed Your Neighbor in its mission to ensure that all people in Toledo have adequate food to eat by providing a three-day supply of food to those in need and advocating for policies that would eradicate food insecurity in the community, the nation, and the world.

Rev. Kevin Perrine
Feed Your Neighbor Ministry Director

Questions? Call the TAM /FYN office at (419) 242-7401.

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Cash donations are greatly needed. Donations may be sent to:

Toledo Area Ministries
444 Floyd St.
Toledo, OH 43620
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DISTRIBUTION VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Please call (419) 242-7401 to volunteer or for your closest distribution center location.

Volunteers are needed at all sites. Call or visit the site in your neighborhood.

Equipment:
We also need long tables, desks, shelving, refrigerators, and freezers.

Food:
We can always use non-perishable food items, such as crackers, cereal, peanut butter etc.

Donations:
Monetary donations are need to purchase food for the food banks.