Danforth in the Community
On Saturday, March 17th, a team of agents and staff headed out to the Northwest Harvest warehouse in Kent as part of Coldwell Banker Danforth in the Community's ongoing partnership with NW Harvest.
The Coldwell Banker Danforth in the Community crew got there early and were assigned the task of separating and boxing individual donation s that were received during various food drives like the one we hosted this past holiday season at our three offices. All the generous donations of cereal, chili, diapers and various non-perishable goods were sorted from the donation bins and packed in 24 lb boxes ready to be deliver ed local food banks throughout the state of Washington. The Coldwell Banker Danforth in the Community crew spent 3 hours and packaged 11,941 lbs of food, which will provide 11,493 services for hungry families in our community. Great job team!
Spring and Summer months are a time when food banks need extra help. When schools are closed for spring and summer vacations, the children who receive free or reduced meal's don't have access to these programs. For families that depend on these programs to help feed their families these months can be especially difficult. If you would like to help and make sure these kids don’t go hungry click on this link to find a list of public donation locations throughout the Puget Sound area http://www.northwestharvest.org/Events/Public_Drop_Sites.htm.
Northwest Harvest is the only non-profit food bank distributor operating statewide in Washington with a network of over 325 food banks, meal programs and high-need schools. Northwest Harvest provides over 1.6 million meals every month to this network.
Our Mission: "Coldwell Banker Danforth in the Community is committed to giving back to the communities in which we work through service projects and financial support."
Coldwell Banker Danforth would like to give a big THANK YOU
to all of you who donated food for our holiday food drive!!
If you are one of the many people who donated food or financial gifts to the Coldwell Banker Danforth Northwest Harvest 2011, we would like to express our gratitude for your participation and give you an recap of this successful event.
Eleven donation boxes of food were filled between the three Coldwell Banker Danforth office locations in Burien, Federal Way and Seattle, Your generous non-perishable food item donations will help feed a lot of families in the coming months. Thanks to the financial donations made during the food drive, we collected enough money to provide 136 meals for a family of 4. When you combine those generous donations with the donation made from the Coldwell Banker Danforth in the Community Gift Fund the 2011 food drive will provide a total of 791 meals for a family of four. That is 3,164 people fed! Way to go!!!
As part of the food drive for Northwest Harvest, a team of 25 volunteers went down to the NW Harvest Warehouse in Kent and processed 11,360 pounds of pasta which will provide 10,327 servings to families throughout the state of Washington. The Coldwell Banker Danforth team was very well represented with volunteers from all three branch locations. The Coldwell Banker Danforth Commercial department, property management department, Absolute Mortgage and Northwest Title also participated in the 2011 food drive for NW Harvest.
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