The 9th Annual Turkeys Tackling Hunger Campaign is looking for sponsors to help provide over 3,500 Hays County families with holiday meals, and everyone deserves a home-cooked meal during the holidays, but not everyone can afford to purchase all the foods necessary to serve one.
That’s where the idea for the Hays County Food Bank’s Turkeys Tackling Hunger campaign comes in. Every year, the food bank asks the community to come together to help provide the fixings for holiday meals for the food insecure in the county, and corporate sponsors play a big part in helping to raise the necessary funds.
In 2014, nearly 3,400 Hays County families signed up to receive a turkey box. The Hays County Food Bank provided, at no cost to the individuals or agencies, a frozen turkey, sweet potatoes, corn, green beans, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie filling for the families’ holiday meal. We expect there to be even more of a need for these holiday boxes this year because of the Hill Country Flood. We have already seen a significant increase in individuals coming to our public food distributions throughout the week, and we anticipate even more.
For 50 years, Night Hawk Frozen Foods has been producing frozen dinners for Texans across the state, and since October of 2013, they have donated a little over 2 ½ tons of these frozen items to the Hays County Food Bank. Now, for the second year in a row, Night Hawk Frozen Foods, headquartered in Buda, has stepped up to become the title sponsor for Turkeys Tackling Hunger.
Night Hawk has pledged $10,000 towards the campaign, and not only will they be helping to fund Turkeys Tackling Hunger, but they will also be shutting down production for a day in order to assemble all of the holiday boxes at their warehouse. Night Hawk Frozen Foods is also providing storage for the poultry as well as helping to obtain food at a lesser cost.
The Hays County Food Bank is looking for more sponsors for Turkeys Tackling Hunger. You can find out more about sponsorship levels at www.turkeystacklinghunger.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor. All sponsorships must be submitted by no later than September 30th if you want your corporate logo to be included on the t-shirt. Please contact Development & Special Events Coordinator, Melissa Reed at mreed@haysfoodbank.org or at (512) 392-8300 x230.
You can help eliminate hunger in Hays County by making a donation to support the Hays County Food Bank. Your gift enables the Food Bank to provide nutritious food to our community. Visit haysfoodbank.org or call (512)392-8300 to make a donation. Go to www.haysfoodbank.org for details about public distributions, volunteer opportunities, the Get FED, HOPE and YEAH programs, and upcoming events.
The Hays County Food Bank, along with more than 40 partner agencies, distributed 528,964 pounds of food to more than 18,000 food insecure residents, including senior citizens and many others facing economic challenges, in 2014. “Food security” refers to the availability of food and one’s access to it. The Food Bank is a not-for-profit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the public to perform its mission. For more information, please visit haysfoodbank.org or visit us on Facebook or Twitter at @HaysFoodBank.