2012 Feeding Hope and Letter Carriers Food Drive

Feeding Hope and Letter Carriers

The goal of the Feeding Hope and Letter Carriers Food Drive, which runs April 30^th through May 25^th, is to raise more than $1 million and 1 million pounds of food. This a month-long, community-wide fund and food drive designed to promote the involvement of nearly every segment of the community in feeding the hungry by raising shelf-stable food, monetary donations and awareness of the hunger issue in Oklahoma. Sign up today to have your business or organization participate in the fund and food drive. Review the Food and Fund Drive Packet for great ideas on how to make your event successful.

On May 12, Letter Carriers in 100 cities will be collecting food donations on their mail routes. The Letter Carriers Food Drive is held nationwide and is the largest single-day food drive in the country. Plastic bags are distributed by letter carriers across the metro and in outlying communities during the week of May 9th. Residents are encouraged to fill these bags with canned goods and leave the bag by their mailboxes by 7 a.m. Letter carriers collect the bags on their regular mail routes and turn them over to Food Bank volunteers at post offices around the metro. Please note that donation bags that are returned to the Food Bank will be recycled. All food and fund donations will benefit the hungry in the city in which they were raised.

The Regional Food Bank also needs your help sorting donations from post office on May 12 in the metro area. Signup now to volunteer.

View photos from the event.

2012 Steering Committee

Thanks to the following steering committee members and chairs:

Feeding Hope Co-Chair Ray Haefele, Retired (Food Industry)
Feeding Hope Co-Chair, Breck Ferrell, Lopez Foods
Letter Carriers Co-Chair, Steve Riggs, Statewide Letter Carriers Food Drive
Letter Carriers Co-Chair, Bob Bearden, NALC Representative
Letter Carriers Co-Chair, David Miller, NALC President

Committee

Amy Boyer, Express Employment Services
Anita Reaves
Barbara Royce, United Way
Brandi Scott, American Red Cross
Brett Bowden, ValPak
Devon , Christina Rehkop
Bank of Oklahoma, Cindy Batt
Dave Heinecke, Retired (Food industry)
David Carpenter, American Fidelity Assurance
Diana Erwin, Mercy
Elisa Milbourn, Oklahoma City Convention & Visitors Bureau
Gaylene Stiles, Mercy
Gerald Cockerham, Associated Wholesale Grocers
James Bryant, Post Office
Jeff Johnson, Rural Letter Carrier
Joe Csordas, Enid Letter Carrier
Katie Collins, Chesapeake Energy Corporation
Keith Beltz, Shawnee Letter Carrier
Kim Whyburn, Devon Energy Corporation
Kristin Drake, CompSource
Kristy Boone, Ideal Homes
Larry Hayes, Norman Letter Carrier
Marcus Evans, OKC Fire Department
Mark Staggs, Lawton Letter Carrier
Rick Quick, Rural Letter Carrier
Royce Thompson, Shawnee Post Office
Sharon Neuwald, Community Leader
Shawn Steele, Associated Wholesale Grocers
Sonya Dulan, Post Office
Terry Kennedy, Seagate
Tim O'Connor, Central OK Labor Federation