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Credit: L to R, front row: Jarden Executives Sharon Rahn, Marti Forman (CEO, CFP),
Marlene Holder (CFP), Abbey Weiss. Back row: Andrew Hutchinson, Patrick Wright,
Rocki Rockingham,Aaron Stowell, Dave Buck
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JARDIN
CONSUMER SOLUTIONS COMES THROUGH FOR THE HOLIDAYS
The
Community Fund of the Boca Raton based Jardin Consumer Solutions came through
with a generous $20,000 corporate donation for The Cooperative Feeding Program
this holiday season. Company staff also contributed several hundred pounds of
canned food, which they also sorted into Emergency Food packages for those served
by the charity.
"It seemed to be the right thing to do," commented Rocki
Rockingham, Vice President for Communications for Jardin Consumer Solutions. "The
whole community needs to reach out to those in need, not just during the holiday
season but throughout the year."
CHANNEL
10 SHOWS MAGNUM FORCE
Close
to two TONS of food was distributed during the holidays thanks to a donation from
Channel 10 TV. "Simply amazing," exclaimed a grateful Marti Forman, CEO of The
Cooperative Feeding Program. "Yet another exemplary leader of the corporate community."
The much needed donation included hams for the holiday, plus canned vegetables
and fruit.
A
HUMAN WRITE
Corporate Classrooms Inc. will hold a grammar and writing
workshop for business professionals on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 from 9am - 4:30pm
to benefit The Cooperative Feeding Program.
The workshop will be held
at the Girl Scouts of Broward County facility, 4701 NW 33rd Ave, Oakland Park
FL 33309. Instead of collecting a fee from participants, the organizers are requesting
that people either donate a bag of non-perishable canned goods or a generous cash
donation to The Cooperative Feeding Program.
Corporate Classrooms will
not receive any money for its presentation of the workshop. The normal fee is
$ 199 per person.
The Cooperative Feeding Program is a lead agency in
the struggle against hunger and homelessness in Broward County. The agency, now
celebrating 20 years of service, serves over one million meals a year. http://www.firstgiving.com/CFPAHumanWriteWorkshop
For more information, please contact Kim Kerrigan, Corporate Classrooms
Inc.
(954) 522-4189 or www.corporateclassrooms.com
LUNCHEON
TO HONOR PASTOR LOUIS ABEL
 The
Cooperative Feeding Program will celebrate two decades of service by Pastor Abel
to Broward County's hungry and homeless on Saturday, January 14th, 2006 at
12 noon in the Ft. Lauderdale Country Club. YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND.
Almost 20 years ago, a small group of Lutheran Ministers gathered and
prayed for guidance as to how to respond to a new social phenomenon that was growing
in Broward County: hunger. As a result of his desire to make the scriptures
come alive and to "feed the hungry and clothe the naked", Pastor Louis Abel
became a Board member of The Cooperative Feeding Program, a position he has held
for the past 18 years. He is witness to the fact that his initial call to serve
he experienced in his church almost two decades ago is just as urgent today.
Come
celebrate Pastor Abel's 18 years of service to The Cooperative Feeding Program
at a special luncheon celebration on Saturday, January 14th, 2006 at 12 noon at
the Ft. Lauderdale Country Club, 414 Country Club Circle, Plantation. Limited
seating. $ 30 per person. Please visit www.firstgiving.com/PastorAbelCelebration
where you can make an online credit card purchase of tickets OR mail your reservation
and check to: The Cooperative Feeding Program 1, NW 33rd Terrace Ft. Lauderdale
FL 33311 OR Please call Malka at (954) 792-2328.
VOLUNTEER
APPRECIATION DAY - SATURDAY, FEB. 25TH, 2006
All Cooperative Feeding
Program volunteers - we want to celebrate YOU! Please save the date and watch
February's "Seeds of Change" for more details and location. PLEASE contact Laura@FeedingBroward.org
with your correct address and email to make sure we can send you an invitation!
YOU ARE ALL SPECIAL!
SOUPER
BOWL SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH, 2006 - Let's tackle hunger together!
 Planning
on celebrating the Super Bowl this year?! Have fun and turn it into a "SOUPer
Bowl Party" and raise awareness and support for Broward County's hungry.
When
it comes to TACKLING hunger, there is no DEFENCE. Turn this SOUPER Bowl Sunday
into a HOME GAME and join the TEAM in the making hunger FOUL. Let's BEAT hunger,
BLOCK the suffering of hungry children and TACKLE the root causes of hunger in
southern Florida. CALL A PLAY to win the game and together let's make hunger history!
Send an email to Bruce@FeedingBroward.org
requesting your "Official SOUPer Bowl Party Playbook" with all the game rules
on how to raise support in the struggle against hunger.
JOIN THIS WINNING
TEAM IN TACKLING HUNGER!
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YOU ALL:
There are so many of you to thank for having spread the cheer
this holiday season. The Cooperative Feeding Program served a record 120,000 meals
during the month of December, allowing many families and children to enjoy a real
holiday meal for a change. Here are a few of those who shared their blessings
with the less fortunate:
Celina Saucedo and Tracy Porter for their "Cookies
for a Cause" bake sale on December 23rd; The winning Florida Panthers; Weston
Rotary Club; St Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Weston; Bank Atlantic; Mary
Adas; Sunshine Cathedral; Madsen Sapp Mena Rodriguez, CPAs; BellSouth; FP&L; Daily
Bread; CrossRoads; Don the bread man; Target; South Florida Jubilee Chorus of
Sweet Adelines International, Wayne and Nadine Reinhardt; Marilyn and John Bowling;
Susie Termus; BJ; Art and Jan Nickel; Sam Croup; Janice Garza; Brianna Nunnery;
Irene and Tim Janota for distributing over 630 toys! With the help of Marlene
Holder! Thank you too Betty and Joe Vayda; Dorothy Abdo; Marta Cabrera; Jennifer
Brain; WLRN radio; United Way of Broward County; Neighbors 4 Neighbors; plus all
our other supporters, donors, volunteers and well-wishers too numerous to mention.
Thank you ALL so very much - without you The Cooperative Feeding Program could
not exist.
SUNSHINE
CATHEDRAL - THANKS A TON
 Ft.
Lauderdale's Sunshine Cathedral has made The Cooperative Feeding Program a beneficiary
of their amazing food drives and other efforts to help the hungry. The congregation
collected more than 200 canned hams for the Christmas celebration, plus all the
trimmings - on top of the more than one ton of food collected these past few months!
A special thanks to Penny Loughan and Vera Lynn for their unending efforts to
serve others.
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