NALC Food Drive
United Way Co-Sponsors Food Drive May 12
Spring is a time when many food banks have depleted the donations they received during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday periods. You can help by placing nonperishable food by your mailbox May 12 for your letter carrier to pick up during the 20th annual National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) National Food Drive.
United Way is an official sponsor in this effort to “Stamp Out Hunger,” along with the National Rural Letter Carriers' Association, Campbell Soup Company, Valpak, U.S. Postal Service, AFL-CIO, Feeding America, Uncle Bob's Self-Storage and AARP.
Food drive officials ask you to donate items such as canned meats, fish, soup, bottled juice, vegetables, pasta, cereal and rice that do not require refrigeration. Please do not include items that have expired or that are in glass containers.
In 2011 Fort Worth NALC Branch 226 delivered more than 212,000 pounds of food to the Tarrant Area Food Bank, which fights hunger in 13 counties. The union also delivered food directly to food pantries in the Tarrant County area.
Letter carriers from nearly 1,300 branches across America participate in the food drive, which has raised 2.1 billion pounds of food since it began. It is the largest one-day food drive in the nation.
