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August 31, 2009
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Posted 12:00 AM by Darlena Sands
The employees at the Palatka, Florida Social Security Administration donated over 100lbs of food for The 2009 Summer Food Drive. Last week I dropped off the donations to “The Pantry” a local food bank housed in The Heart of Putnam Service Center. They serve the county's community and help the needy residents in Putnam County with food, utilities, prescriptions,...

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August 30, 2009
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Posted 12:00 AM by Crystal Davis
The 56 employees of Social Security Administration Office of Disability Adjudication and Review in Greensboro, North Carolina rallied together to collect an astonishing 9010 lbs of food over four weeks for Second Harvest Food Bank of NW North Carolina. Thank you to everyone in the office for the time and effort donated to make this such a successful food...

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August 29, 2009
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Posted 12:00 AM by Sonja Davis
Greetings from SSA, TSC East Brunswick, New Jersey. These are hard times even for those of us who are blessed to have a job, so it comes with great privilege that we (55 employees) were able to make a contribution of 250 lbs of food in July and 485 lbs of food in August for a Grand Total of...

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August 28, 2009
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Posted 12:00 AM by Lena Newton
The "federal families" in the Western District of Michigan have joined in the National "Feds Feed Families" Food Drive for the month of August 2009. At a staff meeting held on July 28, 2009, representatives of federal agencies in West Michigan were encouraged to participate in this charitable project. "we are happy to be able to do something to...

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August 27, 2009
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Posted 12:00 AM by Allan Hess
I must admit I was very skeptical when volunteered for representing the Armed Forces Retirement Home in the Feds Feed Families Food Drive back in June. Thanks to an extremely supportive staff and the generosity of all those who contributed the program my skepticism was quickly washed away.

We were able to collect 13,883 pounds of food...

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August 26, 2009
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Posted 12:00 AM by Judy Belmontes
Milwaukee ODAR participated in a food drive for the Hunger Task Force. This food drive was organized by HUD and several other federal agencies participated including SSA. The food was collected yesterday. An unofficial weigh-in of Milwaukee ODAR’s donation showed that we collected 250 pounds of food, which will go to help over 60 shelters and 21 food pantries...

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August 25, 2009
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Posted 12:00 AM by Robert Ebaugh
The Gals and Guys of the Weather Service & Forecast Office and Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida collected approximately 40 pounds of food in one short week.

I delivered our donations to Curly's House at 6025 NW 6th Court this afternoon. The people there were extremely appreciative; it gave even a cold hearted person such as myself...

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August 24, 2009
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Posted 12:00 AM by Nirmala Kannankutty

Our family commemorates important events in our lives with charitable gestures of some sort. For our son's first birthday (2004) we made a contribution to an orphanage in India. This year, we were celebrating our daughter's first birthday. As we thought about how we might follow through on our family tradition, the Capital Area Foodbank immediately came to mind,...


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August 21, 2009
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Posted 12:00 AM by Linda Marcet
Georgette Lamb and B. J. Boss from the OPM-Federal Investigative Services Division San Antonio Field Office took donations collected from local staff to the San Antonio Food Bank. They were able to donate 205 lbs of food. Daryl Moore, who works in the Austin, TX area, donated to the food bank in Austin, and Steve Norton made a cash...

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August 19, 2009
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Posted 12:00 AM by Erica Miller
On July 15th the Lexington, Kentucky Social Security Field Office kicked-off their food drive as part of SSA's "warm up to giving" food drive initiative. Food that the Lexington Field Office collects is donated to God's Pantry, a local food bank. God's Pantry will use the donated food to stock the shelves at one their six food pantries in...

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August 18, 2009
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Posted 12:00 AM by Catherine Blumenstine

Good day!

Today's a wonderful day and the generous people of the Office of Personnel Management, Federal Investigative Services Division, Denver Field Office, are doing so much to make it that way! So far, our very small office - a mere handful of people - has managed to donate over 200 pounds of food to the Feds Feed Families food...


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August 17, 2009
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Posted 12:00 AM by Jack Zingg

On August 13, Defense Contract Management Agency Raytheon Tucson employees delivered 178 pounds of donated food and supplies to the Tucson Area Community Food Bank. The food collection continues through August.



August 16, 2009
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Posted 12:00 AM by Julie MacSwain

Area 4 NRCS Feds Feed Families

On July 30, 2009, Minnesota ASTC(FO) Tim Wilson issued a challenge to NRCS employees in Area 4 to donate nonperishable food items to hungry families. This challenge supports the USDA Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack’s call to participate in the federal government’s food drive, ‘Feds Feed Families’, with a goal of 1 million pounds...


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August 15, 2009
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Posted 12:00 AM by Sarah Young

Knoxville Feds Give Back

Teamwork gets the job done. GSA and the Knoxville, Tennessee Field Office of HUD coordinated an inter-agency effort encompassing over 20 separate departments in two federal facilities to maximize collection of food for needy families. Since June the effort has gathered over 800 pounds of food for East Tennessee’s Second Harvest Food Bank, with donations continuing...


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August 14, 2009
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Posted 12:00 AM by Michael Bayon
U.S. General Services Administration Pacific Rim Region 9 Responds in Big Way to “Warming Up to Giving”

The Pacific Rim collected nearly 6,500 pounds of non-perishable food for the White House “Warm Up to Giving” initiative known as the Feds Feed Families food drive. The food drive was held at federal facilities in Honolulu, San Francisco, Oakland,...

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