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Fall Food Drives Are a Success!

12/15/2022 11:54:34 AM

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Temple Beth El supports two major food drives every year: on the High Holy Days and at Thanksgiving. Both drives were a great success, reflecting the generosity of our congregation and recognition of how many people in our community are in need of help.

The High Holy Day Food Drive this year raised $17,646.00, to support our partner organizations with hunger relief initiatives. The Social Action Committee has allocated the money as follows:

$13,000 Second Harvest Foodbank
$500 Mount Zion Baptist Church Food Pantry
$500 Catholic Multicultural Center Food Pantry
$500 Porchlight Emergency Food Shelter
$500 Little John’s Kitchens
$500 Centro Hispano for grocery cards
$500 The Road Home for grocery cards
$1,646   Mitzvah Day project food supplies or to be allocated later

 

Temple Beth El has once again been recognized as a bronze level sponsor of the NBC-15 “Share Your Holidays” Fund supporting the Second Harvest Foodbank, making our congregation the largest noncorporate sponsor of the fund. Second Harvest distributes millions of pounds of food each year to support food pantries and meal programs all over southern Wisconsin.

The Thanksgiving Basket Drive was also a success. Our Religious School children and their families gathered food to support the Goodman Community Center’s Thanksgiving Basket Drive, which provides all the ingredients for a Thanksgiving meal to 4,000 families. To make it fun, the Religious School classes compete every year to see which class can collect the greatest number of supplies. TBE members can also make monetary donations to Goodman to support the basket drive. This year’s contest was won by the third grade class:

4K  40 boxes of macaroni and cheese
Kindergarten 28 boxes of stuffing mix
1st grade 18 aluminum roaster pans
2nd grade 41 cans of fruit
3rd grade 82 cans of vegetables (THE WINNERS!)
4th grade 26 cans of gravy
5th grade 37 containers of broth
6th grade 46 cans of cranberry sauce
7th grade 28 bottles of vegetable oil

          
We are grateful to all the TBE members who donated to these food drives. We are proud to be part of such a caring community.

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