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Put on your cape and sink your fangs into a spooky night of fun and good food at the 10th Annual Vampires’ Ball hosted at Zingerman’s Cornman Farms on Friday, October 30th, 6-1130pm. Vampires’ Ball is a festive, upscale gathering featuring food prepared by James Beard Award-Winning Chef Alex Young of Zingerman’s Roadhouse. Funds raised at Vampires’ Ball benefit Food Gatherers Community Kitchen and Job Training Program.

Buy tickets online or call (734) 761-2796.

Dinner Package (6:00 – 11:30 PM): $200 each (limited quantity available)

  • Drinks and appetizers
  • Seated, multi-course dinner prepared by Chef Alex Young in the farmhouse and dessert from Zingerman’s Bakehouse
  • All items included in the Drinks & Dancing package

Drinks & Dancing Package (7:30 – 11:30 PM): $60 each

  • Dancing and entertainment, including music, costume contest, tarot card reading, and photobooth
  • Two complimentary drink tickets
  • Late-night snacks from Zingerman’s Roadhouse
  • Premium goody bag

Sponsors

Batty Benefactor:

Liberty Dental

Ghoulish Gift:

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With special thanks to:

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About the Food Gatherers Community Kitchen and Job Training Program

The mission of the Food Gatherers Community Kitchen is to engage and nourish our entire community. Located in the Robert J. Delonis Center, Food Gatherers staff and volunteers serve more than 100,000 meals to people in need each year.

The Community Kitchen Job Training Program provides low-income and at-risk youth (ages 17-21) with instruction in basic culinary arts, food safety, work ethics and life skills. Students build firm foundations for success in future careers while decreasing the chances of entering the shelter system or other emergency services.

The Food Gatherers Community Kitchen and Job Training Program are essential efforts in our overall plan to alleviate hunger and eliminate its root causes in our community.

Buy tickets online or call (734) 761-2796.

Did you know…

…that Food Gatherers was founded by Zingerman’s Delicatessen a few days before Thanksgiving in 1988?

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The original Food Gatherers crew.

Food Gatherers President and CEO Eileen Spring remembers:

“On a brisk fall day 25 years ago, a group of volunteers with a borrowed van collected 50 pounds of vegetables, bread, milk, and eggs from grocerystores and restaurants and distributed it to hot meal programs in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. A lot has changed since that first food run. We now distribute more than 5 million pounds of food each year, and our new warehouse expansion will allow us to gather even more in the future! But every pound of food that crosses our doors is still delivered with the same spirit of community and compassion that inspired that first group of gatherers. We still believe, as they did, that in a nation of plenty, no one should go hungry…”

Read more at the Food Gatherers website. 

Please join us in wishing Food Gatherers a happy birthday, and give generously to help stamp out hunger in the coming year!

“1 in 6 Americans struggles with hunger…” 
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September is Hunger Action Month, when the Feeding America nationwide network of food banks unites to urge individuals to take action in their communities. The goal is to create a movement throughout September that has a real and lasting impact on our mission to help end hunger in America, and our friends at Food Gatherers are working with Feeding America to help alleviate the hunger problem in this country.

What  can I do?
Food Gatherers has several ways in which you can Speak Out Against Hunger™

By taking action online and in your community, you can be a part of the solution to end hunger nationwide.
Feeding America has a few more ways  you can help:

Join us during the month of September. As individuals, charities, businesses and government, we all have a role to play in getting food to those in need.

Together We Can Solve Hunger™

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