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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.
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:
Ghoulish Gift:
With special thanks to:
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.
Tag: FOOD GATHERERS
Did you know…
…that Food Gatherers was founded by Zingerman’s Delicatessen a few days before Thanksgiving in 1988?
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!
Tag: FOOD GATHERERS
“1 in 6 Americans struggles with hunger…” 
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™
- Download the Food Gatherers 30 Ways in 30 Days Calendar. Each day lists a new way you can help.
- Donate funds. Give a gift on or after Monday, September 16th, and your impact will be doubled. Thanks to the 4th Annual Mow Down Hunger Campaign, Weingartz will generously match your gift.
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Raise awareness by wearing orange on Hunger Action Day, Thursday, September 5th.
- Advocate by sending an email to our County Commissioners pledging your support and thanks for their funding of Food Gatherers’ hunger relief efforts.
- Visit the Hunger Action Month website, then Share a hunger fact.
- Find Food Gatherers and ‘like’ us on Facebook, then follow our mascot@CarlSuperCarrot on Twitter.
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:
- Participate online: Change your Facebook and Twitter profile orange.
- Invite your representative: Encourage your Member of Congress to support your local food bank and help us reach our goal of getting every member of Congress to visit a food bank in 2013.
- Volunteer: Find your local food bank and become a volunteer during September and all year long.
- Take the SNAP challenge: Eat on just $4.50 a day. Shop for your meals with the daily average per person benefit provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly known as Food Stamps) to get a sense of some of the challenges faced by those struggling to put food on the table. Budget $4.50 for the day and share your experience with family and friends to raise awareness of the importance of this critical nutrition program.
- Visit the Feeding America Hunger Action Month Facebook Application for more ways to get involved.
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™
