Share Our Strength

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=110 BGCOLOR="#666699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0a000840erlcjm.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>GACD</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="GACD"><B>home</B></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Share Our Strength</div> <div> <IMG SRC="4f8f04b0.png" border=0 width="240" height="75" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4f9da260.png" border=0 width="218" height="38" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> "Like few other organizations, Share Our Strength builds local and national capacity to fight hunger. Share Our Strength supports Austinites working to assure everyone has access to nutritious food. With Share Our Strength's help, we are more effective than ever in raising awareness of hunger and dollars for food in our community. Nationally, Share Our Strength uses its profile to bring partners to the cause and uses its profits to impact national issues. Share Our Strength is a leader, a supporter and a friend."</div> <div> <B>- Eileen Earhard Oldag, Executive Director, Caritas of Austin</B> </div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="4fa4a0c0.png" border=0 width="330" height="12" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="4fbf10c0.png" border=0 width="497" height="12" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="4fc800c0.png" border=0 width="384" height="12" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="4fdb40c0.png" border=0 width="180" height="12" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="4fea90c0.png" border=0 width="169" height="12" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="4fff50c0.png" border=0 width="245" height="12" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="501db010.png" border=0 width="475" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="50301010.png" border=0 width="1" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Operation Food Search in St. Louis, Missouri, is an Operation Frontline partner agency. Emily Farr, Operation Frontline AmeriCorps*VISTA in Missouri, recently hosted a grassroots fundraising effort called Empty Bowls that raised almost $6,000 to provide nutrition education classes through the local Operation Frontline program, nationally sponsored by Tyson Foods, Inc. </div> <bR> <div> The Empty Bowls concept began in Michigan in 1990 by an art teacher who wanted to find a way for his students to raise money for a food drive. For an Empty Bowls event, local pottery students and artists donate handmade bowls that are then sold along with a simple meal (generally soup and bread) for a set price. Eleven St. Louis-area schools and eight artists donated over 400 bowls, and soup and bread were donated by a local catering company - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Verdana" ><B><U>Great American Corporate Dining</U></B></FONT> - and by Whole Foods. Student bowls were sold for $10 each and artist's bowls ranged from $15 (for paper bowls) to $250 (for a HUGE bowl!). </div> <bR> <div> Operation Food Search sent out letters requesting monetary donations and had donation boxes at the luncheons - and many people gave quite generously. One luncheon was held in the cafeteria of a multi-business office building, one was in a private corporate cafeteria of a large communications company and the last was at Whole Foods Market. For more information about this great, grassroots fundraising effort, please contact Operation Food Search at 314-726-5355. </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>