City of Franklin Employee Food Drive 2018
Healthy Shelves collaborated with the City of Franklin Health Department and City of Franklin employees to conduct a Healthy Shelves food drives in January 2017 and 2018. All proceeds were donated to Feeding Franklin, a network of local food pantries.
The 2018 City of Franklin Employee Food Drive resulted in 963 pounds of food donated. 56.2% of the food was on the Healthy Shelves food list, which is a 6% increase from 2017. Employees increased their donation of proteins and spices in particular.
City of Franklin Employee Food Drive 2017
In 2017 over 1000 pounds of food was donated, which was 250 pounds more than in January 2016. Over half of the donated food items were on the Healthy Shelves foods checklist. Feeding Franklin members from St. James, St. Martin of Tours, Faith Presbyterian, Salvation Army and St. Stephen’s Family Life Center divided the food for their pantry shelves.
The 2017 food drive collected over 1000 pounds of food
The Franklin Firefighters local 2760 also donated $200, which was divided among the five food pantries.
Dennis Amaturo- St. Martin of Tours
Deb Bergeson-Graham- Faith Presbyterian, Lynn Kaestner- St. Stephens
Read more about the food drive in this South Now article:
Franklin Health Dept. sets new years resolution to donate healthy food
