TODAY'S TMJ4 Food Drive

WHO: Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin and TODAY'S TMJ4

WHAT: Holiday food/fund drive

WHEN: Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Noon - 6:30 p.m.

WHERE: TODAY'S TMJ4 studios
720 E. Capitol Dr., Milwaukee, WI 53201

WHY: 330,000 people rely on Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin each year, 105,000 of whom are children

Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin is on a Million Meal Mission this holiday season to raise one million meals for families in need. With five days left until Christmas, we're 165,000 meals away from our goal! Help us reach one million meals on Tuesday, December 20 during TODAY'S TMJ4 food/fund drive. Drive thru and drop off a nonperishable food item or financial donation between noon - 6:30 p.m. and you meet a memeber of the TMJ4 news team!

Help make someone's holiday brighter this year with a food or financial donation. Remember, $1 = 5 meals. 

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Each year 330,000 people in Wisconsin rely on food supplied by Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin. The food bank is the largest, private, non-profit distributor of food in the state. Feeding America Food Bank distributes nearly 15 million pounds of food annually to 1,000 food pantries, meal programs and shelters throughout Wisconsin.  Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin is affiliated with Feeding America which is consistently ranked as one of the most efficient charities, out of the country’s 100 largest charities, by Forbes magazine.  Since 1982, Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin has distributed more than 280 million pounds of food.  To learn more about hunger in Wisconsin, log onto www.feedingamericawi.org.