Falcons - Please bring in canned food to this Sunday's club meeting to benefit struggling families served by MEND! Falcons, as you know, our cup runeth over (a lot), so we have begun to incorporate charitable giving into our club activities, by raising funds to donate to worthy local causes, and by pouring home brewed beer and soda at events to support causes.
For years, we have held a toy drive to support the Firefighters' Spark of Love to benefit at-risk and needy kids, and last year, we donated to Friends of the L.A. River and Ojai Raptor Center.
This year, we have selected three outstanding causes to support that serve important, local needs and are near and dear to our hearts: Ojai Raptor Center once again, because they rescue wounded birds of prey including Falcons, which we are; MEND, the largest poverty assistance agency in the San Fernando Valley; and Team Rubicon, based in Culver City, which helps wounded Veterans to heal by training them to do emergency assistance and rebuilding in disaster zones.
So please bring in canned foods to the Club Meeting this Sunday, July 10 to be distributed to struggling families in the San Fernando Valley through MEND's food banks. ESPECIALLY NEEDED ARE CANNED SOUP WITH PEEL-OFF TOPS AND SMALL JARS OF PEANUT BUTTER, WHICH ARE NEEDED BY THEIR HOMELESS CLIENTS!
MEND started out as a small group of volunteers working from a garage in the 1970s in an effort to transform the lives of the neediest residents of the San Fernando Valley - poor children and their struggling families. Now, MEND is the largest poverty agency in the San Fernando Valley. More than 94% of the support and donations it receives goes directly toward emergency food, clothing, medical, vision and dental care, job skills training and job placement assistance, English as a Second Language classes, youth activities, and a Christmas program. In 2015, MEND served over 37,000 individuals, and more than 16,600 hours were donated by volunteers each month. MEND is 99% volunteer driven and has a 95.4 rating on Charity Navigator. www.mendpoverty.org.
***ESPECIALLY NEEDED ARE CANNED SOUP WITH PEEL-OFF TOPS AND SMALL JARS OF PEANUT BUTTER, WHICH ARE NEEDED BY THEIR HOMELESS CLIENTS!***