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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Central California Food Bank is celebrating 32 years and Bank of America is triple matching donations to up to $30,000.
Focusing connected ending hunger, the region’s largest non-profit enactment serves implicit 300,000 radical who are successful need.
Chanel Ruiz-Mendez, the Director of Development for the Central California Food Bank says from Thursday, July 18 done Friday, July 19, for each dollar donated, Bank of America volition beryllium adding 2 much dollars.
"We could supply up to 4 meals and implicit the adjacent 2 days that multiplies to 12 meals. Thank you to Bank of America," Ruiz-Mendez said.
Ruiz-Mendez says the nutrient slope lacks donations successful the summertime and the summertime tin beryllium hard for bare families.
"You know, during the schoolhouse year, kids are getting meal and luncheon and sometimes an after-school snack. But during the summertime erstwhile they're home, that's conscionable much mouths to provender and truthful costly to capable the pantries these days," Ruiz-Mendez said.
The wealth raised goes towards the Groceries2Go program, a feeding programme that allows radical with an assignment to prime up nutrient and person it delivered close to their car.
"It truly conscionable helps enactment nutrient connected the array and benignant of capable that, you know, nutrient fund that a batch of radical have," Ruiz-Mendez said.
To marque an online donation, click here.
