While it's so important to give back all year, it is especially meaningful to help those in need during the holiday season. For Give 5 day, an initiative across all of Patch where employees take a day to give back to the very communities they serve, we heard some amazing stories from Patchers across the country. Here are a few of their stories:
In a collective Give 5 effort, almost all Patchers in one CT region (that's 16 editors!) volunteered at the Foodshare warehouse in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Foodshare is a non-profit that serves a 42-town area in Connecticut, collects frozen turkeys, non-perishable food items, and cash every year around the holidays to help those in need. In addition to providing coverage to the cause on their respective Patch sites, these Patchers logged many hours on-site at the Foodshare warehouse, collecting turkeys and other canned goods from the many donators. Awesome work everyone!
In a collective Give 5 effort, almost all Patchers in one CT region (that's 16 editors!) volunteered at the Foodshare warehouse in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Foodshare is a non-profit that serves a 42-town area in Connecticut, collects frozen turkeys, non-perishable food items, and cash every year around the holidays to help those in need. In addition to providing coverage to the cause on their respective Patch sites, these Patchers logged many hours on-site at the Foodshare warehouse, collecting turkeys and other canned goods from the many donators. Awesome work everyone!
David Moran (Local Editor, Manchester) slinging Turkeys at the Foodshare Warehouse.
Regional Editor Megan Bard Morse gets enthusiastic with The Granbys Local Editor Ted Glanzer during their volunteer time.
Senior Advertising Manager Lee R. DeLay III donated Patch swag to the Poway, Calif. 3rd Annual Shop Hop: an auction benefiting Pomerado Elementary Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to fundraising for Pomerado Elementary School. His efforts were met with much gratitude from the event organizers, who were pleased to share that they exceeded their monetary goal for the auction. Lee also donated advertising space for the Shop Hop, which event organizers directly contributed to higher traffic for the event. Way to go!
A Group Shot of the "Shop Hop."
Though this next one is in fact a Thanksgiving story of Patchy awesomeness, it is not a Give 5 day charitable example (we're including it because we love the passing along of that much green goodness!). Greater Boston Regional Editor Mark Micheli and Boston ARE Roberto Scalese set up a Patch booth at a huge high school Thanksgiving-day football game. He was able to hand out tons of Patch swag, sign oodles of people up for the newsletter, and even gave away some 500 cups of hot cocoa (all in Patch cups, of course!). And get this - the game started at 10 a.m. and the hot cocoa was gone by 10:30 a.m.! That means Patch green was warming the hands of hundreds of spectators in the crowd. Maybe it's just us, but we think Patch was the real winner of this game!
Regional Editor Mark Micheli, his wife, and Boston ARE Robert Scalese at their Patch Booth!
There you have it, Patchers sharing the love in many different ways. Patch employees - think you have an awesome Give 5/Patch sharing story that was not included in this post? Comment below, we'd love to hear about it!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1. The Northcoast Rockers Rocked Out Hunger At The Akron/Canton Regional Foodbank.
In less than four hours we repackaged for distribution 4,000 pounds of product!
Posted at 3:06AM on Dec 10th 2011 by Brandon.Tidd
2. Interesting article... Keep sharing.
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Posted at 7:46AM on Dec 14th 2011 by mikeneon
3. This is a wonderful intiative!
Posted at 5:11AM on Dec 29th 2011 by Arbrene Hussain
4. Guys, you are wonderfull. Second photo rocks!
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Posted at 8:35AM on Jan 15th 2012 by Julia