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Congratulations to our Volunteer of many years, Betsy Isaac

who is the 2008 recipient of the Angles of Grace Award.

This award is given to the charity of the reciepients choice in recognition

of volunteer work done.  Betsy has named Tampa Bay Harvest as her

Charity of Choice.  

Tampa Bay Harvest will receive at lease $7,000 from this award and  

TBH raised two barrels of food at the awards get together 

held on November 18th.  

Another fund raiser will be held in January.  More on that later.

CONGRATULATIONS Betsy!!!!!

Betsy Isaac at the Awards Gala November 18th.

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Tampa Bay Harvest and the Florida Orchestra 

are teaming up again!!

This year not only will we be at Vinoy Park, but we will be holding canned food drives and collecting food at ALL concerts given in Pinellas and Hillsbrough Counties.   

There will be many volunteer opportunities to assist us with collecting canned food at Florida Orchestra events !!!

Additional info will be coming soon, keep checking the web site and newspapers for upcoming events and concerts.

 

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Secretarial Help Needed ~ Work at Home

TBH needs help from those who like to work at home and can help doing Secretarial type duties on a volunteer basis.  Please call General Manager, Will Carey at 727-538-7777 Line 1 and leave him a message.  He will call you back and explain what we need.

$$$$$$ - GRANT WRITER Needed

Yes, TBH needs funds each year to operate.  

Although TBH has one of the lowest expense ratios of any 501(c)3 tax exempt charities anywhere in the country, which by the way is under 2% expense/income ratio, we still need funds to operate each year. 

In connection with that, we need a volunteer professional GRANT WRITER.  If you or any one you know is a GRANT WRITER, and would be interested in helping TBH apply for grants, please email us and let us know.

 

 

 

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TBH General Manager Will Carey with his new best friend 

at a recent TBH Food Drive

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 Donna Colbourne- Fullard, Center, Human Resource Manager, SANWA GROWERS, INC. presents checks to Left, Linda Hess, The Spring, Community Relations Manager, Left, Will Carey, Tampa Bay Harvest from the proceeds of their Annual Golf Tournament.

Sanwa Growers Annual Golf Tournament was not only a great event, it also raised enough money to give both, The Spring and Tampa Bay Harvest a check each, in the amount of $9,500.00. (WOW)
Thanks to all, your hard work certainly paid off in a big way. 

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Click on the GoodSearch TBH Fundraiser button to the left and you can help raise money for TBH without leaving your computer!!!!

 

More Good News!!!! Read this article that was in Creative Loafing

http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A346526

 

Tampa Bay Harvest Partners with RCS and obtains another truck.

Island Estates resident Teddi McCune, center, hands the keys to the  new refrigerated truck behind her, to Will Carey, executive director of Tampa Bay Harvest, and Duggan Cooley, president and CEO of Religious Community Services, right.  Assisting Mrs. McCune are her daughter, Jennifer Muller and three granddaughters, left to right, back row, Hallie and Jennifer and, front row, Bryn and Annie.

TBH Board of Directors 

Left to Right:  Board Members Front Row: Mary Cheever, Cathy Long and President Debbie Holt.  Back Row: Steve Mitchell, William Borja, Richard Gonzalez, and TBH Executive Director / Operations Manager  Will Carey 
Chapel-By-The-Sea Donates Refrigerated Truck To Tampa Bay Harvest
by Anne McKay Garris
         
          Funds for the truck were donated to Tampa Bay Harvest by the Chapel-By-The-Sea on Clearwater Beach in memorial to Mrs. McCune's late husband, Tom McCune, and Anne Cawood. Mr. and Mrs. McCune and Mrs. Cawood, as well as her husband, Al Cawood, have represented the Chapel-By-The-Sea as volunteers delivering food for Tampa Bay Harvest since its inception.
  
          "This refrigerated truck will multiply our ability to feed more people," said Will Carey, executive director of Tampa Bay Harvest.  "Some of our largest and most enthusiast contributors, Publix among them, had become uncomfortable with donating perishable food to be transported in unrefrigerated vehicles."
          Tampa Bay Harvest, an all volunteer organization, works to deliver excess food from restaurants, super markets and other sources to the agencies that provide food for people unable to buy it for themselves.  The hundreds of volunteers make the delivery of food economically feasible and Tampa Bay Harvest's partnership with Religious Community Services enhances the effectiveness of both organizations efforts on behalf of the hungry
          "Religious Community Services is thankful for the donation of the truck," said Duggan Cooley, "having the truck will allow us to feed more hungry people from our food pantry.  We are currently feeding over 100 families a day," he added, "and the number is increasing weekly."
          The truck will feature the name of both organizations and the names of the two people in whose memory it was donated.  Among the advantageous features of the truck is its capacity to use bio-diesel fuel which will be supplied free of charge to Tampa Bay Harvest.
          Funds proceeding from a benefit Golf Tournament, co-sponsored by the Clearwater Beach Association and the Clearwater Sailing Center, have also been donated for the purchase of a second truck for Tampa Bay Harvest use. 

This is the original refrigerated TBH Truck that was donated by 7-11 about 12 years ago and was used primarily by the Salvation Army until a few months ago.  It has been repainted to reflect our partnership with Lighthouse Ministries and will be used to pick up food that needs to be refrigerated primarily in Hillsborough County.

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Our Mission

A food recovery and transportation charity operating in the Tampa Bay, Florida area. The organization's mission statement is:

"Working to end hunger in our community "

Our Profile

Tampa Bay Harvest, Inc ("TBH") is an all -volunteer 501(c)(3) charitable organization operating in West Central Florida including Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties. We function as a food recovery and gleaning organization.

Over 500 TBH volunteers pick up leftover, sale dated and excess food items from local supermarkets, hospitals, schools, restaurants, as well as other food related businesses, delivering the rescued food to one of the more than 200 local area charities served by TBH who, in turn, feed the hungry.

Since being formed in 1989 TBH volunteers have delivered over 54,000,000 pounds of food to the local charities that serve the needy citizens of our community. That's high quality food that restaurants, fast food establishments, hospitals, schools, hotels, and caterers would have thrown away that was cycled back into the Tampa Bay area social service community thanks to the efforts of TBH volunteers.

By recycling this food and using the same to feed the needy of the Tampa Bay area, TBH volunteers enable local charities to expand their services despite already stretched budgets. Applying a conservative value of $1.50 per pound to the donated food means that since 1989 TBH volunteers have enabled local charities to use approximately $81,000,000 for other services. Services such as continuing education, job training, day care and medical care, rather than using these funds to feed their agencies clientele.

 To meet its operating requirements, TBH maintains only one paid position, a full-time General Manager.  All other positions including its Board of Directors are filled by volunteers who use their homes, offices and private vehicles to complete their volunteer functions.  All operating needs, such as the General Manager's position, postage, photocopies, telephone costs, etc. are all fulfilled by  donations from the community.

Join us in our war against hunger in the Tampa Bay area. All it takes is approximately one hour a week of your time. If you are interested go to the " Volunteers " section.

Contact us at: Voice Mail 727-538-7777 Line 1

                          E-mail tbhgm@aol.com

U.S. Mail: Tampa Bay Harvest, 13620 49th Street N., Clearwater, FL 33762

 

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