Foodbank Of Southeastern Virginia
Legal Food Frenzy 2024
Virginia’s lawyers compete to end hunger outside the courtroom by fundraising for their local food bank! Learn more or register your organization now: https://www.legalfoodfrenzy.com/
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About Legal Food Frenzy
Last year, teams donated just under 139,000 meals... This year, we want to raise 140,000!
Legal Food Frenzy (LFF) is an annual fundraising competition created in partnership with the Virginia Attorney General, the Young Lawyers Division (YLD) of the Virginia Bar Association, and the Federation of Virginia Food Banks.
To date, more than 20 million pounds of food have been raised and donated to hungry families through Virginia’s seven regional food banks and their 1,100 partner agencies.
The LFF is open to EVERYONE across the Virginia legal community. Now – more than ever – each law firm, law school, legal organization, and corporate/in-house counsel can have the biggest impact on hunger. Everything your team raises benefits the regional food bank that serves YOUR community.
To learn more, visit: https://www.legalfoodfrenzy.com/
About the Foodbank
This past year, we – alongside our neighbors – endured the impact of rising inflation, expiration of critical pandemic-era programs, and increased fuel and shipping costs. These hardships intensified the demand for our services, placing even greater pressure on our organization to “do more” for those in need. If our forty-three-year history has taught us one thing, it’s that in the face of adversity, the Foodbank is always met with people willing to do more. Our remarkable Foodbank staff, whose collaboration and expertise – paired with tenacity and passion – have been instrumental in making a positive impact on the lives of those who rely on our services. - Christopher Tan, CEO
In 1981, a small group of individuals from the Southeastern Tidewater Opportunity Project (STOP, Inc.) of Hampton Roads recognized the issue of hunger in their community and came together to address it. With $50,000 in grant funding from the USDA, they started the initial infrastructure. What began as a Community Food and Nutrition Program was established as a non-profit organization and one of Virginia’s first food banks just a year later.
The original purpose of this organization was to serve as a regional clearinghouse in collecting and distributing unmarketable but edible food to appropriate non-profit organizations for their food programs. With 73 member agencies, they distributed 400,000 meals in their first year.
Since then, the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore has proudly provided more than 380 million nutritious meals to our neighbors in need. Through our programs, facilities, and large network of community partners, we work to eliminate hunger daily. Our understanding of the need for a long-term solution aims at moving Hampton Roads closer to achieving the mission of eliminating hunger for those we serve—not only for the day, or for the week, but for a lifetime.
To learn more, volunteer, or donate, please visit: https://foodbankonline.org/
