DelCor’s Sixth Annual Community Food Drive Collects over Seven Tons of Food
For Immediate Release
Silver Spring, Maryland – April 29th, 2008 – DelCor, an association and nonprofit oriented technology management consulting firm, has completed its sixth annual client and vendor food drive to benefit the Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB). This year’s event was an enormous success with 29 associations, nonprofits, and technology vendors participating. Their contributions, along with those of DelCor’s staff,
yielded over 14,400 pounds of food, shattering DelCor’s goal to collect 8,000 pounds and more than doubling what was collected in 2007. The food collected as well as donations received will allow the CAFB to provide over 15,000 meals to needy people in the District, Suburban Maryland, and Northern Virginia.
The Capital Area Food Bank is the largest non-governmental, nonprofit food distribution and hunger education resource in the Washington Metropolitan Area. In a December 2003 Washingtonian magazine article, entitled “Giving Where It Counts,” CAFB was named as one of the 20 most worthwhile local charities to support.
DelCor is proud to recognize the contributions of TMA Resources, which collected over 5,000 pounds of food from its generous staff, and Avectra, which collected over 3,000 pounds of food. Their generous contributions should serve as a model for corporate social responsibility and we applaud them.
“It was amazing to see the results of the efforts of the participating organizations – numerous vanloads of quality food products to benefit disadvantaged people in the DC metro area. If all local associations and their vendors joined together or held drives of their own, once a year, we could have a tremendous impact on local hunger.” (Loretta M. DeLuca, CEO of DelCor)
Participating Associations, Nonprofits and Technology Vendors included:
American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
American Health Lawyers Association
American Society of Association Executives (ASAE)
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
American Association for the Study of Liver Disease
Association of Pool & Spa Professionals
Association of Zoos & Aquariums
Avectra
Bar T, Inc.
Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards
Independent Community Bankers of America
Infectious Diseases Society of America
ISG Solutions
Licensing Executives Society
NAACHO
National Association of Health Underwriters
National School Boards Association
Optical Society of America
Personal Care Products Council
ProTech
Rebuilding Together
Reinsurance Association
Summit Foundation
Syscom
The Association for Manufacturing Technology
The Association of Military Surgeons
The Matrix Group
TMA Resources
WorldWide ERC
DelCor is proud to have been a part of this effort and is looking forward to 2009 for an even greater goal.
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Contact: Loretta DeLuca, CEO DelCor Technology Solutions – 1-800-345-4228
DelCor Technology Solutions, Inc.: Formed in 1984, DelCor is an independent, technology management consulting and network systems and support firm headquartered in Silver Spring, MD. DelCor provides a unique combination of technology and business management expertise to associations, both locally and nationwide. Services to more than 400 associations and nonprofit organizations include AMS selection and implementation project management, technology strategic planning, Web planning and usability studies, education technology consulting and network systems design and support. DelCor’s highly professional staff includes many former association executives with a wide array of expertise.
Capital Area Food Bank: Through its network of more than 750 member programs, the Capital Area Food Bank distributes food to the community and educates local residents on hunger, poverty and nutrition issues. Member programs are nonprofit organizations and include, but are not limited to: soup kitchens, homeless shelters, low-income housing communities, daycare centers, elder care facilities, youth programs and religious organizations. The Capital Area Food Bank recovers millions of pounds of food - that would otherwise be thrown away - from bakeries, distributors, farmers, grocery stores, manufacturers, and retailers. More than two million pounds of fresh produce comes from area farms and the hard work of the Washington Area Gleaning Networks. Additional donations come from America's Second Harvest, the Capital Area Food Bank’s national nonprofit umbrella organization, and community food drives sponsored by hundreds of local businesses, schools, media outlets, synagogues and churches.