Lawyers' Campaign Against Hunger

What if …

…you lost your job because your employer went out of business?
• People who never thought they would need help are going to food shelves for the very first time.  As many as 86,000 men, women and children in Vermont rely on emergency food programs each year.

…your pay check just doesn’t cover your monthly expenses and you have to make the desperate decision to buy food or pay for your utilities or heating fuel every month?
• Nearly 36,000 people in Vermont struggle to balance their food bill with their utility bills—no one wants their electricity disconnected or to be cold in their homes during Vermont winters.

…all your children had for dinner was a bowl of cereal, and they went to school hungry the next morning?
• 20% of VT households with children reported running out of food due to lack of money in 2008-2009.

Because of these compelling facts, the Vermont Foodbank is reaching out to you and other attorneys in our state to join together in a new initiative—The Lawyers’ Campaign Against Hunger.  Our hope—and our first goal for this annual campaign—is to encourage 50 attorneys or firms to become sustaining monthly donors at the $50 level (or more) in 2010.  For each monthly gift of $50, the Foodbank acquires and distributes 188 pounds of food, or the equivalent of 100 meals. Vermont attorneys can greatly impact the lives of families who reside in our state and realize a meaningful social return on your investments.

This is an issue of justice.  We know that hungry children are more likely to get entangled in our criminal justice system.  You can be part of a sustainable solution by joining the Lawyers’ Campaign Against Hunger.  Your colleagues in other states have raised substantial funds for their food banks through this effective endeavor. 

Click here to make a donation today or contact Christine Foster for information about becoming a sustaining donor at cfoster@vtfoodbank.org or by phone at (802) 477-4103. 

Continue your profession’s time-honored tradition of helping neighbors in need by providing food to the people in our state every month.