SE Downtown Detroit Luncheon Affinity Group

Host: Gleaners Community Food Bank

Date: Wednesday, March 11, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Location:

Gleaners Community Food Bank, Detroit Facility

2^nd Floor, Kids Helping Kids space

2131 Beaufait

Detroit, MI 48207

Lunch provided by the Capuchins executive chef

Secure parking located directly across from the Gleaners warehouse. Enter main door and check in at the customer service window for a visitor’s pass.

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Please join us for a conversation with the mission driven women who lead Gleaners.

Stacy Averill, Sr. Director of Community Giving and Public Relations

Julie Beamer, Chief Operating Officer

Rachelle Bonelli, Vice President of Programs

Denise Leduc, Director of Community Engagement

We’ll hear about all the ways Gleaners supports our communities, followed by a warehouse tour.

About Gleaners Community Food Bank:

Our Mission:

Gleaners Community Food Bank exists to provide households with access to sufficient, nutritious food, and related resources. We accomplish this through collaboration, efficient operations, education, and innovative solutions to achieve a hunger-free community in southeast Michigan.

Headquartered in Detroit, Gleaners operates five distribution centers in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston and Monroe counties and provides food to 528 partner soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters, and other agencies throughout southeast Michigan.

In 2018, Gleaners distributed more than 43 million pounds of food to neighbors in need! On average, Gleaners distributes 96,000 meals each day including providing nourishing food and nutrition education to 171,000 children a year. Every dollar donated provides three meals and 93 cents of every donated dollar goes to food and food programs.

Food Distribution: Gleaners is a vital link between available food and those who need it most. Local and national producers have surplus food that may otherwise go to waste for lack of a way to safely and efficiently bring it to the market.

Gleaners has developed efficient, reliable methods for handling a tremendous volume of all kinds of food. Five distribution centers bring food closer to those in need, saving member partner agencies time and money that they can use in providing food for our hungry neighbors.

Gleaners also distributes nutritious food through our monthly School Food Mobile and Senior Food Mobile program as well as our weekly My Neighborhood Mobile Grocery pop-up markets across Metro Detroit.

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Downtown Detroit Affinity Group
Lunch meetings are on the 2nd Wednesday of every month from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm.  Meeting locations vary from month-to-month as our group focuses on highlighting businesses, companies and organizations within the Detroit city limits.  We offer a light lunch and refreshments at all our meetings.  All are welcome.

Chairs

Mary Cooney marycooney@getcreativia.com

Kelly Lockman klockman@bodmanlaw.com 

Maria Martinez mmartinez3@bcbsm.com

Viva Nsair vivansair@wayne.edu

Deb Scola dscola@michiganhumane.org