Online vote could bring hunger money to Fish & Loaves
The Sandusky area is one of 200 communities competing in Walmart's Fighting Hunger Together campaign, with $1 million to the top vote-getter.
Bellevue’s Fish and Loaves Emergency Food Pantry could benefit if the Sandusky area wins an online vote in the Fighting Hunger Together campaign, which aims to provide 42 million meals nationwide.
Walmart and the Walmart Foundation launched the campaign April 9 with food banks, entertainers The Band Perry and Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and food companies General Mills, ConAgra Foods, Kraft Foods and Kellogg. Customers and Facebook users can vote for one of 200 communities considered hardest hit by unemployment. The top community receives $1 million for hunger relief, and the next 20 receive $50,000 each. Second Harvest and its member organizations, including Fish and Loaves, are part of the effort.
Other Ohio communities in the running include Toledo, Youngstown, Steubenville, Dayton, Lima, Cincinnati, Akron, Canton, Springfield and Mansfield. Organizers noted that donations to food banks usually fall off in spring.
Find a food bank: Feeding America. Local giving: Thankful Hearts and the Selective Fund. More in Community.