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Wheaton World Wide Moving is helping to wipe out hunger at Indy SHRM show
Indianapolis-based moving company is donating a dollar to Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana for every business card collected during local Society for Human Resource Management conference
Indianapolis — While Central Indiana is a vibrant place to live and work, there are still more than 200,000 Hoosiers who live in poverty and who go hungry every day. Wheaton World Wide Moving – the country’s sixth largest household goods relocation provider – is trying to get their lives moving in the right direction. Wheaton will donate a dollar to Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana for every exhibition attendee who stops by the Wheaton booth during the 2009 Indiana State Human Resources Conference at the Westin Hotel in downtown Indianapolis today.
“Wheaton has been a friend to Gleaners and the hungry we serve for nearly three decades,” said Pamela Altmeyer, president and CEO of Gleaners. “In the last ten years poverty and hunger has grown dramatically. Gleaners can distribute eight pounds of food for every dollar we collect. This promotion, with the help from attendees, will make a big difference.”
The donation is being made in conjunction with Move For Hunger, a not-for-profit organization founded by a Wheaton interstate agent. The organization works with Wheaton agents in Central Indiana and around the country to collect unwanted non-perishables from moving customers and donate them to local food banks.
“Through Move for Hunger, we’re turning our participation in conferences, conventions and tradeshows into opportunities to help the communities in which we operate,” said Dave Witzerman, president of Wheaton World Wide Moving and a Move For Hunger board member. “Thanks to the attendees of the 2009 Indiana State Human Resources Conference we’re able to provide Gleaners and the hungry of Central Indiana with even a little bit of relief.”
About Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana
About Gleaners Food Bank: More than 137,000 Hoosiers are not hungry today because Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana provides food and critical groceries to hunger relief charities. Gleaners, a member of Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest), was established in 1980. Since then the food bank has distributed more than 230 million pounds of food and critical grocery products to more than 430 hunger relief charities serving Hoosiers in need in 20 central Indiana counties. To learn more, log onto www.gleaners.org.
