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City Harvest will hold its sixth
annual On Your Plate luncheon on Tuesday, May
11, 2010 at the Metropolitan Club in Manhattan (1 E
60th Street at 5th Avenue). A reception
will take place at 11:30 AM and the luncheon and
discussion will begin at noon.
The event will feature a talk and
panel discussion with Silda Wall Spitzer and a panel
of public, independent and parochial school children
recognized for their commitment to City Harvest. The
event will be
co-chaired by Joy Ingham and Topsy Taylor. Society
columnist and longtime City Harvest Supporter, David
Patrick Columbia, is an honorary chair.
Silda Wall Spitzer is the founding
chair of Children for Children, a
not-for-profit through which more than 200,000 young
people volunteer across the country and globally
annually. At the event, Ms. Spitzer will speak to
the importance of service and encouraging the next
generation to continue the missions of important
organizations in the city.
Tickets to this year’s On Your
Plate luncheon range from $350 - $1,000 and
tables range from $5,000 - $15,000. Last year’s
event attracted
over 200 guests and raised almost $230,000 to
support City Harvest’s work feeding New York’s
hungry. For more information please call
917-351-8725, email
events@cityharvest.org or visit
www.cityharvest.org
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About City Harvest
Now
serving New York City for over 25 years, City
Harvest is the world’s first food rescue
organization, dedicated to feeding the city’s hungry
men, women and children. This year, City Harvest
will collect more than 20 million pounds of excess
food from all segments of the food industry,
including restaurants, grocers, corporate
cafeterias, manufacturers and farms. This food is
then delivered free of charge to more than 600
community food programs throughout New York City
using a fleet trucks and bikes as well as volunteers
on foot. Each week, City Harvest helps over 260,000
hungry New Yorkers find their next meal.
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