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Half Way Through Our Food Drive! We Need Your help!

We are half way there! But, we’re not even half way there in food donations! Today marks the halfway point in our second annual “Let’s Send Hunger Packing” summer food drive, in partnership with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, to feed hungry children in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. And the competition to raise the most food is getting fierce! But, we still need your help! ---

 Orange County: 182 pounds 

Los Angeles County: 772 pounds

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With the combined forces of our surrounding Coldwell Bankers, NorthStar Moving team members and our community of supporters, we have raised 1,273 pounds of food! That’s over a half a ton of food to donate between Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County.

We are truly generating amazing results. However, we are still boxes and boxes…and boxes of food donations away from solving this epidemic of over one million children in Southern California that lack access to food. Last year the program raised 4,556 pounds of food and this year we are looking to surpass that. Please bring non-perishable food items to any of the participating  Coldwell Banker offices listed here or NorthStar Moving headquarters at 9120 Mason Ave., Chatsworth, California to feed a child in need.

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Four more weeks to go! Clean out your pantries, run to the store and ask your neighbors to pitch in too! Let’s Send Hunger Packing!

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