Click for Cans

[kainen]

Looks like we won this deal again!

Congrats to Packer nation!

p.s. Isn't this a fun night????

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Jacksonville Jaguars 68,084 @ Green Bay Packers 134,983

[SoCalPackFan]

Congratulations for another victory. I'm sure the Wisconsin food pantry's appreciate the Packer fans and Campbell's to help add food to their shelves.

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Green Bay Packers deliver 28K cans of soup to Wisconsin food pantries

Gannett Wisconsin Media • March 16, 2010


Thanks to Green Bay Packers fans and two local businesses, 29 Wisconsin food pantries have stocked their shelves with canned soup for needy families.

“This is going to be a blessing,” said Cordelia Taylor, founder and CEO of Family House, which assists homeless, poor and elderly people in Milwaukee. Her ministry loaded a van with about 1,000 cans of soup for distribution.

Packers players Korey Hall, Brad Jones and Brandon Underwood helped volunteers load 28,000 cans of soup into vehicles on Tuesday at the Associated Bank gate outside Lambeau Field.

About 60 pantry representatives were on hand to take delivery of the food. Each pantry received 77 cases of soup.

During the 2009 football season, Packers fans voted the team tops in the Campbell’s Chunky Soup “Click for Cans” online food drive for the eighth straight year. The top spot earned 18,000 cans of Campbell’s soup.

Associated Bank, a partner in Click for Cans for the second year, donated an extra 10,000 cans. Festival Foods, another Packers partner, supplied the extra soup to Associated Bank for the distribution.

“This is a way for fans to turn their support into a tangible benefit. It’s the ultimate pass-through,” said Cathy Dworak, the Packers' manager of community outreach.

Bonnie Bellehumeur, president of Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin, said about 335,000 people receive help from the pantries that received the soup.

“These are difficult times for many in the state,” Bellehumeur said.

Wisconsin’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for December was 8.7 percent.

Suzanne Becker of the Trinity Lutheran Church food pantry in Eau Claire, said the donated soup would be “a huge bump for us.”

The church's pantry has grown from serving about 40 people a month two years ago to 350 people a month now.

“A lot of new people are coming. Some just need a little help,” she said.

Filed by the Green Bay Press-Gazette

[kainen]

I'm very humbled that a few minutes of clicking over the course of the season was beneficial to so many.


Great job Pack fans. We'll do it again next year too (God and fingers willing!)