The Lee County Soup Kitchen, Meals on Wheels, Faith in Action and Hand & Hearts Montessori Preschool - Press releases and special events
Owen’s inspirational story is posted on the Energizer Hall of Fame website at http://www.energizerkeepgoinghalloffame.com/2010Finalists.aspx. Visitors can cast a vote once per day between now and August 20 to help determine the 2010 Energizer Keep Going® Hall of Fame inductee. Each vote will donate $1 to the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation, up to $10,000.
Mobile Food Pantry rolls into Cape Coral United Way House on Friday, July 9 at 10 a.m.
FORT MYERS, Fla. (July 7, 2010) – Last summer Community Cooperative Ministries Inc. along with a team of community partner agencies, fed more than 20,000 hungry individuals across Southwest Florida through its mobile food pantry. This summer, the mobile [...]
Women’s event benefiting hungry in our community scheduled
for Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010
FORT MYERS, Fla. (June 25, 2010) – A giant martini glass stopping traffic; red-carpeted live auction and stage areas; hundreds of women decked out in to-die-for outfits and plenty of silent and live auction items for every budget. It’s all part of Community Cooperative [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. (June 22, 2010) – Fifteen Target employees from stores across Southwest Florida recently spent a day donating their time to Community Cooperative Ministries Inc.’s Soup Kitchen.
The volunteers helped prepare a nutritious noontime meal as well as meals to be delivered by CCMI’s Meals on Wheels drivers.
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010100603052
The aisles are full of food — cereals, coffee, pasta and milk — and there’s a place in the back for fresh produce and even cakes.
Hungry people can go in and choose the foods they want to feed their families. This is a different model from the bread lines and food pantries of the past, [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. (June 15, 2010) – Reading to children increases their vocabulary and helps kids develop into readers. That is why Community Cooperative Ministries Hands and Hearts Montessori Preschool started a new volunteer reading program at the end of each week.
Each Friday between 10:45 a.m. and 2:15 p.m., the preschool invites community volunteers to [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. (June 14, 2010) – Anyone who has met Sarah Owen, CEO of Community Cooperative Ministries Inc., would agree she shares definite similarities with the Energizer Bunny® because she keeps going and going.
The folks at Energizer agree and have named her one of the 100 semifinalists in the 2010 Energizer Keep [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. (June 10, 2010) – Now that winter residents have returned to their northern homes, Community Cooperative Ministries Inc. is in need of volunteers to support their numerous programs and services.
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010100606011
Zarifer King was pleasantly surprised when she stepped into the Everyday Marketplace in Fort Myers.
“It’s like a grocery store,” she said. “Most of the time you go to a food pantry and they give you things you don’t eat.”
FORT MYERS, Fla. (June 4, 2010) – Nationally acclaimed speaker, author and leadership coach Dr. Dave Fleming has joined Community Cooperative Ministries Inc. to oversee strategic leadership development and social services for the agency.
Community Cooperative Ministries (CCMI) was incorporated in 1984, and has long been a driving force in the Fort Myers community, providing food to homeless and nearly homeless, as well as emergency groceries and affordable childcare to the working poor. In July of 2006 the agency expanded its mission and outreach to Lee County by merging with agencies that had historically provided home delivered meals to the homebound hungry (Meals on Wheels), and transportation services to the frail elderly (Faith In Action) and The Soup Kitchen. This merger created an agency that is able to provide comprehensive, unduplicated services to the homeless, nearly homeless, homebound, seniors and children more effectively, more efficiently and with greater compassion than at any other time in the former agencies histories.