The Lee County Soup Kitchen, Meals on Wheels, Faith in Action and Hand & Hearts Montessori Preschool - Press releases and special events
October 21, 2009 (FORT MYERS, FL) – T F Marine Boat Sales & Yacht Brokerage is kicking off a month long “Boatload of Food” drive to help fight hunger in Lee County from October 24th through the month of November.
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200990902040Carter Outdoor has donated two billboards to promote Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc. programs and services as well as donations to the local organizations.
The billboards are located at Colonial Blvd. near Treeline Blvd. in Fort Myers and just north of the Edison Bridge on Business 41 in North Fort Myers
“I continue to find hope in the ways local companies are stepping up to help us fight hunger,” said Sarah Owen, Chief Executive Officer of CCMI.
The billboards will remain at least until the end of the year. The in-kind value is estimated at over $18,000.
BY FRANCESCA DONLAN • FDONLAN@NEWS-PRESS.COM • AUGUST 28, 2009
Tyson Foods crowned Sarah Owen “Hunger All Star,” and awarded her more than 30,000 pounds of chicken.
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009908240306
Tyson Foods - the world’s largest provider of chicken, beef and pork - will donate more than 15 tons of chicken to Southwest Florida on Friday in honor of its “Hunger All-Star.”
Sarah, who oversees organizations including the Soup Kitchen and Meals on Wheels, has led a charge to get backpack programs in area schools. This program allows children to take food home for the weekend. The chicken will be delivered to Orange River Elementary School in East Fort Myers because of its significant need. The rest will be donated to Harry Chapin Food Bank.
About 62 percent of children in Lee County receive free or reduced lunches. Many have little to eat on the weekends.
“This chicken could not come at a better time,” Sarah said. “This is the first weekend kids go hungry as the school year starts.”
FORT MYERS, FL (August 13, 2009) – Community Cooperative Ministries Inc. (CCMI), Promotional Incentives, Inc. and m.creative each won awards at the Florida Public Relations (FPRA) 52nd Golden Image Awards ceremony held August 11, 2009 for the NoFood4You campaign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0FjsBwD0B4
Becoming Cosmopolitan is an annual fundraiser for CCMI open to women of all ages that features an evening of glamorous shopping with local vendors, gourmet hors d’oeuvres and cocktails, sinfully delicious chocolate and desserts and a live and silent auction all in celebration of the cosmopolitan lifestyle in Southwest Florida. Now in it’s 4th year, over 200 women attended the 2008 Becoming Cosmopolitan event and helped raise over $38,000 for CCMI and its programs.
Costa and Packard offer pro bono services to local non-profit agency
July 22, 2009 (FORT MYERS, FL) – Two local public relations professionals have joined Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc. (CCMI) PR Task Force. The task force was formed recently to help CCMI brand and launch its new market pantry and café concept.
From NBC-2 - Posted: Jul 21, 2009 4:16 PMUpdated: Jul 21, 2009 6:01 PM
http://hungerrelief.tyson.com/AllStars/?id=1407
Sarah Owen is a tireless and unrelenting hungerfighter in the true sense of the word.
Sarah is the CEO of Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc. CCMI is the umbrella agency for The Soup Kitchen, Meals on Wheels, Faith In Action Senior Transportation, Hands & Hearts Montessori Preschool, and 2 United Way Resource Houses. The agency is dedicated to feeding the homeless and hungry and caring for the most fragile children and seniors in our community.
Her journey into the non-profit arena came by way of a career in public relations and corporate communications.
June 29, 2009 (FORT MYERS, FL) – Sarah Owen, Chief Executive Officer of Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc. (CCMI), announces that Denny Brown has recently joined the staff of Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc. as Chief Financial Officer.
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.