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Food World Senior Bowl
Charitable Partnership
Continues To Impact Area Charities
Recent donations have
increased Partnership’s impressive amount of giving to over $4.2
million.
MOBILE, Ala. (June 18, 2007) -- Thanks to the Food World - Senior Bowl
Charitable Partnership, the northern Gulf Coast is a better place to
live.
Since its inception, the Partnership
has created an amazing legacy of charitable giving, one that has
succeeded in donating over $4 million to Gulf Coast charities.
And recent donations this spring, which
included the final $50,000 installment of a five-year, $250,000 pledge
to the USA Children’s and Women’s Hospital, have now pushed that
impressive figure to over $4.2 million.
“We are very pleased that the Food
World - Senior Bowl Charitable Partnership continues to play such a
significant role in the lives of so many needy citizens along the Gulf
Coast,” said Senior Bowl President Steve Hale. “It is also a pleasure to
be associated with Food World, a company that feels so strongly about
giving back to the communities in which they do business.”
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Through successful
family-oriented events such as the Food World Senior Bowl
Charity Run, funds have been raised by the Food World - Senior
Bowl Charitable Partnership for Gulf Coast area charities that
have now exceeded $4.2 million.
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The Food World - Senior Bowl Charitable
Partnership’s mission is to raise funds for charities whose services,
activities or programs benefit youth and youth-related activities along
the Gulf Coast.
“Our Food World customers frequently
mention the importance of supporting children’s charities and local
organizations,” said Bruno’s Vice President and General Manager Scott
North in praise of the Partnership’s grass roots philanthropy. “Because
so many of our shoppers are moms, they understand how much it means to
lend a helping hand.”
The fulfillment of the five-year pledge
to the USA Children’s and Women’s Hospital is the latest charitable
highlight in the Partnership’s longtime support of the hospital, which
has resulted in over $500,000 in donations used for various projects at
the facility.
The recent donations were used to help
fund the much-needed renovation of the hospital’s lobby, making it more
user friendly and creating a much more pleasant environment for patients
and their families.
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In addition to the annual
Senior Bowl players' visit to patients at the USA Children's and
Women's Hospital, the Food World - Senior Bowl Charitable
Partnership's impact on the hospital has been significant,
resulting in over $500,000 in donations to the hospital in
recent years including the fulfillment of a five-year, $250,000
pledge in the spring of 2007.
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In addition to USA
Children’s and Women’s Hospital, 15 other charitable agencies along the
Gulf Coast have received proceeds from the Partnership in 2007 including
major donations which were made to Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital in
Pensacola, Fla., Thomas Hospital in Fairhope and Mercy Medical in
Daphne.
Funds donated to Sacred Heart, which
brought the total given to that hospital by the Partnership since 2002
to over $220,000, have been used to purchase a new neonatal intensive
care ambulance which is especially equipped for transport and treatment
of critically ill and injured infants and children.
Other Gulf Coast charitable agencies
receiving funds from the Partnership this spring include the Mobile
County Special Olympics, the Drug Education Council, Alabama Pre-School
for the Sensory Impaired, the Mobile Association for Retarded Citizens,
the Child Advocacy Center, the Mobile Association for the Blind, the
Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Mobile Symphony, Ballet and Opera,
the Mobile YMCA and the Pensacola Boys and Girls Clubs.
In addition to the Charitable
Partnership, Food World also served as the title sponsor of the Food
World Senior Bowl Charity Run, the popular road race held annually in
downtown Mobile on the first Saturday in November, and several other
special events held during the year including the Food World Senior Bowl
Sailing Regatta, the Food World Fan Frenzy held the Friday afternoon
prior to the Senior Bowl football game, and the Food World Tailgate
Party at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on game day. |
