How will this fundraiser help Peters Township residents?
Through this fundraiser, we will be donating all of our proceeds to the Greater Washington County Food bank. The Food Bank will use the money to fund its grocery distribution hubs. More details regarding how the money will be used are mentioned below.
For this Fundraiser, we have also contacted most of the small/local businesses in Peters Township and with your support, we hope to see them back to normal as soon as possible. All of the businesses in our area have faced all sorts of problems in the past few months, and it is our responsibility to help them as a community. There is a list of all the businesses that we contacted at the bottom of this page and they would love to see your support!
Greater Washington County Food bank
Greater Washington County Food Bank (GWCFB) is the primary Food Bank for Washington County, PA. Through our network of distribution sites, along with over 20 senior-living communities, we provide 4,000-5,000 with supplemental food assistance each month. Roughly 20% of our clients are over the age of 65, while nearly 1/3rd (30%) are children age 18 and younger. Money collected will be utilized for food distributions that service the Peters Twp. area residents.
Greater Washington County Food Bank has:
- Distributed over 500,000 lbs of food since stay-at-home orders began mid-March.
- Processed over 1,000 applications for new families needing assistance between March and May (Usually 120/month).
- Increased the number of Truck to Trunk distribution sites, a limited-contact model that was tested since summer of 2019.
- Assist over 600 cars at our largest Truck to trunk distribution (Canonsburg/Peters Twp./Finleyville Truck to Trunk distribution)
- Automated our volunteering systems to increase the ease of volunteering, increasing the number of boxes packer per hour from 100/hour to 200 boxes per hour! Double the impact.
- Doubled the number of boxes distributed in April compared to March and prior months.
