Thanksgiving Breakfast Recap

Last Thursday, November 26th Rock For Hunger, along with friends from NEMA House held a Thanksgiving Breakfast for our homeless friends in Downtown Orlando. This was an amazing breakfast of high spirits, creativity, patience and teamwork. Over 100 volunteers and 150 homeless were at the breakfast and no one left hungry.

For Rock For Hunger, this is our largest volunteer event of the year and I can say without a doubt that this was nothing short of amazing. While the volunteers easily over matched the work, everyone felt a part of something special. Volunteers scooped food, sorted clothing, poured drinks and collected trash, but the most important thing was the attention and compassion we were able to provide.

I want to thank all the volunteers for their hard work in making my job easy! I hope that you all are able to join us on a Monday night, when things are less hectic and the moments are just as powerful.

Here are some shots from China Rayne, a student at Ringling College of Art and Design, from the breakfast. I hope they bring back memories.




Rock For Hunger will be hosting a Christmas Party on Monday, December 21st. More information will be announced this week as to needs, volunteer opportunities and other tidbits.

If you are interested in helping out on Monday nights, here is the basic information:

• Meeting Spot - Corner of Cathcart and Ribinson at Lake Eola (across from the Panera)
• Meeting Time - 6:45pm
• There are rotating cooks that alternate Mondays (if you would like to join the rotation, please contact Angela at angela.hottal at gmail.com)

Needed items include:

• Rice
• Pasta
• Spaghetti Sauce
• Beans - dried/canned
• Canned vegetables
• Prepackaged snacks
• Drinks - water/juice
• Cups
• Plates
• Forks
• Socks
• Toiletries

Thanks again and please leave us a comment below on your experience, things we can improve, things you heard or saw or anything else on your mind. Together we can help our community grow and get people back on their feet and excited to seize the day!

-Greg Rollett

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Orlando Thanksgiving Breakfast For The Homeless

On Thursday, November 26th, Rock For Hunger will host their 3rd annual Thanksgiving Breakfast for the Homeless in Downtown Orlando. This year we are excited to bring in NEMA House as a co-host and welcome in a new group of volunteers.

Please watch the welcome video from Rock For Hunger VP Greg

More information on the breakfast:
Volunteer and item signup sheet (Google Doc)
Time: Meet at 8am, breakfast at 8:15am
Parking and meeting: Parking lot on the corner of Washington and Magnolia
Food sharing: Downtown Orlando Post Office on the corner of Jefferson and Magnolia

For more information, please email Greg @ greg@rockforhunger.org. Please be as specific as possible in your inquiry.

We look forward to meeting new volunteers and seeing old ones on this holiday event. Have a Happy Thanksgiving Orlando!

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Orlando Shares Burritos For Hunger

This afternoon Ted Murphy hosted a really cool lunch event where anyone who brought 10 or more cans to Panchero's on Church St. he would buy them a burrito. Well a few hundred cans in, I'd call it a successful day.

Here is a quick video I shot with Ted about the impromptu event as well as a quick recap of the Thanksgiving Breakfast event coming up next Thursday.

More information on the Thanksgiving volunteer event.
When: Thursday, November 26th at 8am
Where: Downtown Orlando Post Office on the corner of Jefferson and Magnolia
What: Thanksgiving breakfast for our homeless friends. Come share some holiday spirit as we serve pancakes, bagels, oatmeal, fruit and more with over 150 of our homeless friends.

To get involved, please sign up here:
Google Doc Signup and Volunteer Sheet

For more information, shoot me an email to greg@rockforhunger.org

Thanks again Ted and the IZEA family and have a great weekend!

-Greg Rollett

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Burritos For The Homeless

This Friday, November 20th from noon till 1:30pm, Ted Murphy from IZEA will be at the downtown Pancheros on Church Street collecting canned foods to benefit Rock For Hunger.

Ted has been great to Rock For Hunger from auctioning off himself to building a cereal wall all to make a difference in his hometown.

Here are some of the details of the "Show Me Your Cans Initiative"

Every person that brings me 10 cans or more gets a free burrito on me. The person who brings me the most cans will win a $75 Pancheros gift card courtesy of my good friends at Pancheros. Second place gets a $25 Pancheros gift card. If you don’t do so already make sure you follow Pancheros on Twitter, they are good peeps and I appreciate them helping me out.

Let’s recap : You get a burrito. We feed the hungry. Everybody wins! Please help spread the word to your Orlando friends! It’s the season to give back.

So come on out and bring some canned food this Friday and show Orlando that we care about their future. Thanks to Ted and Pancheros for putting this on. In the spirit of having fun while giving, here is the cereal wall video from last Christmas.

-Greg

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