Sweetbay Supermarkets and local churches will donate to Harry Chapin Food Bank

Oct 14, 2009 2 min read

Southwest Florida churches and Sweetbay Supermarkets are teaming up on Sunday, November 15, to help stock the Harry Chapin Food Bank warehouse with food. Sweetbay’s Share the Harvest event encourages church members to go to Sweetbay and donate food needed by the food bank.

Fourteen Sweetbay Supermarket stores from Naples to Sarasota will stock their shelves with additional quantities of the most-needed items to prepare for the one-day event. Trucks and drivers from Harry Chapin Food Bank will deliver the food collected from all the Sweetbay store locations to the warehouse. Sweetbay Supermarket will also contribute an additional five percent more than the value of products donated.

People of all denominations are encouraged to participate in the Nov. 15 one-day effort to Share the Harvest by donating foods from the list posted in any Sweetbay Supermarket or purchasing gift cards and donating them to Harry Chapin Food Bank. More than twenty churches are involved in Share the Harvest and include:

First Baptist Church of Bonita Springs

Our Lady of Lourdes, Venice

First Baptist Church of Lehigh

St. Francis Xavier, Fort Myers

Faith Lutheran Church of Punta Gorda

Church on the Rock, Fort Myers

Gulf Coast Church of Christ

North Naples United Methodist

Cross Way Baptist, Fort Myers

St. Francis of Assisi, Englewood

Vineyard Community Church of Cape Coral

First Baptist Church of Estero

First Baptist Church/Golden Gate

St. John the Evangelist Church, Naples

Cornerstone United Methodist, Naples

Unity Church of Naples

Estero Methodist Church

The Harry Chapin Food Bank, through its more than 160 participating agencies, feeds more than 20,000 people a month, up from 12,000 just two years ago. In the past fiscal year, The Harry Chapin Food Bank distributed more than six million pounds of food and other grocery products.

Sweetbay Supermarket was launched in November 2004 and is headquartered in Tampa. There are 103 stores in Florida. Visit sweetbaysupermarket.com for a complete listing of store locations and participating churches.

Additional information about or to contribute financially to the Harry Chapin Food Bank, contact 239-334-7007 or go to harrychapinfoodbank.org.