Sports Authority Helps Collect Items For Local Food Bank

Everyone thinks about hunger during the holidays, but few people realize that the most difficult time for struggling families and food banks is during the summer months when children who normally receive subsidized lunches are home from schools.

That’s why Lowy’s Moving Service and the Sports Authority of West Long Branch of the teamed up with Move For Hunger for the first ever Sports Authority Food Drive to benefit the needy families of Monmouth County this past weekend, June 9th. 

Sports Authority generously offered 20 percent off an entire purchase for any participant that donated 2 or more non-perishable food items to the drive. 

At the end of the weekend 391 pounds of food was collected for the Food Bank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties. That is enough food to provide 300 life-saving meals for local families struggling to find their next meal.

Lowy’s Moving Service of Neptune provided the necessary boxes and transportation for the donated items, saving the food bank from spending vital funding on trucks and fuel.

“Hunger is not on most people’s minds while they are relaxing on the beach,” says Adam Lowy, executive director of Move For Hunger.  “But the truth is that the summer holidays can be an extremely trying time for struggling families.  We are so grateful that the Sports Authority and our local partner, were able to work together to make a difference. ”

Lowy’s Moving Service is the local affiliate of Move For Hunger, a non-profit organization that works with relocation companies to fight hunger. As a partner of Move For Hunger, Lowy’s Moving Service offers to pick up any unwanted non-perishables from their clients during the moving process and delivers it directly to the local food bank, as well as provides support for area food drives and hunger relief events.