On the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on August 29th, 2006, Share Our Strength will be organizing Restaurants for Relief 2, presented by American Express, the organization’s second dine-out to benefit Gulf Coast recovery efforts. With support from the National Restaurant Association, Restaurant.com and the Food Network, participating restaurants will dedicate a portion of their proceeds to go toward Share Our Strength’s work to rebuild in areas affected by last year’s hurricanes. Even a year later, there is an enormous amount of work that needs to be completed to rebuild the lives and livelihoods of the thousands who lost so much. Every business, from four star restaurants to coffee shops can get involved in this exciting project by registering at www.strength.org. Registration is easy and the benefit for Share Our Strength’s Gulf Coast grantees is enormous.
For more than two decades, Share Our Strength has been a leader in the movement to end hunger and poverty in America and around the world. The organization’s role in rebuilding devastated areas after the 2005 hurricane season has offered essential help to schools, community kitchens, feeding programs, farmers’ markets and FEMA trailer parks. In addition, Share Our Strength has made sure that a portion of the funds raised have directly helped restaurants and hospitality workers whose lives were affected by last summer’s Gulf Coast hurricanes. Although less than half of the New Orleans metropolitan area restaurants have re-opened, Restaurants for Relief offers a message of hope and support from the entire American hospitality community to their colleagues in the Gulf Coast that the people and businesses in Louisiana and Mississippi are a national treasure that will be restored.
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