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February 13, 2009Dear Managing Partner:Re: 3
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ANNUAL STATEWIDE LEGAL FOOD FRENZYPLEASE FORWARD THIS TO YOUR PROGRAM COORDINATOR
I am proud to say that last year’s
2nd Annual Statewide Legal Food Frenzy
 
was a record settingsuccess, raising
1,366,401 pounds
 
of food in cash and food donations for Virginia’s food banks
,more than doubling the amount raised during the 2007 inaugural event. Former Attorney GeneralBob McDonnell and the Virginia Bar Association would like to challenge the legal community insouthwestern Virginia and across the Commonwealth to raise the bar again this year for the hungrychildren, elderly and working poor. The
3rd Annual Statewide Legal Food Frenzy
, benefiting theSouthwestern Virginia Second Harvest Food Bank and the Federation of Virginia Food Banks, willtake place from
March 30 through April 10, 2009
. Our goal is to get every law firm and legal officein the Commonwealth to participate in this event! In order to reach this goal, obviously we will need
your help. Therefore, we ask that you participate in this year’s event.
 In 2008 the 28 participating law firms in southwestern Virginia collected
$14,607.24
and
2,338pounds
of food for the Southwestern Virginia Second Harvest Food Bank. That was nearly
double
what was collected the previous year!
With the Food Bank’s ability to provide $6.00 of food for every
$1.00 donated you can see that the donations received in 2008 had a long and lasting impact on thehungry in our region. What an exciting three weeks it was for the SWVA Second Harvest Food Bankas law firms in this region poured out their hearts for the hungry. When all was said and done, theparticipating firms in 2008 provided more than 59,000 meals for the hungry men, women and children
struggling throughout the Food Bank’s 26 county service territory. Last year the Food Bank
distributed more than 11.3 million pounds of food through a network of 350 partner agency feedingprograms, serving approximately 100,000 individuals every month, but the Food Bank cannot do itwithout the help of community supporters like your Law Firm.
Please register for this year’s Lega
l Food Frenzy and join us for a Kick-Off Luncheon that willbe held on March 25
th
at the Food Bank, 1025 Electric Road, Salem, VA
 
24153.Please let us know by Friday, March 13, 2009
, if you will be participating in the
3rd AnnualStatewide Legal Food Frenzy
by either faxing the enclosed registration form or by emailing theinformation on the form to Emily Minter, local Food Bank coordinator, at
eminter@swvafoodbank.org
.Emily can also be reached by telephone at (540) 342-3011 ext. 28.We challenge YOU to join your colleagues in this humanitarian effort and make the
3rd AnnualStatewide Legal Food Frenzy
even more successful than last year’s event!
 Sincerely, Sincerely,
 
Tara Branscomb, Co-Chair Lori Thompson, Co-ChairVBA/YLD Legal Food Frenzy VBA/YLD Legal Food FrenzySouthwestern Virginia Region Southwestern Virginia RegionLeClair Ryan LeClair Ryan
 
 
3rd Annual Statewide Legal Food Frenzy 
Registration Form
Firm Name: ___________________________Contact: ___________________________ Address: ___________________________ ___________________________Telephone: ___________________________E-Mail Address:
(required)
 _____________________Number of Employees in firm _______________
Upon receipt of the registration form, you will be sent acomplete packet of information pertaining to the event.
Please fax this form to Emily Minter,Southwestern Virginia Second Harvest Food Bank,(540) 342-0056 by March 13, 2009 
 
 
 
3rd Annual Statewide Legal Food Frenzy
RULES
The following explains the rules for counting non-perishable food and case contributions to the Legal Food Frenzy for the Southwestern Virginia Second Harvest Food BankThe contest runs from March 30
 –
April 10, 2009. You may not count any money or food collected after April11th. All food and funds must be received by 4:30 April 17
th
.
Each dollar 
contributed will count as
four pounds
of food.Checks should be made payable to: SWVA Second Harvest Food BankContributions of money are tax-deductible and are very welcome. Please note, if you are contributing cash,please include a receipt with the contributors name, address and amount of donation.You may donate online by going to our website, www.swvafoodbank.org
and click the “donate now” button.
When entering your gift, you
must 
include the law firm name and reference Legal Food Frenzy in the
“designation.”
 Food items will be weighed at the Food Bank and the results tabulated in pounds.Candy will not be counted.When counting the number of employees, count each person working at the firm, regardless of position.Please do not contribute food items in glass containers
 –
they have a high risk of breakage.Please do not open items that are already packed in cases, cartons, or boxes. This will make it easier for theFood Bank to pick up.It is very important that you tell the Food Bank the approximate amount of food you have collected in order for our transportation department to prepare properly.If your firm only has a monetary contribution, this needs to be communicated at the time your pick-up date isassigned so the Food Bank is aware of what form of vehicle to send to your firm. All food and fund donations must be turned into the Southwestern Virginia Second Harvest Food Bank in order to be counted towards the competition.
If a firm delivers all food and monetary contributions to the Southwestern Virginia Second Harvest Food Bank at 1025 Electric Rd., Salem, VA 24154 your firm will receive a 25% bonus of tabulated  pounds! 
 
Law firms with multiple office locations will compete as a single entity for Attorney General awards.
 Fill out the pick-up information form by April 10
th
, and return by fax to Emily Minter, at (540) 342-0056
THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK!
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