Spartan Serve Week - Food and Clothing Drive

Project Description

Kick-off Spartan Serve Week, by helping the Milwaukee Spartans support Milwaukee County by donating to the Clothes and Food Drive.  When and what is Spartan Serve Week? The first Spartans Serve Week will be Sept. 17-25, 2022. Spartans Serve is a year-round effort designed to show the world the impact Spartans can make through community service.

Three Ways You Can Donate:

1. Attend the Milwaukee Spartans Gamewatch vs. Washington on September 17th at 1st and Bowl - 2969 N 114th St, Wauwatosa, WI 53222 - Details of the watch to be provided via social media

2. Drop off clothes and food at any point during regular business hours for 1st and Bowl between September 17th - September 25th

3. If you can't make it that week or aren't in the Milwaukee area, you can still donate money and the alumni board will purchase canned goods.  Donate via Venmo to @Wisconsin-Spartans-1 and just leave a note referencing the reason for your donation.

Go Green!

Community Partner - Feeding America - Eastern Wisconsin

About Feeding America - Eastern Wisconsin

Since 1982, Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin has been helping our neighbors in need. As we celebrate 40 years as a food bank, we are honoring our past and inspiring our future. From our humble beginnings of a first donation of 600 pounds of apples to distributing more than 53 million pounds of food in a year during the pandemic, we are helping those who face hunger move forward. Over 40 years ago, Dr. Milton J. Huber, a professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, saw a problem and sought the Rotary Club for help. He noticed that overproduction and the overstocking of multidepartment supermarkets in order to meet consumer expectations led to a rapid increase in wasted food.

Huber suggested to Rotarians Price Davis and Art Riemer that the Milwaukee Rotary Club would be the perfect group to spearhead a food banking system to save surplus food and deliver it to people facing hunger in their city. A local grower provided their first donation — 600 pounds of apples. Those apples laid the foundation for what has led to years of hunger relief work, reaching far beyond neighborhoods in Milwaukee.

Today, Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin is the leading local hunger-relief organization in the state. The organization operates food banks in Milwaukee and Appleton and receives food from retailers, wholesalers, farmers and donors. The food is transported, sorted and stored at each campus before it is distributed to nearly 400 pantries and meal programs across 35 eastern Wisconsin counties.

During the pandemic, protecting people’s livelihood has become more crucial than ever. Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin continues to remove barriers between people and food. For example, our outreach specialists connect food-insecure folks with FoodShare and other vital resources they need to keep their families fed and healthy.

Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin also looks at the bigger picture of hunger, investing in advocacy and policy efforts. Educating lawmakers to support legislative solutions to end hunger is a critical part of our work. It’s important to also educate the public on the reality of hunger — anyone can experience it. We are all one diagnosis, job layoff or car accident away from needing a little extra help. Through our network of retailers, donors, volunteers, food pantries and people just like you, food has been getting into the hands of people who need it for nearly 40 years. That is why Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin believes that together, we can solve hunger.