Right now, YOU have a unique opportunity to triple the impact of your generosity towards seniors in our community! Earlier this month, The Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation presented a $350,000 challenge match to support Harry Chapin Food Bank’s Care and Share Senior Feeding Program. Adding to this incredible opportunity, Erik and Diane Hoffer of the Hoffer Family Foundation have provided an additional $15,000 challenge grant exclusively for our neighbors in Charlotte County.

Your gift today will be matched dollar for dollar, by the Hoffer Family Foundation–up to $15,000–and will also amplify the Schulze Family Foundation’s generous match, effectively TRIPLING the impact of your gift for the thousands of seniors enrolled in the program.

What is the Care and Share Senior Feeding Program at Harry Chapin Food Bank? It’s a transformative program that has greatly helped a vulnerable and often overlooked segment of our community. The program was launched six years ago to help serve seniors in Southwest Florida. One in twelve seniors struggles with food insecurity, meaning they do not always know where their next meal will come from. Even after meticulous planning for retirement, many seniors are going without food.

Harry Chapin Food Bank has been leading our community in the fight to end hunger for 40 years. Through the generosity of people like you, we can provide our neighbors with nutritious meals. Last year, a total of 4.9 million pounds of food, the equivalent of more than 4 million meals, went to people who are hungry in Charlotte County. Through 9 partner agencies and mobile distribution sites, Harry Chapin Food Bank prepared 4,918 Care & Share kits, which provided more than 151,000 meals.

We invite you to leverage this extraordinary opportunity to make your gift go three times as far. Join us in ensuring that no senior in our community goes hungry. Your support can transform lives, providing not just meals but hope and dignity to our neighbors who are hungry. Please make your gift online today or mail your check to Harry Chapin Food Bank, Hoffer Family Challenge, 3760 Fowler Street, Fort Myers, FL 33901.

Your contribution empowers us to reach more hearts, alleviate more hunger, and brings us closer to a community where no senior faces hunger.