Honoring, recognizing, and congratulating Philabundance, the Greater Philadelphia Area's largest hunger relief organization, on the occasion of its 40th Anniversary.

Honoring, recognizing, and congratulating Philabundance, the Greater Philadelphia Area’s largest hunger relief organization, on the occasion of its 40th Anniversary. WHEREAS, Philabundance was founded and incorporated in March 1984 by Pamela Rainey Lawler as a food rescue organization with the simple belief that no one should go hungry while good food goes to waste, and was operated out of Pamela Rainey Lawler’s Subaru station wagon for the first year of its existence; and WHEREAS, Philabundance’s initial goal was to work with grocers, restaurateurs, bakers, and other food merchants to salvage healthy, nutritious food that was thrown away, but quickly took on the broader mission of driving hunger from communities throughout our region. Today, Philabundance aims to relieve hunger now while working to end hunger for good; and WHEREAS, Philabundance has expanded since its foundation to include warehouse locations in South Philadelphia, North Philadelphia, and Roxborough, providing hunger relief services throughout the City as well as to 8 surrounding counties, including: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties in Pennsylvania, and Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Salem Counties in New Jersey; and WHEREAS, Philabundance stepped up to meet the unprecedented community need for food assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, doubling the amount of food distributed from nearly 25 million in 2019 to more than 50 million in 2020, and continuing to serve at this level into 20…