{"id":734,"date":"2013-11-14T18:24:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T18:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraniumhomes.com\/blog\/?p=734"},"modified":"2014-01-14T18:24:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T18:24:31","slug":"food-bank-gets-help-from-geranium-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/food-bank-gets-help-from-geranium-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Geranium Food Drive Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/FoodBank2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-737\" alt=\"Geranium Homes Food Bank Donation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/FoodBank2.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/FoodBank2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/FoodBank2-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a>Every year Geranium Homes aims a little higher in their goal for collecting food and donations to support the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsfoodbank.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whitchurch-Stouffville Food Bank<\/a> and they&#8217;re never disappointed. They started in 2009 with many truckloads of non-perishable food items and a cheque presentation of $2,450. This year Geranium\u2019s President Boaz Feiner presented a cheque in the amount of $10,630! This represents the combined total of funds from Geranium\u2019s donation of $50 per home sold at Cardinal Point in the past year as well as contributions including $2,000 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameshardie.ca\/ontario\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Hardie Building Products<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to homeowners, staff, suppliers and trades people of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/communities\/stouffville\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Neighbourhoods of Cardinal Point <\/a>the Food Bank was once again the recipient of a major September food drive. A special thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scsconsultinggroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SCS Consulting Group<\/a> for arranging the collection of food items from the trades and suppliers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_736\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lendingahand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-736\" class=\"size-full wp-image-736\" alt=\"Geranium Homes lending a hand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lendingahand.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lendingahand.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lendingahand-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lendingahand-192x128.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everyone chipped in to make it a success!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On hand to receive the cheque, Marion Wells, Executive Director of the Food Bank said \u201cFrom the bottom of our hearts, we thank everyone who contributes along with Geranium to give us such a huge boost each year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_738\" style=\"width: 677px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Organizers2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-738\" class=\"size-full wp-image-738\" alt=\"Geranium Home donating to the Food Bank\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Organizers2.jpg\" width=\"667\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Organizers2.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Organizers2-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geranium\u2019s President Boaz Feiner with Food Bank organizers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Whitchurch-Stouffville <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townofws.com\/mayors_office.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Wayne Emmerson <\/a>added that every dollar donated is actually the equivalent of three-dollars in the hands of the organizers of the food bank who are able to use the money to purchase fresh meat, eggs, bread, cheese and other items to supplement the non-perishable goods. \u201cGeranium\u2019s leadership means so much to this volunteer organization. I am very appreciative of their contribution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Over 5 years, the total of money donated is a whopping <strong>$32,211<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_741\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/funphoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-741\" class=\"size-full wp-image-741\" alt=\"Gernanium Homes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/funphoto.jpg\" width=\"665\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/funphoto.jpg 665w, https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/funphoto-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boaz Feiner having some fun with the Mayor of Stouffville<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When it comes to fundraising events, Geranium Homes is no novice. Along with Stouffville&#8217;s Annual Food Drive, Geranium Homes participates in, among other things, Habitat for Humanity Fundraising, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/your-builder\/coby-builds-a-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coby Builds A House<\/a> for charities including SickKids, local events and up next? A new mitten campaign to help various shelters and support our athletes. Watch for details coming soon!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_742\" style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mitten-Christmas-Snowman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-742\" class=\"size-full wp-image-742\" alt=\"Geranium Homes mitten campaign\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mitten-Christmas-Snowman.jpg\" width=\"418\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mitten-Christmas-Snowman.jpg 418w, https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mitten-Christmas-Snowman-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new mitten fundraising campaign coming soon<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year Geranium Homes aims a little higher in their goal for collecting food and donations to support the Whitchurch-Stouffville Food Bank and they&#8217;re never disappointed. This year Geranium presented a cheque in the amount of $10,630 along with <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/food-bank-gets-help-from-geranium-homes\/\">READ MORE ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,38],"tags":[85,42,44,63,578,86],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-geranium","category-community","category-stouffville","tag-cardinal-point","tag-charity","tag-food-bank","tag-new-homes","tag-stouffville","tag-whitchurch-stouffville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geranium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}