Ben and Louise Scott are the chairmen of Boca Grande’s Hope For Haitians Committee, which is currently fundraising to build its fourth village in Haiti with Food For The Poor. Related Item: View Photos from the Reception COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Feb. 25, 2014) – On Thursday, Feb. 20, Ben Scott addressed Boca Grande Committee members […]
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Chef Announces Dishes to Support Show House
South Florida designers are joining Bridget Conway, Principal of Lighthouse Interiors, in the design of a multi-million dollar Lighthouse Point waterfront home, Feb. 20-23, 2014. Proceeds will be used to build Food For The Poor homes in Haiti. For more information, go to foodforthepoor.org/showhouse. Related Item: See Photos of the Designer Show House COCONUT CREEK, […]
Food For The Poor Thanks its Donors for 32 Years of Love
Untitled Document This mother and her children in Guyana were provided a new home by generous Food For The Poor donors. Since the charity’s inception, more than 91,000 housing units have been built. Related Item: See Your Donations at Work COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Feb. 12, 2014) – On its 32nd anniversary of serving the poor, […]
Food For The Poor’s Building Hope Gala Builds Homes For Destitute Families in Ganthier, Haiti
NBC’s The Voice winner Tessanne Chin performs before a full house of more than 400 attendees at the Building Hope Gala. Related Items: Watch Tessanne’s Performance See Photos from the Gala COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Feb. 10, 2014) – Food For The Poor welcomed a full house of more than 400 guests to its annual Building […]
Food For The Poor’s 11th Annual Fine Wines & Hidden Treasures Gala Renovates and Expands School in Rural Jamaica
(L to R) Gala Co-Chair Arlette Gordon, National Honorary Chair Donald Trump and Gala Co-Chair Elizabeth Bowden. Photo credit: Alicia Donelan. Related Item: View Photos from the Gala Find out more about our projects COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Feb. 4, 2014) – Children living in rural Jamaica will get a new school thanks to the generous […]
Young Golfer Uses Skills on the Greens to Help the Poor
Rafe Cochran, 9, presented a $6,000 check to Food For The Poor’s CEO/President Robin Mahfood on Wednesday. Related Items: Support Rafe’s Project See More Photos of Rafe COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Jan. 29, 2014) – Rafe Cochran, 9, divides his time between his third-grade studies at Palm Beach Day Academy, in Palm Beach, Fla., and participating […]
NBC’s The Voice Winner Tessanne Chin Grateful to Lend Her Voice to Food For The Poor
Tessanne Chin is pictured holding the trophy she won for winning Season 5 of NBC’s The Voice. Related Item: Donate to Help Build Homes COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (January 28, 2014) –Tessanne Chin, winner of Season 5 of NBC’s The Voice, is sure to bring the audience to their feet at Food For The Poor’s annual […]
Families are Beginning to Live Again, Four Years after Haiti Quake
Christella, 14, who lives in Grand Boulage, Haiti, now has access to clean drinking water that’s being pumped from a well provided by Food For The Poor donors. Since the 2010 earthquake, Food For The Poor has installed 71 water filtration units that purify 710,000 gallons of water each day, and drilled 257 water wells. […]
Gift of Life-Saving Water Transforms Lives of Haiti’s School Children
Founders of the “Do Much Good” coalition (l to r) Steve Deace, Stephen Baldwin, Dani Johnson and Kevin McCullough, traveled to Haiti with Food For The Poor’s Radio Marketing department. Related Items: See More Photos on Facebook Help Families in Kadwa COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Jan. 9, 2014) – Hundreds of Haiti’s students, attending three schools […]
VOICE Star Tessanne Chin Lends Her Talents to Food For The Poor
Tessanne Chin Related Item: Reserve Your Gala Table See Tessanne’s Celebrity Champion Page COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Jan. 9, 2014) – The winner of Season 5 of NBC’s The Voice, Tessanne Chin, will sing at Food For The Poor’s Building Hope Gala, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014 at The Polo Club of Boca Raton. Tessanne will perform […]