This December, for the 37th year in a row, WESH 2 partnered with Second Harvest to rally our community together to help support our neighbors facing hunger in a huge way!
Every year, Share Your Christmas kicks off with an annual Giving Tuesday telethon. WESH 2 lends their air-time to Second Harvest for the full day, calling upon our community to make generous gifts to help feed more of our Central Florida neighbors. Thanks to an incredibly generous gift of $35,000 from Wells Fargo, $30,000 from Mullinax Ford, $10,000 from Dunkin’, and so many supportive members of our community donating, over $400,000 was raised in a single day – WOW!
The generosity didn’t stop there. The following week, WESH 2 was broadcasting live each morning in either Volusia, Brevard, Marion, Osceola, or Orange County, encouraging our neighbors to swing by and drop off food or funds to help those in our community who are facing hunger. An additional $87,600 and over 50,000 pounds of food were collected throughout the week of Share Your Christmas! Overall, the equivalent of over 2.5 million meals was raised to help children, families, and seniors in Central Florida this holiday season. Thank YOU to each and every one of you that contributed to making this happen.
On behalf of Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida and those we serve, we’d like to give a very special thank you to Mullinax Ford, Wells Fargo and Dunkin’ for their incredible Giving Tuesday Matches, and Dunkin’ for being the amazing Presenting Sponsor for Share Your Christmas. Not only did Dunkin’ provide 140,000 meals for our community, but they also provided fresh coffee and treats for all the volunteers working so hard to make Share Your Christmas a success! We’d also like to thank Daytona International Speedway, The Brevard Zoo, Starling Chevrolet Buick GMC, Deluca Toyota and especially everyone that volunteered, tuned in, gave us a call, visited a donation site, and donated to the cause!
We at Second Harvest Food Bank are so grateful to the team at WESH 2 for their tireless efforts to educate our community on the issue of hunger here in Central Florida and for inspiring everyone to share their Christmas. Thank you all for giving the gift of hope this holiday season!
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