Let Us Eat – Please, INC. and Community Foodbank of New Jersey – Southern Branch Summer Feeding Program for Schoolchildren Continues

Pandemic Fundraising efforts raised dollars – and glasses – at Virtual Beer & Spirit Tasting

Let Us Eat – Please, Inc. presented a $40,000 check, the culmination of fundraising efforts throughout the pandemic, to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey – Southern Branch at a Virtual Beer & Spirit Tasting event at Little Water Distillery in Atlantic City, NJ. In the photo, L – R, are: Bob Sern, vice chairman of CFBNJ Advisory Board, Brendan Jerome, chairman of CFBNJ Advisory Board (11th Floor Creative Group), Marc Mugler, member of CFBNJ Advisory Board (OceanFirst Bank), Denise Hladun, Director External Affairs, CFBNJ, Donna Vecere, member of Let Us Eat – Please, Inc. Board (Cooper Levenson, Attorneys at Law), Kenneth J. Calemmo, Jr., Chairman, Let Us Eat – Please, Inc. (Chief Operating Officer, Cooper Levenson, Attorneys at Law).

Atlantic City, N.J. — A Virtual Beer & Spirit Tasting took the place of the 7 th annual Captain’s Table, a fundraising event that was postponed along with the Atlantic City Boat Show, the event’s home until the pandemic pause. The partner charities organized the fundraiser with the support of Cooper Levenson, Attorneys at Law, Little Water Distillery, Hidden Sands Brewing Company, Pinelands Brewing Company, Three 3’s Brewing, and 11 th Floor Creative Group. The virtual tasting gave participants the opportunity to sample unique spirits and craft beers at home while helping families who are food insecure. Let Us Eat – Please, Inc. presented a $40,000 check, the culmination of fundraising efforts conducted throughout the pandemic, to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey – Southern Branch to support their joint summer feeding program.

Kenneth J. Calemmo, Jr., Chief Operating Officer, Cooper Levenson and Chairman, Let Us Eat – Please, Inc. (LUEP), introduces the Virtual Beer & Spirit Tasting, a joint fundraising effort of LUEP and the Community FoodBank of New Jersey – Southern Branch, held at Little Water Distillery, Atlantic City, on May 4.
 

About Let Us Eat – Please, Inc. Let Us Eat – Please, Inc. was founded by the late James L. Cooper when he learned from his daughter, a teacher, about our New Jersey children who regularly attended school hungry. Cooper, who had already devoted much of his time advocating for community, civil rights, and philanthropic causes, formed ‘Let Us Eat – Please’ just after his 82nd birthday. Cooper Levenson, Attorneys at Law is grateful and pleased to be in a position to continue the work of ‘Let Us Eat – Please’ in memory and honor of its founding partner.

Mark Ganter of Little Water Distillery and Rob Shay of Pinelands Brewing taste and discuss the brewery’s Evan John Porter beer and the distillery’s batch #0002 of Bierbuddies, a spirit created to give a second life to the Out-of-Code or OOC beer that was sent to restaurants just before the pandemic and went unused because of the shut-down.
 

Starting with just one school district, the ‘Let Us Eat – Please’ program has expanded each year to include additional area districts. Every two weeks over the course of summer, families, identified by the school as needing assistance, receive a 30-pound box of groceries, valued at more than $40, at no cost to them.

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