Amen to ActionAims to Pack Over One Million Meals for Pittsburgh Area Hungry Again This YearOn Black Friday, a day that normally focuses on shopping, Amen to Action will, for the third consecutive year, break away from consumerism and instead focus on what really matters during the holiday season: giving back.
Amen to Action, an annual meal-packing event held on the day after Thanksgiving, will again partner with Meals of Hope and the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank to host thousands of volunteersat the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. The goal is to exceed the past two years and packwell overone million meals for Pittsburgh’s hungry and less fortunate. The same event last year surpassed the million-mealmark at 1,036,111meals.
“Going on our third year, we hope to break our record yet again and pack the most meals to date,” said Reid Carpenter, founder of Leadership Foundations Inc. “It means the world to us to be able to impact the lives of so many in just one day.”
In 2017, Amen to Action was startedbyCarpenter, whenhe brought together his own network of local leaders, including Steve Popper, CEO and President of Meals of Hope. Carpenter’s vision of bringing together families who are celebrating the holidays to pack meals for the hungry, is expected to grow even more this year.“
Amen to Action is about coming together to give back to others, and we are beyond grateful for all of the volunteers that continue to help make this event a success,” Popper explained, reflecting on last year’s experience.
Amen to Action invites the community of Pittsburgh to register and/or donate to the thirdannual event taking place on Friday, November 29at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
For more details on how to volunteer anddonate to Amen to Action,visit https://www.amentoaction.org, for Meals of Hope, visit https://mealsofhope.org/, and for Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, visit https://www.pittsburghfoodbank.org/.