Mercer Street Friends Food Bank received funding to assist Hurricane Sandy victim.
Bloomberg LP donated $25,000. Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation and the Robert Wood Foundation donated $10,000 each to Mercer Street Friends.
Food Bank director Phyllis Stoolmacher said Mercer Street Friends plans to use the money to link food and other resources to people impacted by the hurricane.
“The gift from Bloomberg and the grants from the Bonner Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have enabled the Food Bank to fill a big need for food among households who temporarily or permanently lost jobs as a result of the storm,” Stoolmacher said.
The food bank is the largest source of government and privately donated food for hunger relief programs in Mercer County. In 2012, Mercer Street Friends supplied 2.5 million pounds of food and groceries to a network of 60 food panties, soup kitchens, shelters and meal programs and helped to feed over 25,000 children and adults facing food hardships.
