USAA steps up with $1 million donation to Food Bank via TV stations’ campaign
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Volunteers from USAA pack boxes of food for seniors Friday November 3, 2017 at the San Antonio Food Bank. Food banks across the country say they welcome the upcoming influx of food the USDA is buying to make up for export markets lost to trade war tariffs but aren’t prepared logistically to handle it.
Volunteers from USAA pack boxes of food for seniors Friday November 3, 2017 at the San Antonio Food Bank. Food banks across the country say they welcome the upcoming influx of food the USDA is buying to make up
Photo: John Davenport /San Antonio Express-News
Volunteers from USAA pack boxes of food for seniors Friday November 3, 2017 at the San Antonio Food Bank. Food banks across the country say they welcome the upcoming influx of food the USDA is buying to make up for export markets lost to trade war tariffs but aren’t prepared logistically to handle it.
Volunteers from USAA pack boxes of food for seniors Friday November 3, 2017 at the San Antonio Food Bank. Food banks across the country say they welcome the upcoming influx of food the USDA is buying to make up
Photo: John Davenport /San Antonio Express-News
SAN ANTONIO – USAA on Wednesday donated $1 million to the San Antonio Food Bank through WOAI- TV’s and KABB Fox 29’s “Feeding San Antonio” campaign.
“We have historically supported the food bank because we know it’s an important mission here in San Antonio,” USAA CEO Wayne Peacock told KABB. “During this time of the pandemic, we have a health crisis, but we have financial crisis going on here as well. It’s so clear to us that many in San Antonio are hurting and need that type of service, and it’s the basics of having enough food on your table every day.”
The donation comes just days after the Food Bank learned it would be receiving only $2.9 million in FEMA funding in a deal brokered by the Texas Division of Emergency Management and Feeding Texas, a coalition of 21 food banks from across the sate.
Local businessman and philanthropist and Harvey Najim heads a list of donors that kicked off the “Feeding San Antonio” initiative with a $2 million challenge to the community.
The list of donors joining Najim include Carlos and Malu Alvarrz, Lacie and Joe Gorder, Gordon Hartman, the Kronkosky Charitable Fund, the Mays Family Foundation, Nu Star Energy and the Greehey Family Foundation and the Whitacre Family Foundation.
The campaign continues Thursday night. Donations can be made to virtual phone banks by calling 210-610-6590 during the stations’ evening news broadcastsand by accessing FeedingSA.org.
The first 1,000 telethon donors Thursday will receive a free No. 1 Whataburger meal.
