Charitable and Philanthropic Activities
The union has a close relationship with Jerry Lewis and his annual Labor Day telethon and is invariably one of the groups showcased by the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Another yearly charitable event for the NALC is the one day food drive Stamp Out Hunger, which is the largest single day food collection in the United States. City & Rural Letter Carriers collect food from Americans as they deliver them their mail. Letter carriers also promote this event heavily.
Beginning in 1993, the NALC, Campbell Soup, Valpak, United Way of America, Feeding America, the AFL-CIO & cartoonist Bil Keane have partnered for the largest single day food collection in the nation. In 2010, the NRLCA became a full partner in the annual drive (though the NRLCA had participated in the drive from its inception), and the drive collected a record 77.1 million lbs. of non-perishable food for the needy from postal customers. That brought the total for the first eighteen years to over a billion pounds.
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Famous quotes containing the words charitable and, charitable and/or activities:
“She was so charitable and so pitous
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Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
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—James Boswell (1740–1795)
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—Henri Lefebvre (b. 1901)