Save the Date
Monday July 16, 2012
ROCK AND WRAP IT UP!
ANNUAL GOLF OUTING AND LADIES DAY

Join us for a day of fun on the court and on the course to help fight poverty at the Seawane Country Club, Hewlett Harbor NY.

LADIES DAY FEATURES: Tennis, Mah Jongg, Cards, Luncheon, Fashion Show. GOLF OUTING FEATURES: Lunch & Dinner, 18 holes of golf, Live & silent auction, Celebrities, Prizes & Giveaways, 18 HOLES OF GOLF.

April Rudin of the Rudin Group describes, in a January 3, 2012 piece in the Huffington Post, the work of RWU as the pragmatic philosophy of philanthropy.

Since 2009, the number of hungry Americans has grown by four million, according to a report from the Census Bureau. This startling statistic does not surprise us. Every day we are asked to help feed those newly in need. Our work has never been more important nor timely.

Supermodel Katya Zharkova was among the celebrities attending the First Annual Rock and Wrap It Up! Winter Benefit Party, held on December 18, 2011 at the home of VH1 founder Ed Bennett, with donations by Bauli and Venieros Bakery, Faustini Wines, Belvedere, Bulldog Gin, Drink Code Blue, Peroni, and NYX cosmetics. (Based on reporting by Kermichelle Leo of Guest of a Guest and Abby Kaish of RWU; photo courtesy of Steve Zak.)

The wildly popular Boardwalk Empire Season 2 has launched on HBO, and Rock and Wrap It Up! volunteers have watched it from the sidelines since March 2011 when filming began all around the New York / New Jersey area. For the second season, food prepared but not served has been recovered by agencies working with RWU.

Syd Mandelbaum was a Keynote Speaker for the Feeding America Conference on October 10, 2011 in Chicago. He spoke to over 400 people representing 150 Food Banks from across the US. Feeding America will encourage all of the Food Banks they work with to enroll in Hungerpedia.com.

RWU, through our Its a Wrap! program, has partnered with the new CBS television series Blue Bloods. Starring Tom Selleck, the hit show is filmed in New York City, and so far plentiful meals have gone out to a soup kitchen in Far Rockaway.

The Edmonton Oilers have donated nearly a thousand kilograms of food this season to their local food bank. Read Andrea Goss's article: Rock and Wrap It Up returns to Rexall