"Food From the Bar" Food Donation Drive

Texas Women Lawyers, along with the Travis County Women Lawyers Association, is working together to raise over $10,000 in donations of cash or food to benefit the Capital Area Food Bank. The need for emergency food assistance in Central Texas has grown 60 percent this year. The second annual "Food From the Bar" campaign will provide food for children during the summer months when no subsidized school lunches are offered.

Every dollar and can counts! The most needed nonperishable items are canned tuna, stew, and chili in pop-top containers; canned green beans and corn; pasta and pasta sauce; pinto beans and rice; healthy cereal; peanut butter; ready-to-eat baby formula, and baby food. In addition to the food drive, donations are appreciated. The Food Bank can provide 5 nutritious meals for every $1 received.

Through August 6, nonperishable items can be dropped off at the Austin Bar Association office, 816 Congress Ave., Suite 700; Castle Hill Fitness; and various law firms around town. Financial donations to the Capital Area Food Bank are tax-deductible and can be made online here.

For more information, please contact Susan Morrison at 441-1411 or e-mail susan_morrison@lawyer.com.

Participating law firms:
• The Fowler Law Firm (Susan Morrison)
• Brown McCarroll (Mary Evelyn McNamara)
• Vinson & Elkins (Lisa Hobbs)
• Graves Doughtery (Susan Burton)
• Jackson & Walker (Marilyn Montano)
• Gillman & Associates (Holly Gillman)
• Ogletree Deakins (Courtney Smith)
• Winstead (Zeena Angadicheril)
• Scott, Douglass & McConnico (Cindy Connolly)