Citymeals-on-Wheels 24th Power Lunch for Woman
Held at the Pierre Hotel, NYC.
Citymeals-on-Wheels raises private funds to ensure no homebound elderly New
Yorker will ever go a day without food or human company. Last year, our
family of contributors helped us bring over 2 million nutritious meals to
16,232 frail aged in every borough of New York City. In addition, over 1,500
volunteers collectively spent 62,000 hours visiting and delivering meals to
New York’s frail aged.
One hundred percent of all public donations go to the preparation and
delivery of meals.
Citymeals funds 30 community-based agencies that bring weekend, holiday and
emergency meals to homebound elderly New Yorkers who can no longer shop or
cook for themselves.
Gael Greene and James Beard founded Citymeals-on-Wheels in 1981 after
reading a newspaper article about homebound elderly New Yorkers with nothing
to eat on weekends and holidays. They rallied their friends in the
restaurant community raising private funds as a supplement to the
government-funded weekday meal delivery program. Twenty-nine years ago their
first efforts brought a Christmas meal to 6,000 frail aged.
During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2010, Citymeals-on-Wheels delivered 2
million meals to over 16,000 New Yorkers at times when they would otherwise
have been alone & hungry.
