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The Macy's Culinary Council Tour
October 22-November 13, 2008

Join us for events of culinary inspiration in 12 cities across the country! Meet Macy's Culinary Council chefs as they demonstrate their favorite recipes and offer special cooking tips and techniques. Visit Macy's Culinary Council for information on events near you.

• Serves over 25 million Americans, distributing more than 2 billion pounds of food each year.

• Serves all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

• It's a network of more than 200 food banks and food rescue organizations.

• The network supports approximately 63,000 local charitable agencies which operate more than 70,000 programs, including food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, after-school programs, Kids Cafes, Community Kitchens and BackPack Programs.

To find out where Feeding America™ helps near you and how you can help, visit feedingamerica.org.

Macy's "Partners in Time" employee volunteers gave more than 1.5 million hours of service—valued at $25 million— to charities around the country since the program was founded in 1989.

In its 150-year history, Macy's has had very close ties to the cities it calls home. Collectively, contributions from the company and the Macy's Foundation, as well as employee contributions through workplace giving campaigns and customer contributions through our signature giving programs, totaled more than $78.4 million last year.

Learn more about Macy's community support.

Philadelphia, November 1

Chef Dave Lieberman and Macy's volunteers will prepare meals for a hunger-relief charity, in partnership with Philadelphia Cares.

Atlanta, November 14

Chef Tyler Florence and Macy's volunteers will prepare and serve meals for the Open Hand food delivery charity.

San Francisco, November 26

Chef Andrea Robinson and Macy's volunteers will prepare and serve meals with Glide Memorial Church in partnership with the San Francisco Food Bank. Macy's volunteers will also distribute holiday meals with the San Francisco Food Bank at local pantries.

Miami, November 26

Drawing on a Macy's Culinary Council Chef recipe, Macy's volunteers will prepare and serve meals for Community Partnership for Homeless.

• There are 12.6 million children living in food insecure households.

• One in four people in a soup kitchen line are children under 18 years of age.

• Thirty-six percent of households served by Feeding America's network include at least one employed adult.

• Thirty-two percent of clients served by Feeding America's network report having to choose between paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel.

• One in eight Americans is classified as food insecure (2006, USDA).

Learn more about hunger and how you can help at feedingamerica.org.

Macy's "Million Meals" grant will fund Feeding America™ to provide at least 1 million meals through its affiliates nationwide.

Beginning in 1998, Macy's volunteers made a pledge to "Bag Hunger," collecting food and donations totaling 40.3 million pounds, providing 62 million meals, to local charities nationwide—many of which are affiliates of Feeding America™.

"We are deeply grateful to Macy's for continued commitment to fight child hunger," said Vicki Escarra, president and CEO of Feeding America™. "To our knowledge they implement the largest employee food drive in the United States."