Just heard from my friend Kathy Malone about a benefit the Brooklyn Indie Market is doing for St. John’s Bread and Life,the largest provider of emergency food services in this area. THey are one of the designated charities of the "Give Where You LIve Campaign."
Brooklyn Indie Market, a collective of fashion and product
designers based in Brooklyn, will donate 15- 20% of its proceeds from
sales (which will be doubled by a matching grant from Independence
Community Foundation) during the weekend of December 20th and 21st,
11-7pm. St. John’s Bread and Life is Brooklyn’s largest emergency food
provider. Members of the market gather to sell items each weekend at
Smith and Union Streets in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
The shopping event will be part of Bread and Life’s "Give Where You
Live Campaign," which seeks to involve the local Brooklyn community in
charitable programs. The organization provides meals to more than
1,500 people each day both at its location on Lexington Avenue in
Bedford Stuyvesant and via its Mobile Soup Kitchen which makes
deliveries throughout Brooklyn and Queens. In addition to sales at the
market, local designers, artists and merchants have donated prizes to
be raffled off during the December 20/21 weekend, including designer
clothing and accessories, art, dinners and bottles of wine. Donations
will help Bread and Life reduce poverty and hunger, which affects one
in five of every New Yorker.
Info about Brooklyn Indie Market
Brooklyn Indie Market is a collective of
fashion and product designers. Emerging Designers converge weekends
under the red and white striped tent on Smith & Union Street,
offering the public a first glimpse of the many new names in fashion
and product design. Visit Brooklyn Indie Market at www.brooklynindiemarket.com.
Info about St. John’s Bread and Life
Besides
serving more than 1,500 meals daily, Bread and Life also provides an
array of social services, including nutrition counseling, housing
referral services, medical support, education, support groups and a
legal clinic. You can learn more about St. John’s unique Digital Food
Pantry and other innovations by visiting Bread & Life online at www.breadandlife.org or calling a real person at 718-574-0058, ext 145 to speak with Dorothy Kellogg.