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davis_squareThis Friday, the 15th, from 6 to 10 PM is Food For Free's sixth annual Party Under the Harvest Moon fundraiser at MIT's Morss Hall. Tickets are $50 online, $35 for students, and $60 day-of. I'm plugging it here because I think it's a cool event and a great cause, and because it has a lot of strong Davis-area ties.
Food For Free is a Cambridge-based "food rescue" organization. Their main schtick is picking up surplus food from grocery stores and farmer's markets and such (including the Davis Square market), and distributing it to food programs (including Somerville's Project Soup and Hearty Meals for All, and Porter Square's Helping Hands food pantry). This allows them to distribute huge quantities of fresh, healthy food (they expect to top a million pounds of food this year for the first time--that's 500 tons) at a cost of about 30ยข per pound.
In the economic downturn, their work has become more important than ever.
Party Under the Harvest Moon is Food For Free's only regular fundraising event. I've been a volunteer or guest every year, and have always had a great time. There's an open bar with beer and wine, delicious apps donated by lots of local restaurants (including Redbones, Dave's, Kickass, and Diesel), and live music.
There's about sixty silent auction items, including gift certificates to Christopher's, West Side Lounge, Cambridge Common, and Nomad, (to just mention ones in walking distance of Davis) with all the proceeds going to FFF.
Other inducements include the Car Talk guys, me in a necktie, and Morss Hall's epically bizarre allegorical mural, featuring Thomas Edison as played by a bleached Neo from the Matrix.
The Org
Food For Free is a Cambridge-based "food rescue" organization. Their main schtick is picking up surplus food from grocery stores and farmer's markets and such (including the Davis Square market), and distributing it to food programs (including Somerville's Project Soup and Hearty Meals for All, and Porter Square's Helping Hands food pantry). This allows them to distribute huge quantities of fresh, healthy food (they expect to top a million pounds of food this year for the first time--that's 500 tons) at a cost of about 30ยข per pound.
In the economic downturn, their work has become more important than ever.
The Party
Party Under the Harvest Moon is Food For Free's only regular fundraising event. I've been a volunteer or guest every year, and have always had a great time. There's an open bar with beer and wine, delicious apps donated by lots of local restaurants (including Redbones, Dave's, Kickass, and Diesel), and live music.
There's about sixty silent auction items, including gift certificates to Christopher's, West Side Lounge, Cambridge Common, and Nomad, (to just mention ones in walking distance of Davis) with all the proceeds going to FFF.
Other inducements include the Car Talk guys, me in a necktie, and Morss Hall's epically bizarre allegorical mural, featuring Thomas Edison as played by a bleached Neo from the Matrix.
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Date: 2010-10-13 10:21 pm (UTC)Sadly, we won't be local again until early December. A shame, that. The fundraiser sounds like a really great time.
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Date: 2010-10-14 05:46 pm (UTC)Aren't ticketed events with open bars illegal?
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Date: 2010-10-14 07:55 pm (UTC)In previous years, unserved food got taken to local shelters. I would guess that they're planning on doing the same this year.
Really I just be talking about my ass if I pronounced on where and when liquor can be served in Cambridge. It's not something I've ever had any occasion to study.
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Date: 2010-10-15 02:53 am (UTC)Hahaha! I did get a laugh when I read that - I assume it was meant in jest!
Thanks to OP for this heads up - I told some friends and a few of us plan to attend!