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Facebook club's donations for Silicon Valley food bank: $10,000 and growing

By Lisa Fernandez
 

 

[email protected] Posted: 09/02/2009 02:21:00 PM PDT Updated: 09/02/2009 04:41:46 PM PDT
 

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activist and former Genentech biochemist, loved the idea, and she not only sent in the $93 that Ware had given her as a "thank you," but matched that amount herself. So did a Facebook friend. And another. And another. Kids have pitched in 93 cents. And since the story has been pushed out on Facebook's own site, others are donating what they can, too, even $9.30.

 

Hazard has since started the "93 Dollar Club" on Facebook, where people across the globe can easily read the story and comment on the good karma phenomenon. There are links on that page where people may donate to their own food banks close to them. And commenters say they are reading — and giving — from Iran, Israel, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Australia, Hungary, Sri Lanka and beyond.

"What's really exciting about this," Hazard said, "is feeding people in need and just being a little nicer. It's not about me."

Hazard and Ware plan to go to Second Harvest on Thursday to finally meet the people at the food bank in person, and drop off their generous check of about $4,000, to add to the $5,800 and growing already in the food bank's account.

Last year, the food bank distributed 34.6 million pounds of food to low-income people, serving about 176,000 people each month.