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Hunger Hurts We Can Help Julie S. Nack Locke, CMP HelmsBriscoe Associate Regional Vice President

Hunger Hurts We Can Help Julie S. Nack Locke, CMP HelmsBriscoe Associate Regional Vice President. Attendee Outcome. Bill Emerson Food Donation Act What can you do Negotiating F&B clauses. 2. What is happening now? . Planners – How many of you currently donate your surplus?.

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Hunger Hurts We Can Help Julie S. Nack Locke, CMP HelmsBriscoe Associate Regional Vice President

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  1. Hunger Hurts We Can Help Julie S. Nack Locke, CMP HelmsBriscoe Associate Regional Vice President

  2. Attendee Outcome • Bill Emerson Food Donation Act • What can you do • Negotiating F&B clauses 2

  3. What is happening now? • Planners – How many of you currently donate your surplus? • Suppliers – How many of your clients require you to donate their leftovers? • Hoteliers – How many currently donate food? 3

  4. Company Policy? • If you are a supplier or planner, how many of your companies have food donation policies that you know of? 4

  5. The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act • Who • What • Where • When • How • Why 5

  6. The ACT • Enacted by President Clinton , October 1, 1996 • Purpose: Encourage donation of food and grocery products to non-profit organizations for distribution to  individuals in need • This law: •   * Protects you from liability •   * Protects you from civil and criminal liability •   * Standardizes donor liability exposure •   * Sets a floor of "gross negligence" or intentional misconduct for persons who donate grocery products • * Gross negligence - voluntary and conscious conduct by a person with knowledge (at the time of conduct) that the conductis likely to be harmful to the health or well-being of another person 6

  7. What can you do locally • How you can help locally – • Become a donor: www.gbfb.org/program • or • call 617-427-5200 7

  8. Greater Boston Food Bank • Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) • Largest hunger-relief organization in New England • Among largest food banks in the country • Member of Feeding America 8

  9. Greater Boston Food Bank • Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) • Distributed almost 35 million pounds of food last year • Up to 545,000 people at risk of hunger 9

  10. How to Donate Out of State • Feeding America • http://feedingamerica.org • 800.771.2303 • Network of 200 member food banks across the country • Supply more than 3 billion pounds of food and grocery products annually 10

  11. FOOD LEFTOVERS Clause • COMPANY would like to donate all leftovers to local charity. The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act protects donors from liability when donating to a non-profit organization. It protects donors from civil and criminal liability should the product donated in good faith later cause harm to the needy recipient. It standardizes donor liability exposure. Donors and their legal counsel no longer have to investigate liability laws in 50 states. • www.ode.state.or.us/services/nutrition/nslp/2011/good_samaritan_act.pdf 11

  12. FOOD Donation Clause • FOOD DONATION • Should COMPANY not meet the minimum requirement for food and beverage, COMPANY will purchase food from the hotel in the amount of the unused food and beverage minimum and donate it to a local charity. • COMPANY shall take a tax deduction from the chosen food bank. 12

  13. Q&A Thank you Julie S. Nack Locke, CMP HelmsBriscoe Associate Regional Vice President

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