New Albany Cooking with Friends feels strongly about giving back to our community. We are proud to say that proceeds from sales and sponsorships of A Signature Collection will benefit the organizations listed below.
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Mid-Ohio FoodBank is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to feeding hungry people by providing food and grocery products for distribution in the Ohio counties they serve, and increasing awareness about hunger in our community.
Since 1980, Mid-Ohio FoodBank has provided more than 330 million pounds of food and other grocery products for hungry people in our community. Mid-Ohio FoodBank keeps the food shelves stocked for a network of more than 520 emergency food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, senior dining centers, day care and after-school enrichment programs. For more information visit http://www.midohiofoodbank.org/
New Albany’s Safety Town was established in 2004. The program is a joint effort between the New Albany Police Department, Plain Township Fire Department, and the Plain Local School District. Sponsors, including individuals, community organizations, and corporations, were instrumental in its creation and continued success.
The two-week Safety Town classes focus on safety topics including stranger danger, fire safety and escaping a house during a fire, water safety, school bus safety, animal safety, and poison prevention. In the first two years over 450 children attended and the feedback received from parents and children who graduated from the program has been excellent.
Building on that success, an initiative to build a permanent site for New Albany’s Safety Town started in the fall of 2005. The permanent Safety Town site will be located across from the New Albany K-1 Elementary School. Police Chief Mark Chaney," We believe the planned permanent Safety Town and Adventure Playground will provide Safety Town students and the community at large with a unique year-round playground that is both fun and educational and is unrivaled in the central Ohio area." For more information please visit http://www.newalbanysafetytown.org
New Albany Special Connections is a nonprofit organization founded in 2002 with a simple but ambitious mission - to better serve children with special needs through education, resources and support. By strengthening the links between home, school and community, New Albany Special Connections is working to improve the lives of children with special needs and their families.
Created by parents of children with special needs, New Albany Special Connections strives to build positive, productive and collaborative partnerships among families, educators of the New Albany-Plain Local School District, and the greater New Albany community. Through these partnerships, New Albany Special Connections offers a wide range of innovative programs and services. The organization researches best practices and progressive models for education, socialization, and extracurricular activities.
New Albany Special Connections is fulfilling its mission by providing educational programs for parents and professionals featuring local and national experts, publishing a resource guide, developing children’s programs in the arts, and advancing socialization for children with special needs through creative programs such as peer buddies. Complete information can be found by visiting www.naspecialconnections.org
