According to The Great Harvest Chair Cydney Roberts
“Twenty-five years ago, a friend of Irving Cares hosted a barbeque in his back yard as a fundraiser for Irving Cares. The event was called Christmas in July. Everyone pitched in carrying tables, setting up chairs, cooking food. Proceeds topped $10,000.
“We’ve come a long way since then!
“The 25th anniversary of The Great Harvest — An Evening to Care — will take place on Friday, September 25, 2015, with doors opening at 7 p.m. at Irving Convention Center.
“This is the largest fundraiser of the year for Irving Cares with a goal of $300,000. We are pulling out all the stops for an exciting evening filled with fine food, friends, and fun! As Chair for this event, I would like to invite everyone to be a part of this historical evening as a sponsor and attendee. Visit www.irvingcares.org/The-Great-Harvest for more information and to purchase reservations and sponsorships.
“Irving Cares, in partnership with the Irving community, is dedicated to identifying and providing its residents with temporary assistance and training to promote self-sufficiency. For over fifty years, Irving Cares has provided various forms of assistance to resolve a household’s crisis and tools to promote stability and future self-sufficiency. The Irving Cares mantra is ‘a hand up, not a hand out.’ Irving Cares offers a combination of limited financial assistance for rent, utilities or prescriptions; case management; food assistance; and employment services. Last fiscal year, Irving Cares served a program-combined 13,726 people from 4,906 households.”
* Graphic courtesy of Irving Cares