LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NorthStar Moving Corporation, the leading eco-luxury mover in California, has teamed up with Move for Hunger, a non-profit organization working with moving companies across the country to deliver food to local food banks, to launch the first annual “Holiday Food Drive: Let’s Send Hunger Packing!” in Los Angeles County to aid in feeding children and their families. The food drive kicks-off today at four Bristol Farms store locations across Los Angeles County and ends December 16, 2011.
More than 1.7 million in LA County are at risk of hunger every day, including 400,000 children. And, with unemployment remaining at 12 percent in LA County, the need for aid continues to increase, especially during this holiday season. By donating one food item during your holiday food shop you will be helping a family in need serve a warm meal on their holiday table.
“We are asking everyone to please join us in sending hunger packing! 400,000 children right here in Los Angeles County need our help,” said NorthStar Moving Corporation Co-Founder Laura McHolm. “We’ve moved the food drive right into the grocery stores to make giving to those children and their families simple. We are happy to put our moving trucks to critical use, delivering the food to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. Move for Hunger and Bristol Farms have been absolutely wonderful partners helping us lift this vision off the ground. Our constant mission is to move happiness home and today that is taking on the ultimate meaning as we move food to keep families fed. We need everyone to fill our trucks with food donations! We’ll keep the fleet delivering food as long as necessary.”
The participating Bristol Farms locations include Beverly West, Hollywood, Manhattan Beach and Westwood; all have generously agreed to donate space in each store for the collection bins. Bristol Farms customers will be provided with a list of the most-needed non-perishable food items. NorthStar Moving will then transport all of the donated items to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. Donations can also be dropped off at NorthStar Moving’s headquarters in Chatsworth, California, as well as online.
“We are so honored to be part of such a great effort put forth by NorthStar Moving for the Los Angeles community,” said Executive Director of Move for Hunger Adam Lowy. “The generous donations made by Bristol Farms’ customers will truly make a difference for the countless families desperate for help this time of year.”
NorthStar Moving has partnered with Move for Hunger for the past year, sharing the same passion for helping to improve the lives of those less fortunate. NorthStar Moving also works with the Clothes Off Our Back Foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles, Global Green and Habitat for Humanity.
About NorthStar Moving Corporation
Founded in 1994, Los Angeles-based NorthStar Moving Corporation has redefined the moving industry as the first to offer eco-luxury moving services, elevating basic moving and storage services to a new unparalleled level of customer service, customized care, and environmental consciousness. “A+” rated by the Better Business Bureau, voted Citysearch “Best Mover”, awarded the company with the most five star ratings on Trustlink, Signature Award winner for Best Use of Green Practices featured in The Robb Report Collection, recommended by The Franklin Report, MovingInsurance.com, Yelpers, and an impressive list of celebrity clientele, NorthStar Moving has proven the state-of-the-art way to move is with its red carpet service. In addition, NorthStar Moving’s corporate culture and growth continue to blaze a trail locally and nationally, ranked on the Inc. 5,000 list for the fastest growing companies in the U.S. for the fourth consecutive year, named one of the Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies for the second consecutive year and Top 75 Best Places to Work by the Los Angeles Business Journal, and one of the Top 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies for the fifth consecutive year and Top 20 Best Places to Work for the second consecutive year by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. The company's services include local, long distance, international, residential, and commercial moves, as well as full-service and mobile storage. NorthStar Moving Corporation’s mission is to exceed their clients’ expectations with graceful customer care and to move service back into what should have always been the ultimate service industry: the moving industry. For more information, please visit www.NorthStarMoving.com or call (800) Ask-Pros (800) 275-7767.
About Move for Hunger
Move for Hunger is a non-profit organization that works with moving companies across the country to pick up unwanted, unopened food from those who are relocating and deliver it to local food banks across the country. To date, Move for Hunger is working with over 200 movers in 36 states and has collected more than 365,000 pounds of food. With the support of its partners, Move for Hunger is turning the average food drive into one of the nation’s largest, year-round service programs. For more information or to find out how you can help support Move for Hunger, visit www.moveforhunger.com and make an online donation to help our hunger relief efforts.