Alliance Corporate Residents Unite to Support Tarrant Area Food Bank.Business Editors FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2000 The corporate residents of the 9,600-acre Alliance development in north Texas are joining together and employing technology to host the Alliance Corridor First Annual Silent Auction and Canned Food canned food food sterilized by heat in a closed, durable container such as tin and aluminum cans, flexible aluminum foil and thermoplastic containers including squeeze tubes. Technically, the processes used are highly efficient and used universally. Drive to benefit the Tarrant Area Food Bank The Tarrant Area Food Bank (NTFB) is a non-profit food bank located in Fort Worth, Texas. NTFB was established in 1982 to address the issue of hunger in the North Texas region, by securing surplus unmarketable but wholesome food and grocery products for distribution to area . Alliance is home to 90 companies, including 27 from the Fortune 500. The highlight of the summer food drive is the auction Web site -- www.allianceauctions.org. Participants in the auction can log onto the Web site to view the available items such as weekend getaways, airplane tickets, sporting events, merchandise and more. Early bidding begins online on May 15 and ends at noon on May 18. Final bids will be placed at the silent auction event on May 18 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Fort Worth Alliance Airport Fort Worth Alliance Airport (IATA: AFW, ICAO: KAFW) is located 14 miles (23 km) north of Fort Worth, Texas. Billed as the world's first purely industrial airport, it was developed in a joint venture between the City of Fort Worth, the Federal Aviation hangar at 2221 Alliance Boulevard. Alliance companies, including American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the , Kraft, Michaels, Nokia, Nolato, Perlos and Southwestern Bell
Southwestern Bell Telephone, L.P. , have donated items to the silent auction. In addition, many Alliance retail shops such as Hampton Inn & Suites, Hawthorn Suites Hawthorn Suites is a chain of hotels in the United States. Hawthorn Suites is among the key players in the midscale hotels category, according to CNN.com [1]. Most Hawthorn Suites offer amenities such as meeting rooms, exercise facilities, swimming pools, and a free hot , Manpower, Pro-Cuts, Remedy Staffing and Sonny Bryan's have donated products and services. The more than 16,000 employees and residents in the Alliance Corridor are invited to participate in the online bidding and final auction event. Pattie Verkamp, an administrative assistant for Alliance developer Hillwood Properties, is responsible for the unification of the Alliance companies in support of the Tarrant Area Food Bank. Her efforts, along with several other associates at Alliance, have gained increasing support throughout the community. She is responsible for soliciting the items in the auction, developing the Web site and encouraging participation in the auction and food drive throughout Alliance. "The response we have received within the Alliance Corridor is tremendous, particularly since it is a summer food drive," said Verkamp. "Support for food banks is generally given at the holidays, however many children that receive free or reduced-cost breakfast and lunches throughout the school year are at home without food during the summer. So not only are we helping fill their pantries, but we also are focusing on kid-friendly foods, like peanut butter and cans with pop-tops that are easily opened by small fingers." Both food and financial contributions will be given to the Tarrant Area Food Bank, a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. in Fort Worth that collects and distributes food to 280 hunger-relief organizations in 13 North Central Texas counties. Founded in 1982, the agency provides surplus foods to charities serving children, elderly, chronically ill and working poor. "Every dollar raised by the auction allows us to distribute $20 worth of food," said Olivia Eudaly, Director of Development with the Tarrant Area Food Bank. "We are excited to see the collective effort from the companies at Alliance to make the silent auction a success." Mike Berry
Hillwood (www.hillwood.com) is one step ahead of a changing world, using technology and innovation to create better places to live, work, learn and play. Among Hillwood's projects are the 9,600-acre Alliance development, the dynamic 75-acre Victory project that includes American Airlines Center For the arena in Miami, Florida, see . Current arenas in the National Basketball Association Western Conference Eastern Conference in downtown Dallas Downtown Dallas is the main business district in Dallas, Texas (USA), located in the geographic center of the city. The area officially termed "downtown" is bounded by the downtown freeway loop: bounded on the east by I-345 (although known and signed as the northern terminus of ; Circle T Ranch in Westlake, Texas; Heritage in north Fort Worth; prestigious golf courses in Houston, Los Angeles and Westlake, Texas; and residential communities in Dallas-Fort Worth, as well as on the Kohala Coast of Hawaii. |
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