Rock & Wrap It Up

We are very committed to our community and are attempting to do our part in combating hunger and homelessness in our city. All of us at Verizon Center and our partners from Aramark and Levy Restaurants enjoy a great relationship with the D.C. Central Kitchen. They do great work and it’s rewarding for us to join forces with them. Here’s a nice article at WUSA9.com that looks at our food donation program.

What NOT to Do This Holiday Season

Here are 9 extravagant holiday gifts courtesy of CNN.com from the “needless markup” catalog. What an interesting and decadent list.

Have these folks lost touch or what? We have increasing hunger and homelessness issues in our country. Unemployment is at 10 percent. Foreclosures are up and this retailer wants us to buy cupcake cars?

Once again this holiday season, my family will be making a donation to the DC Central Kitchen in the name of my friends and business partners. We would rather feed the poor and hungry and try to help fellow citizens in downtown DC than look like a goofball wearing a psychedelic hat driving 7 miles an hour down our sidewalk. Are you kidding me?

Here is info on DC Central Kitchen. Be inspired. Help them to help others!

D.C. Central Kitchen – We Support You This Holiday Season

As noted a couple of weeks ago, my family and I decided to NOT exchange gifts with one another this holiday season and to NOT give some of our partners and friends gift baskets or little trinkets as holiday presents. Instead we decided to make a gift in their names to the D.C. Central Kitchen, an anti-hunger initiative that is doing truly great work here in Washington, DC.  Click here to learn more about them. And don’t be shy about helping them as well this holiday season. Rather than being a consumerist, help the neediest in our city and your neighbors here in DC during the holidays.

That is my suggestion to everyone. At times like this, the neediest need help the most!