Palermo’s Pizza recently partnered with the Hunger Task Force to expand its Easter Basket for the Hungry program by more than 50 percent.
Palermo’s employees and volunteers helped assemble and provide Easter baskets of food to 1,500 local families who could not otherwise enjoy a traditional holiday meal.
This year’s initiative, benefitted 50 percent more families than last year’s program and took place inside the Wisconsin Products Pavilion at Wisconsin State Fair Park.
The program outgrew its previous location at the Hunger Task Force warehouse.
Each Easter basket will contain 40 pounds of food – a week’s worth of family dinners – including holiday favorites such as ham, potatoes and corn. The fifth annual program will mark Palermo’s total donation of approximately 180,000 pounds of food to community families since 2008.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and County Executive Chris Abele were on hand to help volunteers celebrate Palermo’s annual charitable tradition.
