Using proceeds and donations, Urban Foods Catering was able to feed families over the holiday.
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Jeff Reitz and the team at Urban Foods Catering | 3:43 pm, Jan. 6, 2021 ×
Urban Foods Catering sincerely thanks the Fargo-Moorhead community and businesses for their patronage and donations throughout the holiday season. Your purchases and generosity made it possible to help families and hundreds of individuals in need.
In November, we were able to pay it forward and provide 10 families with a delicious Thanksgiving meal to share with their loved ones.
At Christmas, we partnered with The Joy Project, led by Marisa Bengston-Loerzel. Through your charitable contributions, we prepared and donated a special holiday dinner to over 600 people in need on Christmas Eve. A huge
The Joy Project
The buy-a-meal, share-a-meal project isn t the only way Urban Foods Catering is helping those in need this holiday season. They ve also partnered with The Joy Project, a local effort to provide Christmas meals to those living in homeless shelters or low-income housing projects organized by Marisa Bengston-Loerzel.
Bengston-Loerzel founded The Joy Project in 2013 after noticing a school bus dropping children off at the Grand Inn in Moorhead. The first thing I did was ask myself what a school bus was doing at a hotel. I thought maybe their parents worked there. Not long after it dawned on me that they were going home. That they lived in the hotel, she said.