Each year, Meals For The Elderly participates in the national March For Meals campaign. March For Meals is a campaign that takes place during the month of March, because it was during this month that the law was enacted that included senior meal programs in the Older Americans Act.

The purpose of the campaign is three-fold: 1) to increase awareness of senior hunger in America, and particularly in our community, 2) to increase funding for local meal delivery programs to combat senior hunger, and 3) to increase the number of volunteers during this month to help with our local program.

After the completion of the campaign, meal programs from across the nation have the opportunity to apply for a grant based on their campaign. Meals For The Elderly is proud to annouce that our campaign this year won us a $2,600 grant from the Meals On Wheels Association of America (MOWAA). This is the highest amount given, and only a handful of organizations are recognized with this award.

This year's campaign included the following initiatives:

• February 16: Mardi Gras Celebration
  Meals For The Elderly kicks off our March For Meals campaign with our 10th Annual Mardi Gras Celebration at the McNease Convention center from 5:30-9:00pm.  Come sign our tablecloth to show your support of our pledge to end senior hunger by 2020.
  Click here for a photo gallery of this event!
  
• March 1-5: Heroes Against Hunger
  Local military, firemen, and law enforcement personnel will be delivering some of our routes throughout the first week of March to support our effort to end senior hunger in the Concho Valley.
  Click here for a photo gallery of this event!
  
• March 8-12: SAISD & Wall ISD School Canned Good Drives
  Schools across the Concho Valley will collected canned goods for our
  program.
  
• March 24: Mayors For Meals Day
  Elected officials will deliver meals alongside our faithful volunteers to see first-hand the impact that our program has on the homebound
  elderly who depend on us.
• March 22-26: Cornerstone Christian School Canned Good Drive
  Students from Cornerstone will collect canned goods to benefit our program.
• March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29: Chili's Give Back Days
  Take a flyer flyer (to be obtained through future e-news, our website, or at our office) to Chili's in San Angelo on one of these days and Chili's will donate 10% of your tab to Meals For The Elderly.
  Click here to print the flyer and take it with you to Chili's on Monday!
• March 1-31: Curves Canned Good Drive
  Curves of San Angelo will support our program by collecting canned goods from current and new members.
• Take the pledge to help us end senior hunger by 2020.  Follow
  this link: http://www.mowaa.org/takethepledge