Donations
Food Banks in Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly donated his government shutdown salary to:
United Caring Shelters
Evansville
Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana
Fort Wayne
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana
Gary
Gleaners
Indianapolis
Food Finders Food Bank
Lafayette
Hope Southern Indiana
New Albany
Circle U Help Center
Richmond
Food Bank of Northern Indiana
South Bend
Catholic Charities
Terre Haute
Second Harvest Food Bank
Muncie
• Sen. Joe Donnelly pledged to donate his salary from the government shutdown in October.
• 10 Indiana food banks received $500 each.
• Second Harvest Food Bank in Muncie was one of the places that got a portion of his pay.
In early October, Sen. Joe Donnelly pledged to donate his take home salary during the 16-day government shutdown to 10 Indiana food banks.
On Wednesday, he kept his promise.
Donnelly donated $500 to each charity, trying to help the more than one million Hoosiers who struggle with finding their next meal, according to a press release.
“[The government shutdown] was irresponsible and shameful — Congress was creating problems for our economy instead of solving them — so I thought it was inappropriate for me to take my paycheck for this time,” he said.
Muncie’s Second Harvest Food Bank was one of the 10 charities to receive a portion of Donnelly’s paycheck.
Tim Kean, CEO and president of Second Harvest, said the donation was “just outstanding.”
“I think that it is a wonderful thing,” he said. “He steps up to some of the circumstances people are facing around this state.”
According to the Second Harvest website, 74,000 people struggle with hunger in East-Central Indiana; and for Delaware County, there are 18,826 people who receive food stamps, according to stats.indiana.edu.
Of those who visited food banks, 46 percent said, in the past year, they had to chose between buying food and paying for utility bills, 36 percent chose between medicine and food and 42 percent decided between buying food and paying rent or a mortgage, according to “2010 Hunger in America: Indiana State Report” produced by feedingindianashungry.org.
Nationally, 54 percent of those that get food from food banks have received food monthly for at least six months.
Kean said it is refreshing to see someone living up to a promise they made, especially when it leads to a significant donation to people in need.
“This donation will provide 2,000 meals to people that are struggling in this part of the state,” Kean said.
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