Houston Food Bank: The Ultimate Winner of the Big Four Food Fight

HOUSTON, Nov. 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Houston offices of the Big Four accounting firms — Deloitte LLP, EY, KPMG LLP and PwC US — came together on Friday to participate in the second annual "Food Fight" to support the Houston Food Bank as a joint effort to end hunger in the region.

This year, the organizations set a goal to fill 1,500 bags each. The food sacks are being filled as part of the Houston Food Bank's Backpack Buddy program, which provides food to children in need. At Friday's event, a total of 120 volunteers from the four organizations successfully filled 9,067 food sacks – equivalent to 45,318 nutritious meals or 54,382 pounds – exceeding their goal by about 51 percent.

"A little healthy competition is a good thing, both in business and in service to the community," says Brian Greene, Houston Food Bank President/CEO. "We are excited to have Houston's Big Four accounting firms coming together in friendly competition, to show how we can all work together to help feed the hungry. This is an amazing competition to watch, and we know one thing for sure – the accounting will be VERY accurate!"

The Backpack Buddy program, which launched in August 2006 at three Houston-area elementary schools, now provides approximately 38,500 backpacks per month to students at 450 schools. Ten Houston Food Bank member agencies also assist with the distribution of these backpacks, providing healthy food to chronically hungry children who might otherwise go without.

For more information on each of the four firms, please visit Deloitte, EY, KPMG LLP and PwC.

About the Houston Food Bank
The Houston Food Bank is a solution to hunger in times of need. America's largest, the Food Bank distributes 59 million nutritious meals through its network of 600 food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and other hunger relief charities in southeast Texas, feeding 800,000 individual each year.  Fresh produce, meat and nonperishables are distributed from the warehouse at 535 Portwall, and meals for kids are prepared and distributed from Keegan Center, a 15,000 square-foot industrial kitchen.  Additional community services include nutrition education, school-based programs, food stamp applications and hands-on job training. Red Barrels offer a convenient way for grocery shoppers to donate nonperishables for their neighbors in need.  The Houston Food Bank, founded in 1982, is a certified member of Feeding America, the nation's food bank network, with a four-star rating from Charity Navigator.  Visit us online.  Website: HoustonFoodBank.org; Facebook: facebook.com/HoustonFoodBank; Twitter: @HoustonFoodBank; Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/houstonfoodbank

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