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Schneps Media partners with Citymeals
BY MAX PARROTT
mparrott@schnepsmedia.com
@QNS
Employees from the Bayside and
Brooklyn offi ces of Schneps Media joined
together on Friday Aug. 2 to pack meals
for the Citymeals on Wheels program at
the Joan & Bob Tisch Emergency Meal
Distribution Center in the Bronx.
During one morning of work, the staff
packed 2,200 boxes for the food delivery
Victoria Schneps/QNS
Employees from the Bayside and Brooklyn offi ces of Schneps Media joined together on Friday Aug. 2 to pack meals for the Citymeals on Wheels program.
service nonprofi t created to combat
elder hunger.
Th e teams lined up in assembly line
fashion to to pack Emergency Food
Packages, 6-pound, four-meal boxes of
shelf-stable food delivered directly to clients.
Th ese packages are used in times of
emergency when the program is unable
to get meals to clients. All of Citymeals’
homebound meal recipients receive a box.
Citymeals opened the Hunts Point distribution
center in October in order to
expand its operations providing weekend,
and emergency meals throughout the fi ve
boroughs. Th e warehouse can accommodate
up to 250 volunteers at once.
In addition to the service work, the
outing served as a retreat for the company’s
employees aft er the QNS website
crossed the 1 million view threshold on
the aft ernoon of July 31, shattering the alltime
record of 886,931 page views set the
month before in June.
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