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Womble Carlyle's Involvement in Food Shuttle Program Highlighted in Raleigh News Observer
August 24, 2007
Raleigh office Sales Director Robert DiDomenico quoted in article.
Excerpt
Children get help preparing for school
Summer lunch comes with advice, supplies
Josh Shaffer, Staff Writer
Raleigh News & Observer, August 24, 2007
RALEIGH - The kids at Walnut Terrace have the same curious eyes, restless feet and rambunctious natures as most children in the last week of summer.
They just don't always have the same full stomachs or backpacks full of school supplies.
Today is the last day of free lunch at the public housing complex in Southeast Raleigh, a program designed to keep low-income children fed while school is out.
"We have heard from many of them that this is the only place they have milk or eat a banana," said Jill Staton Bullard, co-founder and CEO of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle.
The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle cooks and prepares summer meals across the Triangle -- about 40 were delivered Thursday to Walnut Terrace -- and gets reimbursed by the federal government for $2.91 per lunch.
This doesn't cover the cost, so the city chips in $1 per child, and the law firm Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice supplies volunteer labor.
A full-service business law firm, Womble Carlyle ranks among AmLaw's 100 leading firms in the country and is a top law firm for companies doing business in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic states. The firm is a recipient of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Corporate Leadership Award, making Womble Carlyle the first law firm ever to receive the highest honor given to a business organization in recognition of its support of the Fund and its 45 member educational institutions.
Founded in 1876, Womble Carlyle operates in six states and the District of Columbia with nearly 550 attorneys in eleven offices located in Atlanta, GA; Greenville, SC; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, NC; Washington, DC; Tysons Corner, VA; Wilmington, DE; and Baltimore, MD. Womble Carlyle is located in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, and serves clients nationally and globally.