The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company’s Flatbushstore reached its goal for the 2009 Triple Winner program, raising $7,050toward Stop & Shop’s efforts to eradicate childhood cancer and fund research. These funds contributed to the $5.25 million raised chainwide in this year’s Triple Winner campaign.
By purchasing a scratch-off ticket for $1 at their local Stop & Shop, 1009 Flatbush Avenue, residents of Flatbush made a valuable contribution for area children battling the disease. Tickets for the 2009 program flew out of stores in just two months, a record breaker, at a time when charitable giving is on the decline, down two percent in 2008, according to the Giving USA Foundation.
“We want to make it easy for our customers to make a difference in their communities,” said Faith Weiner, Stop & Shop director of Public Affairs. “Thanks to the generosity of our customers, associates, suppliers, and the New York Yankees organization, the Triple Winner Game is Stop & Shop’s most successful program in our effort to fight childhood cancer.”
To date, Stop & Shop has raised $50 million dollars through Triple Winner, which launched in 1991. All proceeds from Triple Winner are divided and distributed to The Jimmy Fund in Boston, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Children’s Cancer Center in Baltimore.
To learn more, visit the “In the Community” link in the “About Us” section at www.stopandshop.com.
