The U.S. Conference of Mayors - Sodexho, Inc. Hunger and Homelessness Survey
2007
Annual Survey Results Announced In Washington, D.C.
Monday, December 17, 2007 - 10:30 am
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Conference of Mayors
(USCM) and Sodexho, Inc. will release results of its 2007 Hunger and
Homelessness Survey at a Press Conference on Monday, December 17 at 10:30 am
at the Conference of Mayors headquarters.The survey will include results from
twenty-three (23) of America's largest cities that highlight causes of hunger
and homelessness, as well as track trends in each area from last year to this
year.
For the past 21 years, The U.S. Conference of Mayors has reported on the
shortage of emergency services - food, shelter, medical care, income
assistance and energy assistance - in our nation's cities. For the fifth
year, Sodexho, Inc. joins the Conference of Mayors in bringing national
attention to the factors that impact hunger and homelessness in metropolitan
centers in the United States. This year's report was done by Abt, Associates,
Inc., who was retained by USCM to conduct the survey.
WHO: Trenton (NJ) Mayor Douglas H. Palmer, President, USCM
Des Moines (IA) Mayor Frank Cownie, Co-Chair of the USCM Hunger & Homeless
Taskforce
Lorna Donatone, President of Sodexho, Inc., School Services Division
Tom Cochran, Executive Director, USCM
WHAT: PRESS CONFERENCE to release results of the 2007 Hunger and Homelessness
Survey
WHEN: Monday, December 17, 2007 at 10:30 a.m.
WHERE: The U.S. Conference of Mayors Headquarters
1620 I Street, N.W.
4th Floor Conference Room
Washington, D.C. 20006
The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of
cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,139 such cities in the
country today, each represented in the Conference by its chief elected
official, the Mayor.
Sodexho, Inc. is a leading integrated food and facilities management services
company in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, with $7.3 billion in annual revenue
and 125,000 employees. Sodexho serves more than ten million customers daily in
corporations, health care, long term care and retirement centers, schools,
college campuses, government and remote sites. Sodexho, Inc., headquartered in
Gaithersburg, Md., is a subsidiary of Sodexho Alliance (www.sodexho.com).
Sodexho, Inc. funds the Sodexho Foundation (www.helpstophunger.org), an
independent charitable organization that, since its founding in 1999, has made
more than $9.2 million in grants to fight hunger in America.
SOURCE U.S. Conference of Mayors
Elena Temple of U.S. Conference of Mayors, +1-202-861-6719,
etemple@usmayors.org; or Anthony Owens of Sodexho, Inc., +1-301-987-4795,
anthony.owens@sodexhoUSA.com
