Diana Cosby kicks off 4th International Food Bank Food Drive Challenge
Diana Cosby is a best-selling romance author (His Enchantment comes out Dec. 19) and a retired Navy chief. She also happens to be one of the most kind and generous women I know. Every year for the past four, she's issued a challenge to romance readers: Donate something to your local food bank. Here's Diana now to explain …
Diana: It's the holidays again, an emotion-filled time when it seems there are not enough hours in each day to fit everything in, not to mention dealing with the struggling economy. But, in this time of financial challenges, I ask each of you to please consider one more stop on your crazy to-do list, that of making a donation to a local food bank. Your donation can be a dollar, a can of corn, whatever you can give. Anything you can offer to those with nothing is a gift they didn't have.
I volunteer for Habitat For Humanity, and something amazing happens when you allow a person a flicker of hope, that somehow, incredibly, even a stranger understands that at times life shoves us on a road we never asked for.
In 2010, in addition to my personal donation to my local food bank, I decided to start a Food Bank Challenge, except it wonderfully got out of hand. Once I posted The Food Bank Challenge on my Facebook page and my Facebook fan page, people from across the U.S. began donating to their local food banks. Then, my Facebook pages received posts of donations from Canada — the Food Bank Challenge went international! Since then, donations for the International Food Bank Food Challenge have been made in numerous countries. And you know what? This is truly a blessing. In this venture, we all win. Gifts from the heart do that, they fill you, remind you there is good in the world, and that you can make a positive and profound difference in others lives.
How it works: Starting on today (Nov. 1), when you donate to a local food bank or food drive, post about it on my Facebook page or Facebook Fan page beneath the daily International Food Bank Challenge post by adding your donation along with your name and contact information. On Dec. 5, I will use www.random.org to draw from all of the names of people who donated that I received. The winner will receive an autographed set to date of the best-selling MacGruder Brothers series: His Captive, His Woman, His Conquest, His Destiny and His Seduction. I will sign the set, then send them priority to whoever you want to make a personal holiday present.
To find out more about Diana and her books and her charity efforts, visit dianacosby.com.