Last week, Volunteers of America hosted their second annual Operation Bowl at Lucky Strike Lanes and Lounge, launching Operation Backpack which will take place July 26 - August 8...
Volunteers of America's Operation Backpack is a campaign geared toward working with corporate partners and private donations to collect new backpacks and school supplies for the 11,000 school aged kids living in New York City's homeless shelters.
Operation Bowl featured the bowling skills of VOA's spokesperson Paige Davis (Boeing, Boeing, TLC's "Trading Spaces"), NORBERT LEO BUTZ (Enron, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), JESSICA HECHT (Tony nominated for A View from the Bridge), MARK INDELICATO ("Ugly Betty"), LAURIE METCALF (Toy Story 3, Roseanne), LIZ TUCCILLO (author He's Just Not that Into You & HBO's Sex & the City), ANNA ORTIZ ("Ugly Betty"), PATRICK PAGE (Broadway's A Man for All Seasons, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas), KATE SHINDLE (Broadway Legally Blonde, Cabaret, Former Miss America), BARRY WOOD ("Trading Spaces" & "Hidden Potential") as well corporate sponsors Citi Habitats, UBS, Escada, Equity Residential, Instinet, The Campos Group, Warnaco, Raymond James Financial Services, Morrison & Foerster, Dickstein Shapiro, Lisa and Vin Gandolfo, Forman Holt Eliades & Ravin, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Workers of Volunteers of America's Operation Backpack
Paige Davis and members of the Volunteers of America New York Board of Directors
Ugly Betty's Mark Indelicato
Trading Spaces' Paige Davis and Barry Wood
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