During September’s Hunger Action Month, Icon at Dulles hosted a food drive that started out with a bang. Not even halfway through the month, the Gates Hudson property already donated 600 pounds of food - the equivalent of 500 meals.
CORT Washington D.C. helped transport all of the food to the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington D.C. CORT continues to be an amazing transportation partner for us. All-time, they have transported over 17,000 lbs of food (nearly 15,000 meals).
ICON at Dulles is located in one of the most affluent counties in the state with the food insecurity rate at 5.5%, however, the state as a whole is nearly double that at 9.9% according to statistics from Feeding America. The Capital Area Food Bank is located in the District of Columbia where the food insecurity jumps even higher to 10.7%.
The food comes at an incredibly important time where food insecurity could be up 50% in 2020 with an estimated 17 million more Americans struggling to get food due to COVID.
A partner since 2018, ICON at Dulles has donated over 1,000 lbs of food to the local area food bank.
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