First Mission-Thanksgiving

The 'Good Samaritan Law'

I wanted to start of by writing about this Law that protects you when doing these kind of things. No one should be discouraged to partake in fear of prosecution.
On October 1, 1996, President Clinton signed the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act to encourage the donation of food and grocery products to non-profit organizations for distribution to needy individuals. This new law makes it easier to donate. Here's how:

• It protects donors from liability when donating to a non-profit organization.
• It protects donors from civil and criminal liability should the product donated in good faith later cause harm to the needy recipient.
• It standardizes donor liability exposure. Donors and their legal counsel no longer have to investigate liability laws in 50 states.
• It sets a liability floor of "gross negligence" or intentional misconduct for persons who donate grocery products. (See Act text for further definitions.)
• Congress recognized that the provision of food close to recommended date of sale is, in and of itself, not grounds for finding gross negligence. For example, cereal can be donated if it is marked close to code date for retail sale

http://www.usda.gov/news/pubs/gleaning/appc.htm http://definitions.uslegal.com/g/good-samaritans/




First Mission Thanksgiving in cooperation with Life Net for Famillies http://www.lifenet4families.org/. We will be cooking our groceries in their kitchen and will meet there at 8.30am. after helping them serve in their kitchen from 9-11am, we cook our own groceries in their kitchen package it and drive our to our designated areas to distribute the food we have cooked.
We should be done by 1pm at the latest:)