Hooters presents donation to Holy Family School on National Read Across America Day
Representatives from Hooters Management Corporation presented a donation of $34,833 to Holy Family School as part of their annual Wings for the Kids Program on Monday, March 2. Hooters donated one-third of all chicken wing sales on Tuesdays in February to Holy Family School. The Hooters Wings for the Kids Program started in the Chicago area in 1992. Since then it has raised over $819,833 for Holy Family School. The money raised funds tuition, technology and books for underprivileged children in the community. Holy Family School is located in Homan Square on the west side of Chicago.
Hooters locations that participated in Wings for the Kids include Countryside, Downers Grove, Fox Valley, Gurnee, Lansing, Melrose Park, Oak Lawn, Orland Park, O'Hare, Schaumburg and Wells Street. In addition, Hooters Management Corporation staff members read to kids at Holy Family School in celebration of National Read Across America Day.
Holy Family School was established in 1985 to offer a high-quality education for minority students in Chicago's low-income neighborhoods. Holy Family provides a learning environment that nurtures intellectual, spiritual, social, emotional and physical growth for students in Kindergarten through eighth grade. On average, money donated by Chicago area Hooters restaurants enables 10 children to receive a first-class education at Holy Family School each year.
"Education is the surest way for a child to rise out of poverty. The partnership with Hooters Management Corporation offers significant support for our children to help them climb the ladder of academic success," said Holy Family School Chief Executive Officer Cheryl Collins.
"We started this program in the Chicagoland area 28 years ago to help raise funds to support children's education in our community," said Hooters Management Corporation Chief Marketing Officer Denise Williams. "We enjoy the opportunity to help children and it is important to spend time giving back to local schools and charities that help kids."
"In the small town of Waverly, Iowa, in the 1960's, my friends attending the teen activities at Luther League every Sunday night included the future founder of Hooters, Ed Droste. Many years later, I called him to see if he would help our little school in the heart of the Chicago Cabrini Green housing projects, where we yearned for a better education for the children," recalls Dr. Susan Infelt Work, CEO Emeritus of Holy Family School. "Ed said yes, and the Hooters' tradition of caring and sharing was launched".
Hooters Management Corporation owns and operates 24 Hooters Restaurant locations in Tampa Bay, Chicagoland and Manhattan. Hooters came to the Chicago area in 1991. For more information about Hooters Management Corporation please visit http://www.originalhooters.com or follow us at Twitter @originalhooters, Instagram @originalhooters and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/originalhooters. To learn more about Holy Family and how you can help contact Cynthia Schmidt at cschmidt@hfm.org and/or link our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/HolyFamilyChi.