Music For Mankind®: Kelly Moore and Vermont Lake Monsters Raise Funds For The Hungry

Music For Mankind® founder to sing National Anthem

The Vermont Lake Monsters, the Single-A Burlington, Vermont Minor League baseball team of Major League Baseball’s the Oakland Athletics, and Music For Mankind® founder Kelly Moore, of Manchester Center, Vermont, are teaming up to raise funds for the United Nations World Food Program and the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf, a Burlington, Vermont based Feeding America food shelf.

Kelly Moore will sing The Star Spangled Banner when the Vermont Lake Monsters take on the Connecticut Tigers at Centennial Field in Burlington on June 24, 2011, and the Vermont Lake Monsters will make a contribution from tickets sold through the Music For Mankind® website on May 24, 2011 for the June 24 game to Music For Mankind®. Music For Mankind® will then contribute those funds directly to World Food Program USA and the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf.

“We are very grateful to Kelly Moore and Music For Mankind for their efforts with the Vermont Lake Monsters to help raise funds for the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf,” said Rob Meehan, Director of CEFS. “This event helps raise awareness and support for hunger relief as we continue to see a growing number of visitors in need of food.”

“Efforts like Music for Mankind are in key in supporting WFP USA’s mission to promote policies, strategies and operations that directly benefit poor and hungry people around the world,” said WFP USA’s Ann Andrews Morris. “Thanks to Kelly, more people will be getting the life saving sustenance they so desperately need.”

“It’s an incredible honor for me to be able to help people who struggle every day just to survive by honoring our country with this great song,” stated Kelly Moore.

“Food is such a basic necessity,” he added. “There are enough resources on this planet to feed over ten billion people, yet every night over a billion go to bed hungry. This is how I can help a little with my talents, to perform my music and give what I can. It doesn’t take much to help.”

“We are so excited that Kelly and Music For Mankind is not only participating in our 31 for 31 program, but that they are so enthusiastic about the success of the program,” Emily McDonald, Vermont Lake Monsters Director of Community Relations and Promotions said. “Kelly has really taken his involvement with this program to the next level.”

“Working with Music For Mankind is very special to us,” she continued. “Teaming up with non-profits is a huge part of who we are and to be able to make a difference state-wide is important to us. Kelly has dedicated himself to such a meaningful cause. It's one that continuously needs attention and anything the Lake Monsters can do to help his effort is very rewarding.”