Miami – (August 8th, 2020) – The Feed Your City Challenge – founded by retired NBA star, Ricky Davis, and music industry legend, Tony Draper – will make the sixth stop on its nationwide campaign to combat the COVID19 pandemic August 8th in the parking lot of the Calder Casino at 2 pm EST. Miami native, Grammy-nominated rapper/songwriter, entrepreneur, and record executive, Rick Ross will help serve the community fresh groceries and PPE items until supplies last.
Working alongside Mayor Oliver Gilbert III, Miami Gardens Police Chief Delma Noel-Pratt, Urban Community Connections, Inc. President, Sharron “Charito” Henley and Chris McCaffery, CEO of TSE Entertainment organizers of the event will utilize the grounds of the centrally located Calder Casino parking lot (21001 NW 27th Ave, Miami Gardens, FL 33056) at 2 pm to serve the community until all supplies are gone.
Feed Your City Challenge will aim to provide fresh groceries and essential PPE supplies for up to 4,000 community members via non-contact drive-thru lanes, following all CDC social distancing guidelines. The organization has produced community-driven events in cities all across the country and served thousands of people impacted by the coronavirus. Miami will join the growing list of cities receiving support in response to the covid19 pandemic.
Who: Grammy-nominated rapper, songwriter, entrepreneur, and record executive, Rick Ross, NBA Vet Ricky Davis, and music industry legend Tony Draper (Suave House Records)
What: Feed Your City Challenge
When: August 8th at 2 pm EST
Where: Calder Casino – Parking lot- 21001 NW 27th Ave, Miami Gardens, FL 33056
Why: The need for communities to work together to support and uplift each other through the COVID19 crisis.
With a simple mission statement, ‘to serve underserved communities’, ‘Feed Your City Challenge’ will continue feeding those in need and challenge more cities to join. Previous events around the country included Norfolk, VA with recording artistPusha T; Petersburg VA with recording artist Trey Songz; Brooklyn, NY with music executive Steven Victor in honor of Pop-Smoke; Oakland, CA withGrammy award-winning (and Oscar-nominated), producer/singer/songwriter Raphael Saadiq and Los Angeles, CA withGrammy award-winning multi-platinum producer Mustard, singer Jhene Aiko and Grammy award-winning artist Roddy Ricch
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