Actor David Arquette is known for his roles in films like Scream and Eight Legged Freaks . He’s been a professional wrestling champion (yes, really), started a clothing line with musician Ben Harper (Propr), and married a famous “Friend” (Courtney Cox). Now, he is filling yet another role – as that of the chairman of Feeding America’s Entertainment Council.
Feeding America is a charity fighting against domestic hunger. Formerly known as America’s Second Harvest, Feeding America has a nationwide network of over 200 food banks that help provide food for more than 37 million Americans each year. Among those are 14 million children and almost 3 million senior citizens. Each year, more than 2.5 billion pounds of food and groceries are given out.
Arquette has actually been working with Feeding America for a couple of years now. It started out when he wanted to help them promote the name change from America’s Second Harvest to Feeding America in 2008. Arquette saw the hungry faces of working Americans and the elderly and decided that he wanted to do more. “In a country that’s as wealthy as ours, we shouldn’t have people that don’t know where their next meal’s coming from,” Arquette said.
In September 2009, Arquette appeared at the “Rock a Little, Feed a Lot” concert in Los Angeles. The concert was held to help Feeding America and the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and featured such performers as Sheryl Crow, Ben Harper, Tom Morello, and the Madden brothers Benji and Joel.
In Los Angeles tonight, Arquette is hosting a performance by Spencer Day at the Upright Cabaret, with all the proceeds going to Feeding America. In addition, if you download Day’s song “Better Way,” those proceeds will go to feed hunger Americans. Day also featured Feeding America in the video for “Better Way” to show people that hunger still exists in our own country. Why is Day so committed? As a struggling artist in Los Angeles, he often had to go to food pantries, so now he wants to give back to the community.
In May, I will blog about Stamp Out Hunger, which Arquette will also be supporting.
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