COGS is proud to be a sponsor of Food on the 15th, a local community service project of Pointers Run Elementary and Clarksville Middle schools in Clarksville, Maryland. Each month students at these schools bring in non-perishable grocery donations. The students sort, bag and deliver (with the assistance of their parents) the groceries, free of charge, each month to economically challenged seniors in a senior residential building in Howard County.

COGS asks members to please donate non-perishable foods (in non-breakable containers) at each monthly COGS meeting. COGS also accepts checks (made out to COGS) that are used to purchase $10 gift cards to Weis market. Each month Food on the 15th gives a $10 gift card to each participant in the program so that they can purchase fresh meat, dairy and produce products.

100% of all donations go directly to the participants in the program. This is a volunteer project and there is no overhead.

COGS board member, Julie Rosenthal, coordinates this project. Julie can be reached at jrosenthl@yahoo.com.