Campaign Overview
KOFI DAY OF SERVICE
November 28, 2023
The 3rd Annual Kofi Burbridge Day of Service is a multi-city opportunity to honor the legacy of musician Kofi Burbridge and took place on #GivingTuesday, November 28, 2023. We arranged volunteer shifts at nonprofits that addressed food insecurity, children’s clothing, kitchens that provide medically tailored meals, and farms where volunteers weeded, pruned, and harvested turmeric, peppers, herbs, and flowers before the season’s first frost. We gave each volunteer a Kofi baseball hat as a ‘thank you’ for their time. This year we expanded to
15 cities and supported 15 nonprofits nationwide, where 230 volunteers contributed 566 hours of service.
Alongside music fans, members of Tedeschi Trucks Band participated including Gabe Dixon in Nashville and Elizabeth Lea in San Diego. As part of the initiative kick-off, Tedeschi Trucks Band offered a flyaway contest with proceeds benefitting WhyHunger. The winner not only received tickets to their Boston show at TD Garden and a signed guitar but won the opportunity to volunteer for a Day of Service alongside Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi to prepare community meals together at Boston’s Haley House.
Kofi Day of Service events took place at these nonprofits:
East Point Community Garden (Atlanta), Community Servings (Boston), Feedmore WNY (Buffalo), Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina (Charlotte), Cradles to Crayons (Chicago),
Soles4Souls (Denver), White Harvest Farms (Jacksonville), Westside Food Bank (Los Angeles),
Second Harvest of Middle Tennessee (Nashville), Community Food Bank of New Jersey (New Jersey) with partners DR Strings, Gods Love We Deliver (NYC), Afya Foundation (Yonkers, NY) Manna (Philadelphia), Lucky Duck Foundation (San Diego), DC Central Kitchen (Washington DC).
Our Impact
10,120 meals prepared
6,000 pairs of shoes sorted and counted to be shipped to people in need.
4,142 pounds of dry food sorted
3,000 pounds of bell peppers sorted
1,400 chicken meatballs made
750 pounds of donated medical supplies sorted
500 boxes of cereal sorted
330 children will be provided age-appropriate clothing that was sorted & inspected
140 pounds of roselle hibiscus harvested
80 boxes of dry food products inspected, sorted and packed
40 boxes of non-food items like paper goods, school supplies & medicine sorted and categorized
30 pairs of shoes and 38 pounds of clothing donated by our volunteers
And lots of outdoor work in JAX and ATL where volunteers weeded, pruned, and harvested turmeric, peppers, herbs, and flowers before the season’s first frost.
Music is truly a powerful force for doing good in our communities!!!
Kofi Burbridge was born on September 22, 1961, and passed away on February 15, 2019, due to complications from a cardiac condition. Kofi was an inspirational keyboardist, flutist, composer, arranger and two-time Grammy Award-winner who generously shared his musical gifts as a member of Aquariam Rescue Unit, The Derek Trucks Band and Tedeschi Trucks Band.
