Team Edwards contributes to local, national success of 'Feds Feed Families' food drive Published Oct. 12, 2011 By 95th Air Base Wing Public Affairs EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The generosity of Team Edwards contributed to more than 2 million pounds of food amassed by the Department of Defense in this year's "Feds Feed Families" food drive campaign, which ran from June 1 to Aug. 31. Edwards donated a total of 3,785 pounds of food collected by individual units, and another 1,161 pounds from "shop-and-drop" donations collected at the drop-box in the Commissary, said Chief Master Sgt. Rhonda S. Buening, 95th Mission Support Group superintendent, the point of contact for the Edwards campaign. "Once we got our advertising organized and people understood that it was for us to assist our local community," said Buening, "it was very easy and rewarding for personnel to donate items." All of the donations collected at Edwards were distributed to the Grace Resource Center in Lancaster. The center provides training, education, food, clothing, shelter and medical care to those in need throughout the Antelope Valley. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management and the Chief Human Capital Officers Council announced that 40 government agencies donated a total of 5,7993,446 pounds of nonperishable food items in this year's campaign, more than doubling this year's goal of 2 million pounds. The DOD was the leading federal agency in exceeding the goal of the campaign. "'Feds Feed Families' was a resounding success," said John Berry, OPM director. "Thank you to every federal worker who donated."