Did you know that:

• 2,000 children are reported missing every day.
• 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 10 boys will be sexually victimized before adulthood.
• As many as 100,000 registered sex offenders are "lost" in the system, their wherabouts unknown.
• 58,000 children are victims of non-familty abductions each year.
• 1 in 7 children using the Internet receive sexual solicitations in a single year.

Letter from Louis Bivona

Dear Valued Tavern Direct Customer:

As co-founder of both the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children NY Branch and the Bivona Child Advocacy Center, service to missing, sexually exploited and sexually abused children has been my lifelong driving passion. It is with great pleasure that I invite you to enjoy the new Tavern on the Green line of gourmet food products and in doing so, join me and the Tavern Direct Team in our efforts to support services to victimized children, their families and the professionals who serve them.

Raising the necessary funds to support the protection of children and families can be a daunting and ever challenging task. In order to create a consistent vehicle of support for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the Tavern Direct Team was born.

When you purchase Tavern on the Green Gourmet Specialties, you become part of a growing community of Americans who want to actually create measurable change in the lives of children and families across the nation. TavernDirect.com represents the collective power of people working towards long-term solutions to the challenges of child abuse and sexual exploitation facing every community today. For every TavernDirect.com purchase, we make a donation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The Tavern Direct Team has committed to making a donation of 25% of our profits! With your help, we anticipate the percentage growing to 30, 40, and even 50% in the future.

Through your generous donations, you are supporting our efforts to bring missing children home, to prevent the sexual exploitation of our nation’s youth, to hold sex offenders accountable for their crimes against children and to provide a multi-disciplinary team approach to child sexual abuse investigations and interventions. You are also supporting our efforts to provide expert training to the professionals that serve our most precious resources, our children.

I welcome you to the Tavern Direct family and I am sure you will certainly enjoy the wonderful gourmet food products, while at the same time, taking heart in knowing that you are helping to keep our nation’s children safer. Thank you for your support!

Sincerely,

Louis Bivona

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