Loft Community Partnership (LCP) will host its inaugural Driving Out Hunger golf fundraiser on Tuesday, Sept. 10, at Crossgates Golf Club, 1 Crossland Pass, Millersville. The event, which will feature a four-person scramble format, will kick off at 8 a.m. with a shotgun start, and it will include various prize drawings, a silent auction and challenges for players to participate in on the course.

Registration may be completed online or by contacting LCP and mailing a check before Saturday, Aug. 31. Several sponsorships are also available online in various tiers, including sponsorships for meals, beverage carts and a hole-in-one contest. To register online, visit https://tinyurl.com/lcpgolf24.

Jenna Graeff, executive director of LCP, said the Driving Out Hunger fundraiser was organized after a group of local women approached the organization to suggest a new avenue to raise money for LCP's programs. The group of women, known locally as the golf ladies, frequently assist with organizing golf tournaments to benefit nonprofits in the community. The women emphasized this style of event would be an effective way to support LCP, and they have been helping Graeff plan the organization's first golf fundraiser. Graeff added that LCP has also been working together with The Caring Cupboard, a food pantry based in Palmyra, to organize Driving Out Hunger. The Caring Cupboard has held its own golf fundraiser for 17 years and has been offering its insight to LCP as it puts together its first version of the event.

"We want to make this a yearly Millersville tradition," Graeff said. "Eventually, we'd like to grow (Driving Out Hunger) to benefit more food pantries than just ours throughout Penn Manor and the Southern End."

The proceeds from Driving Out Hunger will help LCP sustain its roster of programs aimed at tackling food insecurity across the county. In addition to its food bank, which it operates in Millersville, LCP recently introduced a program to recover fresh food from local retailers before it becomes discarded. The organization provides food security for more than 300 local families every week.

LCP provides many services to the community beyond its initiatives to battle food insecurity. The nonprofit frequently partners with Martic Pantry to collect school supplies for children in the Penn Manor School District before the start of the new year.

For more information, visit http://www.loftcommunitypartnership.org.