Yelp NC Triangle and Eschelon Hospitality are hosting a party on May 19 to benefit the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina.

From 8-10 p.m. at Zinda restaurant in downtown Raleigh, the party will feature food samples from all five of Eschelon Hospitality restaurants, free cider, beer and wine as well as entertainment by Head Over Heels performance troupe, Simple Bliss massage therapists and caricature artists.

The event is called Yelp Billionaires Club and is free and open to the public with a donation of two or more canned goods per person. Last year's event, raised 1,500 pounds of food, enough to provide 3,298 meals, according to Yelp senior community manager Christina Gates.

For more information about the event, go HERE.

If you're coming to my coupon class on Saturday, I wanted to give you a few friendly reminders.

Be sure to bring a donation to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. It's a great cause AND it will get you a second chance to win some pretty amazing door prizes.

And if you need coupon organizer supplies, the folks from the CouponPro, an Apex company, will be on hand selling coupon binders, do-it-yourself kits, dividers and extra pages.

The folks at Marbles Kids Museum are sponsoring a food drive to help the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina and they need your help.

Donate four cans of food and you'll receive one free admission to Marbles or a Buy-One-Get-One-Free pass to see a documentary film at the IMAX movie theater.

The food drive runs through Wednesday, Nov. 21. Drop off your canned goods between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the museum, 201 E. Hargett St., Raleigh, 27601, with the exception of Monday, Nov. 19, when the museum is closed.

There's a limit of one free admission per person.

Donate three or more canned food items during Capital Area Transit's "Stuff the Bus" event tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept. 19), and you'll receive a coupon for a free Chick-fil-A sandwich for your kindness.

The bus will be parked in the 400 block of Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh, across the street from Chick-fil-A.

Donation hours are 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The free chicken sandwich coupons are valid from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. tomorrow only -- and only at the downtown location.

The food donations will be given to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina.

See photos from Feed the Need 2009. Staff photos by Andrew Kenney.

At Guilford Technical Community College, a food bank helps feed needy students and their families.

Said a food bank official:

“If two cans of green beans and a jar of peanut butter keeps a student in school, then those two cans of green beans and that jar of peanut butter can change their whole future."

Read more here.