Joan Rivers Wins "The Celebrity Apprentice"!!!

God's Love We Deliver Benefits

"Joan, you're Hired"! With these three wonderful words from Donald Trump, the audience at the finale of "The Celebrity Apprentice" burst into applause (and some tears) for Joan Rivers, this year's "Celebrity Apprentice." None could be happier for Joan than all of us at God's Love We Deliver, which will receive the winner's check in the amount of $250,000! All totaled, Joan won over $500,000 for God's Love We Deliver.

These funds will help God's Love continue to meet the overwhelming demand for our services, and allow us to provide even more nutritious meals to people who are sick and hungry.

Through the course of many grueling weeks of competition, Joan beat out 14 other celebrity contestants, including Clint Black, Herschel Walker, Andrew Dice Clay, Jesse James, Khloe Kardashian, Brande Roderick, and Dennis Rodman, among others, and in the finals, Annie Duke.

Joan Rivers, a God's Love We Deliver Board Member for over 15 years, has played an enormously important role in helping to guide the agency's growth and expansion of its life-sustaining mission during her time here. She is an amazing friend to the agency and especially to our less fortunate friends and neighbors.

The funds Joan won on "Celebrity Apprentice" will provide over 56,000 meals and unlimited nutrition counseling for the clients of God's Love We Deliver. Said Joan, "It was a grueling competition, but anything I can do to strengthen God's Love We Deliver and help them provide more nutritious meals is well worth it."

"It's an incredible accomplishment and we simply can't thank Joan enough for this and for all she's done for our clients for over fifteen years. She is truly a remarkable woman, and we couldn't be prouder," said Karen Pearl, President & CEO of God's Love We Deliver.

Thank you, Joan - you're the best! You're hired!!

ABOUT GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER:

God's Love We Deliver is the New York City metropolitan area's leading not-for-profit organization dedicated to preparing and delivering over 3,300 nutritious, life-sustaining meals each weekday to men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease and other life altering illnesses. Since its founding in 1986, the agency has delivered nearly 10 million meals and has never had a waiting list. God's Love We Deliver also provides free unlimited nutrition counseling to each of its meal program clients, family members and other service providers. All of the organization's services are provided free of charge.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Gary L. Snieski
Asst. Director of Corporate & Media Relations
God's Love We Deliver
gsnieski@glwd.org