NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- LivePerson Inc. (NASDAQ: LPSN), a provider of real-time intelligent engagement solutions, and Feeding NYC, a local non-profit initiative, today announced plans for its annual FeedingNYC event on November 20th, 2012. On this day, LivePerson employees and over 300 FeedingNYC volunteers will pack and hand-deliver Thanksgiving meals to thousands of sheltered families in New York City's five boroughs.

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Each year for the past eleven years, in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, volunteers of FeedingNYC and friends and family of its premier sponsor LivePerson, gather to package and load complete Thanksgiving-day meals, which are then hand-delivered to shelters throughout the city. The shelters include those partnered with the Domestic Violence Police Program, Women in Need and City Harvest. To date, more than 22,000 Thanksgiving meals have been distributed to families facing hunger during the holiday season.

"The number of families in need remains consistently high in New York City, which has only been exacerbated in the past two weeks by the devastation of the hurricane," said Rob LoCascio, CEO of LivePerson and Founder of FeedingNYC. "Through FeedingNYC, we hope to connect with these families and bring some encouragement every year by delivering a full Thanksgiving meal to their doorstep. Thanks to the dedication and generosity of our volunteers and sponsors, we are able to do this for the eleventh consecutive year."

This year, FeedingNYC will be headquartered at Moynihan Station in Midtown Manhattan. Volunteers will begin packing boxes at 9AM and teams will start delivering to shelters on the afternoon of November 20th. FlatRate Moving® is partnering with FeedingNYC to distribute the meals, and once the FlatRate Moving® trucks are loaded, the teams will deliver meals to shelters around New York City throughout the day. With the generous support of Moynihan Station, FlatRate Moving®, Manhattan Mini Storage, Wegman's, Robin Hood Foundation, and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, FeedingNYC will feed more than 3,700 disadvantaged families this year.

"We've been a part of New York City for over twenty years. We are thrilled to be able to help FeedingNYC support its mission and give back to our community," said Sharone Ben-Harosh, Founder of FlatRate Moving® (www.flatrate.com).

For more information on FeedingNYC or to make a donation, please visit: http://www.feedingnyc.org.

For more information on LivePerson Cares and its affiliate programs, please visit: http://www.liveperson.com/about/lp-cares.

About FeedingNYC
FeedingNYC is an annual charity event sponsored by The Dream Big Foundation, a non-profit organization that was conceived by LivePerson CEO Rob LoCascio in the aftermath of 9/11 when the employees and friends of LivePerson assembled and hand-delivered turkey dinners to disadvantaged families around New York for Thanksgiving. With the support of the local community and corporate sponsors, the project which began with serving 40 families in Harlem in 2001 has since grown to deliver meals to more than 22,000 families throughout the five boroughs to date. Please visit www.feedingnyc.org to learn how to get involved. 

About LivePerson

LivePerson, Inc. (Nasdaq: LPSN) offers a cloud-based platform that enables businesses to proactively connect in real-time with their customers via chat, voice, and content delivery at the right time, through the right channel, including websites, social media, and mobile devices. This "intelligent engagement" is driven by real-time behavioral analytics, producing connections based on a true understanding of business objectives and customer needs.

More than 8,500 companies rely on LivePerson's platform to increase conversions and improve customer experience, including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Verizon, Sky, Walt Disney, PNC, QVC and Orbitz.

LivePerson received the CODiE award for Best Content Management Solution in 2012 and for Best Ecommerce Solution in 2011, and has been named a Company of the Year by Frost and Sullivan in 2011.  LivePerson is headquartered in New York City with offices in San Francisco, Atlanta, Tel Aviv, London and Melbourne.

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Media Contacts

Erin Kang
FeedingNYC, LivePerson
ekang@liveperson.com
917-214-6349

Kristen Filippini
Zer0 to 5ive 
Kristen@0to5.com
516.356.1136

Laura Franklin Cooke
LF&CO for FlatRate Movin®
lf@lfandco.com
917.572.5805

SOURCE LivePerson, Inc.