SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) -- On Oct. 27, Central New York entrepreneur and CEO of Acrovo AI, Jeff Knauss, decided he was not going to let a federal government shutdown stop hungry families from being fed.

Knauss launched a fundraiser on his website to raise money for people in need ahead of November.

He posted a Snap Relief Fund with a GoFundMe link, where people could donate money. That money was then used to fund $150 Wegmans gift cards, offered to people who submitted an application.

"We actually had 33,328 applications," Knauss said.

Nearly $200,000 has been raised so far, covering over 1,000 gift cards. But the need to feed has proven to be far too great.

"I'd love to be able to provide every single person that applied a gift card and help them with SNAP being gone. But as generou

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