Heat or Eat?
With the winter months upon us, many people will be confronted with difficult choices such as paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel. More than 49 million…
Hunger Strikes
“Nancy Rockwell adds yet another name to her spiral-bound notebook as volunteers scramble in the back, pulling cans of vegetables and boxes of pasta off shelves and sorting them into…
Non-Profit of the Year!
The Business Review is honoring the Regional Food Bank with the 2009 Non-Profit of the Year Achievement Award! If you would like to celebrate this honor with the Food Bank,…
15th Annual Chefs & Vintners’ Harvest Dinner
September 24, 2009 The Glen Sanders Mansion Scotia, New York The evening will feature many of the area’s finest chefs and New York state vintners, who will pair up…
President Obama Joins Feeding America In The “United We Serve” Backpack Project
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama joined hundreds of Congressional family members, Feeding America and four additional national nonprofit organizations at Ft. McNair in Washington DC to prepare 15,000…
Hunger Never Takes a Vacation!
NEW REPORT FOCUSES ON ECONOMIC TOLL OF CHILD HUNGER FINDINGS HIGHLIGHT LONG TERM PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES CHICAGO – July 1, 2009 –The direct and indirect effect of child hunger…
Put Some Razzle Dazzle into Your Summertime Celebrations!
Donate Food All American Food Drives Organize a canned food drive and then challenge people to arrange the cans in patriotic designs like the Stars and Stripes, Uncle Sam, or…
Repack Event with Michelle Obama and Jill Biden
As the nation focused its attention on Washington, D.C., for President Obama’s 100th day in office, 160 congressional spouses and children were solving a problem of their own: child hunger.…
Hunger in America 2009
In order to solve the problem of hunger, first we must understand it. To that end, the Food Bank is participating in Hunger in America 2009, a national study on…