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…
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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,…
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…
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…
Local Newspapers Highlight The Growing Need
A recent article in the Albany Times Union, and the two in the Schenectady Gazette (and here), highlight the growing demands being place on food support services throughout our region and across the…