Food Pantry

Urban Gleaners: Reducing Food Waste to Reduce Hunger (Video)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Children Hungry, Urban Gleaners, Food Insecurity, Food Rescuers, Food Pantry, Food for the Poor, Food Waste, Food for the Hungry, Food Bank, Food Security, Reducing Food Waste, Video, Green News
Rebecca Gerendasy

A simple idea that came out of hearing a story on the radio. For Tracy Oseran, it was something she had to do: help find and distribute food that would otherwise be thrown out.

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Produce For The People

Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Produce Food Pantry, Video, Homelessness, City Orchard, Dc Impact, Food Pantry, Street Sense, Beltsville MD, Bread for the City, DC News

By Meagan Ramsay Street Sense Move over cherry trees, there's a new orchard in town. On 2.75 acres in Beltsville, Md., just 30 minutes from D.C...

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How Will We Feed 18 Million Hungry Children When School Lets Out?

Kim Doyle Wille | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Hunger, Share Our Strength, Feeding America, Frac, Food Pantry, Mobile Food Pantry, School Lunches, Gardening, Child Hunger, Food Shelters, Spring-Into-Action, Impact News
Kim Doyle Wille

Last Thanksgiving, I spent two days documenting hunger at three food pantries. At the first pantry, children in sweaters sweetly asked volunteers if t...

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Food Pantry's Fight Over Prayer

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Prayer Food Pantry, Food Pantry Federal Regulations, Video, Food Pantry Federal Rules, Community Provisions of Jackson County, Food Pantry Prayer, Poll, Food Pantry, Religion News

An Indiana food pantry has been the focus of debate after its founder refused to stop asking patrons to pray. Volunteers at the Community Provision...

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"I Just Want a Job"

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Public Schools, College Students, U.S. Economy, Poverty, Economy, Budget, Eviction, Economic Crisis, Drugs, School, Working Poor, Child Poverty, Education, Hunger, Homelessness, College, Homeless, Poor, Poverty in America, Forclosure, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Safety Net, Tanf, Food Pantries, Employment, Jobs, Unemployment, Job, Food Pantry, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

Anyone who thinks welfare recipients do nothing but sit around and cash their checks isn't familiar with the schedules of Tiffany and many others like her.

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Urbandale, IA: Food Pantry Grows as Families Struggle

urbandale.patch.com | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Iowa, Food Pantries, Charity, Urbandale-Ia, Dispatches: The Changing American Dream, Food Pantry, Urbandale-Iowa, Patch, Home News

"It's just neighbors helping neighbors. That's our philosophy."...

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Niles, IL: Food Pantry Expects to Serve Record Number In November

niles.patch.com | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Food Pantry, Illinois, Dispatches: The Changing American Dream, Food Pantries, Niles-Il, Charity, Niles-Illinois, Home News

"It will be off the charts. ... I can't even imagine what it will be."...

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Project Oatmeal Delivers 24,400 Meals to Brooklyn in Their Campaign to End Hunger

Anthony Papa | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Food Banks, Slidepollajax, US Child Hunger, Food Pantries, Hunger, Hunger New York, Hunger in America, Food Pantry, Food Banks Ny, Child Hunger, New York News
Anthony Papa

This holiday season there will be tens of thousands that will be hungry. Maybe with the help of concerned New Yorkers the problem can be alleviated.

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Chicago-Area Food Pantry Expects To Serve Record Number In November

Niles Patch | Emily Stone | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Cynthia Carranza, Fighting Hunger in America, Hunger, Food Pantry, Niles Township Food Pantry, Hunger in America, Chicago News

The Niles Township Food Pantry is bracing for what it expects will be a record number of people in need coming through its doors this month....

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Holiday Meals For All

Vicki B. Escarra | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Thanksgiving, Food Pantry, Feeding America, Hunger, Food Bank, Nutrition Programs, Volunteer, Holidays, Philanthropy, Donate, Giving Back, Community, Impact News
Vicki B. Escarra

At a time when most Americans are celebrating abundance, one in six of us is not getting enough to eat. Right now, do something to ensure that everyone has enough to eat this holiday season and throughout the year.

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10 Easy Tips To Stock A Holiday Pantry

Hana Choi & Christine Han | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Holidays, Holiday Shopping, Holiday Season, Cooking, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Slidepollajax, Holiday Entertaining, Holiday Cooking, Food Pantry, Pantry Confidential, Women News
Hana Choi & Christine Han

Somehow, the holidays have once again snuck up on us. For a season marked by indulgence and excess, it's easy to get carried away and feel overwhelmed...

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Skokie, IL: Food Pantry Seeing More Middle Class Families

skokie.patch.com | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Food Pantry, Dispatches: The Changing American Dream, Skokie Patch, Skokie, Middle Class, Home News

"It's equal. There's no particular race, religion, color or creed. No particular class that's coming here."...

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Homeless Learn To Feed The Hungry

Huffington Post | Anna Bahr | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Jamie Oliver, Video, Jobless Rate, Homelessness, Soup Kitchen, Food Pantry, Job Training, Seattle, Inspiration-Kitchens, Vocational Education, Job Creation, Impact News

Before learning to cook, Cathy had served six years in prison and had never held a job or connected with family. But once she graduated from FareStart...

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Palm Desert, Calif: A Miracle At St. Margaret's Outreach Center

Palm Desert, Patch | Jessica E. Davis | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Palm-Desert, St. Margaret's Outreach Center, Emergency Assistance, Food Stamps, St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, Hope Lutheran Church, Christianity, Dispatches: The Changing American Dream, Food Pantry, Help for Needy, Needy Families, Religion News

"This is tough times for everybody. Even if you were wealthy, you are less wealthy than you were before,'' said The Rev. Lane Hensley of St. Margaret...

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Food Pantries Face Unprecedented Demand They Can't Fill

The Huffington Post | Anna Bahr | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Doreen Wohl, Hunger, Video, Food Kitchen, Meals on Wheels, Budget Cuts, Food Pantry, Hunger Action Month, Impact News

For the third consecutive year, Hunger Action Month has had to contend with a 1 in 6 hunger rate, the highest percentage since such monitoring began i...

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Food Banks Find New Ways To Fight Rising Costs, Including Charging For Produce

Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Kosher Soup Kitchen, Food Shortages, Food Pantries, Food Banks, Rising Food Costs, Food Costs, Soup Kitchen, Soup Kitchens, Food Shortage, Food Pantry, Food Waste, Food Bank, Good News, Food News

Food banks around the country are implementing new policies to combat rising food costs and food shortages as more people are struggling to get enough...

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Modern-Day Gleaners Pick Fruit Trees For Food Pantries (PHOTOS)

John Creston DuBois | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Gleaning, Food Pantry, Those Who Care, PATH Los Angeles, La Impact, People Assisting the Homeless, Helena David, Los Angeles News
John Creston DuBois

Helena David is on a mission. Her ambitious goal to pick and donate 100,000 pieces of fruit in one year for Southern California's underprivileged is already well underway.

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Obama Family Volunteers At Washington Food Pantry

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obamas Volunteer, Food Pantry, Food Banks, Turkey Pardon, Obama Turkey Pardon, Marthas Table, Hunger in America, Impact News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and his family have delivered turkeys that didn't receive a presidential pardon to a food pantry for the poo...

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DC Foodies Do Good: Social Club Gives Back, Inspired By Love Of Food

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dc Hunger, Food Pantries, Miriam's Kitchen, Holly Morris, Hunger in America, Hunger in Dc, Food Pantry, Dc Food Pantry, Dc Foodies Do Good, Video, Impact News

Robyn Webb and Line Storgaard-Conley love food -- they love eating it, writing about it, tweeting it, and introducing new recipes to their friends. A...

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An Unusually Meaty Menu At Skid Row Shelter

Los Angeles Times | Kate Linthicum, | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homeless Shelters, Homeless, Food Pantry, Food Pantries, Los-Angeles-Community-Action-Network, Homeless Shelter, Skid Row, Los Angeles News

On Monday night's dinner menu at the Union Rescue Mission: tacos made from elk, deer, sheep, wild pig, black bear and antelope....

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Why Are Americans Going Hungry? CNN Investigates

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kyra Phillips Hunger, Cnn Hunger, Kyra Phillips, Food Pantries, Hunger, Hunger in America, Food Pantry, Marianne Williamson, Hunger in the United States, Meredith Dodson, Cnn Broken Government, Project Angel Food, Results, Video, Impact News

According to a report from CNN's "Broken Government" series, four out of every 10 visitors to a food pantry is under 18, and 50% of food pantry visito...

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End World Hunger With Soup (Really!)

Paul Katz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Pepsi Refresh Project, Pepsi Co, Soup Kitchen, How to Solve World Hunger, Food Banks, World Hunger, Inc., Jamie Klein, Food Share, Hunger, Bonnie Weigel, Lynn Klein, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ending World Hunger, Food, Food Pantry, Hunger in the United States, Soup, Impact News
Paul Katz

Jamie and Lynn Klein, husband and wife co-founders of Soup Kitchen, Inc., have found a way to end world hunger. For every portion their company sells, an additional portion is donated to a shelter.

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Food Stamps In New York

David R. Jones, Esq. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Working Poor, New York City News, Food Pantry, Food Stamp Recipients, Food Stamps, New York City, New York News
David R. Jones, Esq.

Our food stamp policy is a holdover from the Giuliani's belief that benefits create dependency. The racist undertones of this policy -- given who is poor in this city -- are too obvious to ignore.

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New Yorkers Line Up Early For Thanksgiving Supplies At City Food Bank

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manhattan, Homeless, Food Pantry, New York, Food Bank, Thanksgiving Dinner, Feed the Hungry, Hungry, Thanksgiving, Video, Impact News

In the face of unemployment and tough economic conditions, food banks are serving more than ever this Thanksgiving. CNN visited an upper Manhattan pan...

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FOR SHAME: "Plastic Jug" Homeless Group A Scam

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, United Homeless Organization Scam, Andrew Cuomo, Charity, Soup Kitchen, Nonprofit, Food Pantry, Homeless Nonprofit, Uho, United Homeless Organization, Video, New York News

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - One of New York City's most visible homeless charities is a sham, according to the state's attorney general. Since th...

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