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The Tea Area Community Foundation recently awarded nearly $9,000 in grants to help local nonprofit organizations. “Our endowment fund continues to grow because of strong community support, allowing us to award grants for a variety of exceptional projects and causes that will truly make an impact,” the TACF announced. “Interest in our grants was exceptionally high, with applications far exceeding the amount of money that was available.” The TACF typically presents the grants to recipients at its
Tea Community Food Distribution Feb. 25
Food Response team began providing supplemental food to members of the community in need. At that time it was a subcommittee of the Tea Area Food Pantry. Although the stress of Covid continues to affect a large group, the reality is that food insecurity in the area is something that will likely not go away.
According to feedingsouthdakota.org, food insecurity refers to USDA’s measure of lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members and limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate foods.
Food insecure households are not necessarily food insecure all the time. Food insecurity may reflect a household’s need to make trade-offs between important basic needs, such as housing or medical bills, and purchasing nutritionally adequate foods.