As part of the company’s ongoing efforts to fight hunger, Darden Restaurants has partnered with Feeding America® to enhance mobile food pantry programs in areas with higher levels of food insecurity, including communities of color.
Through a $500,000 grant from the Darden Restaurants, Inc. Foundation and additional support from Darden’s partners, Penske Truck Leasing and Lineage Logistics, five Feeding America food banks will each receive a 26-foot refrigerated box truck to help increase access to nutritious food and address transportation needs.
“This mobile pantry will make a huge difference in the amount of people we can reach and how often we can reach them,” said Dave Krepcho, president and CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida.
Darden Restaurants Helps Feeding America® Food Banks In Five States Add Mobile Food Pantries To Serve Communities In Need
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ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ As part of the company s ongoing efforts to fight hunger, Darden Restaurants has partnered with Feeding America® to enhance mobile food pantry programs in areas with higher levels of food insecurity, including communities of color. Through a $500,000 grant from the Darden Restaurants, Inc. Foundation and additional support from Darden s partners, Penske Truck Leasing and Lineage Logistics, five Feeding America food banks will each receive a 26-foot refrigerated box truck to help increase access to nutritious food and address transportation needs.
Senior Editor - Restaurants Grant from charitable arm of Olive Garden parent company will help increase access to food through mobile food pantries.
As part of the company s ongoing efforts to fight hunger, Darden Restaurants has partnered with Feeding America to enhance mobile food pantry programs in areas with higher levels of food insecurity, including communities of color. Through a $500,000 grant from the Darden Restaurants, Inc. Foundation and additional support from Darden s partners, Penske Truck Leasing and Lineage Logistics, five Feeding America food banks will each receive a 26-foot refrigerated box truck to help increase access to nutritious food and address transportation needs.
WOODSTOCK, N.B. Break-ins have become commonplace at a food bank in Woodstock. Countless mornings have been spent cleaning up outside as donation bins, storage barns, and refrigerated vehicles have all been hit by petty thieves. There was like 40 bags that I had to bag back up again in order to bring them in for us to go through, said Roselee Nicholson, the Valley Food Bank supervisor. Some of them get strewn outside. They leave it open, so the snow gets in and they get wet and we can t use them because we don t have a washer and dryer. We end up throwing them in the garbage which is a waste of stuff that people could use.
Feeding the Valley Food Bank gets $40K grant
Good News: Feeding the Valley Food Bank gets $40K grant By WALB News Team | January 19, 2021 at 12:18 PM EST - Updated January 19 at 8:03 PM
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WALB) - Feeding the Valley Food Bank got a $40,000 grant from CVS Health, as part of the food bankâs commitment to building healthier communities, the food bank said in a release.
The funding will provide 240,000 meals to families in the food bankâs 18-county service area. This includes Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Lee, Quitman, Randolph, Stewart, Terrell and Webster counties.
âDuring this extraordinary time as we navigate through a global pandemic, food insecurity is on the rise nationwide. Feeding America estimates that 50 million people in the United States are now food insecure,â said Frank Sheppard, Feeding the Valley president and CEO. âFeeding the Valley is distributing 53 percent more food during this health crisis and serving people who have neve