By Logan Rude
May 4, 2021 | 9:46 AM
MADISON, Wis. Second Harvest Foodbank has received a $4,000 grant to continue funding a mobile food pantry in southern Wisconsin.
The hunger-relief charity announced Tuesday that the organization has received funding from The Stateline Community Foundation’s Community Impact Grant Program to put toward a mobile food pantry in Beloit.
“The reason for the mobile pantry is simple: with free groceries, Beloit area residents are able to stretch their finances to pay for housing, medicine, and utilities,” Second Harvest President & CEO Michelle Orge said. “There also able to stretch their minds to do well in school and at work.”
Second Harvest Food Bank receives grant to continue Beloit mobile food pantry
May 4, 2021 9:46 AM Logan Rude
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MADISON, Wis. Second Harvest Foodbank has received a $4,000 grant to continue funding a mobile food pantry in southern Wisconsin.
The hunger-relief charity announced Tuesday that the organization has received funding from The Stateline Community Foundation’s Community Impact Grant Program to put toward a mobile food pantry in Beloit.
“The reason for the mobile pantry is simple: with free groceries, Beloit area residents are able to stretch their finances to pay for housing, medicine, and utilities,” Second Harvest President & CEO Michelle Orge said. “There also able to stretch their minds to do well in school and at work.”
Second Harvest Food Bank in need of volunteers
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â The Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee is in need of volunteers in Nashville, Smyrna and Camden.
The food bank has seen a large increase in demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Officials say one-in-six families including one-in-five children in the mid-state are struggling to put food on the table.
âAs we go into the Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, we hope that our friends will extend the national day of service and commitment throughout the coming weeks as we work to help our neighbors in need,â Second Harvest President and CEO Nancy Keil said in a press release. âThe demand for food assistance is at an all-time high with a 50 percent increase heading into the new year, and weâre doing all we can to get nutritious food out to our neighbors. Weâre hopeful that our friends will answer the call as they did last year and suppor
Mary Hance, also known as Ms. Cheap, is a columnist for The Tennessean.
Just when I thought that this year s Ms. Cheap Penny Drive for Second Harvest would underperform because of the pandemic, a sort of Secret Santa stepped in with a surprise $300,000 donation to the food bank.
My friend Jimmy Kelly s Steakhouse owner Mike Kelly, a longtime supporter of Second Harvest, called me saying that he had good news for the penny drive.
He didn t tell me much more except that he was on the board of a foundation that would have a nice donation to my annual favorite cause.
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