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The Marblehead Community Public Charter School is helping Food for Free s Just Eats grocery box program help the food insecure in Marblehead, Nahant, Lynn, Salem, Peabody and Beverly. (Shutterstock)
MARBLEHEAD, MA Food-insecure families on the North Shore are getting some help this spring from a collaboration between the Marblehead Community Charter Public School and the Cambridge-based Food for Free s Just Eats grocery box program.
The Just Eats Grocery box program, which launched in December of last year, fills in the gap left by a distribution problem with the USDA s Farmers to Families food box program, which now has very limited availability in Massachusetts.
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$170,000 grants will fill critical gap for 3,000 food insecure families in Greater Boston via Food For Free s new grocery box program
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Life Science Cares Boston and the Biogen Foundation have teamed up as inaugural sponsors of Food For Free s new Just Eats Grocery Box program, a $170,000 effort to reduce food insecurity for 3,000 area families, starting this month. To launch Just Eats, Life Science Cares, the life science industry platform for giving back, has committed $50,000, and the Biogen Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Cambridge-based neuroscience pioneer Biogen Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB), has committed $100,000, matching the $50,000 from Life Science Cares and donating an additional $50,000 to combatting food insecurity for children in Greater Boston. Committing an additional $20,000 toward the program is Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., the largest and preeminent owner, operator, and developer of collaborative life
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