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.”
A non-profit in Beloit works to make sure school staff look a lot more like the students.
Grow Your Own Scholarship Program Committee Member and McNeel Intermediate School Principal Michelle Hendrix-Nora says students of color who major in education with the intention of returning to Beloit to teach can earn up to $5000 a year for tuition.
Hendrix-Nora says the program is funded through donations with a major contribution from former State Senator Tim Cullen launching the program.
The scholarship is administered by the Stateline Community Foundation.
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