Funding Cuts to Shut 15 Food Pantries All Communities Will Have Access to Food, Organizers PromiseThe Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank will close 15 foodpantries in the Pittsburgh area...Disare, Monica
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank works with 30 local schools' food pantries. Brashear High School in the Pittsburgh Public Schools district is one of them. Back in February of this year, Brashear teachers Chrissy Wolski and Megan Perfetti saw a need and decided ...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Farmers across the Pittsburgh area are teaming up with the food bank to help families in need. The effort will make local produce more accessible to those families. Volunteers will gather produce donations each week from farmers' markets then deliver them to food pantries. ...
The faith-based community center provides primarily food and clothing, but also offers a host of other services. One extra feature they have that other food pantries don't is an outdoor locker system. The food bank installed the first set of lockers at its facility in Duquesne, then selecte...
The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank can aid you in completing the application. “Our call center can also assist people in a variety of ways, including helping people find pantries and food resources near them, signing up for SNAP and connecting them with our partners who can help w...
17 In 2001, as part of its nutrition program, Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank assessed the self-reported needs of the clientele it served. The survey found that 25% of African-American clients had high blood pressure and 25% of white clients older than the age of 59 years had ...
“Food banks and food pantries are doing great work,” says FRAC president Luis Guardia. But in the current crisis, he added, “they simply cannot do enough….” Anti-hunger groups have pressed Congress for a 15 percent increase in a government assistance program called food stamps. A simil...
The Tri-State Food Bank partners with over 250 feeding programs including 127 food pantries, 22 soup kitchens, 8 shelters, 5 day care centers, 95 schools, and many community sites for mobile food distributions Volunteers are Vital Photo byJoel MunizonUnsplash ...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- We're now a month into the 42nd annualKDKA-TV Turkey Fund, and just four weeks away from Thanksgiving. There are so many people in our area who depend on their local food pantries week after week, and it's your donations to the Turkey Fund that help them have...
That is amazing! Broome County CHOW serves over 100 local pantries and meal sites. That's why we need your help for CHOW to continue to assist families in need. Townsquare MediaWe are easy to spot in the Weis parking lot with the CHOW truck and an Oliver's of Norwich & Lafayette, ...