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MISSOULA -- Backpacks are usually filled with books, but the Montana Food Bank Network is using them for something different. In an effort to help fight childhood hunger and food insecurity in Montana, MFBN is filling backpacks with food for students to bring home on the weekend. In 2019, 15.9% of children in Montana didnt know where their next meal would come from, but this program supports 131 schools across the state, helping around 5,000 students in need. Each bag has breakfast, lunch and a...

Events Share Tri-Town Bookmobile visiting libraries Maine School Administration District 60 will participate in a “Take Your Child to the Library Day” event this Saturday, featuring visits by the the Tri-Town Bookmobile to three participating public libraries in the district. The bookmobile will visit the D. A. Hurd Library, the Berwick Public Library, and the Martha Sawyer Community Library in Lebanon for a “stuff the bus” food drive. Non-perishable items collected from the D. A. Hurd ...

LUIS ANDRES HENAO In this provided by Anthony Love, Hunter Weertman, 16, left, works alongside a fellow student to stock the refrigerator in the student-led free grocery store at Linda Tutt High School on Nov. 20, 2020, in Sanger, Texas. The store provides food, toiletries and household items to students, faculty and community members in need. (Anthony Love via AP) Traditional school stores might offer snacks and knickknacks, school gear and notebooks — but the one at Linda Tutt High School...

Traditional school stores might offer snacks and knickknacks, school gear and notebooks — but the one at Linda Tutt High School in Sanger, Texas, has a very different inventory and clientele. At Linda Tutt you can get everything from produce, milk and eggs to pasta, peanut butter and canned goods to dishwasher soap and laundry detergent. Students and staff can shop there, but on Tuesdays the store is open to the community. And it’s all free. “I like seeing their smiles, seeing ho...

Teaching The Value Of Giving Back, Student-Run Free Grocery Store In Sanger Feeds Town’s Hungry Syndicated Local – CBS Dallas / Fort Worth SANGER, Texas (AP) – Traditional school stores might offer snacks and knickknacks, school gear and notebooks – but the one at Linda Tutt High School in Sanger, has a very different inventory and clientele. At Linda Tutt you can get everything from produce, milk and eggs to pasta, peanut butter and canned goods to dishwasher soap and ...

Student-run free grocery store helps feed Texas towns hungry The idea is to provide students with job skills, and at the same time help students, staff and community residents who are in need. Author: LUIS ANDRES HENAO (Associated Press) Published: 10:30 AM CST January 26, 2021 Updated: 10:30 AM CST January 26, 2021 SANGER, Texas — Traditional school stores might offer snacks and knickknacks, school gear and notebooks — but the one at Linda Tu...

Washington and Lee University hosts ninth annual Souper Bowl Published Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, 12:00 am Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP | Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Front Page » Local/State » Washington and Lee University hosts ninth annual Souper Bowl Washington and Lee University and community members plan to tackle childhood hunger in the Rockbridge area one soup bowl...

Pittsburgher of the Year: Lisa Scales As the leader of the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, Scales has mobilized the organization to feed the vulnerable members of our community amid a pandemic that threatens their survival. January 21, 2021 The rain fell relentlessly as the line of cars inched into the parking lot, backed up further than Lisa Scales could see. Peering through fogged-up glasses, she walked up to each car and asked the driver where she should put the box of food. “In th...

Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Honored With Backpack Program EngageAR AmeriCorps awarded a grant to SAU+VISTA to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. as a National Day of Service. SAU+VISTA Fellows purchased food items for the Magnolia Junior Charity League Backpack Program.  The Backpack Program currently services 80 children in K-6th grade at Magnolia School District and Emerson School District through their partnership with Harvest Food Bank. They also provide a food pantry, located...

The Saratoga blog By Wendy Liberatore on January 12, 2021 at 6:51 PM Every purchase of clothing, stationary or gifts from Nourish Designs, a small business in Ballston Spa, will provide a meal for a child through the Regional Food Bank of Northeast New York. Sales of the hats, sweatshirts and other items that are imprinted with original hand-drawn mandala by Betsy Phelps Seplowitz have thus far provided 26,164 meals for kids through the BackPack Program and the School Pantry Pr...