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 the back seat or the trunk?”
Once the provisions were loaded up, she asked, “How are you holding up?”
Kristina Serafini | Tribune-Review
Volunteers carry boxes of food to awating vehicles at Bethel Park High School during a drive-through food distribution hosted by South Hills Interfaith Movement in partnership with the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. The distribution had enough food to feed 1,000 families. Each vehicle received boxes of non-perishable food as well as meat, dairy items and vegetables.
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Since its inception, the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank has evolved beyond emergency food assistance and providing non-perishable food items to distributing more than 12 million pounds of fresh produce in 2020.