GREAT FALLS, Mont. - Cascade County is set to receive more emergency food and shelter funding. The United Way of Cascade County is set to distribute $25,823 to help boost non-profit funding this spring.
Eligible organizations could apply online to receive some of that money through the national Emergency Food and Shelter program. A local board of representatives from the American Red Cross, Opportunities Inc., and the Salvation Army are working to directly buy food and provide shelter for low-income and homeless people in the area.
Local farmers and ranchers hope people in outlying towns like Monarch, Neihart, Sun River, and Vaughn turn to them for support as well.
In 2012, Food Bank of the Rockiesâ Western Slope branch relocated from Grand Junction to a larger, more spacious warehouse in Palisade that would serve as its base of operations.
At the time, the branch was distributing more than 3.5 million pounds of food annually through various drives and sponsors. It was doing terrific work in the community, but the sponsors knew there was a larger need out there, one that a new facility might help them address.
In 2020, a year plagued by the coronavirus and economic woes, the branch distributed nearly 10 million pounds of food. Three and a half months into 2021, itâs distributed nearly 14 million pounds, a 289% increase since the relocation. Count the move as a success.
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Lisbon
Proverbs food bank, 9-9:30 a.m., St. George, 117 W. Chestnut
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WED/4-21
Park board, 6 p.m., muni building
Eagles, drive-thru beef tips and noodles, 4-6 p.m. or gone, $10, $9 if over 65, preorder at 853-8483
USDA plans to end the food box program that has routed 157 million pounds of surplus food to needy people over the past year.
The Farmers to Families Food Box Program will sunset at the end of May when the funding runs out, a USDA spokesperson said April 15.
USDA will continue to make commodity purchases, including through a temporary fresh produce box program and a Dairy Donation Program that is in development.
USDA created the food box program with stimulus funding early in the pandemic. Farmers were battered by the loss of food service markets, many people were newly out of work, and Food Box offered a new supply chain to meet those needs.
Food boxes with fresh produce to be given away in Jackson
April 18, 2021
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Thousands of food boxes of fresh produce will be available for pick-up at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds in Jackson on Wednesday. The food is being provided as part of a federal program to support families who have lost income during the coronavirus pandemic.
“A lot of our citizens are still struggling with health and loss of work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson said in a press release.
The nearly 2,600 boxes will contain meat, milk, cheese, yogurt, potatoes and apples, provided by M. Palazola Produce Co. in Memphis. Those receiving a food box will also receive two and a half dozen eggs from Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., of Jackson.