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Giving From a Heart That Knows Hardship
We often see faces in a line or names on a sign in sheet, but behind each one is a…
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Sylvia’s Experience Shows How Food Partnerships Support Real Families
Sylvia Simon didn’t imagine she would be raising six grandchildren while dealing with disability, long-term illness, and a fixed income.…
Learn MoreMeet the ODonnells, A Family Growing Beyond Their Past
We don’t always get to meet the people we serve or hear real stories of their daily lives. Often, the…
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For Community Brickworks, a Midwest Food Bank Georgia nonprofit partner, providing food is about more than keeping pantry shelves stocked. It is about neighbors showing up for one another when circumstances make everyday life more difficult. “While our organization reaches into the community in many different ways, the Pantry remains at the heart of who […]
Sometimes trying something new means not knowing what to expect. That was the case when Midwest Food Bank New England hosted its first Hand-in-Hand Open House & Volunteer Expo in August. The team hoped the event would introduce new people to Midwest Food Bank while also connecting guests with other nonprofits serving the community. With […]
The inventory at Midwest Food Bank New England is always changing, but a recent delivery brought something even our team had not encountered before: buckwheat groats. An anonymous donor wanted more people to experience buckwheat as an alternative to common grains and provided a grant to purchase an entire truckload from North Dakota. Despite its […]
Since 2023, Ed O’Brien has been a familiar face at Midwest Food Bank New England. Around the warehouse, he has also earned a fitting nickname: the “Box Man.” Ed’s reason for volunteering goes back much further. During nearly three years in the military, Ed served in Vietnam, where he remembers seeing children picking food out […]
Midwest Food Bank’s Board of Directors has officially approved opening the Tri-State Division, based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The decision moves the Sioux Falls food bank plan into a new stage: establishing a local distribution center to support nonprofit partners across South Dakota, northwest Iowa, and southwest Minnesota. Midwest Food Bank already serves the […]
