Join Us in Advocating for the Support Our Communities Need
Jason Kanawati Stephany2025-02-21T18:19:24-05:00
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09, 2024
Food Lion Drives Toward a Summer Without Hunger
Jason Kanawati Stephany2024-09-20T16:33:35-04:00Major new efforts help to connect more children and families throughout the region to nutritious food There's a reason you see the Food Bank and Food Lion together so frequently – it’s a relationship that goes back decades and one that’s very important across North Carolina and beyond. Volunteers from [...]
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07, 2024
From Our Board Chair: We Must Dig Deeper to Respond to the Worsening Hunger Crisis
Jason Kanawati Stephany2024-07-25T19:02:04-04:00When our national network released its annual update on hunger prevalence recently, many observers in the media and even government were surprised. But for those of us on the front lines, the fact that 1 in 7 people are struggling with food insecurity has been our reality for quite some time. [...]
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06, 2024
Resources and Action to Help Stop Summer Hunger
Jason Kanawati Stephany2025-04-25T15:50:07-04:00FIND FOOD DONATE VOLUNTEER For families facing food insecurity, summer has long marked a time when kids no longer have easy access to breakfast and lunch at school. Many parents and caregivers have to come up with [...]
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05, 2024
Juneteenth: A time to celebrate freedom — and the work ahead to truly achieve it
Jason Kanawati Stephany2024-08-03T17:08:43-04:00Juneteenth is a celebration to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. Short for June Nineteenth, the holiday is observed every year on the 19th of June. Also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, it's a time to celebrate Black liberation and honor [...]
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05, 2024
SUN Bucks: Summer Hunger Relief Coming to North Carolina!
Jennifer Caslin2025-05-20T12:55:33-04:00For the 1 in 5 North Carolina kids facing food insecurity, the summer months can be particularly challenging. With school out and limited transportation options, many families have to find a way to provide up 10 additional meals each week — a prospect that can have profound impact on children’s health and [...]
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09, 2022
Community Partnerships Nourish Children and Families
Jennifer Caslin2022-09-13T13:19:02-04:00It's the last week of school for Maureen Joy Charter school in Durham. The school’s Executive Director Mark Bailey sits in a Kindergarten classroom preparing to distribute boxes of non-perishable food and produce to families of those children. Maureen Joy partnered with Durham Children’s Initiative and the Food Bank to provide these essentials to 200 [...]
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05, 2022
Kids Summer Meals: One Part of the Solution to Summer Hunger 2022
Jennifer Caslin2022-05-27T14:51:52-04:00Kids Summer Meals (KSM) provides families with children and teens ages 2-17 an additional resource for healthy, nutritious meals for children during the summer months. The Food Bank has sponsored the program since summer 2009 and through it, have provided nearly 1.8 million meals. KSM sites typically offer breakfast and/or lunch for children when school [...]
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05, 2022
Peter: Kids Will Be Counting Days Until School Starts Again
Jennifer Caslin2022-05-27T14:50:18-04:00Although this is the 14th year of our Stop Summer Hunger initiative, it never gets easier to face the fact that hundreds and thousands of children will be worrying about where their next meal will come from. Rather than looking forward to an extended break from homework and responsibilities, they will be counting down the [...]
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05, 2022
Advocating to Get Kids the Meals They Need
Jennifer Caslin2022-05-27T14:39:59-04:00In our Food Bank’s 34-county service area, more than 300,000 children are eligible for free and reduced-priced meals at school. When the COVID-19 crisis began, it was these kids and teens that our Programs team here at the Food Bank thought about first: what happens for them and their families if schools close, and after-school [...]