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Friday, September 25, 2020 This week, Lois Thome, Harry Chapin Food Bank Board Member and WINK News anchor, sat down with Kari Lefort, Director of Programs, to discuss the state…

Friday, September 18, 2020 Last month, your food bank served more than a quarter of a million people. The logistics required to serve a quarter of a million people is…

Friday, September 11, 2020 It seems impossible to not take a moment to reflect on what happened in our country nineteen years ago today. The unimaginable attacks forever changed our…

Friday, September 4, 2020 This week your food bank distributed 1,019,241 pounds of food throughout our five-county footprint! Richard LeBer, our President and CEO, had a Zoom chat with Lois…

Friday, August 28, 2020 With schools scheduled to re-open next week, parents, teachers and students will be facing unique challenges as they navigate this unusual back-to-school experience. We have been…

Friday, August 21, 2020 Nearly half of the total amount of food that your food bank distributed this week was fresh produce. In fact, we distributed 316,082 pounds of fresh…

Friday, August 14, 2020 Yesterday, late in the afternoon, our Routing Logistics Manager, Ken, had a text exchange (shown above) with one of our partner organizations located in Charlotte County.…

Friday, August 7, 2020 Your food bank continues to juggle supply and demand issues. We are ordering food at a pace of $300,000 a week and yet not receiving the…

Friday, July 31, 2020 This week your food bank has had its eye on Hurricane Isaias and yet we fervently worked to distribute 905,576 pounds of food into our five-county…

Friday, July 24, 2020 The world has been turned upside down due to the Coronavirus and Harry Chapin Food Bank has not been immune from the effects of this pandemic.…