food bank
an agency, group, or center that collects food and distributes it to people experiencing food insecurity.
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Meanwhile thousands of newly unemployed Americans, including those from the upended food and farming sectors, were forced to join record food bank lines.
We Can End Hunger in America—If We're Willing to Make Significant Changes to Our Food System | Pierre Ferrari | January 29, 2021 | Time“Stimulus checks arrived, time for a big food bank donation,” tweeted one woman last week.
Cutting off stimulus checks to Americans earning over $75,000 could be wise, new data suggests | Heather Long | January 26, 2021 | Washington PostBezos and the Zuckerbergs made up the next spots on last year’s top 10 list, with $100 million donations—Bezos for Feeding America to aid food banks across the country and the Zuckerbergs to the same election security group.
Jeff Bezos made the single-largest charitable donation of 2020, toward climate change | lbelanger225 | January 5, 2021 | FortunePeople who once volunteered at food banks are turning to them to feed their families.
The coronavirus has made this the neediest holiday season | Oriana Gonzalez | December 25, 2020 | AxiosFeeding America says many of the people showing up at food banks are first timers.
‘We are struggling’: Unemployed Americans face a bleak Christmas | Lee Clifford | December 24, 2020 | Fortune
He has close ties with the city political establishment and serves more than 200 needy families a week through his food bank.
It could mean the difference between groceries or the food bank.
Obama Pivots Left on Economy in State of the Union Speech | Daniel Gross | February 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTShe is a strong supporter of Partners in Health, Share Our Strength, and The Greater Boston food bank.
And so, to survive, she started showing up at the Amarillo Resource Center food bank, in the windswept Texas Panhandle.
And those were $500 sneakers she sported at a food-bank event.
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