For the second year, the garden at Children of Mine in Southeast D.C. is thriving. This collaboration of From the Ground Up in the Community and Children of Mine teaches children in urban areas about the importance of healthy eating, nutrition and growing fresh produce. To kick-off our summer healthy eating series of recipes, below [...]
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Food Donations Have Slowed For the past couple of weeks, the Capital Area Food Bank has seen nonperishable food donations decline. This seems to be a seasonal phenomenon where donations soar from the fall months through the winter, but decline from spring into summer. Hunger takes no vacation, so we need your help. You can [...]
Be on the lookout for Hunger Awareness billboards in the D.C. metro area featuring art by Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the red, white and blue print of President Barack Obama while he was running for office. Fairey, a renowned contemporary artist has created an original piece of art (featuring his daughter) for Feeding America [...]
This year you can follow what’s going on at the Blue Jeans Ball via Twitter by searching for the hashtag #bluejeansball. Our friends at iStrategyLabs will be using 12seconds.tv to grab quick insights from attendees about how an event like the Blue Jeans Ball impacts the issue of hunger. These insights will be automatically tweeted out [...]
Hunger in America 2010, the most comprehensive study examining emergency food assistance was released today by the Capital Area Food Bank and Feeding America. Not surprising, the number of people in the Washington metro area has increased significantly – 25 percent, since 2006. The CAFB is now serving over 478,000 people through a network of [...]
This editorial ran in the Washington Post on Monday, January 18, 2010 30 cheers for the Food Bank Monday, January 18, 2010; A16 Washington Post MIXED EMOTIONS accompany the 30th anniversary of the founding of Washington’s Capital Area Food Bank. There is, of course, gratitude to an organization that has done so much to make [...]
If you’ve not seen a Food Glorious Food calendar created by Zenith Community Arts Foundation, you are missing a delicious treat. In its fifth year, the calendar presents food as art each month of the year and is accompanied by creative recipes provided by local restaurants and chefs. The art depicted represents various artists from [...]
Last Thursday, the greater Washington, DC community joined WHUR, Giant, SunTrust, Verizon and McDonald’s for another Food2Feed campaign. It was an all day event at the Old Post Office Pavilion on 12th and Penn that generated $70,000 to feed families at risk of hunger this Thanksgiving! We salute each person and organization that donated food [...]
Recently, American Airlines approached the Capital Area Food Bank to let us know that they were blown away by the information they learned as they toured our D.C. facility; and they wanted to do something to help. They had no idea that hunger was so prevalent in our community. We hear that often from first time visitors [...]
Have you ever been too busy to eat? Well for many children, adults and seniors in the Washington metro area, eating is not always optional. It’s very different to skip lunch because you have a work deadline and to skip lunch because there is no food in your refrigerator. I’d like to suggest an easy [...]