Mark your calendar! The 19th Annual National Association Of Letter Carriers’ Food Drive is this Saturday, May 14th. You can help nourish those struggling with hunger in three easy steps: Collect a bag full of non-perishable foods. Leave the bag at your mailbox on Saturday, May 14th – your local letter carrier will pick up the… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Food Drives
Move For Hunger
On Friday, March 18th Adam Lowy and Jason Taetsch from Move For Hunger visited the Capital Area Food Bank! Founded by the Lowy Family, Move For Hunger – a nonprofit organization that links local moving companies with food banks – encourages clients to donate unopened food during the moving process and offers to deliver their… Read more »
Bring In Your Boxes. Get A Free Bowl.
Any plans for this weekend? Why don’t you join Noodles and Company in supporting the Capital Area Food Bank! On Sunday, March 27th and Monday, March 28th Noodles and Company is offering a free bowl of their signature Mac and Cheese or one of their new special flavors in exchange for a donation of three boxes… Read more »
Local Fitness Company Hosts Food Drive for CAFB
Local personal training company The Body You Want is hosting a protein drive for the CAFB. Owner Josef Brandenburg believes that this is a perfect time for people to get in shape while helping those in need. Brandenburg is asking the community to bring non-perishable protein to 1070 Thomas Jefferson Street, NW. The Body You… Read more »
Harvest for the Hungry Food Drive
Here is an easy way to gear up for Valentine’s Day and share a little love with your local food bank. This Saturday, February 12th from 9 AM – 12 PM stop by a participating Safeway store to make a much needed food donation as part of the Harvest for Hungry Food Drive. As you make your… Read more »
Fitness Food Drive for the Food Bank
A blog entry by Capital Area Food Bank Consultant Grant Thompson. During a bout with pneumonia in 2007, I came very close to dying. My recovery was exquisitely slow and humiliating: When I came home from two months in the hospital ICU, I had to use a walker for support and crawled up stairs on… Read more »
STOMP Out Hunger
I am not sure what I expected to see last Thursday when I wandered over to the Georgetown Safeway store after work to catch a special mini-performance from the cast of STOMP. I was excited to see what this group of talented performers could pull together in the aisles of Safeway. As 6:30 PM approached, a… Read more »
It Takes A Hockey Team
Recently, the Washington Capitals sponsored a canned food drive benefiting the food bank at the Verizon Center. I haven’t been to a hockey game since the early 1990’s and I did not know what to expect. Every team has a personality and I was about to experience Capitals personality at its best! The Caps were… Read more »
Come Out and Help Stuff A Truck!
Come out today and join Giant Food, Fox 5, CBS Radio and YRCI as they collect food and funds for the Capital Area Food Bank. You can drop off your nonperishable food items to any of the following four Giant locations: 1. Brentwood Giant Center; 1050 Brentwood Road NE, Washington, DC 2. Montrose Crossing Giant; 12051 Rockville… Read more »
Thanks To Our Donors!
During this time of giving thanks, we, here at the Capital Area Food Bank, are so thankful to the many community members that responded to our needs and provided food donations over the past year. We received donations from individuals, offices, religious organizations, area schools, and many other organizations just in time for the Thanksgiving… Read more »