Bickering over SNAP limits on junk food might prove to be an exercise in futility if new findings from Cooking Matters are accurate. According to a recently released report, low-income families are more often than not preparing meals from scratch and avoiding takeout options altogether. Cooking Matters, a program sponsored by Share our Strength that [...]
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Through its annual Round Up Hunger campaign, Safeway is once again proving that a little change can go a long way toward helping those in need. This is how the campaign works. When Safeway customers throughout the Washington metro area are checking out at the cash register, they will be able to round up their [...]
Picture this—you’re lining up at the local food pantry’s weekly grocery distribution expecting to get a bag filled with dried macaroni, peanut butter and canned tuna. To your excitement, the bag you receive is filled with fresh produce—plump and fragrant tomatoes, bright orange carrots and crisp lettuce. What’s more, you find out that in addition [...]
The staff of the Capital Area Food Bank recently held a celebration honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorating the food bank’s 32 years of service. Founded on MLK Jr.’s birthday, the food bank’s work is guided by his words. Dr. King’s words speak to an interdependent and interconnected world. “We are caught in an [...]
Thirty-two years ago on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday – January 15 – the Capital Area Food Bank opened its doors in response to an immediate need in the Washington metro area. The idea for the food bank was conceived a year earlier by the Interfaith Conference and the United Planning Organization in response to [...]
Two thousand twelve marks the Capital Area Food Bank’s 32nd anniversary. In our years of service, we have seen the ebb and flow of the economy, changes in government policies, the erosion of jobs and many other forces that have overwhelmed hundreds of thousands of residents here in the Washington metro area. The food bank [...]
Chelsea Lowe is an Ambassador Volunteer for the Capital Area Food Bank. For more on our Ambassador Volunteer Program, click here. While home for winter break from my sophomore year at the University of South Carolina, I decided to forego my usual activities which normally consist of being glued to the TV catching up on [...]
All day Monday through Friday, I’m “the lady who does the referrals.” I’m called “Catherine,” “Kathleen,” “Cathy,” “the hunger hotline” and was once even called “the turkey hookup.” (I don’t do that by the way.) I go by many names at work but the job I do each day is essentially the same. As the [...]
In November, Mayor Vincent Gray launched the working group phase of Sustainable DC, an initiative to investigate what the district is doing well and what further steps need to be taken to create a greener, healthier, more livable city. Working groups comprised of experts in the private and public sectors will develop goals and plans [...]
Updated December 19, 2011 Capital Area Food Bank President and CEO Lynn Brantley was honored today at the White House as a Champion of Change. She was among ten local leaders who were highlighted for their efforts in improving the lives of others through charitable work, faith and advocacy. The Champions of Change program was [...]