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 »
Posts Tagged: food donations
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 »
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 »
The Holidays Are Over But Hunger Is Still Here
The holidays are over and a new year is upon us. The year 2011 will bring new beginnings for many, however, for others the challenges of getting enough food to eat will remain. Giving during the holiday season is great but donations are needed throughout the year because hunger never takes a vacation. As the food… 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 »
Filling the Thanksgiving table
How did the Capital Area Food Bank impact the lives of people dealing with hunger this Thanksgiving? Read what they had to say: – “I didn’t know how I was going to afford a Thanksgiving meal.”- “This donation is a great blessing.”- “Now my family can sit down together to give our thanks and show… 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 »
Support Food2Feed this Thanksgiving!
With one week until Thanksgiving, many of us are thinking about our favorite holiday dish–whether it is creamy mac-n-cheese, flavorful oyster stuffing, that ever-present turkey, or any of the many wonderful foods that we associate with time with our family and friends. But what about the 641,000 individuals in the DC Metropolitan Area who are… Read more »
Three Ways To Help This Holiday Season
Are you interested in getting involved with the Capital Area Food Bank this holiday season? Here are three easy ways to get started! 1. Donate Food -Host a food drive: download the food drive kit. -Donate to an existing food drive, check out our current campaigns. 2. Donate Time -You can volunteer at either of… Read more »
CANstruction 2010
Few words can really capture the ingenuity behind CANstruction 2010. During this annual friendly competition, area architecture and design firms created structures made entirely from canned goods hinged together with tape and cardboard. The structures were unbelievably impressive and held together for an astonishing three weeks. On October 2nd, the various sculptures were judged by a… Read more »