Press Releases Archive

11/14/16 – NFL Football Player and Food Bank Get Turkey Onto the Tables of Hometown Families in Need
Tavon Wilson, safety for the Detroit Lions, and his family will deliver Thanksgiving turkeys and other holiday foods in his hometown neighborhood of Deanwood in Washington, DC.

11/3/16 – Food Bank Ups Efforts to Prevent Diabetes
The Capital Area Food Bank applauds Medicare for its decision to start paying to help prevent diabetes, and announced that it will put 2.5 million pounds of food, including fruits, vegetables, and protein, into its programs for senior citizens across the region.

8/11/16 – CAFB Provides Relief After Gas Explosion
In the aftermath of an explosion that injured several and displaced almost one hundred people from their homes, the Capital Area Food Bank delivered food and hope to victims of an explosion in Silver Spring today.

8/8/16 – Food Bank, BrightFarms, and Giant Fighting Hunger Through Supply Chain Innovation
BrightFarms, a startup creating the first national brand of local produce, has begun donating greens directly to the Capital Area Food Bank through a partnership brokered by Giant Food, the exclusive regional retailer of BrightFarms’ products.

8/5/16 – Bright Farms Partners with CAFB to Nourish Washington Area
BrightFarms, a startup creating the first national brand of local produce, will donate 24 pallets of fresh arugula, spring mix and lettuce greens to the Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB), on Friday, August 5th.

8/4/16 – Capital Area Food Bank Receives $25,000 Grant From Hunger Is to Fight Childhood Hunger
The $25,000 Hunger Is grant will go towards feeding children in the local community living in households that struggle to provide sufficient healthy meals, including supporting daily breakfast. The grant will allow the CAFB to include breakfast foods in the weekend bags it sends home weekly with about 460 children at 10 partner sites across Northern Virginia.

8/1/16 – Capital Area Food Bank received $350,000 from Our Family Foundation by Giant Food
The Capital Area Food Bank recently received a $350,000 grant from Our Family Foundation by Giant Food, LLC as part of their new three-year Fighting Child Hunger initiative to increase access to nutritious food for children in need of healthier diets.

7/18/16 – Food Bank Announces Cracks Down on Junk Food | Watch Videos Here
The Capital Area Food Bank will dramatically cut back on the junk food, full calorie soda, left-over holiday candy, and sheet cake it receives and distributes as part of a broader effort to improve its food supply, the organization announced today.
“With so many of those we serve struggling with diabetes or heart disease, we have a real moral imperative to improve our food stream,” said Nancy E. Roman, CEO of the CAFB. “And we can’t do it without our largest food donors.”

7/15/16 – Food Bank Announces Crackdown on Junk Food
The Capital Area Food Bank serves 12% of the region’s total population. Nearly half of those served by the food bank have high blood pressure or live with someone who does, and another quarter are diabetic or living with a diabetic. The CAFB is committed to providing a balanced offering of foods to those it reaches, contributing to community wellness.

7/12/16 – Tyson Foods, LULAC to Donate Truckload of Protein to Capital Area Food Bank
Tyson Foods, Inc. and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) are donating a truckload of protein to the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, D.C. The food will go directly to helping feed the more than 700,000 Washington area residents who are at risk of hunger. The protein will be delivered to the food bank prior to the media event, which will take place at the 2016 LULAC National Convention & Exposition.

6/23/2016 – Thousands of Children to Receive Meals by Bus This Summer
Summer months mean hunger for a quarter of the children – over 45,000 boys and girls – living in Fairfax County, where regular school meals are no longer available. The Capital Area Food Bank and Shoppers® Food & Pharmacy are setting out to fix that by operating a mobile bus to get nutritious meals where they’re most needed.

6/7/2016 – America’s 24th Annual Giant Barbecue Battle Food & Music Festival Officially Kicks Off Summer in the Nation’s Capital
In 2016, military chefs from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard will participate in a special cook-off to benefit the USO of Metropolitan Washington and the Capital Area Food Bank. The event has raised over 1.7 million dollars in past years for these and other District charities.

6/1/2016 – CAFB Announces Summer Meals for MD Children-Open Sites 2016
Summer is a hard time for children who rely on school meals to receive the balanced nutrition they need to thrive. Continuing its commitment to providing access to good food in every community, the Capital Area Food Bank today announced that it will once again provide free summer meals to children in Prince George’s County.

6/1/2016 – CAFB Announces Summer Meals for MD Children-Income Eligible Sites 2016
Summer is a hard time for children who rely on school meals to receive the balanced nutrition they need to thrive. Continuing its commitment to providing access to good food in every community, the Capital Area Food Bank today announced that it will once again provide free summer meals to children in Prince George’s County.

5/13/2016 – Food Bank Partners with International Food Waste Activists to Shine Light on Food Waste Epidemic
Thousands of food waste warriors will join forces with the Capital Area Food Bank and others to highlight the growing problem of food waste at free events next week. The food bank is a leader in food waste reduction – of the 44 million pounds of food it distributed last year, 33 million was diverted from landfills. Next week, the CAFB will be joined by international leaders in urging the public to make a change in the American food system that reduces the 40% of food wasted annual in this country.

5/13/2016 – Capital Area Food Bank Announces Free Summer Meals Program for Children – Open Sites
Summer is a hard time for children who rely on school meals to receive the balanced nutrition they need to thrive. Continuing its commitment to providing access to good food in every community, the Capital Area Food Bank today announced that it will once again provide free summer meals to children throughout the Washington metro area.

5/13/2016 – Capital Area Food Bank Announces Free Summer Meals Program for Children – Closed Sites
Summer is a hard time for children who rely on school meals to receive the balanced nutrition they need to thrive. Continuing its commitment to providing access to good food in every community, the Capital Area Food Bank today announced that it will once again provide free summer meals to children throughout the Washington metro area.

5/6/2016 – DC Mayor and Lawyers Kickoff Food Bank’s Food From the Bar Campaign to Take on Hunger
What does DC have more of: lawyers, or hungry children? The latter, and DC lawyers are stepping up in force to do something about it.

4/19/2016 – 70+ of Food and Agriculture’s Leading Experts to Speak at Upcoming Two-Day Summit
Food Tank (www.FoodTank.com), in partnership with American University, will hold a two-day summit, Wednesday, April 20, 2016 and Thursday, April 21, 2016 from 9AM-5PM. The Summit will take place at the Greenberg Theatre.

3/21/2016 – Giant Food to make spring ham donation to Capital Area Food Bank
Giant Food of Landover, Md. will donate 200 hams to the Capital Area Food Bank Thursday, March 24, at 11 a.m. This is part of Giant’s contributions to five area Feeding America food banks for a total of 1,000 hams provided to help alleviate hunger across the Mid-Atlantic region.

3/21/2016 – DC Mayor and Lawyers Join FoodBank to Take on Hunger
Things are already looking brighter for the 700,000 men, women, and families in need of food in our area: Mayor Muriel Bowser, dozens of DC-area law firms, and the National Law Journal have partnered to raise food, funds and awareness about hunger in the region.

3/15/2016 – Capital Area Food Bank Tapped to Deliver Clean Water to Flint, Michigan
The region’s largest hunger organization is helping to send a train shipment of water to Flint, Michigan to help struggling residents. The Capital Area Food Bank will partner with other quick-response community leaders to fill an Amtrak train bound for Flint with bottled water for those impacted by the public health crisis there.

2/5/2016 – BrightFarms + Capital Area Food Bank Team Up to Provide Thousands of Pounds of Fresh, Local Greens to DC Residents
BrightFarms, a startup revolutionizing the U.S. produce supply chain by creating the first national brand of local produce, today announced it will donate 5,000 pounds of fresh, local greens to the Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB), on February 9.

11/12/2015 – Giant Food to Donate 1,000 Turkeys to Capital Area Food Bank
Giant Food of Landover, Md. will deliver 1,000 turkeys to the Capital Area Food Bank on Thursday, November 19, providing the centerpiece of Thanksgiving meals for local families and community members in need. This contribution is one of Giant’s five turkey donations to Feeding America food banks across the Mid-Atlantic region this Thanksgiving. Giant will also donate 1,000 turkeys, respectively, to the Food Bank of Delaware, Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, Maryland Food Bank, and the Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank.

11/4/2015 – Empty Bowls Event Tour Concludes in Bethesda

10/29/2015 – Empty Bowls Event Tour Continues in Springfield

10/21/2015 – Empty Bowls Event Tour Commences in Dupont Circle
Local pottery artists, businesses, restaurants and people who care about universal access to healthy food will kick off the Capital Area Food Bank’s lunchtime event series Empty Bowls October 21, 2015.

9/23/2015 – Capital Area Food Bank and the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Host Free Food Market for Manassas Park City School Children and their Families
The Capital Area Food Bank and the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia will unveil an innovative food distribution model to serve the low income children of the Manassas Park School District and their families for the 2015-2016 academic year on September 24, 2015. The Capital Area Food Bank uses a “Family Market” model that combines food distribution with parent-teacher interactions and nutrition education. Each family takes between 28 and 30 pounds of non-perishable food and fresh produce during a market day. The families learn how to prepare their food through cooking demonstrations, recipe cards in Spanish and English, and are exposed to new and innovative technologies like a green smoothie bike to make the experience fun for all ages.

9/22/2015 – What Would Francis Do?
Hunger doesn’t take a break, not even for the Pope. Even though the Capital Area Food Bank’s DC headquarters is located blocks away from where Pope Francis will be celebrating Mass, the so-called “Francis effect” has taken hold: the largest hunger non-profit in the area has found a way to keep food flow uninterrupted during the events at Catholic University.

9/7/2015 – Capital Area Food Bank Unlocks its Hunger Heat Map for Public Use
The Washington metro area’s window into the community’s hunger problem was just opened much wider. The Capital Area Food Bank announced today that it will make public its proprietary Hunger Heat Map – touted by the Washington Post as “the technology that could revolutionize the war on hunger.”

9/1/2015 – Capital Area Food Bank Hosts Inaugural NOVA Hunger Action Expo
The Capital Area Food Bank is kicking off September, Hunger Action Month, by inviting elected officials from the Commonwealth of Virginia to spend time volunteering at the CAFB’s Lorton, VA facility on September 1. Civil servants will pack and sort food for the CAFB’s Senior Brown Bag Program, which provides healthy groceries to over 3,500 seniors per month. Attendees will also get a tutorial on the food bank’s Hunger Heat Map, which is used to shed light on pockets of unmet need in the DC suburbs, and experience the Face Hunger™ workshop

7/13/2015 – Capital Area Food Bank is Participating in the MD Free Summer Meals Program
Following a long tradition, the Capital Area Food Bank today announced that it will once again provide a feeding program to children throughout the Washington metro area. The Summer Food Service Program , for which the food bank will be an acting program sponsor, is funded by the US Deptment of Agriculture.

7/13/2015 – Capital Area Food Bank is Participating in the MD Free Summer Meals Program
Children who are part of households that receive Food Supplement Program or Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA) benefits are automatically eligible to receive free meals. (To be eligible to receive free meals at a residential or non-residential camp, children must meet the income guidelines for reduced-price meals under the National School Lunch Program.)

6/24/2015 – PricewaterhouseCoopers Helps Capital Area Food Bank Provide 80,000 Meals to Children in Need
Nearly 200 PricewaterhouseCoopers’ employees gathered at the Tyson’s Corner Marriott on Friday, June 19 to pack 10,000 bags for the Capital Area Food Bank’s Weekend Bag program, which provides bags of healthy groceries to children in need over the weekend.

6/18/2015 – SHOPPERS, Capital Area Food Bank to Launch Mobile Feeding Bus for Children in Need
To address this growing need, Shoppers® Food & Pharmacy, a trusted local grocer in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. area, along with the Capital Area Food Bank will unveil an innovative new mobile feeding program this Monday, June 22, at the Signal Hill Shoppers store in Manassas, Virginia.

6/9/2015 – Local Legal Community Exceeds Fundraising Goal in Food From the Bar Campaign to Fight Hunger for the Capital Area Food Bank
The Capital Area Food Bank today announced the final amount raised through the Washington legal community’s annual fundraising campaign, Food From The Bar, in partnership with over 45 local law firms, law schools, and other legal professionals. The month-long campaign, in partnership with The National Law Journal, raised $260,000 to help the Food Bank reach those at risk of hunger in the Washington metro area this summer.

5/22/2015 – Wegmans Alexandria to Deliver Over 15,000 Pounds of Food to the Capital Area Food Bank
Wegmans Food Markets will deliver a truckload of 15,877 pounds of nonperishable food to the Capital Area Food Bank, the region’s largest hunger relief organization, on Thursday, May 28 at 12 PM. The delivery will take place at the CAFB’s Northern Virginia location and is the first donation from Wegmans’ new Alexandria store, which opens June 14.

5/20/2015 – Open and Open Restricted D.C. Free Summer Meals Program Sites
Following a long tradition, the Capital Area Food Bank today announced that it will once again provide a feeding program to children throughout the Washington metro area. The Summer Food Service Program , for which the food bank will be an acting program sponsor, is funded by the US Department of Agriculture. Meals will be provided to all eligible children free of charge.

5/20/2015 – Closed Enrolled D.C. Free Summer Meals Program Sites
Following a long tradition, the Capital Area Food Bank today announced that it will once again provide a feeding program to children throughout the Washington metro area. The Summer Food Service Program, for which the food bank will be an acting program sponsor, is funded by the US Department of Agriculture. Meals will be provided to all eligible children free of charge.

5/8/2015 – Capital Area Food Bank Mourns the Loss of Hannah Hawkins
The Capital Area Food Bank expresses deep regret for the loss of Hannah Hawkins, Founder and Executive Director of Children of Mine Youth Center, Inc. Ms. Hawkins served on the board of the CAFB from 2008 through 2015.

5/5/2015 – Busboys & Poets Founder Andy Shallal Joins Washington Area’s Largest Hunger Relief Organization to Mobilize Next Generation
Policy makers, business leaders and over 350 community leaders from soup kitchens, food pantries and other non-profit service providers will gather Friday, May 15 at 8:00 am for the Capital Area Food Bank’s annual Hunger Summit to discuss Hunger and the Next Generation.

4/28/2015 – Capital Area Food Bank Launches Campaign-Wide Kickoff With DC Law Community and National Law Journal to Fight Hunger Locally
Dozens of law firms are competing in the annual Food From The Bar campaign to raise the most funds and food for the Capital Area Food Bank. The legal community has set the ambitious goal of raising $200,000 (the equivalent of 500,000 meals) to help the food bank help those at risk of hunger in the Washington metro area.

4/27/2015 – Capital Area Food Bank Receives $1 Million Donation to Distribute More Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Washington, DC, April 27 – Bill Conway, Co-Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, announced a $1 million donation to the Capital Area Food Bank yesterday, citing the organization’s commitment to health and wellness.

4/24/2015 – Capital Area Food Bank Receives $20,000 Grant from Hunger Is to Fight Childhood Hunger
Hunger Is, a joint charitable campaign of The Safeway Foundation and the Entertainment Industry Foundation, helps CAFB address hunger in Washington metro area

4/24/2015 – Washington Metro Area’s Largest Hunger Relief Organization Announces Budget Increases for Senior Food Programs
The Capital Area Food Bank today announced expansion plans for its three senior hunger programs: Grocery Plus (aka the Commodity Supplemental Food Program), the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program and the Senior Brown Bag Program.

4/8/2015 – Baltimore Ravens John Urschel Joins Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, Representatives from Capital Area Food Bank and Maryland Food Bank to Kick Off the Great American Milk Drive
The Great American Milk Drive Makes it Easy for Shoppers to Give a Gallon of Nutrient-Rich Milk to Local Food Banks While Visiting Local Shoppers Locations

4/2/2015 – Capital Area Food Bank Applauds Mayor Bowser for Committment to Nutritious Food for DC Residents
The Capital Area Food Bank applauds and thanks Mayor Bowser and her administration for their commitment to the health of DC residents. Creating access to healthy foods and opportunities for nutrition education in areas where food options are limited is critical to alleviating hunger and improving health behaviors and practices. Solving hunger underpins health, education and employment: the building blocks of our city. The Capital Area Food Bank looks forward to supporting the Mayor’s commitment by continuing to provide nutritious food to children, families, and food insecure individuals throughout Washington, DC.

3/25/2015 – Custom Fit to Solve Hunger
The Capital Area Food Bank’s 12th Annual Blue Jeans Ball strengthens the community to solving hunger on a night featuring fashionable denim and the Washington metro area’s top restaurants.

3/20/2015 – Smithfield Foods and THEALUMRUN™ Team Up with Capital Area Food Bank to Fight Hunger in the Washington Metro Region
THEALUMRUN™, the premier national road race series focused on college and university alumni, students and sports fans, debuts in Washington, D.C., March 29, 2015 with runners from over 150 schools. The day before the race, however, prospective runners from rival schools will come together as friends to help fight hunger in the Washington metro region.

2/27/2015 – Local Law Schools to Join Fight Against Hunger in Volunteer Service Day Competition
Law school students in the District will take a break from the classroom to volunteer at the Capital Area Food Bank as part of the Food From the Bar campaign, which collects food and funds for more than half a million children, families and seniors at risk of hunger in the Washington metro area. To get an early start on the competition, students will participate in a volunteer service day at the CAFB’s Northeast Washington facility. Activities will include packing and sorting food for the food bank’s child hunger programs; and Face Hunger, an interactive workshop that educates groups about hunger and its many causes.

2/27/2015 – Empty Bowls Debuts in Northern Virginia
The Empty Bowls Springfield event brings together artists, local restaurants and the community to help tackle the issue of hunger in the Washington metro region. For a minimum donation of $25, guests will savor delicious soups and breads from the areas hottest restaurants and leave with unique, handcrafted bowls donated by local artists. Guests keep their bowls as a reminder of how they helped fill empty bowls in the community. All proceeds from the sale of the art bowls go directly to the CAFB.

2/26/2015 – Attorney General Mark Herring to host lunchtime rally for Northern Virginia attorneys participating in the 9th Annual Legal Food Frenzy
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring will convene attorneys across Northern Virginia at Reed Smith LLP to kick off the 9th annual Legal Food Frenzy, a campaign that raises food and funds for the Capital Area Food Bank. The campaign runs from March 30, 2015 through April 10, 2015 and rallies the community together to help tackle the issue of local hunger.

2/10/2015 – Empty Bowls Invades Bethesda – Capital Area Food Bank Expands Popular Event Featuring Hand-Crafted Bowls and Soups from Areas Hippest Restaurants
A very cool collision of area potters, Bethesda Businesses, local restaurants and people who care about hunger. The Empty Bowls Bethesda lunch event brings together artists, local restaurants and the community to help tackle the issue of hunger in the Washington metro region. For a minimum donation of $25, guests will savor delicious soups and breads from the areas hottest restaurants and leave with unique, handcrafted bowls donated by local artists. Guests keep their bowls as a reminder of how they helped fill empty bowls in the community.

2/9/2015 – Capital Area Food Bank Partners with Legal Community to Take on Hunger and Nutrition
Dozens of firms are leading the charge in raising food, funds and contributing to the cutting edge discussion on hunger in the region as citizens wake up to the fact that hunger is not only a symptom of poverty, but a leading cause of it, and is also driving health care costs through the ceiling.

1/15/2015 – Mayor Bowser Proclaims January 15 Capital Area Food Bank Day as Organization Marks 35 Years of Service
The Capital Area Food Bank, the Washington metro region’s hub for food distribution and nutrition education, will mark its 35th anniversary January 15 as more than 540,000 people – 12 percent of the area’s population – turn to its food assistance partners to feed themselves and their families. The need continues to grow; the CAFB’s Hunger Lifeline, an emergency food referral service, has seen a 57 percent increase in calls in just the last year alone.

12/11/2014 – Star of TLC’s Hit Show Breaking Amish to Help Nourish Residents in Need
Kate Stoltz of TLC’s hit show BREAKING AMISH will join a select group of DC area residents at the Capital Area Food Bank on Thursday, December 11 for a day of community service – sorting and packing food to help families facing hunger this holiday season. The volunteers – winners of a TLC sweepstakes and their guests – will join Kate for a three-hour work session dedicated to packing food fro the more than 540,000 families, children and seniors who seek food assistance from the Capital Area Food Bank’s network of 500 partner agencies across the Washington metro area.

12/10/2014 – Capital Area Food Bank’s New Partnership with Rideshare Company Makes Donating Food During the Holidays Uber-easy
The Capital Area Food Bank, the region’s largest hunger organization, has partnered with Uber, the rising ridesharing company, to help get food to children, seniors and families during the holiday rush.

10/24/2014 – Wizards Players & Military Personnel to Volunteer at the Capital Area Food Bank
As part of NBA Cares and the league’s commitment to service, Washington Wizards head coach Randy Wittman, players Dejuan Blair, Bradley Beal, Marcin Gortat, Kris Humphries, Glen Rice, Garrett Temple and Martell Webster will be joined by military personnel, Wizard Girls, G-Wiz and local students from Browne Educational Campus to help pack bags for the Capital Area Food Bank’s Weekend Bag Program, which ensures that nearly 2,000 children have food to eat over the weekend when they don’t have access to school meals.

10/20/2014 – Capital Area Food Bank Participates in the Child and Adult Care Food Program
Following a long tradition, the Capital Area Food Bank announced that it will once again provide a feeding program to children and adults throughout the Washington metro area. The Child and Adult Care Food Program, for which the food bank will be an acting program sponsor, is funded by the US Deptment of Agriculture.

10/2/2014 – LULAC and Tyson Foods Partner to Donate Truckloads of Protein to the Capital Area Food Bank
In the month of October, Tyson Foods and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) are partnering together to donate five truckloads of protein to the Capital Area Food Bank and four other food banks in California, New York, Texas and Florida.

9/26/2014 – Capital Area Food Bank Hosts Northern Virginia Hunger Summit
The Capital Area Food Bank is hosting its 11th Annual Northern Virginia Hunger Summit that will highlight the food bank’s commitment to health and wellness as among its primary strategic goals. The summit will convene food experts and practitioners to identify best practices and barriers for individuals who want to take control of their health through home cooking. Attendees will then be treated to a live cook-off, featuring four local chefs competing to make the tastiest meal using CAFB ingredients.

9/15/2014 – The Capital Area Food Bank Teams With Walmart, Feeding America to “Fight Hunger. Spark Change.”
The public can help the Capital Area Food Bank win a $60,000 grant from Walmart as part of “Fight Hunger. Spark Change.” a nationwide campaign that launched today at food banks across the country. The initiative will provide a total of $3.7 million to Feeding America and participating food banks that provide hunger relief to millions of people in need of food assistance.

8/18/2014 – More Than Half a Million People Turn to Capital Area Food Bank to Make Ends Meet
More than 530,700 people in the Washington Metro region, 12 percent of the area’s population, turn to food pantries and meal service programs to feed themselves and their families, according to a new study released today by the Capital Area Food Bank and Feeding America. Hunger in America 2014 is the largest and most comprehensive study of people seeking food assistance in the United States ever conducted.

7/7/2014 – Washington Nationals to Visit the Capital Area Food Bank
Pitchers Jerry Blevins and Craig Stammen will team up with children from Jubilee Housing Teen Renaissance to participate in CAFB’s Kids Cafe to prepare healthy snacks that can be enjoyed while watching a baseball game. The Kids Cafe program provides free, healthy meals and snacks to more than 2,000 children and teens daily after school and over the summer at nearly 90 locations in the Washington metro area.

6/27/2014 – Super Bowl 44 Champion Usama Young Returns Home to Help Nourish Residents in Need
Oakland Raiders Safety Usama Young will volunteer at the Capital Area Food Bank’s Northeast Washington food distribution center to help pack and sort food, and assemble windowsill herb gardens that will be distributed at CAFB Family Markets – monthly school-based food pantries that feed over 2,000 families.

6/19/2014 – The Capital Area Food Bank Participates in the DC Free Summer Meals Program

6/19/2014 – The Capital Area Food Bank Participates in the MD Free Summer Meals Program

5/30/2014 – Capital Area Food Bank is Participating in the D.C. Free Summer Meals Program – Open and Open Restricted Sites
Following a long tradition, the Capital Area Food Bank today announced that it will once again provide a feeding program to children throughout the Washington metro area. The Summer Food Service Program, for which the food bank will be an acting program sponsor, is funded by the US Department of Agriculture.

5/30/2014 – Capital Area Food Bank is Participating in the D.C. Free Summer Meals Program – Closed Enrolled Sites
Children who are part of households that receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits are automatically eligible to receive free meals.

5/30/2014 – Women, Children Not Admitted into Commodity Supplemental Food Program as Required by Federal Regulations
The Capital Area Food Bank will no longer be able to admit women and children into the USDA’s Commodity Supplemental Food Program, which provides free packaged groceries to eligible participants monthly.

5/12/2014 – Washington Mystics Take Game off the Court to Help Address Hunger
As part of the team’s continuing efforts to support communities around the D.C. area, Washington Mystics players will volunteer at the Capital Area Food Bank’s Northeast Washington facility on Monday, May 12.

4/13/2014 – Capital Area Food Bank’s 11th Annual Blue Jeans Ball Features Hunger Relief and Fashionable Denim
Hundreds of the area’s committed leaders and residents are coming together to support the effort to end hunger in our community.

4/1/2014 – Capital Area Food Bank Launches Annual Food From the Bar Campaign in Partnership with Local Law Firms
The Capital Area Food Bank today announced the launch of Food From The Bar, the Washington legal community’s annual fundraising campaign, with the ambitious goal of raising $200,000 to help the food bank reach those at risk of hunger in the Washington metro area.

3/7/2014 – Peanut Butter Donation to Capital Area Food Bank of Northern Virginia Honors National Peanut Month
In honor of March being National Peanut Month, the Virginia Peanut Board and Virginia Peanut Growers Association are teaming with PLANTERS, a Kraft Foods brand, and Peanut Proud to contribute peanut butter to the Capital Area Food Bank’s food distribution center in Virginia and the Federation of Virginia Food Banks.

3/4/2014 – Tyson Foods to Donate 30,000 Pounds of Protein to Capital Area Food Bank
The donation is part of Champion for Kids’ “Be a Hunger Hero” campaign, a partnership between Champions for Kids and Tyson Foods that aims to fight childhood hunger by providing much-needed protein to families in need.

2/27/2014 – Spring Forward Food Drive benefits those served by the Capital Area Food Bank and the Maryland Food Bank
The Capital Area Food Bank with support from AARP will receive food for distribution to its 500 partner agencies from the 27th annual Harvest for the Hungry Spring Forward Food Drive to be held March 1 – 9.

1/9/2014 – Capital Area Food Bank Wins Morgan Stanley Award to Expand Program Delivering Nutritious Meals to Children and Families
The Capital Area Food Bank today announced a $50,000 grant from Morgan Stanley to fund its Family Markets Program, a child hunger initiative that helps to ensure that low-income families have a readily accessible source of healthy and nutritious food to prepare at home.

11/5/13 – Results Gym Helps Zero Out Hunger with Zumba Fundraiser
Results Gym on Capitol Hill will open its doors to the public from 12:30 to 1:30 pm, Nov. 16 and host Zumba to Zero Out Hunger, a one-hour dance-fitness class to raise money and awareness for the Capital Area Food Bank.

11/5/13 – Capital One Bank Helps D.C. Residents Get More for Their Money This Week at Area Food Trucks
To help consumers get more for their money, Capital One Bank is offering extras with people’s lunch purchases all week at three D.C.-area food trucks. Starting Tuesday, November 5 and running through Thursday, November 7, foodies can upgrade their lunchtime meal or snack.

10/24/13 – Howard G. Buffet Foundation Awards $190,000 Grant to Capital Area Food Bank
The Capital Area Food Bank today was awarded a $190,000 grant by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, a private family foundation working to improve standards of living and the quality of life for the world’s most impoverished and marginalized populations.

10/16/13 – Capital Area Food Bank is Ramping Up to Meet Increased Demand for Food
The Capital Area Food Bank is calling on area businesses, individuals and foundations to help it ramp up its food supply in the event that the government shutdown continues.

10/9/13 – Capital Area Food Bank Awarded LEED Silver Designation
Turner Construction Company, Engineering News-Record’s leading Green Contractor, received notice that the recently completed Capital Area Food Bank achieved LEED-NC Silver Certification from the US Green Building Council.

10/7/13 – Capital Area Food Bank Calls on Furloughed Workers to Volunteer
Nancy Roman, President and CEO of the Capital Area Food Bank, today welcomed any furloughed federal employee who is able to volunteer, to visit one of the two food bank locations in the Washington metro area and spend some time sorting donated food and packing weekend bags.

9/27/13 – Capital Area Food Bank Hosts Northern Virginia Hunger Summit, Panel Discussion on Food Waste
The Capital Area Food Bank hosted its 10th Annual Northern Virginia Hunger Summit, which highlighted the food bank’s commitment to identifying internal food waste reducation and external food waste reallocation among its primary strategic goals.

9/23/13 – Hunger Action Month Ends with Official Weigh-in
The Maryland State Police and the State Highway Administration gathered at the Capital Area Food Bank and three Maryland Food Bank locations for an official weigh-in of food donations collected during Hunger Action Month 2013.

9/21/13 – Pack the Pantries Food Drives to Benefit the Capital Area Food Bank
“Day to Serve” is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Volunteers at two locations packed 1,300 emergency food boxes for distribution by the Capital Area Food Bank.

9/20/13 – Rent-A-Center Donates $20,000 and 10 Freezers to Capital Area Food Bank
Rent-A-Center donated $20,000 to the Capital Area Food Bank, in addition to 10 freezers which will be distributed to CAFB partner agencies. The Capital Area Food Bank is one of eleven food banks across the nation that is benefiting from $250,000 of Rent-A-Center funding for hunger relief this year. In support of Hunger Action Month this September, Rent-A-Center is also conducting a grassroots virtual hunger-relief campaign that encourages teh collection of cash donations at its 3,000-plus stores. The funds from this “Soup to Nuts” campaign will be distributed to food banks in the U.S. at the end of September.

8/28/13 – September is Hunger Action Month
The Capital Area Food Bank will join with civic and business leaders from the Washington metro area, and hunger advocates across the country this September to raise awareness of the issue of hunger affecting more than 50 million people in the US and 700,000 here in the nation’s capital and surrounding region.

7/17/13 – NFL Hometown Heroes Return Home to Help Nourish Residents in Need
Washington Redskins Josh Morgan and New York Giants Marvin Austin volunteer at the Capital Area Food Bank.

7/9/13 – Bank of America Student Leaders Support DC Community by Volunteering at Capital Area Food Bank
The 200 participating students are part of a national program through which Bank of America recognizes high school juniors and seniors who have demonstrated a strong commitment to improving their own local communities.

7/8/13 – Skip Lunch, Feed a Bunch
The Capital Area Food Bank will host its annual Skip Lunch, Feed a Bunch campaign, in which individuals team up to donate what they would normally spend on lunch and compete to be the highest contributing team.

6/20/13 – Oakland Raiders Safety Volunteers at the Capital Area Food Bank
Superbowl 44 Champion Usama Young returns home to help nourish residents in need.

6/11/13 – Capital Area Food Bank Hosts Fifth Annual Feds Feed Families Food Drive Kick Off
This year’s campaign will be sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture.

5/21/13 – Capital Area Food Bank Participates in Summer Food Service Program Funded by the US Department of Agriculture
Following a long tradition, the Capital Area Food Bank’s Food for Kids Department today announced that it will once again provide a feeding program to children throughout the Washington metro area.

5/21/13 – Food Lion Sponsors Food Distribution at Gwynn Park High School in Brandywine, MD
Food Lion donated $5,000 in food donations and gift cards to the Capital Area Food Bank’s mobile pantry site at Gwynn Park High School. The donations helped to feed 200 local families.

4/26/13 – Capital Area Food Bank Hosts 33rd Annual Metropolitan Area Hunger Conference
April 26, 2013 at SHABACH! Ministries, Inc. in Landover, MD.

4/3/13 – Darden Supports More than 850 Nonprofits Across the Country Through its Restaurant Community Grants Program
The Capital Area Food Bank receives a $23,000 grant from 23 restaurants across the Washington metro area.

4/3/13 – DC Fitness Studio Adds Class to Benefit Local Food Bank
The Body You Want Fitness Solutions has added a metabolic acceleration class to its Sunday schedule. And instead of charging for the class, participants are asked to bring food for the Capital Area Food Bank.

3/28/13 – Peter Ackerman joins the Capital Area Food Bank’s Board of Directors
Ackerman is the founding investor of FreshDirect, the largest online grocer in the nation.

3/20/13 – The Easter Bunny Makes an Early Delivery to the Capital Area Food Bank
Sauder Eggs is helping in the struggle against hunger by donating more than 280,000 eggs to the Capital Area Food Bank.

2/21/13 – HoneyBaked Donates 10,000 Meals to Washington Metro Area Residents
HoneyBaked will donate 4,000 pounds of ham, equivalent to 10,000 meals, to the Capital Area Food Bank, a member of Feeding America®.

1/31/13 – Safeway Invites Customers to “Round Up” Hunger in Our Community Throughout February
Safeway is again out to prove that a little change can go a long way to help neighbors in need with its annual Round Up Hunger campaign.

1/9/13 – Nancy E. Roman Succeeds Lynn Brantley as President and CEO of the Capital Area Food Bank
Nancy E. Roman, formerly a senior executive with the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP), is the Capital Area Food Bank’s new President and CEO. She succeeds Lynn Brantley who retired at the end of 2012, after leading the hunger relief efforts in the Washington metro area since 1980.

12/13/12 – Rent-A-Center Matches $5,000 Gift from Anonymous Donor Earmarked for Freezers to Capital Area Food Bank, Partner Agencies
In a generous move, Rent-A-Center recently matched a $5000 donation from an anonymous donor and will deliver 35 new Kenmore freezers to the Capital Area Food Bank and 13 of its partner agencies.

12/4/12 – FedEx to Deliver Fresh Produce to Local Children in Need
There are 200,000 children at risk of hunger in the Washington metro region. To ensure that children have access to nutritious meals, the Capital Area Food Bank offers numerous programs such as Kids Cafe and the Weekend Bag Program, which provide children with food when they don’t have access to school meals.

11/28/12 – America’s Egg Farmers and SUBWAY® Restaurants Feed the Hungry
To help feed those in need, America’s egg farmers and SUBWAY® Restaurants in Washington, DC teamed up to donate 75,000 eggs to Capital Area Food Bank and bring a hot egg breakfast to food bank volunteers today.

11/26/12 – Lynn Brantley Retires After 32 Years of Leading the Capital Area Food Bank
Lynn Brantley, President and CEO of the Capital Area Food Bank and the leader of hunger relief efforts in the Washington metro area since 1980, today announced she will be retiring at the end of this year.

11/21/12 – President Obama and Family Volunteer at Capital Area Food Bank Day Before Thanksgiving
For the second year in a row, President and Mrs. Obama, their daughters, Sasha and Malia, and other family members and friends packed bags filled with holiday food and distributed them to over 100 children and seniors from throughout the region who visited the Capital Area Food Bank the day before Thanksgiving.

11/20/12 – William and Joanne Conway Donate $1 Million to Capital Area Food Bank
The Capital Area Food Bank has received a $1 million gift from Mr. and Mrs. William E. Conway, Jr. through their charitable trust, The Bedford Falls Foundation, to ensure that partner agencies do not have to pay for fresh fruits and vegetables.

10/24/12 – Capital Area Food Bank Announces Healthy Food Initiative on Second Annual Food Day
The Capital Area Food Bank will announce its commitment to healthy food on the second annual Food Day, a nationwide initiative designated by the Center for Science in the Public Interest to promote healthy, affordable and sustainable food.

10/24/12 – Capital Area Food Bank Celebrates Second Annual Food Day
The Capital Area Food Bank will commemorate the second annual Food Day, a nationwide initiative created by the Center for Science in the Public Interest to promote healthy, affordable and sustainable food.

10/17/12 – The Capital Area Food Bank Challenges Community To Help End Hunger One Bowl At A Time
The Capital Area Food Bank will host its 5th Annual Empty Bowls event, a one-day fundraiser designed to shed light on the issue of hunger, in response to record numbers of residents in need throughout the Washington metro region. For a minimum donation of $25, guests will savor delicious soups and breads and leave with handcrafted bowls donated by local artists.

10/11/12 – Capital Area Food Bank Hosts Open House To Commemorate Move To New Facility
Capital Area Food Bank will host an Open House to commemorate the move on July 31 to its new 123,000 square foot Bedford Falls Foundation Distribution Center at 4900 Puerto Rico Ave., NE. The event is expected to attract 400 guests, including CAFB Partner Agencies, Board members, donors, friends and staff.

9/28/12 – Capital Area Food Bank Hosts Annual Northern Virginia Hunger Summit
The Capital Area Food Bank’s Partner Relations Department is hosting its 9th annual Northern Virginia Hunger Summit which will help partner agencies and other organizations explore creative ways to respond to the increased demand for emergency food assistance in the Washington metro area.

9/27/12 – Magnoodles Pasta Makes Generous Donation to Capital Area Food Bank
The Capital Area Food Bank will receive a generous donation from Magnoodles Pasta of more than 23,000 servings of multi-grain, vegetable-based pasta to feed local families struggling with hunger. Chef George Hirsch will lead a cooking demonatration for approximately 40 local children that will show them how to make a healthy meal with Magnoodles Pasta and food bank ingredients.

9/19/12 – Capital Area Food Bank Breaks Ground on Urban Demonstration Garden
Ground-breaking for the CAFB’s new 28,000 sq. ft. Urban Demonstration Garden located at the north side of the new food distribution center which will provide food growing and environmental educational opportunities for CAFB staff, partner agencies and the community

7/23/12 – Govenor O’Malley Declares September 19 Official Day to Help End Hunger
In honor of September’s National Hunger Action Month, Governor Martin O’Malley has issued a proclamation declaring Wednesday, September 19 as “ShopRite Partners In Caring Day.” To recognize this special day, local dignitaries will help bag hunger at the ShopRite in White Oak to raise awareness and funds for food banks in their community.

8/17/12 – Canned Food Drive Takes New Shape with Canstruction® Design Competition
Twenty-two teams representing architecture and engineering firms throughout the DC Metro area will gather at the National Building Museum on September 1st to assemble their own works of edible architecture for Canstruction®.

8/16/12 – White House Chef Sam Kass Joins Grocery Retailer Save-A-Lot To Donate $2,500 and 55,000 School Supplies to the Capital Area Food Bank
White House Assistant Chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives Sam Kass will join Save-A-Lot, one of the nation’s leading hard-discount, limited-assortment grocery chains, on Thursday, Aug. 16, to donate $2,500 and 55,000 school supplies to the Capital Area Food Bank as part of Save-A-Lot’s 2012 Fuel Your Family Road Trip program.

7/23/12 – Capital Area Food Bank’s Distribution Capacity Will Double in New Facility
The Capital Area Food Bank is responding to the growing hunger crisis facing the Washington metro area by moving to a larger, newly-constructed food distribution center in Northeast DC that will enable it to double its food storage and distribution capacity over time and foster healthy eating.

6/21/12 – Smithfield and UFCW donate 30,000 pounds of protein to CAFB
With food banks and non-profits facing record requests for services, sourcing and providing protein is often a challenge. To help meet the high demands, Smithfield and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) will donate 30,000 pounds of protein to the Capital Area Food Bank.

6/21/12 – Super Bowl 44 Champ Usama Young Volunteers at CAFB
Super Bowl 44 Champion and Cleveland Browns Free Safety Usama Young will volunteer at the Capital Area Food Bank’s Northeast facility to help pack and sort bags for the organization’s Weekend Bag Program, a service that provides 1000 children weekly with bags of food when they do not have access to school meals.

6/19/12 – Washington Nationals to Visit Capital Area Food Bank
As part of the team’s continuing efforts to support communities around the D.C. area, Washington Nationals players will make their annual visit to the Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB) on Wednesday, June 20.

6/17/12 – Summer Fancy Food Show Announces Donation to Capital Area Food Bank Specialty Food Companies to Help Provide 115,000 Meals
Exhibitors at the Summer Fancy Food Show plan to donate more than 100,000 pounds of specialty foods and beverages to the Capital Area Food Bank, the Washington metropolitan area’s largest hunger relief organization.

6/13/12 – Land O’Lakes Donates 40000 Pounds of Cheese to the Capital Area Food Bank
Land O’Lakes, Inc. today donated 40,000 pounds of LAND O’ LAKES® American Cheese in five-pound loaves to the Capital Area Food Bank. The donation is part of Land O’Lakes First Run Program, a program dedicated to helping alleviate hunger locally, nationally and internationally.

5/30/12 – John Huffman Joins CAFB’s Board of Directors
The Capital Area Food Bank’s Board of Directors confirmed the appointment of John U. Huffman to the board for an initial three-year term.

5/12/12 – Nation’s Letter Carriers Help Stamp Out Hunger by Collecting Donations for Food Banks in Communities Across the Country
Stamp Out Hunger, the nation’s largest single-day food drive, sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers and the U.S. Postal Service. On Saturday May 12, letter carriers across the country will be collecting non-perishable food donations left by residents outside mailboxes and inside post offices as part of the 20th annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive.

5/3/12 – CAFB Appoints New Board member John P. Hynes Jr.
At its recent annual meeting, the Board of Directors of the Capital Area Food Bank, the Washington metro region’s largest nonprofit hunger relief organization, confirmed the appointment of John P. Hynes Jr. to serve as a board member for an initial three year term.

5/1/12 – Keep Virginia Beautiful Awards $1,000 grant to the CAFB
The Capital Area Food Bank in Lorton, VA has been awarded a $1,000 grant in the Beautification and Community Greening Category. The KVB grant program focuses greater resources and attention on organizations and individual localities throughout the Commonwealth and how they are addressing the issues of litter prevention, recycling, waste reduction, beautification and education.

4/27/12 – Rising Food Prices and High Unemployment Undermine the Food Security of Those in Need
Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, today released “Map the Meal Gap 2012,” which provides estimates of food insecurity at the county and congressional district level.

4/25/12 – The Capital Area Food Bank’s 9th Annual Blue Jeans Ball Raised Record Funds for Residents in Need
More than 900 denim-clad guests gathered at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel on Sunday for the Capital Area Food Bank’s 9th Annual Blue Jeans Ball, and helped raise $416,000 for residents struggling with hunger in the Washington metro area, exceeding last year’s total by $100,000.

4/20/12 – CAFB Hosts 32nd Annual Metro Area Hunger Conference
The Capital Area Food Bank’s 32nd annual Metropolitan Area Hunger Conference will feature key speakers and workshops providing fundamental skills and knowledge needed to operate effective and efficient feeding programs.

4/18/12 – Walmart Donates New Truck to Capital Area Food Bank
The Capital Area Food Bank will be able to provide approximately 200,000 additional meals every month to Washington D.C. families with its new mobile food pantry truck donated by Walmart earlier in the year and officially unveiled on April 18.

3/28/12 – Farmers Donate 274,000 Eggs to CAFB
Despite signs of economic recovery, record numbers of families in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area and across America are currently relying on food assistance. In fact, one in eight Americans will receive help in 2012 from local food banks. And among the most needed items are sources of high quality protein. To help, Sauder Eggs is donating a truckload of eggs (274,000 eggs) to the Capital Area Food Bank.

12/8/11 – PR Agencies Raise Food and Funds for CAFB
Area public relations agencies Edelman, Hill & Knowlton, Ketchum, Fleishman-Hillard and Ogilvy hosted a food drive challenge to benefit the Capital Area Food Bank. Firms challenge each other to donate the most goods per capita, assigning point values to CAFB’s most wanted list of goods. This is the fourth year of the food drive competition.

11/23/11 – President Obama and Family Volunteer at CAFB
When a group of low-income seniors and children from throughout the region visited the Capital Area Food Bank the day before Thanksgiving, they were stunned and delighted to find President and Mrs. Obama and member of their extended family packing and distributing bags filled with special
holiday food.

11/17/11 – Capitals Defenseman John Carlson Volunteers at CAFB
The Washington Capitals, Volkswagen, Comcast SportsNet, Mix 107.3 and the Capital Area Food Bank are teaming up to host a canned food drive at the Caps game Wednesday, Nov. 23, against the Winnipeg Jets.

11/14/11 – ShopRite Hosts Bowling Invitational Supporting Turkey Donation
In honor of ShopRite Partners In Caring’s Annual Turkey Donation, representatives from Baltimore and Washington D.C. have been invited to participate in ShopRite Partners In Caring’s first annual Maryland Turkey Bowling Invitational.

11/12/11 – Local Scout Council, CAFB, WUSA9-TV, Safeway and The Washington Examiner team up and launch 25th annual food drive to help end hunger
With area food demand up 25 percent, Boy Scouts today traveled 16 counties in Maryland and Northern Virginia to collect bags full of food that will help nourish the area’s hungry.

10/28/11 – Arlington County Department of Human Services receives 2011 Hunger Champion Award
Lynn Brantley made the announcement today.

10/19/11 – CAFB Hosts Empty Bowls
The Capital Area Food Bank is responding to a 25 percent increase in the demand for food assistance by hosting its 4th Annual Empty Bowls – a one-day fundraiser designed to shed light on the issue of hunger.

10/12/11 – CAFB hosts community screening of Sesame Street special dealing with hunger in America
Screening features portions of Sesame Street’s primetime special featuring Brad Paisley, Kimberly Williams Paisley and the Muppets.

9/30/11 – CAFB sponsors Northern Virginia Hunger Summit
The summit at the First Baptist Church of Alexandria will provide CAFB partner agencies with practical training on how to advocate on behalf of their clients a and their programs.

9/27/11 – Federation of Virginia Food Banks and CAFB recognize September as Hunger Action Month
VA Gov. Robert F. McDonnell will volunteer at ALIVE! food pantry.

9/22/11 – Federal employees donate a record 5.7 million pounds of nonperishable food items nationwide.
Capital Area Food Bank hosted 3rd annual Feds Feed Families food drive kick off.

9/13/11 – Brad Paisley, WMZQ and Live Nation ask fans to donate to the Capital Area Food Bank at Sept. 24 concert at Jiffy Lube Live
With food bank shelves critically low and Washington area residents suffering from hunger, Brad Paisley will help the CAFB feed those in need.

8/23/11 – CAFB hosts topping out ceremony for Bedford Falls Foundation Distribution Center
The CAFB celebrates a milestone in the construction of its new 125,000 square foot food distribution center

7/6/11 – Washington Nationals volunteer at the CAFB and help pack bags for children in need.
Players from the Washington Nationals will make their annual visit to the CAFB as part of their continued efforts to address local hunger.

7/1/11 – CAFB seeks public support as region faces hunger crisis
Lynn Brantley announces $1 million Fresh Produce Campaign.

6/28/11 – CAFB Seeks Public Support as Region Faces Hunger Crisis
The Capital Area Food Bank is facing a 30 percent increase in transportation and food costs and is seeking $1 million in funding to reduce the costs that may have to be passed on to its 700 plus partner agencies. At issue is a potential shared maintenance fee of 10 cents a pound for fresh produce distributed to CAFB partner agencies, if the necessary funding is not found.

6/23/11 – Super Bowl Champion Usama Young Volunteers at CAFB
Super Bowl 44 Champion Usama Young will volunteer today at the Capital Area Food Bank’s Northeast warehouse to help pack and sort bags for the organization’s Weekend Bag Program, a service that provides 1000 children weekly with bags of food when they do not have access to school meals.

6/15/11 – FedEx delivers fresh to area kids in need
FedEx continues support of the Capital Area Food Bank’s Weekend Bag Program; brings three-year donation to $37,500.

5/26/11 – Kaiser Permanente Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic States awards generous grant to CAFB
Grant funds “Healthy Food Access in Action” initiative in DC’s Ward 8.

5/26/11 – CAFB Hosts Feds Feeds Famlies Food Drive Kink-Off
During this national food drive occurring in June, July and August, federal employees deliver non-perishable produce to designated boxes within their agencies. The drive began two years ago when President Obama signed the Serve America Act and created “United We Serve,” calling on all Americans to contribute to the nation’s economic recovery by serving in their communities

5/15/11 – Local chefs compete for best taco and help raise funds for residents struggling with hunger
The Food Experiments host cooking competition and support the CAFB.

5/10/11 – CAFB Partners with Letter Carriers Union on Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive Mark McCaffrey, COO of the CAFB, announced that the food bank will partner regionally with the National Association of Letter Carriers Union on Stamp Out Hunger, the largest one-day food drive in the nation.

5/3/11 – CAFB Partners with DC Diaper Bank
The DC Diaper Bank will officially launch and invites the community to help get diapers to babies in need throughout the Washington metro region. The Capital Area Food Bank partnered with the DC Diaper Bank to meet an overwhelming need for young mothers who not only struggle daily to feed their children, but are unable in many instances to afford diapers for their young babies. The joint effort and strength of these two programs will serve and impact a vulnerable population in need of support.

4/29/11 – CAFB Hosts 31st Annual Metro Area Hunger Conference at Jericho City of Praise Church The conference features key speakers and workshops providing fundamental skills and knowledge need to operate effective and efficient feeding programs. Training includes: safe food handling, volunteer recruitment and management, budgeting, fundraising, and accounting.

3/28/11 – Tyson Foods Addresses Growing Hunger in Washington Area Company donates 29,000 pounds of protein to CAFB.

3/24/11 – New Study Estimates $21.3 Billion Food Shortfall for Americans at Risk of Hunger
Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, today released a landmark study, “Map the Meal Gap,” providing insight for the first time about the number of meals missing from the tables of America’s hungry each year – an estimated 8.4 billion nationwide.

“We know that African Americans in this country struggle with hunger at a disproportionately high rate,” said Brian Banks, Director of Public Policy and Community Outreach, Capitol Area Food Bank. “What this study does is help us focus our response to this overwhelming issue. With the first county-by-county data, we can tailor our response to each community.”

3/16/11 – Goya Foods Donates 75,000 Pounds of Food Through United Way of the National Capital Area
The Capital Area Food Bank hosted Goya Foods, UWNCA and 12 local food pantries at its warehouse where the food distribution and a cooking demonstration were held. Speakers included Bill Hanbury, President and CEO, UWNCA; Luis Ramos, General Manager, Goya Virginia; Lynn Brantley, President and CEO, and CAFB; Mark Locraft, Executive Chef, Food & Friends.

3/10/11 – Capital Area Food Bank Selects TV Personality Paul Wharton as Ambassador against Hunger
With record numbers of Washington metro area residents struggling to get enough food to eat, the CAFB announced its partnership with TV Personality Paul Wharton, who participated in a cooking demonstration highlighting the CAFB’s economical $16 Bag program, that shows people how to eat healthily on a budget.

3/10/11 – National Survey on the Perceptions of Hunger Released at the National Press Club
Results of one of the largest and most comprehensive surveys ever conducted exclusively on attitudes and perceptions of hunger was released at a news conference at the National Press Club. The study was commissioned by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) in collaboration with Tyson Foods, Inc. Speakers included: Lynn Brantley, President and CEO of the Capital Area Food Bank; James Weill, President, Food Research and Action Center; John Tyson, Chairman, Tyson Foods, Inc.; Sara Lilygren, Senior Vice President, External Relations, Tyson Foods, Inc.; and Guy Molyneaux, Hart Research Associates.

3/1/11 – Peace Corps Celebrates 50th Anniversary at Capital Area Food Bank
Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams and Deputy Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet and 100 Peace Corps staff members celebrate the Peace Corps’ 50th Anniversary volunteering at the Capital Area Food Bank.

2/8/2011 – Mayor Vincent C. Gray Chairs 8th Annual Blue Jeans Ball on April 10th
The Capital Area Food Bank’s 8th annual Blue Jeans Ball is a unique charitable event that encourages participants to dress in their most fashionable jeans and demonstrate their commitment to ending hunger in the Washington metro area. Participants will enjoy the area’s finest cuisine, dance to live entertainment and bid on live and silent auction items offering exceptional items and experiences.

1/11/2011 – STOMP on over to Safeway
Do you have any plans for Jan. 13 at 6:30 pm? Come out and join us at the Georgetown Safeway to view a special mini performance by some of the cast members of STOMP for a special version of STOMP Out Hunger benefitting the CAFB.

1/11/2011 – NiSource Gas Transmission & Storage Donates $10,000 to CAFB
NiSource Gas Transmission & Storage (NGT&S) today announced a donation of $10,000 to the CAFB to support the organization’s initiative of helping those in need.

1/5/2011 – Giant Food Announces Results of Recent Drives to Support Food Banks
“We are very grateful for Giant’s enormous support of the Capital Area Food Bank, helping alleviate hunger across the Washington metropolitan region. In 2010 alone, Giant donated more than 978,000 pounds of food which was distributed to our network of 700 food programs, enabling 752,375 meals to be provided to families struggling to put food on their table,” said Lynn Brantley, CAFB’s president and CEO.

12/23/2010 – Capital Area Food Bank Receives Victory Against Hunger Award
The Capital Area Food Bank has received a Victory Against Hunger award and an accompanying $1,000 grant from the Congressional Hunger Center and Victory Wholesale Group in recognition of CAFB’s significant anti-hunger initiatives in the Washington metro area.

12/10/2010 – Food Network’s Paula Deen and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union to Donate Hams to CAFB
The Capital Area Food Bank will be able to distribute 120,000 servings of protein to residents in need thanks to a generous donation to be delivered today from Smithfield, Food Network Star Paula Deen and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.

12/7/2010 – Sesame Street Food for Thought Initiative
With one in two children under 18 in the District at risk of hunger, the Capital Area Food Bank today hosted Sesame Street’s nonprofit organization, Food for Thought: Eating Well on a Budget initiative.

11/22/2010 – New Food Distribution Center Will Double Food Aid to Those Struggling with Hunger
The Capital Area Food Bank, which last year distributed 27 million pounds of food to 700 partner agencies in the greater Washington area, announced today that it will begin construction by the end of the year on a new $37 million food distribution center

11/6/2010 – Food Glorious Food Art Show Benefits CAFB
Now in its sixth year, the Food Glorious Food art show and associated 2011 Calendar will be unveiled by the Zenith Community Arts Foundation (ZCAF) at Chevy Chase Pavilion on Wednesday, December 1 at a Calendar Launch Celebration & Silent Auction on the Terrace Level at Embassy Suites Hotel, from 6:30‐9:30pm.

10/8/2010 – America’s Egg Farmers and Subway Restaurants Feed the Hungry on World Egg Day
According to a recent study, more than 478,000 people are facing hunger in the Washington D.C. metro area; 200,000 are children.

10/8/2010 – White House Chef Sam Kass, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan Help Bring Fresh Produce to DC Schools
With a national spotlight on child obesity, schoolchildren, White House Chef Sam Kass, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan, the Capital Area Food Bank and community members across the District will celebrate D.C. Farm to School and D.C. School Garden Week October 12th through October 16th.

9/30/2010 – Tyson Foods Lends Helping Hand in Struggle Against Hunger
Tyson Foods donated 32,000 pounds of food to the Capital Area Food Bank on Thursday, September 30th, in honor of their 10th Anniversary in the fight against hunger.

6/7/2010 – Feds Feed Families Launches Nationwide
On June 7, 2010, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director John Berry, Agency heads and Members of Congress will come together at the Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB) to kick off the second annual Feds Feed Families food drive.

5/6/2010 – Nationals Players Volunteer with CAFB’s Weekend Bag Program
Washington Nationals Players Alberto Gonzalez, Willie Harris, Wil Nieves and their wives- the First Ladies – will visit the Capital Area Food Bank on Thursday, May 6 in advance of the Nationals upcoming Food Drive.

2/2/2010 – Hunger in America 2010
Landmark new study reveals 25 percent increase in Washington metro area residents seeking emergency food assistance. Go to study

April 2009 – First Lady Celebrated First 100 Days Volunteering at Capital Area Food Bank
First Lady Michelle Obama stopped by the Capital Area Food Bank – a member of Feeding America, the nation’s food bank network – on Wednesday to help pack bags for the food bank’s Weekend Bag Program, a service that provides 1000 children weekly with bags of food when they do not have access to school meals.

April 2009 – Weak Economy Compounds Hunger Problem in Washington Region, Food Banks Seeing Record Numbers
Food Banks across the National Capital Region are reporting record numbers of families, individuals and first-time visitors seeking food assistance in the wake of job losses and home foreclosures.

October 2008 – Breaking Ground, Building Hope … One Piece at a Time
The Capital Area Food Bank is breaking ground on a new facility that will help build a sustainable response to hunger for years to come.

September 2008 – Treasured Capital Area Food Bank Employee Passes
The Capital Area Food Bank is deeply saddened by the recent loss of our cherished colleague and friend, Reuben L. Gist, who passed on Tuesday, September 9, 2008. Gist, the director of Advocacy and Community Outreach, was employed at the Capital Area Food Bank since 1999.

July 2008 – Capital Area Food Bank Sees Fewer Contributions During Summer
As many residents in the nation’s capital plan vacations and seek refuge from the sweltering heat, more than 633,000 people are scrambling to find their next meal. Increases in the cost of food and medicine and record high gas prices have forced many local families into an economic crisis; driving them to seek food assistance from the Capital Area Food Bank and its 700 partner agencies.

April 2008 – On This Night, Wearing Denim Can Make Thousands More Comfortable
A unique, exciting charitable gala, the Blue Jeans Ball strives to raise awareness and dollars in the struggle to end hunger in a fun way; and this year it will be even more extraordinary.