Two thumbs up for the SFD.

The National Student Food Drive (SFD) is coming up!  This will be the Food Bank’s second year of involvement, and we’re excited to add new schools.
This morning I discovered the SFD Blog.  It’s a good read, and it’s great to see how many high school students across the country are participating.
We’ll have more info as [...]

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24,000 more

are living in poverty in Arizona since 2006.  Get more facts here.  Arizona’s poverty rate is above the national average of 12.5 percent, and the number is expected to keep growing.

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Hundreds were evacuated. The Food Bank answered the call.

Watch the Channel 3 news clip here.

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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Brought to you by: ~Melody~
A clear answer for poverty may not and may never exist. The poor may always be us and be among us. But that’s no excuse for apathy.
Check out Blog Action Day.  Click here.
Register. Put it on your calendar. Then write about it.

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Did you notice the links on the right? If so, have you clicked on any of them?

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Check out the Food Bank on MySpace and Facebook.  So here’s what we need you to do:

Friend us.
Become a fan of our page.
Start a cause.  And then make sure you tell everyone you know.  Don’t forget to tell everyone you know to tell everyone they know.

It’s a short list, but it [...]

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It’s peanut butter and jelly time.

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Filming for the Food Bank video continues, this time at Glendale Community Center at 54th Avenue and Ocotillo.  Glendale Community Center is one of 27 sites in the Valley that partners with the Food Bank for the Kids Cafe® program.
Of those receiving emergency food in Arizona, 41 percent are children and [...]

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Arizona ranks second. But not in a good way.

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Records keep climbing, both nationally and here in Arizona.  During  the month of July, according to Foreclosures.com,
Arizona ranked second for the most filings per 1,000 households at 54.9. Nevada was No. 1 at 59.1. Florida and California came in third and fourth.
Read the full article here. 
Demand for the Food Bank’s services [...]

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Operation Santa Claus

Brought to you by:  Cynde C.
Last week I attended a meeting to start planning for this year’s Operation Santa Claus and there are a lot of exciting things in store.
If you don’t know about Operation Santa Claus, it is a donation drive/event organized by Sanderson Ford in Glendale. In its eighth year, this event encourages the [...]

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What would it take for you to think differently about what goes in your trash?

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From The New York Times:
As it turns out, Americans waste an astounding amount of food — an estimated 27 percent of the food available for consumption, according to a government study — and it happens at the supermarket, in restaurants and cafeterias and in your very own kitchen. It works out [...]

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Playing Reporter for the Morning

Brought to you by: Cynde C.
We decided a couple of months ago that we needed a St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance video and maybe some mpegs for the Web site in the future.  So, we began our first day of filming with our production crew on July 29.  And, I got to be reporter for [...]

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