Friday, November 16, 2012
Drive up your turkey donation to the Food Bank of South Jersey all day on Saturday.
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Did you score an extra turkey for Thanksgiving? A needy family in our area could have a tastier Thanksgiving if you donate it and other turkey day staples. The Food Bank of South Jersey is running a drive-up turkey drive Saturday, Nov. 17 to help fill holiday tables of local families in need. Simply drive up to the food bank at 1501 John Tipton Blvd. in Pennsauken from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and a staffer will take it from there. The food bank is collecting turkeys (only frozen), canned goods and boxed goods. All donations must not be expired. While you’re dropping off a turkey, don’t forget to open your wallet as well. For every $1 donated, the Food Bank of South Jersey can buy almost four entire meals for people in need. For details, contact …
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Patcher staffers learned more about the scope of hunger in South Jersey in a morning at the Food Bank in Pennsauken. Interested in learning what you can do to help? Read on.
After a busy evening of election night coverage, Patch staffers in South Jersey woke up bright and early Nov. 7 for a volunteerism gig that hit home—helping out at the Food Bank of South Jersey. The Patch volunteering day is part of an initiative promoted by Patch nationwide. Give 5 encourages employees to spend five days per year volunteering with an organization that supports local Patch communities. Past projects have included park cleanups and even going barefoot for a day. This time, we decided to do a project together. The Food Bank of South Jersey fits the bill perfectly. It serves four counties—Camden, Gloucester, Salem and part of Burlington—and runs programs that Patch has written about in the past, including its Just Peachy …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Stamp Out Hunger, in its 20th year, feeds hungry people in Cinnaminson and surrounding communities.
You know that bag of food you’ve been meaning to drop off at the local food pantry? This Saturday, your mail carrier will do the work for you. May 12 marks the 20th annual Stamp Out Hunger, and it couldn’t be easier to participate. Simply put a bag of nonperishable food out with your mail. Your postal worker will collect it on his or her route and deliver it to a local food aid organization. Stamp Out Hunger is the nation’s largest single-day food collection drive, according to the U.S. Postal Service. Last year, carriers picked up 70 million pounds of food. Each can, each box of spaghetti, each tuna tin is food that’s desperately needed. A 2011 food insecurity study by Feeding America found that nearly 49 million people—including one of …
Sunday, May 6, 2012
The humble Jersey peach has the potential to stop hunger, help farmers save money and aid the environment. All that's needed is peach salsa-loving consumers.
Each season, 90-year-old peach farmer Lewis DeEugenio scales the back of pickup trucks, shaking his head in dismay at the scene before him—hundreds, sometimes thousands, of pounds of unwanted peaches headed for the trash. At the same time, thousands of South Jerseyans go hungry each day, unable to afford food or qualify for food stamps. A new collaboration between six South Jersey farms and the Food Bank of South Jersey will go a long way toward addressing both problems. The farms and food bank are launching Just Peachy, a plan to turn the excess peaches into a shelf-stable peach salsa. Instead of being destined for the dump, the peaches will be "reclaimed" from the South Jersey farms that use Glassboro’s Eastern ProPak packing facility. …
Friday, April 20, 2012
Each step in the Walk Against Hunger helps combat food insecurity throughout South Jersey.
South Jerseyans will hit the pavement on Saturday to combat hunger among their neighbors—and there’s still time to sign up and help the cause. The Walk Against Hunger benefits the Food Bank of South Jersey and related charities. The food bank provides assistance to needy residents and local food pantries. The Food Bank of South Jersey wants to blow past the $10,000 that 150 walkers brought in for the 2010 walk. “We hope to double those numbers this year,” says Dan Getman, the food bank’s community engagement manager, “and with the response we’ve received so far, that’s not going to be a problem.” In past years, the Walk Against Hunger was a Philadelphia-based event. “We participated in the Philly event and still have a presence there,” …
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Kristen Stehm wants to run a half-marathon in each state, all while donating money and food to the Food Bank of South Jersey.
Running gets Kristen Stehm out of the house. It clears her mind and tones her body. It makes her feel like a woman. Stehm, of Cinnaminson, is channeling all this positive energy into a goal. That goal is to run a half-marathon in each of the 50 states. She’s not stopping there. Stehm hopes to raise awareness for hunger at the same time, teaming up with the Food Bank of South Jersey locally to solicit donations and help those in need. “I don’t think people understand that yes, in this area, in Burlington County, in Cinnaminson, there’s people who are hungry,” Stehm said. The beginning About three years ago, Stehm wanted to lose weight. So, she and a friend took up running to shed some pounds. Her first feat was making it all the way around…
Thursday, December 15, 2011
A $2 million donation will give the organization an eight- to nine-month supply of food.
One thousand people. One thousand stories. One thousand paper plates. For Food Bank of South Jersey CEO Val Traore, a few sentences written on each plate, from the people who rely on the Food Bank and its members, were the most direct way of sending a message to Trenton about the spike in need the Pennsauken-based organization faced, as donations have slipped and funding has fallen short. That message was answered Wednesday, as Gov. Chris Christie came to the Food Bank to announce $2 million from the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA)–money that had been promised in 2009, but never delivered–had finally been approved in a vote that morning. “I got those plates, and I read many of them,” he said. “It seemed to me that there had to be …
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Shortfalls have left the aid organization looking for help from the state and the public.
In the warehouse at the Food Bank of South Jersey, a lonely case of Pop Tarts sits on the floor of a rack space that stretches empty to the ceiling, 20 feet above. Aisles that are typically jammed with pallets of cans and boxes are wide enough and empty enough to run a three-man 100-yard dash with ease. And not far away, shelves of loose cans and boxes of cereal are mostly empty, save for the golden glow of hundreds of cans of corn. It's part of a one-two punch—a funding shortfall and decreased donations—that has hit the Pennsauken-based organization hard this year. CEO Val Traore called in representatives from the 240 agencies—mostly local food banks and soup kitches—throughout Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem counties Wednesday, …
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The agency has not decided whether to donate $2 million to area food banks, as it promised in 2009.
The Delaware River Port Authority – facing a renewed chorus of anger from commuters, a new Citizen Advisory Committee, and the region’s chapter of the Automobile Association of America (AAA) over its July 1 hike in tolls and train fares – is considering whether it should renege on a 2009 pledge to provide $2 million in support of food banks in South Jersey. Opponents of the DRPA disbursing any additional dollars for economic development take pains to emphasize the authority’s controversial track record with such grants. Previous Authority dollars went not only for construction of the new stadiums for the Phillies and Eagles, but also for failed projects like a bistate laser-light show and an aerial tram over the Delaware. Tempers have …
Saturday, March 19, 2011
As part of the store's Partners In Caring program, the pair headed up fundraising efforts and helped the store become 12th out of 40 chosen for the box.
Two Cinnaminson ShopRite employees got their faces on the box of a special-edition Cheerios box this month thanks to their fundraising efforts. Rebecca Cardone and Pat Keane, both of Marlton, were chosen by their colleagues to represent the store’s Partners In Caring campaign to fight hunger. “It’s about reaching out to everyone in the community,” Cardone said. “To be able to help people out is always a great thing.” Partners in Caring, a hunger-fighting initiative, sponsors a fundraising contest each year. ShopRite stores in six states raised $522,000. ShopRite Cinnaminson’s contribution was $5,300. That money goes to organizations, such as The Food Bank of South Jersey, based in Pennsauken, to feed local families year-round. Cardone, who…
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Eileen Kane Flynn
5:11 pm on Friday, November 16, 2012
It's a shame some people are so thoughtless. Everyone deserves a thanksgiving dinner. There are plenty of people in NJ who are recovering from Hurricane Sandy and need this help more ›