Ozarks Food Harvest was presented with a $125,000 gift from the Walmart Foundation today, and the regional food bank for southwest Missouri announced it will offer the donation—in the form of dozens of matching grants—to its network of 250 member food pantries and feeding sites across 28 Missouri counties.
Ozarks Food Harvest expects to receive more than $100,000 from the Walmart Foundation State Giving Program later this week and plans to make an announcement at The Food Bank.
St. James Winery donated a portion of its spring sales to Feeding America food banks in Missouri to help support local child feeding programs.
When school is out for summer vacation, millions of children across the nation lose access to the free and reduced-price meals they receive during the school year — including thousands of children right here in the Ozarks.
Southwest Missouri’s regional food bank, Ozarks Food Harvest, is awarding 46 of its member food pantries and feeding sites with infrastructure grants totaling $250,000. The funding is part of the one million dollar gift OFH received earlier this year from the Missouri Foundation for Health.
Ozarks Food Harvest President/CEO Bart Brown was recently appointed by the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity, Feeding America, to serve on its national hunger task force.
Ozarks Food Harvest will distribute more than 10,000 Summer Sacks—an extra 60,000 meals—to hungry children in southwest Missouri
The Musgrave Foundation is granting $10,000 to provide Ozarks Food Harvest Mobile Food Pantry distributions in northern Greene County (Ash Grove), four in Polk County (Humansville) and three in Webster County (Marshfield).
Ozarks Food Harvest is challenging the community’s elementary, middle and high schools to the 2013 Food Fight, a week-long food drive competition to see which school can collect the most pounds of food per student.
Wesley United Methodist Church in Springfield is hosting a one-day mission blitz to benefit local charities, including Ozarks Food Harvest.