Panera Bread cafés in Springfield, Branson and Joplin, along with Five Pound Apparel located in downtown Springfield, will announce a partnership with the region’s only food bank to help raise awareness and funds for children’s feeding programs, at a news conference next Friday morning.
Nearly 20 Gott Town & Country and Country Mart stores asked customers to make a donation for hunger relief during the holiday season.
The Southwest Missouri Office on Aging (SWMOA) in Ava is the newest Ozarks Food Harvest Senior Food Box Program site, helping serve low-income Douglas County seniors with nutritious food.
The fourteenth annual Check Out Hunger 2012 campaign began Nov. 15 in more than 50 communities to help feed the 170,000 people Ozarks Food Harvest serves annually through its member pantries and agencies.
Ozarks Food Harvest received the final donations from the fifth annual McDonald’s Cans for Coffee today, collecting nearly 30,000 pounds of food.
Ozarks Food Harvest is receiving a large donation of poultry, thanks to Smart Chicken’s 10th annual Feed the Hungry campaign.
For the fifth consecutive year, Tyson Foods, Inc. is supporting McDonald’s annual Cans for Coffee food drive by donating 38,400 pounds of protein to Ozarks Food Harvest. The regional food bank will distribute this morning’s donation to its network of 250 member charities across the Ozarks.
Ozarks Food Harvest, the regional food bank’s member food pantry in Wheatland, Mo., Hickory County CARES, received gifts totaling more than $85,000 from a former Hickory County resident, Larry Pickering, and his wife, Susanne.
The Food Bank will receive a large protein donation during the fifth annual McDonald’s Cans for Coffee food drive. Ozarks Food Harvest is the only food bank in southwest Missouri, distributing more than 800,000 meals monthly to 250 nonprofit agencies.
McDonald’s locations across the Ozarks will host the fifth annual Cans for Coffee food drive, offering customers one free small McCafé® Premium Roast Coffee, Mocha, Latte, Hot Chocolate or Iced Coffee in exchange for a canned good for Ozarks Food Harvest.