Ozarks Food Harvest serving Summer Sacks to children in need
Ozarks Food Harvest will distribute more than 10,000 Summer Sacks—an extra 60,000 meals—to hungry children in southwest Missouri
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Musgrave Foundation funds The Food Bank’s mobile pantry
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).
Local schools participate in 2013 Food Fight challenge
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 UMC plans food drive for OFH
Wesley United Methodist Church in Springfield is hosting a one-day mission blitz to benefit local charities, including Ozarks Food Harvest.
OFH expands its existing support to Springfield Public Schools
Ozarks Food Harvest has long served “food insecure” children attending Springfield Public Schools with the Weekend Backpack Program, and last year, the regional food bank piloted its first school pantry to help reach more students in need.
Local children’s programs could receive grants from Walmart
Ozarks Food Harvest is hoping the public can help them “click” their way to a couple of grants from Walmart for two of the regional food bank’s partner agencies, the Boys & Girls Club of Southwest Missouri in Joplin and About Our Kids in Lamar.
Missouri Foundation for Health awards major gift
The Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) today announced a $1 million award to Ozarks Food Harvest over the next two years, as part of the Foundation’s $4 million Emergency Food Access Project.
Missouri area egg farmers donate 72,000 eggs just in time for Easter
Families across the country continue to struggle to put food on the table. More than 48 million Americans live in food insecure homes, leading more and more to turn to food assistance organizations for help. Moark, LLC, Land O’Lakes wholly-owned egg subsidiary, is helping fight hunger by donating more than 72,000 eggs to Ozarks Food Harvest.
Farmers donate nine million fresh eggs to food banks nationwide
Moark, LLC, a Land O’Lakes wholly-owned egg subsidiary, is helping in the fight against hunger by donating more than 72,000 eggs to Ozarks Food Harvest on March, 11 at 9:00 a.m. to help families struggling with food insecurity.
Top chefs competing at Missouri Pork Association’s Taste of Elegance
Nearly a dozen Springfield–Branson area chefs are competing in the Missouri Pork Association’s Taste of Elegance event, which has also become Ozarks Food Harvest’s annual donor appreciation event.