Local Boy Scouts will Scout for Food in neighborhoods across the Ozarks this month to collect nonperishable food items for Ozarks Food Harvest. This is the 24th year area Scouts have partnered with The Food Bank for the national community service project, Scouting for Food.
Panera Bread cafés in Springfield, Branson and Joplin, along with Five Pound Apparel in downtown Springfield, announced a partnership with Ozarks Food Harvest today to help end childhood hunger locally.
Ozarks Food Harvest recently welcomed Linda Leicht and Tommy Smith to its now 16-member volunteer board of directors.
Nearly 100 grocery stores in more than 50 communities collected a record $35,000 for Ozarks Food Harvest during The Food Bank’s 14th annual Check Out Hunger campaign.
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.