Nearly 100 volunteers serving OFH on Day of Caring 2012
Nearly 100 community members from local businesses are giving time to Ozarks Food Harvest on United Way’s annual Day of Caring.
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Ozarks Food Harvest announces $125,000 challenge grant for 40 nonprofits
Ozarks Food Harvest announced at a press conference this morning that it would match dollar-for-dollar funds raised by 40 of its 250 member food pantries and feeding programs.
Ozark Empire Grocers Association supports Weekend Backpack Program
Ozark Empire Grocers Association’s George and Ruth Dillard Memorial Golf Tournament benefited Ozarks Food Harvest’s Weekend Backpack Program this year.
Food bank receives $125K from Walmart, offering funding to member pantries as matching grant
Press conference to announce a $125,000 grant Ozarks Food Harvest is receiving from the Walmart Foundation State Giving Program.
OFH hires Gordon Day, former Willow Brook VP
Ozarks Food Harvest recently created a new position to help secure and maintain donations of food, hiring Gordon Day, a former vice president at Willow Brook Foods.
Hygiene kits needed for at-risk children’s backpacks
Ozarks Food Harvest is asking community members to host Hygiene Drives to help more than 1,000 area children in need when school resumes this fall.
Hungerthon 2012 collects $125,000 for Backpack Program
Ozarks Food Harvest and Clear Channel Media and Entertainment’s Alice 95.5’s 14th annual radio-thon, Hungerthon, wrapped up this morning, collecting a grand total of $125,968 for The Food Bank’s Weekend Backpack Program.
14th annual Hungerthon is June 1–4
Ozarks Food Harvest and Clear Channel Media and Entertainment’s Alice 95.5 will kick off the 14th annual Hungerthon radio-thon next Friday morning in hopes of raising $125,000 for the Backpack Program.
Letter to the Editor: The Importance of SNAP
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP (formerly food stamps) is targeted at our most vulnerable: 76 percent of SNAP households include a child, senior or disabled person, and 85 percent have gross income at or below 100 percent of the poverty line.
Ozarks Food Harvest receives $15,000 from Kraft Foods Foundation
The Kraft Foods Foundation recently awarded a $15,000 grant to Ozarks Food Harvest to support hunger relief efforts in southwest Missouri.