It’s an issue more than 170,000 southwest Missourians—and almost 49 million Americans—face year-round, but during the month of September, everyone can do their part to take action against hunger, one of today’s most prevalent, yet solvable social problems.
Nearly 100 community members from local businesses are giving time to Ozarks Food Harvest on United Way’s annual Day of Caring.
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’s George and Ruth Dillard Memorial Golf Tournament benefited Ozarks Food Harvest’s Weekend Backpack Program this year.
Press conference to announce a $125,000 grant Ozarks Food Harvest is receiving from the Walmart Foundation State Giving Program.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.