Ozarks Food Harvest received the final donations from the fourth annual McDonald’s Cans for Coffee food drive this week, collecting a grand total of 36,650 pounds, making it the largest non-disaster related food drive for southwest Missouri’s Feeding America food bank.
Ozarks Food Harvest received a truckload of margarine and cheese sauce from a national donor, Land O’Lakes, today at noon at its warehouse in north Springfield.
The Ozarks Region Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) recognized National Philanthropy Day on Friday, honoring Kraft Foods, Inc. as the Corporation of the Year and the Roy W. Slusher Foundation as Foundation of the Year.
Tyson Foods, Inc. will donate nearly 40,000 pounds of protein to Ozarks Food Harvest in the name of the fourth annual McDonald’s Cans for Coffee food drive for 28 southwest Missouri counties.
Sixty local grocery stores in nearly 40 communities will participate in the thirteenth annual Check Out Hunger campaign to help feed the 20,000 people Ozarks Food Harvest’s network of charities serves weekly across 28 Missouri counties.
1984 Arcade in downtown Springfield is donating $0.25 to Ozarks Food Harvest for each paid admission during Nov.
McDonald’s locations across the Ozarks will host the fourth annual Cans for Coffee food drive, offering customers one free small McCafé® Mocha, Latte, Cappuccino, Hot Chocolate, Premium Roast Coffee or Iced Coffee in exchange for a donation of a non-perishable food item for Ozarks Food Harvest.
The new national holiday—Food Day—is being celebrated locally this Saturday, Oct. 22, in downtown Springfield, and it’s all benefitting Ozarks Food Harvest.
Kickapoo High School (KHS) students will host the tenth annual fall carnival and safe trick-or-treating to benefit Ozarks Food Harvest. Children may attend for a minimum donation of two nonperishable food items per person.
Ozarks Food Harvest is challenging the community’s elementary, middle and high schools to the 2011 Food Fight, a week-long food drive competition to see which school can collect the most pounds of food per student.