After one week of distributing food and supplies to organizations in Joplin, Ozarks Food Harvest will send its Mobile Food Pantry™ to serve victims in Joplin directly for the first time since the tornado devastated the community.
Clear Channel Radio in Springfield collected food items and supplies for Ozarks Food Harvest Joplin relief, collecting 49,590 pounds of nonperishable food, paper products and hygiene items, and $5,000 in cash from drive-up donors.
Mid-Missouri Bank, which has branches in the Joplin community, donated $25,000 to Ozarks Food Harvest today for The Food Bank’s lasting relief efforts in Joplin.
Ozarks Food Harvest, along with the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity, Feeding America®, and the five other Missouri food banks making up the Missouri Food Bank Association (MFBA), have now put together one dozen truckloads of food and supplies.
In response to the tornado devastation in Joplin, Ozarks Food Harvest has secured six truckloads of food items and supplies that will be delivered to the affected area this week.
In response to severe flooding in the southeast region of the state, Ozarks Food Harvest, is stepping up to donate bottled water for victims and personal hygiene items and cleaning supplies for area rescue workers and evacuees.
Just over a month remains in The Biggest Loser’s Pound for Pound Challenge benefiting Ozarks Food Harvest and other Feeding America® food banks.
Ozarks Food Harvest made a grant opportunity available for its nonprofit member pantries and announced awards this week, totaling $86,000.
The Missouri Foundation for Health has awarded Ozarks Food Harvest a $100,000 grant to help feed more individuals in need across 28 southwest Missouri counties.
Arvest Bank will fight hunger in southwest Missouri by collecting monetary donations and nonperishable food items at the bank’s area locations for Ozarks Food Harvest .