Eleven percent of Missourians experience food insecurity and every month, nearly 55,000 citizens of the Ozarks are going to bed hungry. Two corporations, McDonald’s and Tyson Foods (NYSE:TSN), will join together on Monday.
Ozarks Food Harvest — The Food Bank — accepted 45,452 pounds of fresh produce through generous donations from area gardeners since June. That amount is roughly equivalent to the size of what a semi truck would hold.
CHECK OUT HUNGER™ gives shoppers a chance to add a $1 tax-free donation to their grocery bill when checking-out at local southwest Missouri supermarkets.
Congressman Roy Blunt along with Target team members presented a $5,000 donation from Target to Ozarks Food Harvest today at The Food Bank in North Springfield.
McDonald’s locations across the Ozarks will host the 2nd Annual Cans for Coffee promotion; offering customers a free small coffee in exchange for a food donation to Ozarks Food Harvest.
Local Weight Watchers will make their donation of 1,300 pounds of food from the Lose for Good campaign to The Food Bank, Friday, October 23 at the Weight Watchers on 2342 S. Campbell.
Nearly 200 Dade County residents benefited from Ozarks Food Harvest’s Mobile Food Pantry which rolled into Greenfield on Thursday, October 22. The pantry was coordinated through the Dade County OACAC Neighborhood Center, a member of southwest Missouri’s Food Bank Network, Ozarks Food Harvest.
Three local foundations — the Musgrave Foundation, Roy W. Slusher Foundation, Heuer Foundation — along with the community food bank, Ozarks Food Harvest, are hosting a complimentary Grant Writing Forum at the Doubletree.
Nakato Japanese Steakhouse is hosting the 1st Joe Nakato Memorial Golf Tournament to benefit Ozarks Food Harvest’s Kids Cafe® program at Millwood Golf Course.
Grant Writing Forum: How to Get the Funding You Need in Economic Times Like These, provided at no cost to nearly 200 local nonprofit representatives, courtesy of the Musgrave Foundation, Roy W. Slusher Foundation, Heuer Foundation and Ozarks Food Harvest.