Ozarks Food Harvest staff will travel bearing food, gifts, and Santa Claus to surprise children in the Kids Café® program at Hollister Elementary. Representative Charlie Norr will be accompanying the staff for a special Santa surprise.
A pilot program between Feeding American, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity, and Walmart has helped Springfield’s local food bank to almost double its food distribution.
MBA Brand Smart Chicken donated 8,000 pounds of frozen chicken to Ozarks Food Harvest on Wednesday morning. This is the sixth year in a row that the chicken company held its Feed the Hungry promotion.
Ozarks Food Harvest reports the final results of the McDonald’s “Cans for Coffee,” food drive to total more than 22,500 pounds of food, enough to provide more than 18,000 meals to hungry Ozarkers.
The Ozarks Region Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals is honoring Ozarks Food Harvest, southwest Missouri’s food bank, with two awards this morning highlighting the organization’s contributions to those in need in 2008.
Each year more than 117,000 southwest Missouri residents experience hunger, and every week approximately 10,000 people in the region receive emergency food assistance through the Ozarks Food Harvest’s network of agencies.
More than 60 local McDonald’s locations across the Ozarks will participate in “Cans for Coffee,” by giving customers a free small coffee in exchange for a food donation to Ozarks Food Harvest.
Dozens of Missouri State University students will spend much of their Wednesday afternoon trying to build a better future for food insecure families in the Ozarks.
The Food Bank’s Mobile Food Pantry will make a stop in downtown Springfield Thursday morning to help some of the cities neediest families.
As part of Hunger Action Month, volunteers from Ozark Food Harvest and KTTS will be stationed at Battlefield Mall collecting food Saturday.