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From April 20 through April 30, Philly Food Rescue partners will be hosting pop-up free food distributions around the city.
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According to the U.S. Dept. of Labor, food costs have risen 27% in the last five years. Inflation, coupled with the end of several pandemic-era benefits, has pushed more families to charitable food networks. The alarming trend has led Share and dozens of other anti-hunger allies to call on Pennsylvania’s leaders to prioritize policies that combat food insecurity.
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Philly Food Rescue invites our volunteers and the community to celebrate Earth Day through mindful cooking practices that nourish both body and planet. Chef April from The People’s Kitchen will teach us how to reduce both the money and food that we waste in our home kitchens by creating nutrient-dense and delicious plant-based meals.
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Share is hosting Volunteer Appreciation Week on April 22-27, 2024. This means volunteer opportunities with raffles, prizes and a happy hour for anyone who wants to get involved.
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From March 16 through March 30, Philly Food Rescue partners will be hosting pop-up free food distributions around Philly and Delaware County.
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From February 10 through February 28, Philly Food Rescue partners will be hosting pop-up free food distributions around the city.
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Pennsylvania tossed out 2.89 million tons of surplus food in 2022. Fortunately, Share Food Program’s Philly Food Rescue (PFR) initiative is moving the needle on food waste prevention efforts in Philly.
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Share Food Program welcomed 200 volunteers from organizations across the region, including Governor Josh Shapiro and First Lady Lori Shapiro. Joining the governor and his family were State Representatives Morgan Cephas, Danilo Burgos, and Roni Green, City Commissioner Lisa Deeley, members of the Barristers’ Association of Philadelphia, a group of individuals from Drexel University, as well as many other community volunteers.
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From January 8 through January 27, Philly Food Rescue partners will be hosting pop-up free food distributions around Philly.
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Vegetarian split pea soup is a warming, delicious way to use the dried green and yellow split peas that are often available at Share pantries.
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Share Food Program is a Delaware County finalist for the Greater Philadelphia Social Innovation Awards Healthy Food Access & Nutrition category. Cast your vote by 12/22 to support Share Food Program and the dozens of other amazing finalists.
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Calling all volunteers! Share Food Program is gearing up for the 2024 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service and you’re invited to help us honor Dr. King’s legacy through collaboration and nourishment.
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From December 16 through December 28, many Share pantries and partner sites will be hosting holiday food distributions (some featuring toys, books, socks and winter clothing too!)
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Share Food Program is proud to partner with—and distribute food to—nearly 400 pantries, nonprofits and community-based organizations throughout the Greater Philadelphia region. Read on to learn more about a few of our exceptional partners: Second Antioch Baptist, New Hope AME Zion, Kingdom Life Christian Center and Cecil & Grace Bean’s Soup Kitchen.
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Some Share pantries and Philly Food Rescue partner sites will be hosting extra distributions ahead of the November holidays, including Katie’s Cupboard, Blackwell Cultural Alliance and the Keith Dawson Foundation.
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The next installment of Nice Roots’ Farm-to-School curriculum is here! When students visit Nice Roots Farm to learn about growing food from seed to harvest, they start by discussing how growing their own food can be an act of food justice, and things to consider when sourcing food ethically and sustainably. Then, based on what is in season during their trip, students dive into learning more about a specific plant family. The module wraps up with a hands-on activity like seed starting or food tasting that supports students in deepening their relationship to their food, nutrition and the land.
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Nice Roots Farm at Share Food Program is in the thick of the growing—and learning!—season. Since spring 2023, 15 different groups of K-8 students from nearby schools have taken field trips to the farm in Allegheny West where they learn about urban growing, nutrition, and wellness, all through a food justice lens.
Read on to learn more about how food justice and land sovereignty movements shape our food system with this first lesson in Nice Roots’ Farm-to-School curriculum.
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The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) recently announced that recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) who have had their benefits electronically stolen on or after October 1, 2022 will now be able to replace their stolen SNAP benefits through federal funds.
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Share Food Program received a $30K grant from ACME Markets Foundation’s Breakfast for Kids program. The grant will be used to continue Share’s work of providing healthy meals to kids who need them all summer long. In summer 2023, Share offers breakfast and lunch for kids in partnership with 15 total clients, representing 8 schools and summer camps across 7 school districts in 5 counties.
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Gov. Josh Shapiro, Tracey Specter kicked off the nonprofit’s first-ever capital campaign with an event at Share’s Philadelphia headquarters. Today, the first day of National Hunger Awareness Month, Share Food Program announced its first-ever capital campaign, The Campaign for Food Justice, a $35 million effort to revolutionize the future of food security and the nonprofit’s […]
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Home delivery now brings free Senior Food Boxes directly to over 3,500 seniors in the Greater Philadelphia area. Growing the home delivery program has allowed Share to provide boxes to seniors who are not able to make it to Senior Food Box pickups at one of the 85+ partner sites, and otherwise would not be able to access the food they need.
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Share Food Program is hosting a groundbreaking event for Delaware County’s newest, dedicated food bank. The 9,000-square-foot warehouse, currently undergoing renovations, will serve as the County’s central hub for food commodities and distribution for the growing network of pantries in the region.
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Gov. Shapiro is calling for $38.5 million to continue the state’s Universal Free Breakfast Program for 1.7 million PA kids and cover the full cost of lunches for 22,000 students who qualify for reduced-price lunches.
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A Black History Month highlight of organizations led by Black people that are doing transformative food justice and food sovereignty work on a local and national level: Sankofa Community Farm, Philly Forests, Soil Generation, John Boyd, Jr., and Land Based Jawns.
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The Food Donation Improvement Act (FDIA) passed in Congress on December 21, 2022. By expanding existing food donation policy, the FDIA strengthens growing efforts to mitigate food waste and redirect surplus food to the millions of people currently experiencing food insecurity in the U.S.
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The movement for food justice in the U.S. has always been a movement for racial justice. For this year’s Black History Month, we’re continuing to highlight Black people who have radically impacted the U.S.’ food and farming systems, building up movements for food justice that increase community power and directly confront the racism at all levels of U.S. society and government.
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Beginning in March 2023, Share Food Program is collecting food donations to help feed families across the region.
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On Monday, January 16th, Share Food Program is honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy through service, collaboration, nourishment, and empowerment to neighbors in need throughout the Greater Philadelphia region.
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Philly Food Rescue at Share Food Program is proud to partner with the mutual aid network of community fridges throughout the city.
Our fridge partners are stocked and cleaned daily, ServSafe certified, and open to the public 24/7. The community is invited to take food, share food, and spread the word about alternative sharing economies of free, fresh groceries and dry goods within our neighborhoods.
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Share Food Program’s SNAP-Ed partnership has four produce stands up and running. By the end of the 2023 school year, Share will be providing fresh produce through the stands at 17 Philadelphia public schools.
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Aqua’s donation, presented during an employee volunteer event, will support the build of Share’s new warehouse and their Delaware County operations to combat hunger.
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Share Food Program and Guadenzia Foundation Inc. will receive state grants under the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, state Rep. Pam DeLissio announced today. Share’s $1.75M grant will be used to build a new, welcoming area for volunteers and community members in organization’s warehouse in Nicetown.
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Share Food Program is now the primary supplier for Temple University Health – Episcopal Campus’ food pantry, allowing the pantry to dramatically expand their reach.
Thanks to this new partnership, Clinical Dietitian Specialist Lisa Rasi and her team are about to see a lot more regulars. “This is going to dramatically expand our ability to provide for the community,” Rasi explains.
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Share Food Program has been selected as a charity partner for ACME Markets Foundation and will receive donations from its annual Nourishing Neighbors campaign which helps to ensure every child has access to a healthy breakfast. All donations made at 13 ACME Markets Foundation stores throughout Delaware and Montgomery Counties will be used to help Share Food Program ensure that all children can receive nutritious breakfasts, through our work managing the National School Lunch Program across the region, and our partnerships with food pantries serving our region’s families.
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Since January 2022, Share has partnered with BookSmiles to deliver 496 cases—that’s over 44,000 books—to kids and families throughout the Philadelphia region. Books are delivered to folks through Share’s pantry network, SNAP-Ed classes, and Philly Food Rescue.
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Share Food Program’s Nice Roots Farm is excited to be hosting a free, hands-on food gardening class on Wednesday, September 7 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. In just two hours, folks will learn everything they need to know about starting a container vegetable garden for the Fall.
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BruYou, the Philadelphia-based drink buying app, is teaming up with Yards Brewing Co. and Share Food Program in an effort to support the fight against hunger. From now until June 30, 2022, $1 from every “Yards Share Beer” purchased through the BruYou app will go to Share Food Program.
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The $3.12M Food Infrastructure Grant, awarded to Share Food Program by the Montgomery County Commissioners, will enable Share to create an emergency food distribution hub to serve Montgomery County residents.
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Share Food Program, the largest-serving hunger relief organization and food bank in the Philadelphia region, and DoorDash today celebrated the mark of 5,000 food boxes delivered to neighbors experiencing food insecurity, as a part of a partnership with DoorDash’s Project DASH.
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Congressman Dwight Evans (D-Pa.-3rd) held a news conference Wednesday to highlight $1 million in new federal funding he recently secured for the Share Food Program, the largest independent food bank in Pennsylvania, which distributes nourishing food to hundreds of partner pantries in southeastern Pennsylvania.
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YWCA Tri-County Area and Share Food Program are among the many community-based organizations working together with Montgomery County to provide hunger relief to families as they recover from the damage caused by Hurricane Ida in September. More than 436 individuals in 208 households in Montgomery County were displaced by the storm.
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In the wake of historic emergencies in and around the Philadelphia region in recent months, Share Food Program has created the Share Relief Fund, enabling and empowering the organization to quickly respond to the most urgent and unforeseen food needs of our neighbors when emergency strikes and hunger spikes.
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Share Food Program has been selected as a charity partner for ACME and will receive donations from its annual Nourishing Neighbors Breakfast for Kids campaign. All donations made at 17 different stores throughout Delaware and Montgomery counties will be used to assist Share’s mission to distribute healthy, necessary food to the region’s most vulnerable communities and families. Share expects to feed upwards of 350,000 children in the next year alone.
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In a concerted effort to combat hunger and food insecurity, Delaware County Council approved a five-year contract with Share Food Program on July 21 to manage the charitable food system within the county.
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On July 1, 2021, Philly Food Rescue, one of the largest food rescue organizations in the region, transitioned from Uplift Solutions to Share Food Program, the largest food bank and hunger relief organization in the region. This move will have an incredible impact in the fight against hunger in Philadelphia, as well as save even more food from landfills each year.
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The Share Food Program family mourns the passing of former Executive Director Steveanna Wynn, who led Share’s fight against hunger for more than 30 years. Steveanna was widely respected as a fierce, passionate warrior for food justice.
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Share Food Program names Malcolm Conner COO, and Marjorie Morris director of communications and external relations.
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Yellow as a No. 2 pencil, a school bus rolls up and down Eddystone’s working-class streets one gray morning. It’s an odd sight in the time of COVID-19. Many of the kids in the Ridley School District, which includes about 10 communities, including Eddystone, are learning remotely these days. Read More
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Monday (Sept. 28, 2020) distribution of meals for students of families in need within the Pottsgrove School District will be accompanied by an added bonus: boxes of fresh produce, dairy items, and protein collected from regional farmers and retailers and being offered for free to any district resident.
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