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Food Bank Partners With Bangor & Brewer Organizations to Sponsor Five Summer Meals Sites
Sites will offer free meals to Bangor/Brewer youth throughout summer Bangor, ME – Good Shepherd Food Bank will once again sponsor open Summer Meals …
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Food as Medicine | How Good Shepherd Food Bank is helping fill “prescriptions” for healthy food
Diet fads come and go but if there’s one piece of nutritional wisdom that’s truly stood the test of time it’s “you are what …
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How the Food Moves | Meet Kai Loundon, Community Resource Representative
Did you know Good Shepherd Food Bank distributes over 25 million meals every year to food insecure people in Maine? It’s true, but we …
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News Center Maine Telethon Raises Awareness of Hunger and $137,000 for the Food Bank
On Thursday, May 2, the second annual NEWS CENTER Maine Feed Maine telethon raised more than $130,000 for the Good Shepherd Food Bank. It …
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GSFB Staff & Volunteers Go Orange!
To kick-off Hunger Action Month, staff and volunteers at the Food Bank wore orange for national Go Orange Day. We’ll be working to raise …
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Exciting developments for Mainers Feeding Mainers, the Food Bank’s farm program
Mainers Feeding Mainers, Good Shepherd Food Bank’s farm partnership program, is in the midst of its 4th growing season! The season got off to …
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One in Four Maine Kids May Not Be Looking Forward to Summer
How is this so? Because one in four children in Maine, or 63,000 kids, are food insecure; this means that on any given day, …
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Advocacy Update: The Farm Bill
Every 5 years, Congress reauthorizes the Farm Bill, which is the legislation that sets policy for agriculture and nutrition programs in the United States. …
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Hunger in America Study – volunteers needed
Here at Good Shepherd Food Bank, we’re busy working on an exciting project – Hunger in America 2014 (‘the Hunger Study’), a unique national …
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Coming Soon – a statewide needs assesment of child hunger in Maine
This past August I began my two year position as a Feeding America Child Hunger Corps Member. I eagerly entered into this job, equipped …
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Advocacy Update
As the 126th state legislature begins its work and Congress tackles our nation’s fiscal challenges, the Food Bank is keeping its eye on a …
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Impact of Fiscal Cliff Agreement on Hunger Relief Network
Now that Congress has passed an agreement to avert the “Fiscal Cliff” and prevent tax rates from rising on 98% of Americans, you might …
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