Category: Child Hunger
- Tags
- Advocacy
- Ambassadors
- Campaign to End Hunger
- Child Hunger
- Community Redistribution Fund
- Cooking Matters
- Farm Fresh Rewards
- Food Banking Info
- Fundraising and Donors
- Harvesting Good
- Health and Hunger
- Kristen Miale
- Mainers Feeding Mainers
- News
- Nutrition
- Research
- Senior Hunger
- Stories from the Road
- Uncategorized
- Volunteer
Cooking Matters: When Food Is Medicine
On a Tuesday night in November, the café at Maine Medical Center transformed. A radio, interrupted occasionally by the sound of a blender, played pop-tunes, and the room whirred with activity. Vegetables of purples, greens, and yellows were strewn across the tables. Participants laughed as they learned the art of chopping and sautéing. Physicians donned in white coats frequented the hospital’s café at peak hours, but on this Tuesday night it was a chef’s double breasted white coat commanding authority.
Read More →
Maine Dairy Promotion Board and Good Shepherd Food Bank Bring Milk to School Food Pantries with Milk2MyPlate
Milk is one of the most requested items at food banks across the country, but food banks rarely have enough to go around, according to Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger relief charity. The 46.5 million food bank clients nationwide each receive less than one gallon of milk per year, on average.
Read More →
Kids Café Program Grows with New Sites Across Maine
The coastal town of Belfast in Waldo County presents visitors with quintessential Maine seascapes and a cozy downtown, home to a variety of shops. Nestled on the second floor of a colonial-style brick building in the heart of downtown Belfast is an afterschool program. The Game Loft, a Kids Café Program site, opens its doors four days per week to the world of Dungeons and Dragons, long conversations about homemade chain mail, historical live action role plays, and Magic deck stacking techniques.
Read More →
Congratulations to our Outstanding School Partners
As the 2015-2016 school year comes to a close, Good Shepherd Food Bank’s Child Hunger Team is extending a sincere thank you to our School Partners for the time, energy, and compassion they have invested to make the BackPack and School Pantry programs available in their communities. With their help, the Food Bank has served more than 3,000 families more than 450,000 meals since September 2015.
Read More →
Good Shepherd Food Bank Partners With Bangor & Brewer Nonprofits to Sponsor Six Summer Lunch Sites
Sites will offer free meals to Bangor/Brewer youth throughout summer Bangor, ME – Good Shepherd Food Bank will be sponsoring six Summer Lunch sites …
Read More →
School Pantry Program Expands Thanks to Kellogg’s
By Madelyn Holm, Feeding America Child Hunger Corps Member Over the summer, the Kellogg’s Foundation awarded Good Shepherd Food Bank an expansion grant to …
Read More →
Summer Meals Program Kicks Off in Bangor
View the Latest Coverage: WLBZ 2 – Good Shepherd Food Banks Feeds Kids During Summer Vacation WABI 5 – Summer Meals Program Kicks Off …
Read More →
Maine’s Credit Unions Continue Multi-Year Commitment to End Childhood Hunger in Maine
(Portland) – On Monday, September 29, at the East End Community School in Portland, the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger distributed some …
Read More →
Summer Reading
Need something to read besides that beach book or another editorial about Maine’s upcoming gubernatorial election? There have been some really interesting articles about …
Read More →
Reflections on two years as a Child Hunger Corps member
It seems impossible that nearly two years have passed since I began the Child Hunger Corps, these last few months are presenting many opportunities …
Read More →
Good Shepherd Food Bank Partners With Bangor & Brewer Nonprofits to Sponsor Five Summer Lunch Sites
Sites will offer free meals to Bangor/Brewer youth throughout summer Bangor, ME – Good Shepherd Food Bank will be sponsoring five Summer Lunch …
Read More →
Waterville girls celebrate birthday by collecting donations
Two girls from Waterville, Maine are making national news for their selfless birthday wishes! When Gabbie and Alice found out that students at their …
Read More →