Since the last issue of Kernels, your Foodank has been leveraging all the food and funds we steward on your behalf. As you’ll read in this issue, it could be the 3SquaresVT team helping a family apply for monthly food purchasing benefits, or a driver distributing food to older adults on fixed incomes, or a local food shelf hosting classes on how to prepare meals with donated food.

I hope these stories lift you up. As we adjust to another autumn and seek connection during the holiday season, those of us fortunate enough to be able to give back may be thinking: how do I best support my neighbors this year? A meal does more than fill a basic need. It strengthens ties within families, between individuals, and across communities. It’s hard to feel divided when we’re joining hands to give thanks for a meal to be shared together. That’s what your support helps make happen.

Cuts to federal food and health care support are resulting in more people using the charitable food system. Vermont Foodbank is here, and with your help we will continue to do our best to fill the resource gaps that leave families and neighbors without enough food.

Thank you,

John Sayles

CEO

P.S. If you have a story to share or an idea that you’d like us to consider writing about in a future edition, please let us know!