One in four people in Vermont struggle with hunger, that's more than 150,000 individuals within our home state and that's why Small Dog Electronics getting involved! This holiday season shop local and support local. By shopping with Small Dog Electronics you'll be directly supporting and impacting your local community. Small Dog Electronics has teamed up [...]
The  Harpoon Point to Point presented by National Life Group is giving bikers the option to go off road. Thanks to a partnership with STAB – Sport Trails of the Ascutney Basin, riders can participate in the Harpoon Point to Point’s 20 mile mountain bike ride. The Harpoon Point to Point presented by National Life Group [...]
The Hearts For Hunger 5K Fun Run, a fundraiser for the Foodbank sponsored by the United Church of Hinesburg was a big success this year. More than 170 runners participated, up from 110 last year. The event raises money for the BackPack program. For the BackPack program, bags of kid-friendly, nonperishable, vitamin-fortified food are packed [...]
This year’s Hunger Action Conference 2016 focused on the root causes of hunger and addressing poverty. The keynote speaker Smita Narula, a human rights advocate, attorney, spoke about the need to defend sustainable access to nutritious food as a fundamental human right. Workshops covered everything from how to leverage funding and policy to help fight hunger to effective advocacy skill building [...]
The Vermont Foodbank is the largest hunger relief organization in the state and its mission is to gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in Vermont will go hungry. Its core function is to provide food items, prepared meals, and increasingly, fresh produce, to individuals and 225 network partners statewide [...]
Today's blog is written by Judy Stermer, Director of Communications and Public Affairs. Judy has worked for the Vermont Foodbank for 10 years and today, writes about Pack to Give Back. During the last few days, the Vermont Foodbank has been handing out food boxes and holiday meal fixings to our friends and neighbors in [...]
