Your Foodbank is here to act. Every day we distribute quality food that helps feed Vermont families. Last year it was more than 24.6 million meals. By 2018 we expect it to be more than 48 million meals. But while we feed more neighbors, we also focus on helping our neighbors build more sustainable lives. [...]
September is Hunger Action Month, when we ask everyone to take action to fight hunger in their community, all month-long. Hunger Action Month is your opportunity to join a movement that has a real and lasting impact on our effort to feed more Vermonters than ever before. Hunger Action Month Download Download the 30 Ways [...]
September is Hunger Action Month, a nationwide campaign to mobilize the public to take action on the issue of hunger. Organized by Feeding America, the campaign brings greater attention to the issue of hunger in America and promotes ways for individuals everywhere to join the movement to solve it. Each year, the Vermont Foodbank works [...]
Is Your Business Ready to Go Orange? Hunger affects 1 in 7 Vermonters. As individuals, businesses, charities and government, we all have a role to play in getting food to those who are in need. Partnerships are especially important to fulfilling the Vermont Foodbank’s mission of gathering and sharing quality food so that no one [...]
What comes to mind when you hear people talking about Millennials and philanthropy? Are Millennials hesitant to call themselves philanthropists? Or, as Phil Kolling says in our video, "giving what you can is being a philanthropist"? Vermont Foodbank Millennial Philanthropy Project The McClure Foundation, a supporter of the Vermont Foodbank, practices what it calls "project-oriented, [...]
David Goodman, host of the Vermont Conversation on WDEV, recently spoke with John Sayles, Vermont Foodbank CEO, Rob Meehan, Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf director, and Charles Knoll, a food shelf client, about the new face of hunger in Vermont. They discussed the "perfect storm" of rising hunger and declining donations nationally and locally, as well [...]
