Today's blog is a thank you letter, written by Genna Williams, Vermont Foodbank's gleaning and community outreach coordinator. It was a great gleaning season, and we have many people to thank for our success in sharing fresh, local produce with our neighbors in need. As the ground begins to freeze, the Vermont Foodbank would like [...]
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 [...]
From L to R: Alex Waskow, Sandra Vishnevsky, Cecilia Telefus, and Heng-Scheng Chuang of Dealer.com build packs for the BackPack Program with John Sayles, Vermont Foodbank CEO (middle). The Vermont Foodbank proudly welcomed several employees from Dealer.com who volunteered for the BackPack Program, a weekend program designed to meet the nutritional needs of [...]
From September 13-19 of this month, we've celebrated Volunteer Action Week as part of Hunger Action Month. You can read more about the amazing volunteers we've profiled here. We would also like to thank the many incredible organizations who send us volunteers. We are able to feed 153,000 of our neighbors because of the hard [...]
John Kearns is a volunteer in our warehouse and in our gleaning program. Andrea Solazzo, our Gleaning and Community Outreach Coordinator for the Northern Region, especially appreciates the consistent help and the distance he's been willing to travel. On top of his volunteer work, he's creating an online hub connecting people in the food system, [...]
