National Life Group Foundation Donates $30,000 to Vermont Foodbank Charitable Grant Supports Youth Food Programs, Including Backpack Program  Montpelier, Vermont – A $30,000 grant from the National Life Group Foundation will benefit youth food programs of the Vermont Foodbank. National Life CEO Mehran Assadi, left, and Chairman Thomas MacLeay, right, present a check [...]
The BackPack program, which sends children home from school each week with bags of kid-friendly, nonperishable, vitamin-fortified food from all five food groups, has received positive feedback from parents of students in the program, according to a 2015-2016 school year survey done by the Foodbank. More than 90% of parents said the BackPack program has [...]
The Vermont Foodbank announced today that it has received a $20,000 grant from The Dunkin' Donuts & Baskin-Robbins Community Foundation (DDBRCF). In the final year of its three-year, $1,000,000 commitment, The DDBRCF is working closely with Feeding America® member food banks to support child-hunger initiatives nationwide. Nearly 34,000 children face hunger in Vermont each year. [...]
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 [...]
The Vermont Foodbank’s 3SquaresVT Outreach team is continuing to expand its services to all eligible Vermonters who need and qualify for this food benefit. As a federally funded program, 3SquaresVT, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program and nationally as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), is vital to the subsistence of millions of Americans [...]
First-time gift will provide food for kids in Essex County schools The Vermont Foodbank received a $2,000 grant from Plum Creek in support of the BackPack Program. Started in 2008, the Vermont Foodbank BackPack Program is a weekend nutrition program designed to meet the needs of children struggling with hunger at times when other resources, [...]
