National Life Group Foundation announced their continued support of the Vermont Foodbank BackPack Program with a $25,000 grant. In October 2008, the Foodbank launched the weekend nutrition program for school-aged children at a handful of schools around Vermont. Now in its seventh year, the BackPack Program is a nationally-recognized program of Feeding America and is [...]
Hunger in America 2014, a study by the Vermont Foodbank and Feeding America, shows that 1 in 4 people, or an estimated 153,000 people, in Vermont turn to food shelves and meal service programs to feed themselves and their families. They also turn to other food assistance programs, including WIC, free school lunches and 3SquaresVT. [...]
As the new school year gets underway, the Vermont Foodbank wants to do everything it can to ensure the youth in our communities don’t go hungry. This year, we're getting some help from one local business. Dead River Company is once again showing its commitment to supporting food insecurity with a $10,000 donation to the [...]
Healthy College Snacks (HCS) recently launched a program to join the fight against childhood hunger in America and chose Vermont Foodbank’s youth programs as its Vermont donations recipient. The company will donate $1.00, or 3 meals, for every box shipped in Vermont. To kick off the partnership HCS donated 900 meals, or $300, to the [...]
National Life Group: Do good. Be good. Make good.   National Life Group is a Vermont-based Fortune 1000 company that offers life insurance, annuities, investments, and financial solutions in the form of estate, business succession, and retirement planning strategies through its affiliated companies. Along with it’s employees, National Life Group strives to live it’s [...]
A $20,000 grant from the National Life Group Foundation to the Vermont Foodbank will help feed more than 100 children throughout the school year through the BackPack Program. Schools offer free and reduced-price meal programs Monday through Friday. But many families don’t have enough food to get them through the weekends. Students involved in the [...]
