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MELISSA S. CHERNEY, who has led the Great Plains Food Bank in North Dakota for the last six years, has been named the Rhode Island Community Food Bank's next CEO. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK

R.I. Food Bank names Cherney as new CEO

PROVIDENCE – The leader of North Dakota's largest hunger relief organization will head to the Ocean State to take the top role at the...

Washington Trust Peanut Butter Drive collects 4,710 jars for hunger relief

WESTERLY – The Washington Trust Co. collected 4,710 jars of peanut butter and more than $6,100 in monetary donations during its 25th annual Peanut Butter Drive earlier...

Five Questions With: Andrew Schiff

The Rhode Island Community Food Bank announced last month that Andrew Schiff will retire next year as CEO of the state’s largest food distribution...
ANDREW SCHIFF will retire in 2025 as the Rhode Island Community Food Bank's CEO. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

R.I. Food Bank CEO Schiff to retire in 2025

PROVIDENCE – For close to two decades, Andrew Schiff has worked to help feed Rhode Islanders in need, especially when a global health pandemic brought such...

R.I. Food Bank distributes record amount of food in FY2024 

PROVIDENCE – Last fiscal year saw record numbers of food distributed by the Rhode Island Community Food Bank and the need for food within...

Boy Scouts Narragansett Council collects more than 75 tons of food

PROVIDENCE – The Boy Scouts of America Narragansett Council collected more than 75 tons of food across Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut during the...
THE RHODE ISLAND Community Food Bank's 2023 Status Report on Hunger in Rhode Island notes that a record number of Rhode Islanders in 2023 needed assistance due to inflation and federal COVID-19 food support programs ended. / PBN FILE PHOTO / JAMES BESSETTE

New R.I. food bank status report shows food insecurity has worsened

PROVIDENCE – With the COVID-19 pandemic fading in the rearview mirror, there was a belief that food insecurity would decrease with people returning to...
REACHING OUT: LaSalle Academy students JJ Sanzi, left, and Cole ­Matthews volunteer by preparing meals at the Amos House food kitchen in Providence.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Food banks, pantries across R.I. report surging need

PROVIDENCE – At poverty relief organization Amos House, a busy month in the soup kitchen typically meant serving around 14,000 meals. And if the...
HEAVY LIFTING: Joe Parillo, left, warehouse expeditor, and Joe Regan, warehouse manager, unload cases of canned goods at the Rhode Island Community Food Bank’s distribution center in Providence.
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

High food costs still difficult to digest in R.I.

The past few years have been especially hard for Rhode Island ­residents facing food ­insecurity. Within the Ocean State, 1 in 3 ­households cannot...

R.I. Food Hunger Survey: Food assistance, insecurity still problematic

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Community Food Bank, in partnership with the Brown University School of Public Health, recently released results of this year’s...
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