Tag: Andrew Schiff
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...
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...
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...
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...
Garelick Farms provides 201,000 milk cartons to R.I. Food Bank to...
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Community Food Bank will be the beneficiary of several thousand milk cartons from dairy company Garelick Farms to help...
Rhode Island Community Food Bank receives $100K grant from Point32Health
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Community Food Bank received a $100,000 grant from the Point32Health Foundation to increase its capacity in response to a growing...
Five Questions With: Andrew Schiff
Andrew Schiff is the CEO of the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. The food bank recently released its annual Status Report on Hunger in...
R.I. Food Bank report: Hunger in state worse than during pandemic
PROVIDENCE – Food insecurity has gotten worse in Rhode Island this past year than it was during the COVID-19 pandemic, mostly due to inflation...
