Tag: Andrew Schiff
BankNewport fundraiser generates $7,500 for R.I. Community Food Bank
NEWPORT – BankNewport raised more than $7,500 in a winter fundraiser for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, the bank announced in a news...
R.I. Community Food Bank has a full plate in combating COVID-19...
While the Rhode Island Community Food Bank’s work is critical year after year to people in need, that work has reached a new level...
STARVING FOR HELP: Needy flock to R.I.’s overwhelmed food pantries
IT'S COMMON for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center Executive Director Heather Hole Strout to see adults and the elderly seeking food at...
Cox Communications charitable group donates $25K to R.I. Food Bank
WEST WARWICK – The charitable arm of the parent company of Cox Communications and Cox Automotive, the James M. Cox Foundation, has donated $25,000...
Farm Fresh RI, R.I. Food Bank approved for USDA’s new food...
PROVIDENCE – Farm Fresh Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Community Food Bank will collaborate to provide up to 3,750 boxes of food per...
Five Questions With: Andrew Schiff, Rhode Island Community Food Bank CEO
5Q: Andrew Schiff | CEO, Rhode Island Community Food Bank
1. How much more food is being distributed by Rhode Island Community Food Bank...
R.I. Community Food Bank receives $100K from MetLife Foundation
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Community Food Bank recently was the beneficiary of a $100,000 donation from the MetLife Foundation to help handle increased...
Trinity Rep raises $60K for R.I. Food Bank
RAISING DOUGH: Trinity Repertory Company raised $60,445 for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank from audiences that attended the company’s stage play “A Christmas...
Trinity Rep raises more than $60K for R.I. Community Food...
PROVIDENCE – Trinity Repertory Company raised $60,445 for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank during the theater group’s 2019 production of “A Christmas Carol,”...
Report: More than 11M meals are missed annually in R.I. by...
PROVIDENCE — Low-income residents in Rhode Island are annually missing 11.3 million meals and closing such a gap will require “significant investment” in federal...