Tag: Rhode Island Community Food Bank
De Los Santos named Blue Cross 2023 BlueAngel of the Year
PROVIDENCE – Doris De Los Santos, director of supplier diversity at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, has been named the company’s...
Olneyville New York System’s sign auction raises $27K for R.I. food...
PROVIDENCE – When he decided to put the restaurant’s historic 1954 neon sign up for auction to support the Rhode Island Community Food Bank,...
Governor’s plan to offer more free school meals is not enough,...
Food insecurity in Rhode Island in 2023 surged 30% year over year, according to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. And compared with 2019,...
Olneyville New York System to auction 1954 neon sign to support...
PROVIDENCE – A local restaurant institution is auctioning off a bit of its history to help support the Rhode Island Community Food Bank.
In a...
Hope & Main’s Nourish Our Neighbors program a hit, especially during...
With Giving Tuesday still in the public consciousness, and the holiday season making all of us aware of why we reach out to neighbors...
R.I. Food Bank to use $500K grant to support WEHDC’s Sankofa...
CANDACE HARPER is executive director of the West Elmwood Housing Development Corp., which has partnered with the Rhode Island Community Food Bank on the...
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...
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