Food pantries in a Pennsylvania suburb see an increase in families who still can't make ends meet despite having jobs.
You know, obviously, food pantries and food banks around the country are seeing much, much longer lines, ever since the recession.
Tepper has donated significantly to food banks and food pantries across N.
Many lodges throughout the state have made donations to local food pantries.
In 2011, over 20 million pounds of backyard produce was donated to local charities via the site, and now more than 5000 food pantries are listed on AmpleHarvest.org.
Given that 30%-40% more people have started visiting food pantries since the recession, food banks are now a strategic point of opportunity to improve health for poor families.
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Faith and community organizations have initiated a broad range of activities including walking more than 3.85 million miles, growing 1, 500 gardens, helping start 7, 000 farmers markets, and bringing fresh produce to 5, 600 food pantries.
This year, NYCCAH volunteers and their partner nonprofits will serve meals, distribute food bags, stock food pantries where the low-income can buy discounted groceries and even clean up homeless shelters to commemorate MLK Jr.
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For example, The New York City Coalition Against Hunger (NYCCAH) represents more than 1, 200 nonprofit soup kitchens and food pantries in New York City that feed the over one million low-income, hungry New Yorkers.
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We deliver freshly baked bread every morning to our cafes, and at the end of the day the bread that goes unsold is taken out the back door in black plastic bags and is delivered to food pantries and soup kitchens.
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Food banks and pantries accept wholesome food that meets quality and safety standards, as do many national and local food recovery programs.
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But without the foundation of SNAP benefits, it would be impossible for food banks, pantries, and soup kitchens to fill the gap and provide enough food to meet the need.
So we do our basic every year, which is spiders and Jell-O, because Jell-O is the ultimate Halloween food and we have it in our pantries.
But the number of people needing emergency food is expected to grow in 2010, just as kitchens and pantries are again finding it harder to raise money for their services.
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