Our Helpful Links page is about food safety and hunger
Food Safety
1) FoodSafety.gov is the gateway to food safety information provided by government agencies. communicate information to the public and include an improved individual alert system allowing consumers to receive food safety information, visit site@ http://www.foodsafety.gov/
2) Home Food Safety, is dedicated to providing home food safety statistics, information about food poisoning and safe food handling information and tips. visit site@ http://homefoodsafety.org/
Hunger
1) NC Food Bank, Established in 1980, the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina is a nonprofit organization that has provided food for people at risk of hunger in our 34 county service area for over 30 years. For info visit site @ www.foodbankcenc.org/
2) The Rhode Island Community Food Bank provides food to people in need and promotes long-term solutions to the problem of hunger. for info visit there site @ http://www.rifoodbank.org/
3) California Association of Food Banks
Site deals with hunger and advocacy issues providing a unified voice among food banks to maximize their ability to build a well-nourished California. for info visit site @ http://www.shfb.org/
Hawaii Food Banks
“The people of Hawaii are one ohana. The Hawaii Foodbank provides food so that no one in our family goes hungry. We work to gather food and support from our communities. We then distribute food through charitable agencies to those in need. Our mission is from the heart, and we will fulfill our mission with integrity, humanity and aloha.”
Idaho Food Banks
To help feed, educate and advocate for Idaho’s hungry through collaborative partnerships to develop efficient solutions that strengthen individuals, families and communities.
Illinois Food Banks
We are Chicago’s food bank — a nonprofit food distribution and training center that provides food for hungry people while striving to end hunger in our community.
The Food Depository, founded in 1979, makes a daily impact across Cook County with a network of 650 pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, mobile programs, children’s programs, older adult programs and innovative responses that address the root causes of hunger. Last year, the Food Depository distributed 67 million pounds of shelf-stable food, fresh produce, dairy products and meat
Iowa Food Banks
River Bend Foodbank was established in 1982. Because of the farm implement crisis, tens of thousands of high paying jobs were lost in the Quad City area, and the demand was extremely high for assistance from food pantries and other relief organizations. A group of concerned citizens hoping to find a way to meet the increased demand for food to stock the pantries invited Second Harvest, the national foodbank network to conduct a workshop detailing the foodbank concept. The decision was made to start a foodbank in the Quad Cities and become part of the Second Harvest network. John Deere contributed seed money to rent warehouse space and to hire an executive director and a warehouse manager. In the first year, 190,000 pounds of food was collected, stored and distributed to food pantries and other non profit agencies with feeding programs.
Delaware Food Banks
Founded in 1981, the Food Bank of Delaware provides food for the hungry in the entire state of Delaware. We solicit, collect, purchase and store food from farmers, manufacturers, brokers, wholesalers, retailers and others in the food industry and redistribute it to nonprofit agencies that provide free food to the hungry.
District of Columbia Food Banks
The mission of the Capital Area Food Bank is to feed those who suffer from hunger in the Washington metro area by acquiring food and distributing it through its network of partner agencies; and educating, empowering and enlightening the community about the issues of hunger and nutrition. CAFB is a member of Feeding America, a national network of 200 food banks
Colorado Food Banks
Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado supplies more than 300 partner agencies (community-based pantries, soup kitchens and shelters) that provide food to those in need throughout 52,000 square miles of Southern Colorado. We are a regional hub for food acquisition and distribution, connecting nutritious food resources to those who need them in 31 Southern Colorado counties. We connect with businesses, non-profit organizations, government entities, and individual community members in the fight against hunger. With the help of the community, Care and Share has grown to meet the growing need for our services.
Connecticut Food Banks
Ensuring Everyone Has Enough
Foodshare’s goal is to end hunger—that is, to make sure that when people fall on hard times, there is enough food available to support them. Right now, that is not the case. In 2013, Foodshare distributed enough food for 12 million meals—that’s 40,000 meals a day—but even that huge amount of food covered only one-third of the need in our area. It would take an additional 24 million meals worth of food to fully meet the need.
Arizona Food Banks
Providing more than 51,000 meals to hungry people in Arizona every day.
Arkansas Food Banks
The Northwest Arkansas Food Bank serves over 700,000 people annually in Benton, Washington, Madison and Carroll counties through our partnerships with local human service agencies. Our mission is to nourish our community by feeding hungry people.
Food Bank of Alaska, Inc.
Food Bank of Alaska believes that no one deserves to be hungry. Since 1979, we have been securing donated food for nonprofit agencies to distribute to hungry Alaskans.
Alabama Food Banks
The mission of the Community Food Bank of Central Alabama is to serve people in need by securing and storing surplus food and household items and distributing it through local partnering service agencies.
The Georgia Food Bank
Association is comprised of eight regional food banks who are part of the Feeding America network. Working through more than 2,600 partner agencies and pantries, they distribute more than 130 million pounds of food annually to 159 counties in Georgia.