Monday, March 18, 2013
ShopRite of Chews Landing employees Lindsay Frederico and Matthew Penner made it onto a Cheerios box in recognition of their efforts to end hunger in South Jersey.
For longtime employees Lindsay Frederico and Matthew Penner, working at ShopRite of Chews Landing is about more than just serving customers. It's also about helping people in need. Frederico, who's worked at the supermarket for 13 years, and Penner, who's been there for 11, were honored in a special way for their efforts in raising money to end hunger in South Jersey through ShopRite's Partners in Caring program. They're among fellow ShopRite employees from across the Northeast who appear on the back of a limited-edition Cheerios box being sold at Shoprites throughout March. The employees raised a total of $1.25 million for area food banks during September, which is National Hunger Awareness Month. Frederico, who lives in Williamstown…
Friday, November 16, 2012
Drive up your turkey donation to the Food Bank of South Jersey all day on Saturday.
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Did you score an extra turkey for Thanksgiving? A needy family in our area could have a tastier Thanksgiving if you donate it and other turkey day staples. The Food Bank of South Jersey is running a drive-up turkey drive Saturday, Nov. 17 to help fill holiday tables of local families in need. Simply drive up to the food bank at 1501 John Tipton Blvd. in Pennsauken from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and a staffer will take it from there. The food bank is collecting turkeys (only frozen), canned goods and boxed goods. All donations must not be expired. While you’re dropping off a turkey, don’t forget to open your wallet as well. For every $1 donated, the Food Bank of South Jersey can buy almost four entire meals for people in need. For details, contact …
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Saturday, November 10, 2012
Patcher staffers learn more about hunger in South Jersey with a morning of volunteerism. Interested in helping reduce hunger in our area? Read on.
Patch staffers in South Jersey woke up bright and early on Wednesday for a volunteerism gig that hit home—helping out at the Food Bank of South Jersey. Our volunteering day is part of an initiative promoted by Patch nationwide. Give 5 encourages employees to spend five days per year volunteering with an organization that supports our local Patch communities. Past projects have included park cleanups and even going barefoot for a day. This time, we decided to do a project together. The Food Bank of South Jersey fits the bill perfectly. The food bank serves four counties—Camden, Gloucester, Salem and part of Burlington—and runs programs that Patch has written about in the past, including its Just Peachy salsa campaign. So, we decided as a …
Friday, August 3, 2012
After that, you can support the Food Bank of South Jersey by buying it in stores.
Bruised, kicked and headed for the dumps in perfectly serviceable condition—even if it wasn't from New Jersey, the story of the local peach wouldn't be out of place in a Bruce Springsteen lyric. Instead, the imperfect fruit will find a second act on local supermarket shelves, in the form of Just Peachy salsa, starting Monday, Aug. 6. The reclamation project is the result of a partnership among the Food Bank of South Jersey (FBSJ), Campbell’s Soup and six South Jersey peach farms. Farms like Summit City in Glassboro throw away hundreds of pounds of peaches per year, simply because they are too small or too ugly to sell in local supermarkets. “There are almost a million good peaches that are not quite good enough for retail supermarkets, but…
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Stamp Out Hunger, in its 20th year, feeds hungry people in Gloucester Township and surrounding communities.
You know that bag of food you’ve been meaning to drop off at the local food pantry? This Saturday, your mail carrier will do the work for you. May 12 marks the 20th annual Stamp Out Hunger, and it couldn’t be easier to participate. Simply put a bag of nonperishable food out with your mail. Your postal worker will collect it on his or her route and deliver it to a local food aid organization. Stamp Out Hunger is the nation’s largest single-day food collection drive, according to the U.S. Postal Service. Last year, carriers picked up 70 million pounds of food. Each can, each box of spaghetti, each tuna tin is food that’s desperately needed. A 2011 food insecurity study by Feeding America found that nearly 49 million people—including one of …
Monday, May 7, 2012
The humble Jersey peach has the potential to stop hunger, help farmers save money and aid the environment. All that's needed is peach salsa-loving consumers.
Each season, 90-year-old peach farmer Lewis DeEugenio scales the back of pickup trucks, shaking his head in dismay at the scene before him—hundreds, sometimes thousands, of pounds of unwanted peaches headed for the trash. At the same time, thousands of South Jerseyans go hungry each day, unable to afford food or qualify for food stamps. A new collaboration between six South Jersey farms and the Food Bank of South Jersey will go a long way toward addressing both problems. The farms and food bank are launching Just Peachy, a plan to turn the excess peaches into a shelf-stable peach salsa. Instead of being destined for the dump, the peaches will be "reclaimed" from the South Jersey farms that use Glassboro’s Eastern ProPak packing facility. …
Friday, April 20, 2012
Each step in the Walk Against Hunger helps combat food insecurity throughout South Jersey.
South Jerseyans will hit the pavement on Saturday to combat hunger among their neighbors—and there’s still time to sign up and help the cause. The Walk Against Hunger benefits the Food Bank of South Jersey and related charities. The food bank provides assistance to needy residents and local food pantries. The Food Bank of South Jersey wants to blow past the $10,000 that 150 walkers brought in for the 2010 walk. “We hope to double those numbers this year,” says Dan Getman, the food bank’s community engagement manager, “and with the response we’ve received so far, that’s not going to be a problem.” In past years, the Walk Against Hunger was a Philadelphia-based event. “We participated in the Philly event and still have a presence there,” …
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
A $2 million donation will give the organization an eight- to nine-month supply of food.
One thousand people. One thousand stories. One thousand paper plates. For Food Bank of South Jersey CEO Val Traore, a few sentences written on each plate, from the people who rely on the Food Bank and its members, were the most direct way of sending a message to Trenton about the spike in need the Pennsauken-based organization faced, as donations have slipped and funding has fallen short. That message was answered Wednesday, as Gov. Chris Christie came to the Food Bank to announce $2 million from the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA)–money that had been promised in 2009, but never delivered–had finally been approved in a vote that morning. “I got those plates, and I read many of them,” he said. “It seemed to me that there had to be …
Friday, November 4, 2011
Township food pantries are facing shortages.
Gloucester Township resident Joanne Carr saw a woman buying an enormous amount of pancake mix at the grocery store and wondered what she planned to do with it all. The answer: Take it to the food pantry at Our Lady of Hope Parish, on Little Gloucester Road, which had run out of food. Like other food pantries in Gloucester Township, Our Lady of Hope Parish has seen a gigantic increase in the number of families they provide food. Last year at this time, the food pantry served 175 families a month; this year the number is close to 250. “People had good jobs last year and now they are out of work,” said Anna O’Toole, president of the St. Vincent DePaul Society, the organization that manages the food pantry at Our Lady of Hope. “We are seeing …
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
Shortfalls have left the aid organization looking for help from the state and the public.
In the warehouse at the Food Bank of South Jersey, a lonely case of Pop Tarts sits on the floor of a rack space that stretches empty to the ceiling, 20 feet above. Aisles that are typically jammed with pallets of cans and boxes are wide enough and empty enough to run a three-man 100-yard dash with ease. And not far away, shelves of loose cans and boxes of cereal are mostly empty, save for the golden glow of hundreds of cans of corn. It's part of a one-two punch—a funding shortfall and decreased donations—that has hit the Pennsauken-based organization hard this year. CEO Val Traore called in representatives from the 240 agencies—mostly local food banks and soup kitches—throughout Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem counties Wednesday, …
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Eileen Kane Flynn
5:11 pm on Friday, November 16, 2012
It's a shame some people are so thoughtless. Everyone deserves a thanksgiving dinner. There are plenty of people in NJ who are recovering from Hurricane Sandy and need this help more ›