It’s Agency Appreciation Week here at ACFB. The following is a reprint from the Fall 2011 Foodsharing, our quarterly print newsletter. To learn more about Foodsharing, please visit our website. It’s been a tradition for many years that with each issue of Foodsharing, the Food Bank features one of our partner agencies as the Agency [...]
That’s a big truck. In partnership with MillerCoors and Walmart, Tyson Foods has donated more than 30,000 pounds of food, or as Bill likes to call it, a tractor trailer full of protein. We were able to have Paul Davis, Vice President of Customer Development of Tyson Foods; Glen Watkins, Senior Manager, Public Affairs and [...]
This week has been a lot of fun for us. Why? We’ve been lucky to have our Supper Club with not only one restaurant, but 14 restaurants who are participating in Inman Park Restaurant Week! Usually, our monthly Supper Club happens once a month at one restaurant with 20% of your tab going to the [...]
This year, we’ve started something new at the Food Bank–mobile pantries. They’re a new way for us to distribute large volumes of food directly and quickly to larger numbers of people in need. To give credit where credit is due, the first mobile pantry was piloted by the Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank. Using [...]
It was a hot day in the parking lot of BJ’s Wholesale Club in Conyers last Thursday, but we forgot all about that as the spirit of community filled the air. Team members from AARP Georgia and BJ’s had set up a perfect event for the kid in all of us. As tunes cranked from [...]
September is a busy month for us at the Food Bank. It’s the start of fall, but it’s also special for another reason. Atlanta Community Food Bank joins more than 200 other Feeding America food banks across the country for Hunger Action Month. We use September as a time to really raise awareness about hunger issues [...]
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