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Paint the Town...Orange!
September is Hunger Action Month! Orange is the Color!
Hunger Action Month is a national campaign to raise awareness about hunger in America and motivate people to take action. Good Shepherd Food Bank will be engaging in many different events & activities throughout the month of September.
Visit our Hunger Action Month webpage!
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Good Shepherd Food Bank Welcomes Our New Cupboard Collective Manager!
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The Food Bank is delighted to introduce you to Scott Hamann, Good Shepherd Food Bank's new Manager of the Cupboard Collective Program. Scott has been passionate about ending hunger ever since his time working with homeless youth in South Africa, and he looks forward to assisting his fellow Mainers access the food and nutrition they need to lead active and healthy lives. Outside of his work with the Food Bank, Scott is a State Representative where he considers economic security - including food security - to be a top priority to improve Maine's economy and quality of life. >>SEE MORE<<
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Congratulations to Nancy Perry!
Food Bank Staffer Named Food Sourcing Leader of the Year
Feeding America, the nation's leading hunger relief charity, has named Good Shepherd Food Bank staffer Nancy Perry the Food Sourcing Leader of the Year for the Eastern Region.
Nancy is the Food Bank's Food Sourcing Manager and the Director of Mainers Feeding Mainers, our farm partnership program.
In 2010, we created Mainers Feeding Mainers, a local food purchasing initiative designed to increase the amount of local, fresh, and healthy products available to our partner agencies. Not fully knowing what we were getting into, we knew we needed someone to own this new initiative. Nancy was asked to lead the program and jumped right in. Her willingness to listen to farmers and make the project work for them was key - she engaged the farmers from the start and treated them as partners.
We were warned that paying for food from farmers would reduce donations; thanks to Nancy, just the opposite happened. She formed such strong, trusting relationships with our farm partners that they think of us whenever they have surplus crops. Last year, >>SEE MORE<<
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In Our October Newsletter
What's Coming Up?
- The Food Bank's State Summary of the Hunger in America 2014 Report
- Renewal 2015 Information
- News about Holiday Food for Purchase
...and more!
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