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Real Food for Real Children
Must! Charities a local North County nonprofit has made a commitment to the Food Bank's Real Food For Real Children program. The program currently feeds 500 children in the North County during the summer months, when free or reduced lunch is no longer available. Throughout the county, there are 16,000 children receiving free or reduced lunch.
It's a two-year, $220,000 grant to provide the capacity to serve 1,500 children by the end of the first year of the grant, and grow to 2,500 children by the end of the second year of the grant. After that, because of the size of the number of meals, and the reimbursements we receive from the California Department of Education through the Summer Food Service Program (Using USDA funds in the Farm Bill), we hope to continue to grow the program until all 5,000 or so children in north county who suffer from low or very low food security are being served. So many thanks to Must! Charities, and all of the north county wine industry for their support for non-profits that serve the needs of our communities.
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Hunger Awareness Day
The 2013 Hunger Awareness Day was held throughout the County on Friday, June 7th. With the help of hundreds of volunteers and our generous sponsors were able to raise $106,536.96!
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We Are Hiring!
Have you heard about GleanSLO program? We are currently hiring for a new GleanSLO Program Manager. For more information about the duties and responsibilities please visit our website. To apply, send a cover letter and resume along with three letters of recommendation to Wendy Lewis at wlewis@slofoodbank.org. Please no phone calls.
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