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Friday, June 11, 2021 6:00 AM
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Thursday, June 3, 2021 3:31 PM
Eat Greater Des Moines this week acquired a refrigerated truck, a $40,000 asset that the nonprofit plans to make available to organizations seeking to help reduce food waste in the metro.
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Thursday, May 13, 2021 10:16 AM
A year after it was created to help fight soaring levels of food insecurity brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, the Feeding Iowans Task Force will be scaled back, Gov. Kim Reynolds and Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg announced Wednesday during a news conference at the Food Bank of Iowa.
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Friday, April 30, 2021 10:34 AM
The Des Moines Area Religious Council Food Pantry Network is partnering with the Downtown Farmers’ Market to bring back the Meals from the Market program.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021 10:45 AM
Urban Dreams will be opening a food pantry in Cedar Rapids tomorrow to help fight food insecurity in the region.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021 10:52 AM
Meal boxes were recently distributed to 1,000 Des Moines public school families through the Food Bank of Iowa Des Moines Public School pantry network.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021 3:06 PM
The MolinaCares Accord, an initiative of Molina Healthcare, announced it has donated $150,000 to eight nonprofits that serve both urban and rural areas of Iowa to address issues associated with social determinants of health and to reduce health disparities among Iowans.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021 3:09 PM
With a Des Moines food bank as his backdrop, Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, announced Monday that federal benefits for people on SNAP — food stamps — will increase through September.
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Friday, March 12, 2021 6:00 AM
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Monday, March 8, 2021 2:59 PM
The Food Bank of Iowa is partnering with Amazon’s new fulfillment center in Bondurant to rescue food that is unsaleable but otherwise safe for human consumption.
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Monday, March 1, 2021 2:48 PM
The World Food Prize Foundation recently released a letter signed by 24 of its laureates urging the Biden administration to focus on the issues of hunger, poverty and malnutrition around the world.
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Friday, February 26, 2021 6:00 AM
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Thursday, February 25, 2021 3:39 PM
Nearly 1,200 families in the metro area will be able to pick up a free 20-pound box of fresh food and a gallon of milk at a drive-thru food distribution event this Saturday, Feb. 27, at the John R. Grubb YMCA.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021 11:03 AM
Cook for a Cause, an annual cooking and food education event hosted by Real Food 4 Kids and the Justice League of Food, is returning March 22 with an at-home format to encourage families and kids to cook for other food-insecure families in Central Iowa.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021 3:02 PM
The Farm to Early Care and Education Implementation Grant program is launching a local food incentive pilot to award $43,000 to early care and education providers (ECEs) to purchase local foods from April through September 2021, the Iowa Farm to School and Early Care Coalition announced Monday.
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