Friday, November 30, 2012
For $10, you get a hot meal from a great local restaurant, a handmade piece of pottery from a local artist and a chance to help your hungry neighbors.
"To work with clay is to be in touch with the taproot of life." --Shoji Hamada, Japanese potter This weekend, Perkins Center for the Arts hosts “Empty Bowls,” a unique charity event, as part of its Clay Fest. From trying out a kickwheel to demonstrating how to use clay artwork in your home, the entire exercise is meant to introduce guests to “the whole experience of clay,” said Perkins Center director Alan Willoughby, himself a clay artist. “People who maybe aren’t around handmade clay work all the time are hesitant to actually use [and display clay art in their home],” he said. But the centerpiece of the weekend is the Empty Bowls fundraiser that will take place from 12-3 p.m. Saturday. For those three hours, guests can pay $10 for a …
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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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Patch 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 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 Patch has written about in the past, including its Just Peachy salsa campaign. So, we decided as a group to …
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1501 John Tipton Blvd, Pennsauken, NJ
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Monday, November 5, 2012
Food pantries, food banks and shelters are in need of food, water and clothing. Here's how Burlington County residents can help.
County freeholders are working with the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, the Burlington County Chamber of Commerce, Burlington County Courts and local nonprofit agencies to collect food and new clothing for Hurricane Sandy victims in our area. Residents and local businesses can collect and donate food and personal hygiene items, and new adult and children's sweatpants and sweatshirts, T-shirts, socks and underwear in unisex colors in all sizes. All food items should be donated directly to the Fountain of Life Food Pantry, 2035 Columbus Road, Florence, or to local food banks. New clothing should be taken to the Burlington County Department of Human Services on Woodlane Road, in Westampton, Monday through Friday, …
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, however, the fruit is finding a second act on local supermarket shelves, in salsa form, 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 local peach farms in South Jersey. 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 they …
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Collingswood Community Center
30 W Collings Ave, Collingswood, NJ
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Can peach salsa stop hunger, save money, and aid the environment? Jersey farmers say yes.
Thousands go hungry each day in New Jersey, unable to afford food, unable to qualify for food stamps. And still, every season, 90-year-old peach farmer Lewis DeEugenio scales the beds of pickup trucks, shaking his head at countless pounds of unwanted peaches headed for the trash. A new collaboration between six farms and the Food Bank of South Jersey will go a long way toward addressing both problems. A new plan they're calling "Just Peachy" would transform the excess peaches into a shelf-stable peach salsa, reclaiming cast-off fruits from South Jersey farms that use Glassboro’s Eastern ProPak packing facility. After prepping, the peaches will be transported to Camden, where Campbell's Soup will produce the salsa for free. The soupmaker …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Stamp Out Hunger, in its 20th year, feeds hungry people in Moorestown 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 …
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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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Interact Club's annual Soup for the Soul event—held Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church—raised $3,500 last year for the Food Bank of South Jersey.
It may not be what you’d call “soup weather,” but the annual Soup for the Soul event—run by Moorestown High School’s Interact Club—is more about warming the heart than the body. The event, now in its 12th year, raises money for the Food Bank of South Jersey by offering bottomless bowls of soup, prepared by local restaurants and families, to the community. High school junior Katie Dee, advertising chair for Interact’s Soup for the Soul committee, said the fundraiser has become something of a brand in Moorestown, so she’s not worried about unseasonably warm temperatures discouraging people from attending Saturday. “I don’t think the weather is going to affect turnout,” she said, “cause it’s not just New England clam chowder we’re serving. It…
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Kristen Stehm wants to run a half-marathon in each state, all while donating money and food to the Food Bank of South Jersey.
Running gets Kristen Stehm out of the house. It clears her mind and tones her body. It makes her feel like a woman. Stehm, of Cinnaminson, is channeling all this positive energy into a goal. That goal is to run a half-marathon in each of the 50 states. But it's more than just a personal crusade. Stehm hopes to raise awareness for hunger at the same time, teaming up with the Food Bank of South Jersey locally to solicit donations and help those in need. “I don’t think people understand that yes, in this area, in Burlington County, in Cinnaminson, there’s people who are hungry,” Stehm said. The beginning About three years ago, Stehm wanted to lose weight. So she and a friend took up running to shed some pounds. Her first feat was making it…
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 ›