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The Franklin Food Pantry participated in the Healthy Kids Day at Patriot Place on Saturday, May 3 Healthy Kids Day Coordinated by the Hockomock YMCA as part of Healthy Futures, the event had activities for kids of all ages. Displays from multiple companies and organizations shared information and more about health. Panorama of the Healthy Read more »
Stop & Shops Campaign Raises $12m For Hunger Relief
Quincy, Massachusetts-based Stop & Shop, together with Unilevers Knorr brand, announced that its Food for Friends campaign raised more than $1.2 million for its 12 regional food bank partners to combat summer hunger in the communities it serves.
According to Feeding America, 22 million kids across the U.S. rely on school meals. When schools close for the summer, school meal programs often close too.
Stop & Shops annual Food for Friends donation campaign is allowing customers at the grocers more than 400 stores throughout Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey to donate at checkout to support food insecure families across the Northeast, with 100 percent of donations going directly to Stop & Shops 12 regional food bank partners.
This month-long campaign serves to renew hope for so many families that are currently struggling, allowing kids to enjoy a fun and healthy summer of play and time outdoors rather than worrying about where their next meal will come from, said Gordon Reid, president.
This program also shows the value of communities coming together to support one another, and Stop & Shops steadfast commitment to helping our food bank partners provide nutritious food to families in need.
For more information on Stop & Shops programs to support local communities, visit stopandshop.com/community.
Food Donated To Meet Growing Need For Assistance In Westchester During Covid
This week Stop & Shop provided Feeding Westchester a donation of more than 16 tons of food to assist the Westchester County community impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The $55,000 donation included: rice, canned vegetables, tomato sauce, shelf stable milk, cereal, soups, pasta meals peanut butter, beans, potatoes and mac & cheese.
Stop and Shop is proud of our long history of supporting Feeding Westchester in their mission to serve those facing food insecurity, said Rudy DiPietro, Vice President of Operations for Stop & Shop. Today, we are honored to make this emergency relief contribution, which will assist Feeding Westchester in providing food to so many families that suddenly find themselves in need.
For many people in Westchester, the crisis has left them food insecure. Thats not something we can fix with a vaccine and we wont need a test to know that its there, says Matt Honeycutt, Feeding Westchester Vice President of Development. Generous food donations, like this one from Stop & Shop, helps Feeding Westchester as we continue to work to meet the needs of the countless local families upended by this crisis.
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Stop & Shop And The Academy Of Hospitality & Tourism At Erasmus High School Open Pantry To Meet Needs Of Food Insecure Flatbush Students
The Academy of Hospitality and Tourism at Erasmus High School and Stop & Shop today held a ribbon cutting of the schools new food pantry. The pantry, which will serve over 300 students from 9th-12th grade, is being supported by a $7,500 gift card donation from Stop & Shop that will enable the school to purchase the specific food items and other essential products that the students and their families need.
The Stop & Shop School Food Pantry Program was established to help limit barriers impacting students ability to succeed in the classroom by making sure that they have consistent access to food. Stop & Shop supports local schools existing food pantries or helps them establish a new one by providing gift card donations to help stock their shelves.
One of our core beliefs that is entrenched in our culture is Maslow before Bloom. Academy of Hospitality and Tourism has always subscribe to the notion that our school must meet the physiological needs of our students before we can demand academic excellence, opines Principal Dr. Shirley Miller. Stop & Shop, our community partner since 2017, has given us opportunities to serve others through the preparation of meals on Thanksgiving each year now we have a chance to serve ourselves through the granting of our school pantry. So it is fitting, thank you Stop & Shop, that we are the first in-school pantry in Brooklyn.
Power To Feed Long Island Summer Food Drive Comes To Riverhead Stop & Shop Friday
PSEG-LI, Stop & Shop aim to collect enough food for 30,000 healthy meals in summer-long food drive for Island Harvest Food Bank
PSEG Long Island and Stop & Shop are teaming up again this summer to collect food for Island Harvest Food Bank and will be collecting food donations at the Riverhead Stop & Shop on Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The second annual Power to Feed Long Island summer-long food drive started with a collection July 1 in Massapequa and consists of six collections at Stop & Shop supermarkets across the island, including the Aug. 5 event in Riverhead.
This second annual summer food drive aims to collect 30,000 healthy, nutritious meals for Long Island families struggling to put food on their tables, according to a press release from PSEG announcing the food drive.
Food insecurity affects more Long Island families than people may realize. In fact, hundreds of thousands of Long Island families struggle with hunger and food insecurity throughout the year. But the struggle grows more acute during the summer months, when there is a significant reduction in food donations to local food banks, pantries and programs, PSEG said.
Compounding the issue, children are not in school where they can receive free and reduced-cost breakfast and lunch. In addition, the pandemic and increased inflation rate have further strained local food pantries and emergency feeding programs served by Island Harvest, the food bank said.
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Supermarket Helps Food Bank To Feed Needy
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SOMERSET Most of Stop & Shop’s business has to do with selling food. But the supermarket also has been giving back by making donations of food items to the hot meals that are served to the needy at the Church of Our Saviour twice a month and also to the Annelle DeLorme Hagerman Food Bank at the church. And some of Stop & Shop’s employees have been volunteering their time to help with the work when the food and meals are distributed.
Last week, the supermarket gave its biggest donation to the food program at the church, a check for $4,392.
“It’s something we do every year,” said Nelson Barbosa, the store manager of the Somerset Stop & Shop. “We adopt a food bank.”
During the holiday season, customers at the Somerset supermarket could buy paper turkeys for one dollar, three dollars or five dollars under the “Food for Friends” program that were hung up in the store. The proceeds from that sale and how the money was generated to make the donation to the Church of Our Saviour last Friday.
Anywhere from 85 to 150 people are served hot meals at the church twice a month and that many also come to the food bank. Stop & Shop has been partnering with the food program at the Church of Our Saviour for the past two years.
“There’s more and more families in need everyday,” said Patty Frezza, the non-perishable foods manager at Stop & Shop who volunteers her time to help out serving the hot meals to the needy. “There’s more and more families that need food.”
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As the neighborhood grocery store in Flatbush, were dedicated to supporting our local students and their families, said Stop & Shop Communications Manager, Stefanie Shuman. This in-school pantry will ensure students at the Academy of Hospitality and Tourism at Erasmus will have access to the food and supplies they need. Students cannot learn when they are hungry, and we are proud to support the school in ensuring they are fueled for success.
Stop & Shop currently supports more than 50 School Food Pantries across its five-state footprint. The Academy of Hospitality and Tourism at Erasmus High School is the supermarkets first in-school pantry in Brooklyn. For more information about Stop & Shops School Food Pantry program, visit .
Stop & Shops 32nd Annual Food For Friends Campaign Raises More Than $12 Million For Hunger Relief
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100% of Donations Raised Will Benefit 12 Regional Food Banks Across Stop & Shops Five State Footprint
Unilevers Knorr Brand Generously Donates Product in New York
QUINCY, Mass., Aug. 03, 2022 — Today Stop & Shop, together with Unilevers Knorr® brand, announced that its 32nd annual Food for Friends campaign raised more than $1.2 million for its 12 regional food bank partners to combat summer hunger in the communities it serves.
Summer can be the hungriest time of year for kids, and Stop & Shop recognizes the importance of raising awareness around childhood hunger during this time of year. While families are able to rely on free or reduced-priced meals for children during the school year, when school is out and children are at home, families have to buy more food, resulting in a rise in child hunger. According to Feeding America, the nations largest hunger relief network, 22 million kids across the United States rely on school meals. When schools close for the summer, school meal programs often close, too.
Stop & Shops annual Food for Friends donation campaign is tackling summer hunger this year by allowing customers at the grocers 400+ stores throughout Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey to donate at checkout to support food insecure families across the Northeast, with 100% of donations going directly to Stop & Shops 12 regional food bank partners.
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Local Food Store Donors Recognized
The FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, gave special recognition to the Food Store Donors, who contributed a combined 2,544,588 pounds of food this year. The value of that food is $4,376,691 dollars. These Food Star donors, include Saker ShopRite, Stop & Shop, Walmart, Target, Sams Club, Wegmans, Foodtown, ACME, BJs Wholesale, A& P, Pathmark, Super Fresh, Whole Foods Market, Restaurant Depot, and Costco.
We are extremely lucky to have such a productive relationship with our local stores in the counties we serve, says Carlos Rodriguez, FoodBank Executive Director. The store donations account for 25% percent of our overall distribution, and are necessary for us to continue to provide a wide variety of fresh food to the more than 300 feeding programs in our communities, which include pantries, soup kitchens, churches, synagogues and shelters.
Weve had great success with our store donor program and want to replicate it for farms and manufacturers, says Mychal Mills, FoodBank Food Sourcing Supervisor. There is a growing trend for healthy eating and locally grown produce. It coincides with the FoodBanks goal of providing healthy, balanced meals to those in need. We hope that farmers can experience the same benefits as our stores.For more information about food sourcing, contact .
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Before the COVID-19 crisis, 200,000 people in Westchester were in need of assistance but the need has now more than doubled to easily half a million people. Many neighbors who previously contributed to food drives to assist their communities now find themselves in need of help. More than 1.6 million New York State residents have filed for unemployment in the last six weeks, and more than 220,000 in just the last week.
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A Big Helping Of Giving From The Tisbury Police
Tisbury Police posted up in the town parking lot adjacent to Stop & Shop Wednesday to collect food and monetary donations for the Island Food Pantry.
Officers also helped quell a bit of the hectic atmosphere and labor of Thanksgiving shopping by helping folks carry groceries and by shuttling empty grocery carts back to the Stop & Shop entrance.
Officers Carla Gomes, Julia Levesque, and Cristina Whitney were out in front of a police pickup just before 11 am Wednesday helping shoppers and taking donations. Police administrator Samantha Gitschier was also there helping.
So far were doing really well got a good amount of donations and weve raised over $400 in cash, Tisbury Police Lt. Bill Brigham told The Times. Im sure by the end of the day be doing even better.
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Clubs and groups are welcome to get involved, but because of workplace safety and liabilities and the small size of our warehouse, we cannot accommodate large groups or young children during regular morning hours of operation. No food sorting help is needed until after our Thanksgiving food drives email our manager at with your inquiry.
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Our Family Foundation By Stop & Shop Supports Mobile Food Bank With $125000 Grant Award
Pictured are Ken Burroughs, Stop & Shop district director Tom Scott, Stop & Shop store manager Andrew Morehouse, executive director of The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, and Denise Darosa, Stop & Shop perishable manager.
Our Family Foundation by Stop & Shop has awarded The Food Bank with a $125,000 grant to support our Mobile Food Bank program. The award comes as part of the grocery chains three-year Fighting Child Hunger initiative to increase access to healthy, nutritious food for children in need of healthier diets.
The Mobile Food Bank program brings free, fresh, healthy food directly to underserved communities in our region, ensuring no one goes hungry and everyone has access to healthy food.
We are thankful for our strong community partner, Our Family Foundation by Stop & Shop, said Andrew Morehouse, executive director at The Food Bank. With their support, our Mobile Food Bank program will continue to provide access to fresh, healthy food for families and children in our community.
In 2016, the Mobile Food Bank program distributed the equivalent of 960,258 meals to more than 28,700 people through 14 sites across western Massachusetts. The program will expand to 26 distribution sites by the end of 2018, providing more food to our neighbors in need. The $125,000 grant award will support the second year of the three-year initiative.
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CCSU President Zulma Toro said she just recently received the results of the food insecurity survey and finds the results concerning.
People may think that if someone is attending college, they dont face food insecurity. That is incorrect, Toro said.
Olanrewaju Olamuyiwa is Central Connecticut State Universitys student government president and has tried to help students in need.
I started telling a lot of my friends that theres actually a food pantry on campus where you can get food, he explained.
Some of the students that are coming in here, theyre also looking for stuff to bring back to their families, she said, explaining that some are balancing being a student and head of household.
The $100,000 grant to Connecticut schools is just part of the $1.5 million Stop and Shop will be providing to colleges in the five states where they have stores.
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Stop & Shops 31st Annual Food For Friends Campaign Raises Record
Money Raised Will Benefit 12 Regional Food Banks Across Stop & Shops Five State Footprint
QUINCY, Mass., June 15, 2021 — Stop & Shop today announced that its 31st annual Food for Friends campaign raised more than $2 million for its 12 regional food bank partners to combat summer hunger in the communities it serves, breaking all previous years donation records. Stop & Shop also teamed up with Knorr®, an international brand offering a wide range of bouillons, soups, seasonings, sauces, soupy snacks, dressings, and frozen and ready-made meals, to collect food donations in-store for local hunger-relief organizations during the campaign.
Summer can be the hungriest time of year for kids. While during the school year families rely on free or reduced-priced meals at school, families have to buy more food when school is out, and children are at home – creating additional financial strain and sometimes forcing them to go hungry. An annual summer donation program, Stop & Shops Food for Friends campaign allows customers at the grocers 400+ stores throughout Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey to donate at checkout to support food insecure families across the Northeast.
Funds raised during Stop & Shops Food for Friends campaign will benefit the following food banks:
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The Greater Boston Food Bank
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Worcester County Food Bank
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Long Island Cares
Media Contact:Manager, External Communications & Community Relationsmaria.fruci@stopandshop.com
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