WILMINGTON — City Fare Meals on Wheels and the Food Bank of Delaware have each received $50,000 grants from the National Council on Aging (NCOA), which hopes to enroll 20,000 eligible older adults in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) across 13 states. The Food Bank’s strategy for the SNAP grant The Food Bank’s grant will support its ongoing SNAP …
Nonprofits take different paths to restoring volunteer hours
By Shannon Simcox Organizations providing basic necessities like food, shelter, and complex therapeutic needs have long learned how to extend a dollar for their communities. But the pandemic also strained volunteer hours, exacerbating an already declining resource. Area nonprofit leaders say they are seeing community members return to donating their time, though for some, efforts are ongoing. According to the …
Food Bank to host only one mass distribution this month
The Delaware Food Bank will host just one mass drive-thru distribution of food this month, on Tuesday, June 18, in Dover. It’s the Food Bank‘s first since December. That’s a big change from the monthly events that were held in all three counties, starting at the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic in spring 2020. Kim Turner, the Food Bank’s …
Mobile pantries to feed 4,500 Delawareans in need
As Delaware’s emergency food benefits ended last month, the Food Bank of Delaware saw a slight uptick in the number of people it served through its mobile pantries. It’s not sure what to expect this month as Delaware also begins to cut Medicaid rolls because under COVID-19 emergency rules new enrollees didn’t have to provide income verifications and now they …
Food Bank’s Cooking for a Cause showcases Snuff Mill
The Food Bank’s Cooking for a Cause is take steps to make sure last year’s online gliltches won’t happen again. It can be easier to guess Wordle on the first try than to score a table at the new Snuff Mill Restaurant, Butchery & Wine Bar in Brandywine Hundred. The intimate eatery opens reservations to the public a month in …
After food ran out in Sussex, Food Bank set another drive-thru Monday
The Food Bank will return to Crossroad Church Monday in Georgetown. Photo from November event by Kim Turner. The spirit of the season and a commitment to service are bringing the Food Bank of Delaware back to its Sussex distribution site a week after its last monthly distribution there. When the Dec. 13 drive-thru pantry in Georgetown unexpectedly ran …
It’s valid: Fact checking that social media food bank post
Versions of this social media post admonishing food bank donors to do better has been floating around Facebook for a couple of weeks. A post that’s been appearing regularly on social media admonishing people to change the way they donate to food banks has valid points, but may apply mostly to small food pantries rather than large food banks. The …
Food Bank of Delaware to pause mobile pantries this month
The Food Bank of Delaware will resume mobile pantries in September. The Food Bank of Delaware will pause their mobile pantries in August, but resume in September. As it does, the organization will be watching to see what happens as the federal pandemic unemployment benefits expire Sept. 6 and whether federal child tax credits will help alleviate hunger for …
Food Bank: Drive-thru pantry numbers down 50%; will re-evaluate
Can declining numbers at Food Bank drive-thru mobile pantries be another sign the economy is coming back? The Food Bank of Delaware says that number of families picking up food at its monthly drive-thru mobile pantries has dropped in half since January’s round. The numbers have dropped so steadily that after the July round, the Food Bank will …