Once you've volunteered at a food bank, it's hard not to care about poverty and unemployment.
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"We're seeing more and more people on a low income using a food bank, " he added.
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This piece, a report from a food bank in Texas, can be read entirely the other way around.
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As for the potatoes that were used in the tests, Boeing says they were donated to a food bank.
Nigel Perrott, who manages a food bank in Middlesbrough, said the situation had worsened in the last month and called it "a sad indictment".
Are you saying that, perhaps, a city might have a food bank or a city might have a sort of a mechanism for people dealing with an immediate crisis?
Our regional recruiting offices have initiated community-service projects, such as cleaning a community park, sorting donations at a food bank, serving lunch to veterans, and tutoring students in afterschool programs.
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Weeks later, with bills piling up and in need of food for her family, this middle-class mother did something she never thought she would do: She went to a food bank.
The plaintiffs devoted a lengthy footnote (n. 6) in their proposed settlement explaining why their cy pres proposal was not disconnected from the misleading advertising claims, as the appeals court found in Kellogg (there, Kellogg products were to be donated to a food bank).
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Visitors are also asked to contribute a can of food for a local food bank.
Some past winners have made an impact on their community by setting up a local food bank, designing a curriculum to get students interested in math, etc.
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The leftover cake was donated to a local food bank following the reception.
The charity is launching a new food bank in the UK every three days and expects this growth to continue until 2015.
BBC: UK food banks used by record number, says Trussell Trust
Dad said we couldn't give directly to the man, but he knew a member of the local food bank and scheduled a meeting.
The day after she could not send her children to school, Jenni was referred to a Trussell Trust food bank and given an emergency food parcel.
He described it as "the latest stage in a political campaign by the Labour Party to use the food bank movement as a vehicle for its political attack".
Because I had to approach the project differently while in a wheelchair, I finalized the operation plan of working through our nonprofit arm, the Golden Rotary Foundation, to develop a relationship with the Food Bank of the Rockies.
For example, in Mexico members of the community will tell the food bank who is in need and the food bank will periodically drive a big truck out to an urban area and deliver food packages that each provide a nutritious meal for a whole family.
But then there's this other statistic: over the past year, the local food bank reported a 69% increase in people requesting help.
Risks to the U.S. food supply "enter everybody's mind, " said Paul Mariani, director at Variant Capital Advisors in Chicago, who previously worked at a food and agribusiness boutique investment bank.
Starting in 1993 they began selling off non-core holdings, including a food processing business, an investment bank and a hotel.
Jonathan Anderson, an economist at UBS, a bank, reckons that global food prices would have to rise by another 50% from current levels for headline food-price inflation to reach the heights of 2008.
Second, if a building is more energy efficient then the food bank saves money, year over year, on energy costs.
"Just before Easter we seemed to hit a slump as far as people giving to the food bank and that has combined with demand going up, " he said.
The restaurant owner who cooks great food but needs a loan to expand after the bank turned him down -- he needs a champion. (Applause.) The cooks and the waiters and the cleaning staff, working overtime at a Ft.
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The restaurant owner who has got some great food, but needs a loan to expand after the bank turned him down -- he needs a champion.
"We're on lockdown, nobody goes in or out, " said a woman who answered the telephone at the Alameda County Food Bank and who declined to give her name.
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