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Filling the Gap – AGAIN!

Child hunger is always on our minds.

It is time for us to once again start thinking about “Filling the Gap”.

Along with Partners for Wichita, the Kansas Food Bank will be providing meals to Wichita children this summer between the time when the summer feeding program ends and when school begins.  We are looking a two full weeks in August where we ensure that children have access to free, kid friendly, nutritious food.  And we are looking at expanding the number of sites where meals will be offered from 7 to 10!  Over spring break we supplied over 3,500 meals to kids.

You can help us provide meals for Filling the Gap.


Save the Date! Saturday, May 12th is the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive


Each year, the ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ drive takes its place as the largest single-day food drive in America.  It’s quite apparent how much letter carriers care about fighting hunger in America.  This amazing campaign which our Letter Carriers participates in, helps us collect enough food to provide approximately 190,000 meals for our hungry friends and neighbors.

Local letter carriers will be distributing specially marked bags to homes the week of the food drive.  Residents are simply asked to place non-perishable food items in the bags and leave them on Saturday morning for their postal carrier to pick up.  NetApp has generously provided the Kansas Food Bank with 270,000 bags to assist in the collection process.  Communities across our service area will be participating with food collected locally going to our HungerCare partners.

This food drive is especially important to the Kansas Food Bank since summer tends to be a time when our agencies experience an increase in the amount of families looking for food assistance.  Children are out of school and additional meals are needed.  The Letter Carriers food drive helps us keep up with the demand.

So remember to save the date and help us “Stamp Out Hunger”.  Together we can make a difference!

 
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We did it!

By , April 11th, 2012 2:46pm
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A major milestone has been hit here at your Kansas Food Bank.  We are so thrilled to announce that as of March 29, 2012 a hunger relief partner has been secured and served in all 85 counties that we cover.  It has been a long, hard road but one that we feel so worth the trip.

Over that past 9 months we have worked diligently to ensure each and every county has access to the Kansas Food Bank.  Whether that partner is a food pantry, soup kitchen, shelter, mobile drop site, Food 4 Kids School or SNAP Outreach location, we have successfully made an impact in ensuring No Kansan Go Hungry.

The connections we have made will be everlasting.  They are connections that will help us continue to fulfill our mission.  They are connections with people just like us who would and will do whatever it takes to make sure our hungry friends and neighbors have access to food.  Our hunger care partners make us proud and we could not do what we do without them.  They are an extension of us and we are honored to work with each and every one of them.

And now we can successfully say, all 85 counties are served and will continue to be served!

Help us Outnumber Hunger!

By , April 11th, 2012 2:03pm
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Through Feeding America’s new partnership, when you buy participating General Mills products, you can enter the code on the box online and your Kansas Food Bank will receive a donation worth 5 meals!  Look for the Outnumber Hunger logo on products at the store, then go online at www.outnumberhunger.com and enter those item numbers. Giving couldn’t be easier!

Participating brands include:
• Lucky Charms® Cereal
• Reese’s Puffs® Cereal
• Cheerios® Cereal
• Apple Cinnamon Cheerios® Cereal
• Cookie Crisp® Cereal
• Pillsbury® Ready to Bake™ Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Betty Crocker® Wild Blueberry Muffins
• Betty Crocker® Banana Nut Muffins
• Betty Crocker® Chocolate Chip Muffins
• Bisquick® Baking Mix
• Totino’s® Party Pizza® Pepperoni
• Totino’s® Party Pizza® Combination
• Totino’s® Party Pizza® Cheese
• Totino’s® Pizza Rolls® Pepperoni
• Totino’s® Pizza Rolls® Combination
• Green Giant® Broccoli & Cheese Sauce
• Green Giant® Garden Vegetable Medley
• Green Giant® Green Beans & Almonds
• Betty Crocker® Au Gratin Potatoes
• Betty Crocker® Scalloped Potatoes
• Fiber One® Oats & Chocolate Chewy Bars
• Fiber One® Oats & Peanut Butter Bars
• Chocolate Chex Mix® Snack – Turtle
• Sweet’n Salty Chex Mix® Snack – Honey Nut
• Bugles® Original
• Sunkist® Fruit Flavored Shapes
• Sunkist® Fruit Rollups

In addition, you can follow Big Machine Label Group artists on Facebook and Twitter to get access to special codes that can trigger donations for the Kansas Food Bank.  KFB can receive $0.65 (a five meal donation) for every code generated by a supporter of your food bank.

Participating BMLG artists include: Rascal Flatts, The Band Perry, Reba, Martina McBride, Eli Young Band, Sunny Sweeney, Edens Edge,   Justin Moore, Brantley Gilbert, Ella Mae Bowen and Thomas Rhett Akins.