Progressive Charlestown: From the Rhode Island Community Food Bank

Thursday, July 27, 2017

From the Rhode Island Community Food Bank

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Pantries Help Families Eat Healthier

In our latest print issue of A Place at the Table you’ll learn how we’re helping low-income families integrate healthy food into their diets. We focus on distributing nutritious, core food items that are the building blocks for a healthy meal and partner with our member agencies to teach food pantry clients about the benefits of making healthy food choices.

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Please help us with donations of food or funds so that our hungry neighbors have enough to eat.

Summer Food Drive - Please Help

During the summer, low-income families struggle to provide enough food to their children without the free lunches they receive during the school year. At the same time, summer is typically when food donations to the Food Bank are at their lowest. That’s why our Summer Food Drive is so important. Please help us with donations of food or funds so that our hungry neighbors have enough to eat.

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Donate Food & Give Blood on Aug. 1

Rhode Island PBS, the Rhode Island Blood Center and the Rhode Island Community Food Bank have teamed up once again to host the annual Summertime Blood and Food Drive. Stop by the Food Bank at 200 Niantic Ave between 10 am and 2 pm to donate either food, blood or both! These needs never take a vacation so we greatly appreciate your support.

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