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Rhode Island Community Foodbank

Annual report. Ensuring No One Goes Hungry At the Food Bank, the number of clients we serve remains high at 60,000 per month, many of them some of the most vulnerable members of our society: families with children and senior adults. We continue to perform as the state’s center for food acquisition and distribution, last year delivering 9.7 million pounds of food to people in need through our network of member agencies. Take a look at some of our accomplishments over the past year as well as stories about the people we’ve helped and those who have helped us.  More

Northeast Share – The Gleaning Initiative (GI), a partnership between Healthy Acadia and University of Maine Cooperative Extension, works to serve farms and food security organizations by catalyzing mutually beneficial relationships around the distribution of surplus food to those in need as a sustainable food system practice. During the project GI recovered 60,000 pounds of produce (a 33 percent increase from 2013), and distributed it to 15 food security organizations. GI also partnered with 30 farms and 100 volunteers and worked to support local farms with marketing, transportation and labor. More

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