Houston Food Bank is grateful to partner with Starbucks and Feeding America. Starbucks is helping to alleviate hunger by funding essential equipment as well as direct food distribution related costs. Seeing a need and knowing Starbucks could provide a solution, Starbucks partners (employees) advocated for a program that would allow stores to donate unsold [...]
With the start of a new season the weather changes, flowers bloom, and the sun comes out. However, as the seasons change one thing will stay constant - elections. March brought a primary election where we got to make our voices heard and select who will be on the November ballot. But it doesn’t [...]
On April 23rd, 2024, the Houston Food Bank honored its most outstanding corporate volunteers with the President's Volunteer Service Award. A grand total of 122 corporations attended the three-day awards -- The cumulative hours/meals donated for the corporations that attended the 2023 award ceremonies: 55,265 hours donated in 2023 (facilitating a total of 3,315,900 [...]
About one in six Texans lives at or below the poverty level. But funds from a $3.5 million American Rescue Plan Act grant received by Houston Food Bank via Harris County Public Health is helping to expand capacity, operations and partnerships to assist families facing food insecurity in targeted areas within Harris County. Checks [...]
Houston Food Bank is a resource for individuals and families in times of hardship, providing more than 120 million nutritious meals annually. Hundreds of thousands of people count on the organization and its 1,600 partners, and in turn, Houston Food Bank relies on the generosity of its many donors and supporters, from individuals to foundations [...]
Due to construction, road closures have necessitated alternate routes to reach the Houston Food Bank. If you are traveling on I-10 East: Exit 773B McCarty Drive Turn left on McCarty Drive Turn right on Portwall Houston Food Bank is on the left If you are traveling on I-10 West: Exit 773B McCarty Drive [...]
GEICO has teamed up with Caliber Collision and the National Auto Body Council to donate a newly refurbished 2020 Toyota Tundra to the Houston Food Bank. The Houston Food Bank relies on its fleet of vehicles to provide nutritious meals to the more than one million food-insecure people in its 18 southeast Texas county [...]
Event highlighted life-changing results because of Houston Food Bank community collaboration In honor of National Nutrition Month, a nutrition education and information campaign sponsored each March by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the Houston Food Bank held its first ever Community Health Summit on March 20. The theme of the event was Moving [...]
Houston Food Bank would like to thank Ray Cammack Shows for their generous donation of 17 pallets totaling 14,575 lbs! The surplus from the Houston Rodeo will go towards Houston neighbors, filling pantries that might otherwise have gone empty.
Amy Ragan, Chief Development Officer for the Houston Food Bank, talks with CW39 Houston's Kara Willis about HFB’s efforts to help those impacted by the wildfires and support for the High Plains Food Bank. Houston Food Bank loaded a truck with water, meal kits, cleaning supplies and sent them to High Plains [...]