Event
On April 23rd, 24th, and 25th of 2025, the Houston Food Bank honored its most outstanding corporate volunteers with the President’s Volunteer Service Award. A grand total of 193 corporations attended the three-day awards — The cumulative hours/meals donated for the corporations that attended the 2024 award ceremonies: 72,025 hours donated in 2024 (facilitating a [...]
Learn more about Empty Bowls with Houston Food Bank’s Sean Crowl and ABC channel 13. Empty Bowls is Saturday, March 22, from 10am to 3pm at: Houston Center for Contemporary Craft 4848 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77002
Walmart employees volunteering with Houston Food Bank to Fight Hunger and Spark Change! Announcing the 12th annual Walmart and Sam's Club Fight Hunger. Spark Change. Campaign, which takes place from March 1 - March 31, 2025. Houston Food Bank and Walmart will be joining forces to address food insecurity all through the month [...]
The 2025 Partner Conference at the Houston Food Bank, held last week, brought together our traditional distributing partners—mobiles, pantries, and meal sites—for a valuable opportunity to connect, share knowledge, and explore ways to better pool resources. This year’s theme was Connect, Engage, Impact with speakers and sessions focused on building a broader network and [...]
Congratulations to this year’s winners at the annual Canstruction Houston event, and thanks to all the teams that came out and crafted their can-sculptures! Canstruction is a design/build competition created by the Society for Design Administration to support organizations like Houston Food [...]
A successful event like this wouldn’t be possible without the incredible support of our sponsors, volunteers, Team Captains, and, of course, all the dedicated runners who joined us on the track this past Sunday morning. A special thank you to our title sponsor this year, Cigna Healthcare, whose support made a tremendous impact. We [...]
Houston Food Bank’s (HFB)  Community Assistance Program (CAP) hosted an application assistance training for Harris County ARPA Labor Grant Recipients which include Cornerstone Family Resource Center, West Houston Assistance Ministries, and Hearts and Hands of Baytown. The training provided staff at these agencies a comprehensive overview of how to complete applications for programs such [...]
Hundreds answered the call to support our teachers during the first ABC13 Share Your School Supplies Drive. Eyewitness News anchors and reporters worked Friday morning to gather donations of school supplies with our Teachers Aid program, which provides resources for teachers in low income schools.Together, we raised $22,431.37, with thousands of pounds [...]
Today Mayor Whitmire announced the 14th Annual Mayor’s Back to School Fest Presented by Shell, to be held Saturday, August 3, 2024, from 8am to 2pm at the George R. Brown Convention Center, Exhibit Halls A/B. FREE Parking available at Houston Astros Lot C, 499 – 481 Saint Emanuel Street. Shell has been the [...]
The Houston Food Bank’s 713-Day event was a fun celebration of community and giving back, drawing over 350 volunteers who joined forces with Houston Dynamo alumni and their families. Throughout the afternoon, volunteers worked to support The Houston Food mission to create food for better lives. DJ Jazmin provided all the Houston classics, adding [...]