News Room

Our News Room is your source for the latest information on the Feeding America (formerly named America's Second Harvest) network.  Browse our news headlines and press releases, get concise background information about our organization, view our public service announcements, and find the media contact you need.

October 2008

10/16/08 National Anti-Hunger Organizations Release New 2008 Blueprint to End Hunger on World Food Day

10/15/08 Ford Motor Company And Newman's Own Donate Seven Refrigerated Trucks And Nutritious Food To Feeding America - The Nation's Largest Domestic Hunger Relief Organization

10/06/08 Kellogg Company Donates $350,000 And 24 Truckloads Of Food To Feeding America For Disaster Preparedness And Response

September 2008

9/30/08 Feeding America and Chicken of the Sea Ask Consumers to Get Creative with Video Contest to Help Stop Hunger

9/24/08 The Hunger Site Raises Funds for Feeding America to Fight Hunger in America

9/22/08 Procter & Gamble's Live, Learn and Thrive Donates $200,000 to Feeding America in an Effort to Fight Child Hunger in America

9/12/08 Statement about Hurricane Ike and disaster relief by Vicki Escarra

9/11/08 Feeding America Issues Urgent National Plea for Funds to Feed Hurricane Gustav Victims in Baton Rouge and Throughout Louisiana

9/11/08 Terry Richey Joins Feeding America's Leadership Team

9/9/08 UNCLE BEN'S Joins With Feeding America to Fight Childhood Hunger

9/8/08 Feeding America Launches Hunger Action Month with Help From Phil Vassar, David Arquette, Nick Lachey and CMT

9/7/08 Feeding America Provides Emergency Food and Water to Thousands of Evacuees and Rescue Workers

9/5/08 America's Second Harvest Changes Name to Feeding America

9/5/08 Phil Vassar and Feeding America Raise Their Voices Against Hunger

9/3/08 Gustav's Devastation Leave Thousands Needing Emergency Food and Water

August 2008

8/31/08 Coastal Residents Scatter as Gustav Approaches

8/25/08 The Sara Lee Foundation Partners with America's Second Harvest to Help Combat Hunger in America

8/19/08 America's Second Harvest Provides Emergency Food and Water to Tropic Storm Fay Evacuees

8/6/08 Food and Grocery Products Rushed to Aid Tropical Storm Edouard Relief and Hurricane Dolly Recovery

8/5/08 Actress Monique Coleman Joins America’s Second Harvest and ConAgra Foods Foundation to Pack Lunch Bags for Hungry Kids

8/5/08 Chicken of the Sea International Launches Contest - The Mermaid Jingle Jam

July 2008

7/24/08 U.S. Foodservice's New Cookbook Raises $395,000 to Help Feed America's Hungry

7/14/08 Dunkin' Brands Employees and Franchisees Volunteer to Fight Hunger

7/2/08 The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) Donates $40,000 to America's Second Harvest's Efforts in Aiding Midwest Flood Victims

June 2008

6/14/08 Food Bank Responde to Catastrphic Flooding

6/2/08 Record 73.1 Million Pounds Collected In Letter Carriers’ National Food Drive

May 2008

5/21/08 America’s Second Harvest Applauds House Override Of President’s Veto

5/20/08 Las Vegas Three Square Food Bank Receives More Than 100-Thousand Pounds of Food from FMI Show plus MARKETECHNICS® and United Fresh Market

5/14/08 Farm Bill Passes House

5/14/08 American Red Cross Honors America’s Second Harvest at Heritage of Service Dinner

5/13/08 Food Banks Urge Passage Of Historic Farm Bill To Help Hungry Americans

5/12/08 U.S. Foodservice’s "Full Plates, Full Lives™" To Benefit America’s Second Harvest Food Banks

5/12/08 New Survey Underscores Urgent Need For Farm Bill As Demands Are Up, Food Down

5/8/08 Letter to President Bush Urging Farm Bill Passage

5/7/08 America’s Second Harvest Showcases The Faces Of Hunger Through A Weeklong Initiative To Raise Awareness Of The Increasing Number Of Families In Need Of Food Assistance

5/6/08 America’s Second Harvest Showcases The Faces Of Hunger Through A Weeklong Initiative To Raise Awareness Of The Increasing Number Of Families In Need Of Food Assistance

5/5/08 America’s Second Harvest Showcases The Faces Of Hunger Through A Weeklong Initiative To Raise Awareness Of The Increasing Number Of Families In Need Of Food Assistance

5/2/08 Food Bank Survey Points To Critical Shortage Of Food, Urgency Of Farm Bill And Immediate Need For $100 Million In Emergency Federal Funding

April 2008

4/30/08 Wal-Mart Announces New National Food Donation Program

4/29/08 Hungry Americans Still Waiting for a Farm Bill

4/16/08 35 Milion Americans Urgently Need Congresss to Pass a Farm Bill

4/10/08 Bruce Knight, Mark Keenum and Nancy Montanez Johner Receive National recognition with Distinguished Public Service Award

4/7/08 Campbell Soup Company and the National Association of Letter Carriers Team Up to Stamp Out Hunger!

4/7/08 America's Second Harvest Continues to Support Flood Recovery Efforts in Missouri

4/4/08 Soaring Food and Fuel Prices Create Urgent Need for a Farm Bill

March 2008

3/19/08 Hungry Americans Cannot Wait for a Farm Bill

3/6/08 America's Egg Producers Donate 12 Million Eggs to America's Second Harvest

3/5/08 New Initiative Highlights Plight of Children Living With Hunger

February 2008

2/29/08 The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) and America's Second Harvest’s 2008 National Anti-Hunger Conference, March 2 - 4

2/19/08 Ruby Tuesday's "Cookies For A Cause" Raises Funds For America's Second Harvest Food Banks

2/7/08 America's Second Harvest Helps Feed Tornado Ravaged Communities

2/6/08 President's Budget Cuts Vital Food Program, Puts Seniors at Risk of Hunger

January 2008

1/31/08 America's Second Harvest Receives $300,000 Knowledge Management Grant from the Daniels Fund

1/30/08 Barilla Launches Second Annual Cookbook to Fight Hunger

1/29/08 America's Second Harvest Urges Senate to Include $100 Million for Emergency Food in Stimulus Package

1/24/08 Statement by America's Second Harvest - The Nation's Food Bank Network, in Response to Economic Stimulus Proposal

1/17/08 Hungry Americans Need a Farm Bill Now

1/14/08 Celebrity Cook Paula Deen Launches 10-City Helping Hungry Homes Tour

 

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