Now more than ever, access to nutritious food is essential to keeping families in need healthy. Fortunately, our agency partners, volunteers, donors, staff members and so many others are stepping up to fill plates despite challenges. Even the National Guard is lending a hand! Continue reading
Donor Spotlights
Trucks: The fuel behind the food bank
The Darden Foundation recently helped fund one of the most important, yet least “glamorous,” aspects of the food bank’s operations – truck fuel. Without trucks, the food bank could not fulfill its mission.
Kraft Heinz donates pallet jacks and hosts volunteer days to put food on neighbors’ plates
Smiling volunteers wearing shirts emblazoned with the slogan “Kraft Heinz Helps” sorted pop tarts and bagged frozen carrots at Feeding America West Michigan during the company’s annual volunteer day last July.
Tyson supports Grand Champion Giving program, helps neighbors facing hunger
Feeding America West Michigan’s Grand Champion Giving program encourages livestock purchasers at county fairs to donate the animals they buy to the food bank.
The Pokagon Fund aims to improve the health of neighbors facing hunger in Harbor Country by providing 60,000 nutritious meals
In 2019, The Pokagon Fund continued its hunger-relief efforts in Harbor Country by sponsoring 24 Feeding America West Michigan Mobile Food Pantries.
Mount Hope Church joins forces with Ionia County Community Foundation to fight hunger
Mount Hope Church hosts Feeding America West Michigan Mobile Food Pantries each year to serve their neighbors facing hunger in Ionia County. Generously sponsored by the Ionia County Community Foundation, these food distributions offer fresh produce, dairy, protein and other … Continue reading