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Mar. 28, 2019 3:14 pm
Tackling food insecurity: Best practices from Bucks, Chesco, Delco and Montco
From listening to community to trauma-informed approaches, nonprofits in the suburbs diversify strategies in their fight against hunger.
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Mar. 27, 2019 4:29 pm
Making financial changes together in Montco and Delco
Habitat for Humanity, Philabundance and the Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communities are joining together to help housing and food insecure families back on their feet.
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Feb. 23, 2017 3:03 pm
Add this to your to-do list: Witnesses to Hunger’s powerful photo exhibit at EAT Café
The exhibit, which features photos by mothers and caregivers living in poverty, runs through March 20.
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Feb. 20, 2017 12:52 pm
The Food Trust is tackling the ‘chicken and egg issue’ of food access and demand
The nonprofit's recently launched Center for Healthy Food Access, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is a national, collaborative effort to increase both.
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Feb. 3, 2017 12:58 pm
How this MontCo playhouse is addressing hunger in Pa.’s second-wealthiest county
Theatre Horizon's "Grand Concourse" opens tomorrow alongside a photo exhibit and a series of panels analyzing food insecurity in Montgomery County.
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Nov. 16, 2016 9:25 am
Food deserts aren’t a place. They’re ‘an experience’
It's not just geographic location. Individual factors like income, disability and education also play a role. Next City reports on personal grocery habits of Philadelphians.
Jul. 6, 2016 11:22 am
Chester’s nonprofit grocer is 20% from breaking even. Here’s what they’ve learned
WHYY takes a look inside Philabundance's ambitious nonprofit grocery store, three years after Fare and Square opened.
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Jan. 5, 2016 8:00 am
This startup delivers surplus restaurant food to homeless shelters
The Food Connect Group delivers unused food from restaurants and caterers to shelters. First, they had to learn to wrestle with food donor liability.
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Aug. 18, 2015 2:26 pm
Philly, here’s four stats about emergency food providers that need our attention.
In Philadelphia one in four people faces food insecurity. With over 700 food pantries, soup kitchens, and other providers, addressing this issue is vital to the city. Every other year, The Coalition Against Hunger conducts a survey of Emergency Food Providers. The Coalition’s Emergency Food Provider Survey is aimed at identifying the issues these programs […]