Blog : Food Bank of Delaware

December 11, 2020

Delicious and nourishing: Let the Food Bank help you and your neighbors

Thanks to the Delaware Food Works workforce development initiative, did you know that the Food Bank of Delaware offers three tasty ways to support our mission to eradicate food insecurity…

December 10, 2020

Perdue Farms $100,000 Grant Helps Fund New ‘Repack Room’ At Food Bank of Delaware And Helps Reduce Food Waste

Perdue Farms, as part of its “Delivering Hope to Our Neighbors” hunger relief initiative, has invested in a new “repack room” at the Food Bank of Delaware in Newark to…

December 7, 2020

Islamic Relief USA Awards $10,000 Grant to the Food Bank of Delaware

Coons ‘grateful’ for support Islamic Relief USA has awarded a $10,000 grant to the Food Bank of Delaware, helping the large regional facility address unprecedented levels of food insecurity stemming…

December 3, 2020

Delta Dental Community Care Foundation Marks Giving Tuesday with $25,000 to the Food Bank of Delaware

The Delta Dental Community Care Foundation announced on Tuesday that it is giving $25,000 to the Food Bank of Delaware. This announcement fell on Giving Tuesday, a global generosity movement…

November 19, 2020

Pregnant, breast-feeding teen moms get support from the Food Bank

Quality nutritional education is key to healthy mothers and infants Teen moms-to-be, as well as those who are new moms, can find educational and parenting support from the Delaware Adolescent…

November 9, 2020

Demand for Backpacks grows with COVID-19 pandemic numbers

The Food Bank of Delaware’s Backpack Program – or student weekend meals – continues to provide sustenance for Delaware children living with food insecurity through each stage of the ongoing…

October 30, 2020

First Chance Awards: Individuals, organizations lauded for ‘extraordinary work’ during pandemic

Delaware’s First Lady Tracey Quillen Carney and members of the End Childhood Hunger Task Force announced recipients of First Chance awards, recognizing individuals and organizations who helped feed students statewide…

October 22, 2020

Delaware Food Works students celebrate graduation

Despite challenges posed by a hybrid learning model, the accomplishments of six students from the Food Bank’s Delaware Food Works training program were celebrated this morning at an outdoor socially-distanced…

October 21, 2020

Summer hockey camp scores big for hungry Delawareans

Thank you to Sussex Academy freshman Callie Short for her recent $500 donation to the Food Bank of Delaware. This 14-year-old resident and her 12-year-old brother, Brenner, raised the funds…

October 20, 2020

Culinary School grads overcame COVID challenges

Training for a different career, learning new skills, going to school in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic was a bit overwhelming to say the least, but today four determined…