February 23, 2016
Culinary Alumni Spotlight: Gaylan Maxson
After a 12-year stint with the U.S. Postal Service and service with the Marine Corps, Gaylan Maxson was ready for a change. Six years ago, looking for a new opportunity to pursue his lifelong dream and passion of cooking, Gaylan enrolled in The Culinary School at the Food Bank of Delaware. Under the instruction of…
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February 22, 2016
Hunger Is awards Food Bank of Delaware with $20,000 for Backpack Program
The Albertsons Companies Foundation and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) announced that Hunger Is, their joint charitable initiative to fight childhood hunger in America, awarded over $4 million in grants to 79 local charities to feed hungry children living in neighborhoods throughout the country. The Food bank of Delaware is one of those local charities,…
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February 19, 2016
P&G donates $10,000 to South Dover Elementary School pantry
By Gwen Guerke, Communications Coordinator Cold hands, warm hearts and food for families. On Tuesday evening, the Food Bank of Delaware brought a mobile food pantry to South Dover Elementary School, coinciding with a literacy/family night sponsored by the Communities in Schools (CIS) program. CIS is a not-for-profit program focused on drop-out prevention with school…
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February 17, 2016
Farm to Food Bank
February 16, 2016
File your taxes for free with MyFreeTaxesDE
By Allison Russell, $tand By Me Financial Coach Allison is a $tand By Me Coach housed out of the Food Bank of Delaware. The State of Delaware, along with United Way of Delaware and $tand By Me, has partnered with the Delaware MyFreeTaxes Coalition to offer FREE income tax preparation for federal and state income…
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February 12, 2016
Culinary Spotlight: Andrew Morley and Cocina Lolo
Prior to enrolling at The Culinary School, Andrew Morley (right in photo) sat behind a computer selling car insurance. “I was just going through the motions,” he said. “Graduate from high school, graduate college (he has a degree in English), get a job at a big company, sit at a desk behind a computer.” It wasn’t…
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February 10, 2016
Volunteer military team helps children’s backpack program
By Gwen Guerke, Communications Coordinator A group of 15 representing Dover Air Force Base volunteered yesterday at the Food Bank of Delaware’s Milford branch. With big smiles and helping hands, they packed backpacks for one of our children’s nutrition programs, and unanimously agreed they had a great time doing it. One in five Delaware children…
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February 5, 2016
FBD helps high school students, their families
By Gwen Guerke, Communications Coordinator Inside Milford High School’s comfortable Community in Schools classroom, the feng shui is geared to welcome teens: a sagging couch, a few inspirational posters, computer stations and a Harry K Foundation-sponsored Food Pantry. The pantry is actually four locked cabinets that are used to serve families in the entire Milford…
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February 4, 2016
Delaware organizations encouraged to build structures out of cans to help alleviate hunger
The Food Bank of Delaware announced today that registration for the fourth annual CANgineering competition (formerly DelawareCAN) is now open. Organizations have until March 4 to register for the food drive and structure-building contest. CANgineering supports the year-round hunger relief efforts of the Food Bank of Delaware. With more than 17,000 Delawareans relying on the…
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