Food Bank News

Source:  http://www.covenant.edu/news/01.26.12 At the start of this semester, incoming Covenant students and four student leaders served at the Chattanooga Area Food Bank, cleaning storage facilities and organizing food and household products to be delivered to underprivileged children and sold at the food bank’s discount warehouse. This service project was part of Covenant’s spring orientation, in [...]

Source:  Cleveland Daily Banner It is hard to believe, but there are children in Bradley County who depend on school breakfasts and lunches for the majority, if not all, of their meals. On the weekends, these meals are not available, and many children go hungry until Monday mornings. Reba Terry, executive director of the Caring [...]

Source:  www.nooga.com By:  Gabrielle Chevalier The Chattanooga Area Food Bank recently received a free forklift rental at its new branch location in Northwest Georgia. The forklift, donated by Barloworld Handling, will allow the food bank’s warehouse to be more efficient by stocking more food more quickly, Holly Ashley, development director for the food bank, said. The forklift donated [...]

Evelyn Davenport Navarre Teaching Garden and Greenhouse Work Schedule: 2009 Curtain Pole Road, Chattanooga, TN  37406 Monday – Friday 9:15am – 11:15am – beginning Monday, Feb. 6th. Greenhouse and Garden Work Includes: Propagating from seed and cuttings in the greenhouse. Preparing for Spring Garden Sale by re-potting, labeling, signage, and plant research. Garden maintenance includes [...]

You can triple your giving!  For every $1 you give to the Chattanooga Area Food Bank, as part of Feeding America’s “Give A Meal” campaign, Bank of America will give $2, up to $500,000 to the Feeding America network.  To donate, go to http://www.feedingamerica.org/bankofamerica and select the Chattanooga Area Food Bank when donating.

The Chattanooga Area Food Bank received the first part of a $4,500 grant Tuesday to support the Snack Pack Program for local school children. The program helps provide bags of nutritious food to impoverished children to keep them fed over weekends and holidays.  The grant money received from the Sodexo Foundation will go specifically to [...]

From Nooga.com By Gabrielle Chevalier

From News Channel 9   November 18, 2011 2:34 PM    Hamilton County 9-1-1 Telecommunicators worked together to collect and donate 2,810 pounds of food to the Chattanooga Area Food Bank on Wednesday. This surpasses the amount dispatchers collected for the Food Bank last year by more than 500 pounds! The group made and sold [...]

You may have seen on News Channel 3, that Jed Mescon and David Karnes painted rain barrels.  Rain barrels are extremely helpful and wonderful for the environment because you can use them to irrigate your garden with rain water. During the Share Your Christmas food drive, you may enter to win the rain barrel of [...]

The Hyksos Temple No. 123 Prince Hall Shriners will host its 7th Annual Charity Ball honoring Illustrious Potentate Levan Gardner on Saturday, Nov. 19, from 9 p.m.-2 a.m. at the Chattanooga Convention Center. This will be a formal affair. There will be a live band and guest disc jockey. There will also be food and [...]