food drive

The collection is coming at a good time as Windsor Food & Fuel Bank mentions that they’ve had a serious increase since the pandemic.

Cars rolled up and filled up boxes of non perishable food items in Windsor on Saturday and it was all to support the Windsor Food & Fuel Bank. “This is our second annual collection we’ve done that helps a local organization and all the donations that we receive today go to the food bank and they all go to...

The Higher Ground Christian Church in Bristol is helping dozens of families with food insecurity.

The Higher Ground Christian Church in Bristol is helping dozens of families with food insecurity. The church hosted its “Hope Day” drive-thru grocery giveaway Saturday. They had more than 500 bags of food to hand out for free to families in need. The bags of food were given to people both in the community and in the surrounding area. Any…

Several shoreline fire departments teamed up to hold a record-breaking food drive to support families with food insecurity. Old Saybrook, Clinton and Essex were among the fire departments running the single-day food drive. Non-perishable foods were collected at various area firehouses, stores and restaurants. Old Saybrook alone collected 3,809 pounds of non-perishable food and over $1,500 in cash donations. The…

Several area fire departments hosted a one-drive food drive to support families with food insecurity.

Saturday was a busy day at Tops Marketplace in Southington as the city’s rotary club held a food drive.

Saturday was a busy day at Tops Marketplace in Southington as the city’s rotary club held a food drive. The Southington Rotary Club collected food for families facing food insecurity amid the pandemic. It all goes to the local food pantry that helps about 1,000 families. “The motto of rotary is service above self so that is what we’re...

Nathan Inzinga is celebrating his birthday a little different this year. Inzinga decided to give back this year instead of receiving gifts. Nathan celebrated his fifth birthday at the ice rink at Veteran Memorial Park in Middletown on Sunday. The family hosted a donation drive at the park while simultaneously letting Nathan and his friends ice skate. The items collected…

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A group of Boy Scouts in Milford are helping collect food for an annual food drive, something that seems even more urgently needed this year during the pandemic.

As Foodshare’s supplemental operation at Rentschler Field nears the end of it’s fourth week, the need for food in Connecticut continues. Foodshare’s logisitcs manager, Dom Piccini, said volunteers have been serving about 12 people per minute. “This is my little army. We couldn’t do it without them,” he said, referring to the Foodshare “soldiers,” made up of staff members...

NBC CT and Telemundo Connecticut are proud to launch a virtual food drive, “Feeding Our Families,” in partnership with Comcast, to support Foodshare and the CT Food Bank during these times of high food insecurity in our state.

Neighbors are helping neighbors as part of a Hartford food drive Monday

Foodshare kicked off its 20th annual Turkey Tuesday food drive in Hartford on Tuesday.

Joining together to help Tri-State food banks replenish non-perishable supplies and sustain essential anti-hunger efforts, NBC Connecticut / WVIT, Telemundo Connecticut / WRDM and Stop & Shop are coming together in support of two local food banks on Saturday, April 13 for the second annual Feeding Our Families (or Alimentando a Nuestras Familias in Spanish) food drive.

The City of Bristol and United Way are teaming up to help the homeless with a “Stock Our Shelters” drive, and are hoping voters headed to the polls will consider a donation.

NBC Connecticut and Telemundo’s Feeding Our Families food drive along with our NBC stations in New York donated enough food to provide more than 1.9 million meals throughout the tri-state area.

NBC Connecticut and Telemundo Connecticut are proud to partner with local food banks and stop and shop for the Feeding Our Families food drive.

On April 28, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., you can donate food items for those in need at all Stop & Shop locations across the state.