food insecurity

The team at the Groton Senior Center created the program when the pandemic first started. With the help of sponsors and donations, they were able to fund the $38,000 program.

After 15 months, more than 10,000 meals, and countless volunteer hours the Groton Community First Dinner Program served its last meals Wednesday afternoon.

The Connecticut Food Bank/Foodshare announced Wednesday that they will continue their emergency food distribution efforts through September to help those who are experiencing food insecurity.

Hartford Food System’s mission is to fight hunger and improve nutrition in our community.

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 pandemic has created huge economic struggles for so many families, and that includes families with pets.

Bringing people together with a meal: that’s what the program “Dinner for a Dollar” has been all about.

Bringing people together with a meal: that’s what the program “Dinner for a Dollar” has been all about. On Friday night in Hamden, Grace and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church celebrated 10 years of giving back and breaking bread through Dinner for a Dollar. “I noticed people were experiencing hardships, food hardships,” said Allison Batson, founder and coordinator of Dinner...

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…

Foodshare and the Connecticut Food Bank will provide free food to families in need through the summer months.

Connecticut Food Bank/Foodshare will host emergency drive-thru food distributions in nine towns this summer. They are expecting to serve more than 1,000 cars at every site.

Connecticut Food Bank/Foodshare is announcing their plan to hold emergency drive-thru services for families with food insecurity in the state. A spokesperson for Connecticut Food Bank/Foodshare said they’ll continue to serve people struggling with hunger throughout the summer months. The food bank will announce their summer drive-thru distribution schedule, which will run out of eight sites throughout Connecticut, on...

The town of East Windsor held an event to combine a vaccination clinic and food distribution.

The Agriculture Department told NBC News that the Biden administration is poised to announce the largest summer food program in U.S. history, which will feed 30 million low-income children.

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.

Foodshare and the Connecticut Food Bank added an extra day of food distribution in East Hartford Saturday. The distribution event was held from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Rentschler Field. “We wanted to be able to pilot a Saturday distribution since we had an influx of volunteers and we were able to order some extra food,” said Jason Jakubowski,…

Foodshare is still seeing about 1,500 cars cruise through its twice weekly Rentschler Field food distribution lines. And while that’s about half the number of families compared to the height of the pandemic, they want to one day shut down this operation completely. “Obviously lines of cars and putting boxes in cars is not the optimal way of solving hunger…