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Feeding Iowans Task force to scale back its work as report details efforts to combat food insecurity in Iowa

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Eat Greater Des Moines purchases refrigerated truck to spur food rescue donations

Eat Greater Des Moines this week acquired a refrigerated truck, a $40,000 asset that the nonprofit plans to make available to organizations seeking to help reduce food waste in the metro.

Aubrey Alvarez, executive director …

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Feeding Iowans Task Force to scale back its work as report details efforts to combat food insecurity in Iowa

Northeast Iowa Food Bank volunteers Eileen Gunderson, left, and Grace Coates check dates on perishable items in the food bank’s sorting room in Waterloo. File photo by Duane Tinkey

A year after it was created to help fight …

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Meals from the Market collection program returns at Downtown Farmers’ Market

The Des Moines Area Religious Council Food Pantry Network is partnering with the Downtown Farmers’ Market to bring back the Meals from the Market program. The program is presented by UnityPoint Health and sponsored by …

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Urban Dreams to open food pantry in Cedar Rapids

Urban Dreams will be opening a food pantry in Cedar Rapids tomorrow to help fight food insecurity in the region. According to a story published by KCRG-TV, the food pantry will open at the Ladd Library, …

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Murphy family, Fareway partner to provide meal boxes to Des Moines school families

Spring meal boxes were distributed recently to Des Moines school families with support of the Murphy Family Foundation and Fareway. Photo contributed by Food Bank of Iowa.

Meal boxes were recently distributed to 1,000 Des …

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California-based health foundation donates $150,000 to Iowa nonprofits

The MolinaCares Accord, an initiative of Molina Healthcare, announced it has donated $150,000 to eight nonprofits that serve both urban and rural areas of Iowa to address issues associated with social determinants of health and to reduce health disparities …

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Food stamp benefits increase for six months

Cedar Rapids Gazette: With a Des Moines food bank as his backdrop, Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, announced Monday that federal benefits for people on SNAP — food stamps — will increase …

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Food Bank of Iowa, Amazon forge food rescue partnership

The Food Bank of Iowa is partnering with Amazon’s new fulfillment center in Bondurant to rescue food that is unsaleable but otherwise safe for human consumption.

The first food rescue donation from Amazon, valued at …

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World Food Prize laureates call on Biden administration to take immediate action on hunger

The World Food Prize Foundation recently released a letter signed by 24 of its laureates urging the Biden administration to focus on the issues of hunger, poverty and malnutrition around the world. The laureates called on President …