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Metro Detroit Mobilizes for Hunger Action Month: Local Organizations and Volunteers Unite to Combat Food Insecurity

Images Courtesy of Gleaners In Southeast Michigan, over 700,000 households rely on food distributions from Gleaners Community Food Bank to address food insecurity. Gleaners and...

When people are under economic stress, their pets suffer too – we found parts of Detroit that are animal welfare deserts

Poverty, fiscal stress and abandoned homes have fueled a long-standing stray dog problem in Detroit. AP Photo/Carlos Osorio by Laura A. Reese, Michigan State University Nearly two-thirds...

Salvation Army of Metro Detroit Fights Hunger, Homelessness With Radiothon

The Salvation Army of Metro Detroit is continuing its fight against hunger and homelessness in metro Detroit with its 35th annual Bed & Bread Club Radiothon,...

Feed The City: Forgotten Harvest Tackles Food Insecurity During COVID-19

(Kirk Mayes, Chief executive officer, Forgotten Harvest) In 2018, an estimated 1 in 9 Americans were food insecure equating to over 37 million Americans including...

Gleaners launches campaign to work towards a Hunger Free Summer for Michigan children

According to the USDA, more than 20 million children rely on free or reduced-price school lunches. Gleaners Food Bank is working to bring down...

PepsiCo Foundation donates trucks to kick start food delivery programs

Two new food delivery programs developed by PepsiCo employees and Metro Detroit’s two largest nonprofit food providers, Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan...

Forcing Poor People to Go Hungry

Just as the holiday season begins, when the thoughts and actions of some focus on compassion for others, we could be about to witness the government’s forcing the poor to go hungry – the product of political horse-trading in Washington that has erased a critical portion of the already-meager subsidy the federal food stamp program provides.

Hungry kids get supper from a snack

Ten years ago, children were caught digging through the dumpster behind a Grand Rapids elementary school. Troublemakers? No. They were looking...

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