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Crossroads Community Services partners with churches, public housing facilities and neighborhood centers to combat food insecurity

Michelle Aslam

May 18, 2021 |

Dallas Morning News |

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Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

The Cities of Refuge church, in collaboration with other food banks like Crossroads Community Services, helps provide those in need with access to healthy food and groceries. The Crossroads’ community distribution partner model involves over 100 community partners that serve almost 32,000 people across Dallas and neighboring counties.

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Cornerstone Baptist Church is launching a grocery store to address food insecurity in South Dallas

Sujata Dand

May 06, 2021 |

Dallas Morning News |

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Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

Cornerstone Baptist Church is spearheading the redevelopment of Struggs’ Cornerstone Heights Neighborhood. In 2019, the church opened a laundromat and bike shop and last year the Cornerstone Community Kitchen began serving free hot meals to locals experiencing homelessness. The Church is soon launching a community market where local residents can access fresh, affordable food.

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This community garden in Southeast Washington grows far more than food

Noah Robertson

May 03, 2021 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

As a way to bring the community together and promote healing in Southeast Washington, D.C., residents created a garden known as Project Eden. Their garden has grown to a plot of land that grows roots, legumes, fruits, and greens with a greenhouse and aquaponics system that has fed thousands of people. The founders view the garden as a way to strengthen food security and encourage resiliency for an area where people have witnessed violent acts.

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Non-profit grocery store Jubilee Market in Waco fills a gap for affordable, nutritious food

Sujata Dand

April 28, 2021 |

Dallas Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Waco, Texas

A community-based grocery store is bringing nutritious and affordable food to residents in Waco, Texas. Jubilee Market is located in an economically disadvantaged neighborhood which previously lacked a grocery store. The store’s success has inspired a similar project in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas.

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In Dallas' food deserts, community gardens ease — but don't end — hunger pangs

Nazarene Harris

April 27, 2021 |

Dallas Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

An Austin city resolution allows community gardens to be built on public lands, enabling residents who don’t own land to access fresh and nutritious food. The Fresh for Less Mobile Market even delivers food to customers who can pay using food stamps. Community gardens have doubled since the resolution was adopted.

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Community pantries offer reprieve from covid-19 hardships in the Philippines

Regine Cabato

April 21, 2021 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: Philippines, Quezon City

Filipinos struggling due to the coronavirus pandemic can access free goods at the Maginhawa community pantry. The grassroots efforts started as a “give what you can, take what you can” effort.

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In a first for the region, Hannaford says its grocery stores have achieved zero food waste

Janelle Nanos

April 20, 2021 |

The Boston Globe |

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Response Location: United States, Scarborough, Maine

The Hannaford supermarket chain has achieved their goal of creating zero food waste. Over the past year, they diverted 65 million pounds of unsellable products to food banks, de-packing facilities, and anaerobic digestion facilities where it’s converted to energy. The grocery store is also making adjustments to how it purchases and sources food and how it’s displayed with the hopes of extending the food’s shelf life.

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From Prison To Plate: One Organization's Approach On Food Sustainability

Grace Townsend

April 20, 2021 |

Grady Newsource |

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Response Location: United States, Monroe, Georgia

In a community with a food insecurity rate of 11%, Walton Wellness provides dozens of families with a steady supply of fresh produce grown by volunteers incarcerated at the county jail. The program aims to go beyond simply addressing hunger by educating the community, including school children, about healthy eating.

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A solution to the cycle of poverty?

Jackie Mader

April 18, 2021 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States

Two-generation programs, like Home of Hope in Atlanta Georgia, help families tackle the many intricate issues that, especially when combined, lead to poverty or keep a family in poverty. These programs also help families with basic needs like internet, room and board, free meals, and financial planning. In Austin, Texas, the Jeremiah Program operates with the same two-generation approach families facing poverty by addressing the root causes, which often includes mental health support, higher education classes and more for families facing poverty.

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Local Program Targets Food-Insecure Citizens, Feeds Thousands During Pandemic

Willie Daniely III

April 14, 2021 |

Grady Newsource |

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Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

More than 9,000 residents in Athens-Clarke County have been able to access about 320,000 meals. Almost thirty percent of residents in the community live below the poverty line, making the assistance from The Athens Eats Together program a vital resource.

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