The Central Pennsylvania Food Bank received a $110,000 grant from Feeding America and an anonymous donor to address food insecurity among military families and veterans through its MilitaryShare program. MilitaryShare distributes food to veteran and military families on-site at armories, VFWs, and AMVET locations. The Central Pennsylvania Food Bank currently operates 38 MilitaryShare sites throughout 20 central Pennsylvania counties, serving more than 5,700 individuals annually.
The $110,000 grant will help the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank continue to provide its MilitaryShare sites with boxes of healthy, shelf-stable food items and fresh items such as milk, meat, eggs, and produce. It will also help the food bank to develop best practices among all its MilitaryShare sites, refine its agreements with the sites to foster long-term sustainability, and engage in SNAP assistance outreach with MilitaryShare clients.
For more information on the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and its MilitaryShare program, visit http://www.centralpafoodbank.org.
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