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Partner spotlight: Eaton Community Health

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Greater Lansing Food Bank (GLFB) has an ongoing commitment to meeting neighbors where they are through innovations in food distribution across mid-Michigan. During Hunger Action Month 2024, we joined Eaton Community Health (ECH) at University of Michigan (UM) Health — Sparrow Eaton to celebrate the installment of temperature-controlled food lockers outside the hospital. While GLFB More

Neighbor voices: Elizabeth’s story

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The year 2008 stands out for most people as a year marked by significant challenges. The financial crisis, triggered by the collapse of major banks and the housing market crash, led to widespread job losses and a deep recession that reshaped economies and lives. Elizabeth remembers 2008 as the first year she needed help keeping More

Retail partner spotlight: Kroger’s Great Michigan Milk Drive

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Greater Lansing Food Bank (GLFB), along with our fellow Feeding America partner food banks across the state, partnered with our friends at Kroger and United Dairy Industry of Michigan for the Great Michigan Milk Drive. For the entire month of August, every donation made at checkout at our mid-Michigan Kroger stores stayed local and helped More

Greater Lansing Community Comes Together to Fight Hunger Amid Rising Food Insecurity in Mid-Michigan

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Annual Empty Plate Event and Stamp Out Hunger food drive raise more than 1.1 million meals for mid-Michigan neighbors LANSING, MI (May 23, 2024) — Nearly 100,000 neighbors in Greater Lansing Food Bank’s (GLFB) seven county mid-Michigan service area are experiencing food insecurity, according to the latest data released by Feeding America. This data — More

A Royal Affair: Celebrating Community, Fighting Hunger and Dancing the Night Away

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For Verlecia Kelley and her husband Kenneth Johnson, celebrating community and fighting hunger go hand in hand. What started as an end-of-summer gathering with friends and neighbors has turned into a huge food and fund drive complete with art, music and dancing. “As I was planning , I was coming up the basement steps, More

Celebrating the Power of Community with Clare County Food

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At more than 20 percent, Clare County, the northernmost county in Greater Lansing Food Bank’s (GLFB) service area, has the highest rate of food insecurity of any county in Michigan. To help connect these more than 5,600 neighbors facing hunger with the food their families need to thrive, a small but mighty group of volunteers More

How Elsie Area Food Pantry Fights Hunger and Sparks Change

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Elsie Area Food Pantry knows every partner has a role to play in the fight against hunger.  Because the village of Elsie, Michigan closely borders several counties, they frequently serve neighbors across Greater Lansing Food Bank’s (GLFB) service area from the counties of Clinton, Gratiot and Shiawassee. Neighbors can visit the pantry on Mondays and More

Honoring Arek Gustafson’s Memory Through Weekend Kits

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In March 2021, Matt and Tamah Gustafson experienced the devastating loss of their son, Arek. “He was six and three-quarters years old when he passed away, but he just made such a connection with all ages. You’d see him and want to chat with him because he was so mature for his age,” remembers Tamah. More

Fight Hunger. Spark Change. with Walmart and Sam’s Club

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The simple shared vision of a hunger-free community helps even more neighbors receive the nutritious food they need. As the number of households seeking support from Greater Lansing Food Bank (GLFB) and our network of partners continue to grow, our community’s support and commitment to ending hunger in mid-Michigan is essential to the success of More

Prepare for spring with Garden Project!

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Greater Lansing Food Bank’s (GLFB) Garden Project is on a mission to partner with mid-Michigan communities to increase access to nutritious food by providing garden space and food-growing resources. In 2023, Garden Project gardeners grew more than 1 million pounds of food collectively across a network of nearly 90 community gardens and including more than More

Celebrating India Cultural Society’s 30-year tradition of giving

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At Greater Lansing Food Bank (GLFB), we know hunger can — and does — affect people from all cultural backgrounds, faith traditions and walks of life. But just as the experience of food insecurity is one that transcends our differences, so too does the tradition of supporting neighbors in need. For the India Cultural Society More

Congress: Strengthen food access programs through 2023 Farm Bill

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Opinion by Nikali Luke, CPA, board chair of Greater Lansing Food Bank and partner at Simplified Tax and Accounting Services and Michelle Lantz, chief executive officer of Greater Lansing Food Bank As families across mid-Michigan continue to feel the strain of inflation and rising food prices, lawmakers in Washington are deciding on nutrition assistance funding More