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Thank You Seed Donors!

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Each year as Spring approaches, the Garden Project begins to fill the Resource Center with all of its gardening goodies. This includes thousands of seed packets that will be available to all of the community and home gardeners within our network come April. Gardeners visiting the Resource Center often ask where all of our seeds More

WKAR Joe Wald Interview

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The Greater Lansing Food Bank’s Executive Director Joe Wald was interviewed by Current State on WKAR in December and spoke on the issue of food insecurity, and the Food Bank’s efforts to fight hunger in Mid-Michigan. Joe’s interview begins at the 40:40 mark in the broadcast here http://wkar.org/post/current-state-447-december-24-2014 More

Hunger Has No Season

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Football has Fall, Basketball has Winter.  But Hunger has no season, it’s always with us. Sports seasons come and go, but the challenge remains to feed those in need. More

Option 1 Credit Union Supports Local Food Pantries

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Grand Rapids, Michigan – When most people think about hunger, they think about TV spots showing a starving child in a third-world country. The truth is, hunger is a problem everywhere in the United States, but it’s not always easy to see. We are fortunate to have organizations in our communities that help people who More

Bank of America Helps to Triple your Donation

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Give a Meal Campaign – until December 31st, 2014, for Every $1 Donated the Bank of America Charitable Foundation Will Give $2 More Many in mid-Michigan are hard-working Americans who have experienced a loss of income and face the challenge of choosing between providing food for their families or paying their utility or medical bills More

Garden Project travels to Chicago

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For 31 years, The Garden Project, a program of the Greater Lansing Food Bank, has been a mainstay in community, serving the greater Lansing region and beyond. Since 1979, the American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) has also been a grassroots, collective effort and a leading voice in the community garden movement. Run by a passionate volunteer board, More

Hunger Action Month 2014

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The Greater Lansing Food Bank (GLFB) is joining in with over 200 other Feeding America food banks across the United States in September for Hunger Action Month, a nationwide campaign to mobilize the public to take action in the fight against hunger.. Hunger exists in every county in the country, affecting nearly 49 million Americans, More

CARW provides 26,000 meals

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In just its second year, Capital Area Restaurant Week has proven itself to be a force for good in the Greater Lansing community. On Monday, Aug. 18, CARW presented a check to the Greater Lansing Food Bank for more than $3,400. The donation, raised from this year’s event in the month of July, will provide More

Bryan featured in Michigan magazine

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The Garden Project, a program of the Greater Lansing Food Bank, recently was featured in an article in Michigan Townships Association Magazine. In the piece, Program Manager Alex Bryan shared his thoughts on the best way to start a garden. “Most people think, ‘I need to know how to grow food,’” Bryan said. “For some of More

Isabella County agency to fund pantries through 2014

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Community Compassion Network, an agency of the Greater Lansing Food Bank in Mount Pleasant, Mich., will be able to host twice-monthly mobile food pantries for the rest of the year after a successful United Way campaign. “We are fully scheduled throughout the rest of 2014,” said CCN Interim Director Faye Schaeffer. “We have the funding More

Garden tour continues to inspire

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Now in its 28th year, the Garden Project’s annual community garden tour continues to amaze and inspire. More than 65 attendees flocked to a snack-filled Resource Center on July 17 for the start of this year’s event. The sunbathed building was the perfect setting for lots of new faces, as well as some familiar ones. More