PORTIONS | Monthly e-newsletter from the Great Plains Food Bank

JOIN US FOR VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION MONTH

Our incredible volunteer network accounts for the work of nearly 10 full-time employees each year.

April is Volunteer Appreciation Month and we are thrilled to recognize the more than 5,300 volunteers that give more than 20,000 hours of their time each year to help in the fight to end hunger. Our volunteers fill a critical need for the Great Plains Food Bank and make our efforts to recover and distribute food across North Dakota and western Minnesota possible.

THANK YOU to all our volunteers for all that you do in supplying needed food assistance to more than 97,000 individuals each year.

SCHEDULE A TIME TO VOLUNTEER NOW

Great Plains Food Bank announces 2018 Hunger Relief Champions

The highest honor we award each year, we have officially named Gate City Bank, Border States Electric, Aaron Becher and former U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp as Hunger Relief Champions for 2018.

Each recipient has displayed an exceptional commitment to the Great Plains Food Bank’s mission of ending hunger through community partnerships and shares in our values of doing all things through passion, service and innovation.

Read more about Heidi Heitkamp here

CLIENT SPOTLIGHT: Down, but not out

Financially, Tayla Henry was comfortable and able to provide for her two young kids. But that all changed the day her children's father moved out and the now single mom quickly struggled with food insecurity.

She soon found a supplement for the loss of meals at the Emergency Food Pantry in Fargo, a partner agency of the Great Plains Food Bank.

Read Tayla's full story and many more here.

About the Great Plains Food Bank

The Great Plains Food Bank strives to end hunger through community partnerships. A proud partner of Feeding America, our vision is to create a hunger-free North Dakota and western Minn. We do all things in the spirit of passion, service and innovation. Together we can solve hunger.

GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK

1720 3rd Avenue North

Fargo, ND 58102

721 Memorial Highway

Bismarck, ND 58504