Food banks

This year has been an especially difficult one for everyone, even moreso during the holidays. Now, more than ever, organizations around the Bay Area are ramping up their efforts to provide help to anyone who is struggling during these difficult times. Below, we’ve assembled a list of resources where you can get the help you need, or donate and...

Bay Area food banks are stepping up and helping families in need who have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

In a sign of how much the pandemic has hurt our economy, hundreds of people have lined up for Thanksgiving food in the East Bay. Bob Redell reports.

Bay Area food banks are calling this years distribution an “emergency distribution” as the continue to donate hundreds of meals as the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect families across the region. Bob Redell reports.

Food banks across the Bay Area are seeing challenges due to less volunteers willing to help due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Food banks are seeing a record number of people in need, and the coronavirus pandemic has made it even more difficult to get people to volunteer and distribute the food. Scott Budman reports.

Demand is high and donations are needed at many Bay Area food banks as the coronavirus pandemic has caused spikes in the number of people who need food assistance.

As jobs vanish, incomes drop and food prices rise, more Americans are going to bed hungry — and advocates warn that without intervention from Congress, those numbers could rise to a level unseen in modern times, NBC News reports.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a state and federal initiative Wednesday to connect farmers and ranchers with excess produce to food banks around the state. According to Newsom, food banks have seen a 73 percent increase in demand since the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic began, while farmers and ranchers have seen demand for their crops and other food fall by half. With…

With businesses and restaurants ceasing their purchases of food as they close during the pandemic, many farms have a surplus of food that is rotting in the fields. Meanwhile food banks are running out of supplies and turning families away empty-handed, but farms can’t afford to hire workers to harvest food they can’t sell.

Hundreds of cars lined up at a food drive in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as organizations try to help people through the coronavirus pandemic. In Oklahoma City, the lines of cars even caused traffic delays.

Second Harvest of Silicon Valley Service area: All of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties Website shfb.org How to get help with food: visit their website (https://www.shfb.org/get-food/) or call their Food Connection Hotline: 1-800-984-3663 Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. How to donate money: Donate online on their website: https://www.shfb.org/give-help/donate-funds/ How to volunteer: Sign-up on our website: https://www.shfb.org/give-help/volunteer/ Food...

Sonoma Raceway collected and delivered more than a ton of non-perishable food and $2,400 in cash donations to two Sonoma County food banks during its annual food drive.

Our NBC Bay Area and Telemundo 48 anchors and reporters, along with dozens of volunteers, have fanned out at Safeways across the Bay Area to get the word out about the annual “Feed the Need” food drive.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn squared off Tuesday in the first live televised debate of Britain’s election, each trying to spark a lackluster campaign to life.

Chick-fil-A announced it will take a different approach to its charitable giving in 2020 following years of protests from LGBTQ groups that have taken issue with the Atlanta-based food chain’s donations to organizations that do not support gay rights. “Staying true to its mission of nourishing the potential in every child, the Chick-fil-A Foundation will deepen its giving to a...

People who were too young on 9/11 to even remember their lost loved ones, and others for whom the grief is still raw, paid tribute with wreath-layings and the solemn roll call of the dead Wednesday as America marked the 18th anniversary of the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.

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If milk is a few days past its “Sell By” date, is it safe to drink? U.S. regulators are urging food-makers to be more consistent with labeling terms like “Best By” and “Enjoy By” that cause confusion. By clarifying the meaning of such dates, they are trying to prevent people from prematurely tossing products and to reduce the mountains of...

President Donald Trump rolled out another $16 billion in aid for farmers hurt by his trade policies, and financial markets shook Thursday on the growing realization that the U.S. and China are far from settling a bitter, year-long trade dispute. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said that the first of three payments is likely to be made in July or...