December 24, 2014
Putting Your Money to Work: Fighting Child Hunger
The Maryland Food Bank has been the grateful recipient of countless donations. One way we use your gifts is to fight child hunger in Maryland.
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November 26, 2014
Following the Food: Holiday Box Distributions
At this year’s Pack to Give Back event, the Maryland Food Bank invited individual supporters and local businesses to help pack holiday meals for 23,400 food-insecure families. Over the course of the next few weeks, these meals will change hands and travel from our warehouse to network partners before reaching their final destination: our clients. In the series Following the Food, the food bank will document this journey and all of the individuals who make it possible.
August 6, 2014
What Does it Mean to Be Socially Engaged?
Social engagement. Social responsibility. These terms have become major buzzwords of the 21st century—they’re even “trendy,” if you will. Businesses publicly pursue the concept; high schools work it into senior projects; and individuals champion it on social media. But before our society gets too comfortable with this term, we need to determine: what exactly does it mean to be socially engaged?
January 28, 2014
School Pantries Giving Kids a Chance to Succeed
Most people agree that hunger has a direct impact a child’s health and physical development, but what a lot of people don’t realize is that the effects of hunger go far beyond that.
August 13, 2013
St. Mark’s Serves Hagerstown’s Food Insecure
On one side of West Washington Street, Hagerstown’s biggest food pantry is tucked away behind a small set of concrete stairs and an unmarked door.
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